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The British Business Bank has invested GBP17.5 million in Passion Capital II LP, the GBP45 million second fund from one of the UK’s best known venture investment firms.
The commitment marks the 18th investment by the British Business Bank’s Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) programme.
Passion Capital is a hands-on investor providing financial support and mentoring at a very early stage, helping to build companies and prepare them for accelerated growth. The new fund builds on the success of Passion Capital’s first fund, which was also supported by British Business Bank’s ECF programme, and backed the early development of high growth
Job matching platform, jobandtalent has secured USD25 million in funding as an extension of its Series A investment, which was previously closed in July 2014.
The funding round is the biggest investment inflow to date for a company within the job matching category.
An investor group by Pelayo Cortina Koplowitz increased its participation and has co-invested with the previous investors, including Qualitas Equity Partners, Kibo Ventures, Fundacion Jose Manuel Entrecanales, and business angel Nicolas Luca de Tena.
"We are extremely excited about this round of funding," says Juan Urdiales, Co-founder of jobandtalent. "We created the job matching category
Aberdeen Asset Management is to acquire FLAG Capital Management, LLC (FLAG), a manager of private equity and real asset solutions with offices in Stamford CT, Boston, MA, and Hong Kong.
This acquisition is in line with Aberdeen’s strategy to strengthen and grow its global alternatives platform and solutions provision via multi-manager coverage of hedge funds, property and private market allocations, infrastructure investments and pan-alternative capabilities. FLAG’s well-established private equity teams in the US and Asia will help broaden Aberdeen’s private markets solutions activity within the alternatives arena.
As of 31 December, 2014, FLAG managed assets of approximately USD6.3 billion
After a financing round of EUR2.7 million acquired last September, biotechnology company VitamFero has closed its third financing round at EUR4.3 million.
An additional investment of EUR1.6 million has been made jointly by two newcomers – CAPAGRO and Anjou Amorçage) and by the management team and business angels who had already participated in previous capital increases.
CAPAGRO and Anjou Amorçage thereby join the existing majority syndicate of CapDecisif Management, GO Capital and Pradeyrol Développement.
VitamFero develops major science achieved through research conducted in partnership, notably, with INRA, François-Rabelais University of Tours, University of Burgundy (Dijon) and Merial in
Rockaway Capital, a VC firm focused on investing and building Internet companies in emerging markets, has entered the US market with the opening of its first office in San Francisco's SOMA district.
The firm has invested USD28 million in seed stage, high growth, transformational start-ups across e-commerce, B2B SaaS, Fintech, and travel/transportation and has additional access to USD225 million in funding. Initial offices were in Prague and Sao Paolo.
Rockaway Capital has already brought over its first group of globally viable entrepreneurs and start-ups to introduce them to the US venture community and bring their products to market here. Rockaway
Stockholm-based Arctos Corporate Finance (Arctos) is becoming part of Livingstone, an international mid-market M&A and Debt Advisory firm with offices in North America, Asia and Europe.
Arctos becomes part of Livingstone with immediate effect. The newly-named Livingstone Stockholm is a fully integrated part of the firm’s international infrastructure and joins established teams in Beijing, Chicago, Düsseldorf, London and Madrid. The marriage of the two firms creates a 100-strong organisation completing over 50 mid-market transactions each year.
Livingstone has worked closely on transactions with Partners Thomas Karlsson, Kenneth Westlund and Anders Jacobson, and co-founder Bertil Karlsson, for over 10 years.
Evercore has acquired Kuna & Co, the Frankfurt-based investment banking advisory boutique, and appointed Walter Kuna as Senior Managing Director of Evercore's German advisory business.
Kuna founded Kuna & Co in 2004 and has built it into a leading independent advisory business with a focus on real estate in Germany. Prior to forming Kuna & Co, he was Managing Director of Lazard Germany, having been a founding partner of Lazard's German M&A advisory business in 1989.
Kuna & Co is an independent advisory firm with a team of ten professionals based in Frankfurt. Over its 11 year history, it has
Partech Ventures has co-led a new EUR10 million financing round in Kantox, a specialist in foreign exchange services for SMEs and mid-cap companies.
“With our 2nd significant investment in 18 months, Partech Ventures reaffirms its full commitment to Kantox,” says Philippe Collombel, Managing Partner at Partech Ventures and Kantox board member.
“Kantox is a fast growing company, with a clear business model led by a strong, visionary and ambitious management team”, adds Philippe Collombel, who also added “with its disruptive model, Kantox can soon become the worldwide leader in foreign exchange services for SMEs and mid-cap companies.”
“We are very
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., a market leader in enterprise security solutions, today announced the completion of its previously reported acquisition by
Funds advised by Bain Capital have acquired enterprise security solutions specialist Blue Coat Systems from Thoma Bravo, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD2.4 billion.
Blue Coat offers an integrated portfolio of security products to combat today’s advanced threats with solutions that have become the de facto standard for much of the Fortune Global 500. Backing the strength of its solutions, Blue Coat also has the largest, most robust global cloud security infrastructure, which integrates with its
Investment strategies for listed funds have widened in scope in the past 12 to 18 months, according to Tom Attenborough, Head of Large Caps, Primary Markets at the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Attenborough, who was speaking as part of a panel of experts at the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015 in London earlier this month, said he agreed with the event’s keynote speaker Guy Hands, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited, that investors were once again far more willing to take risk. Attenborough said it had resulted in a diverse issuance calendar with trends emerging in
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