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Private equity fundraising through the first quarter is examined in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Equity, Q1 2015.
Q1 2015 has seen a marked drop in the number of private equity funds closed, down from 324 in Q4 2014 to just 166 in the first quarter of the new year (Fig. 1). When compared with Q1 2014, the same downward trend is apparent, with 263 vehicles closed in the first quarter of 2014. However, despite a decline in number of funds, the level of aggregate capital raised has not fallen proportionally. Private equity vehicles closed in
In the Bain & Co Global Healthcare Private Equity Report 2015, the prominence of early stage investments in the healthcare sector is a recurring theme, detailing how larger funds are continuing the trend of investing down market. Preqin’s Funds in Market online service tracks 99 early stage venture capital vehicles currently in market with a focus on the healthcare industry, either solely or as part of a wider industry focus; these funds are collectively targeting USD7 billion in commitments.
Early stage healthcare venture capital fundraising has undoubtedly been strong in recent years: 2014 saw the highest ever amount of capital
Following on from last week’s article, which identified groups that found success through the first three months of 2015, this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Hedge Funds, Q1 2015 looks at which funds and strategies struggled to perform in Q1.
Discretionary CTAs
CTAs experienced a revival in the latter half of 2014 following several years of subdued performance. Trend followers in particular continue to benefit from reduced levels of correlation between markets; systematic CTAs tracked by Preqin’s Hedge Fund Analyst have returned on average 17.18 per cent over the last 12 months. This contrasts markedly with the performance
Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, is to acquire HealthcareSource, a provider of talent management solutions for healthcare.
The transaction is expected to close within approximately 30 days, following satisfaction of customary conditions. President and CEO Peter Segall will continue to lead HealthcareSource following the transaction.
“HealthcareSource has established an impressive leadership position in the important and growing healthcare talent management market,” says Ezra Perlman, partner at Francisco Partners. “The company has real momentum, increasing its customer base from 1,000 to 2,500 healthcare clients and demonstrating an ability to capitalise on growing demand for talent solutions in the healthcare
Echo an up-and-coming technology company focused on improving the accessibility and usability of day-to-day products has launched a crowdfunding campaign on CrowdCube.
Echo’s Connect charge-key recently achieved substantial success on Indiegogo, raising over USD56,000 in pre-sales doubling its USD10,000 target in the first 72 hours, and attracting over 30 potential distributors in 20 countries.
The Connect Key is the first ever Apple certified dual connector. It is every micro USB and Apple lightning cable condensed down to one small key-sized connector. Charge your smartphone, android, iPhone, tablets, cameras, and more with one device.
This is the first time
Silicon Valley-based medtech company Scanadu has received USD35 million in Series B funding round led by Fosun International and Tencent Holdings Limited, with participation from China Broadband Capital and Iglobe Partners of Singapore.
A-round investors Relay Ventures, Redmile Group, Ame Cloud Ventures and Three Leaf Ventures, an affiliate of The Broe Group, also participated. Scanadu has now raised USD49.7 million in total funding to date.
“We continue to build out our family of products and move down the path to regulatory clearance in the US and China,” says Scanadu founder and CEO Walter De Brouwer. “Scanadu’s mission has always been
PSAV announced today it has acquired AVC Live, a specialist technical production company with a presence in London and the South East of the UK.
AVC specialises in providing audiovisual and production services to hotels and venues and has an impressive client base throughout numerous sectors, spanning 34 years of operation.
PSAV continues to seek growth in the international marketplace, as well as developing the right partnerships; thus the acquisition of AVC. With PSAV's reputation of five-star service and AVC's high-end production capabilities, the two companies provide a perfect match to achieve PSAV's goals. Clients will benefit from the expanded
In the first quarter of 2015, 166 Israeli high-tech companies raised USD994 million – the second highest quarterly amount in the last decade and just 10 per cent below the record high USD1.1 billion invested in 184 companies in the previous quarter.
The Q1/2015 amount was 48 per cent above the USD673 million attracted by 160 companies in the first quarter of 2014.
The average company financing round reached USD6 million, equal to the previous quarter’s average, and well above USD4.2 million of Q1/2014.
In Q1/2015, 91 VC-backed deals accounted for USD832 million – 84 per cent of total capital
EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for SMEs, has launched Tech 40, a label recognising innovative European SMEs listed on the markets it covers.
Each year Tech 40 will allow 40 top-performing European companies to benefit from premium services. It is one of a series of measures adopted by EnterNext since 2014 to boost the visibility of tech companies on financial markets and provide special assistance to them.
Companies with the Tech 40 label are young technology stocks listed on Euronext markets and operating in life sciences, eco-industries or TMT[2]. An independent group of
Altegris has launched the Altegris KKR Commitments Fund offering accredited investors an opportunity to gain diversified exposure to KKR by committing to three different forms of private equity – primaries, secondaries and co-investments.
The minimum initial investment USD25,000.
"Accredited investors will now have the opportunity to access many of the same KKR private equity funds that institutional investors have had access to for years," says Jon Sundt, CEO of Altegris. "Altegris is providing investors with a portfolio spanning multiple private equity styles, geographic regions and life cycles, from newly established primary investment funds through mature secondary investment funds, all via
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