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Technology is now developing so fast that it is creating disruption across all sectors of the economy and businesses which fail to keep up with the latest developments face being wiped out by smarter rivals.
That will be the message at next week’s Entrepreneurial Spark event, a day of Tech Talks organised by the free business accelerator. Entrepreneurial Spark is aiming to help its fledgling firms embrace the latest technology and use it as an opportunity to displace larger rivals. It has lined up a range of speakers who will address budding entrepreneurs and “chiclets” at its “hatcheries” across the
Norwest Equity Partners (NEP) has formed Norwest Equity Partners X (NEP X), a USD1.6 billion limited partnership focused on growth investments, and Norwest Mezzanine Partners IV, (NMP IV), an USD800 million limited partnership from NEP's affiliated mezzanine investment firm, Norwest Mezzanine Partners (NMP), which will invest flexible junior capital in support of private equity-sponsored transactions.
The new capital, which is significantly higher than the firm's previous capital raises in 2008 (NEP IX with USD1.2 billion and NMP III with USD750 million), positions the firm to achieve its strategic growth initiatives for the future. Since inception, the firm has raised over
Private equity group MAB Capital Management has launched Liquid Asset Brands Innovation Fund I, a USD50 million fund will make equity investments of USD3 million-USD10 million in early stage beverage businesses and take an active role in helping accelerate the growth of the brands in its portfolio.
The announcement of the Liquid Asset Brands Innovation Fund I comes just days after the announced sale of Louisville-based Angel’s Share Brands LLC (Angel’s Envy Bourbon and Angel’s Envy Rye) to Bacardi Limited for an undisclosed amount. Bushala was a founding partner, President & CEO of Angel’s Share Brands and helped shepherd Angel’s
Red Rocks Capital’s Global Listed Private Equity (GLPE) finished the first quarter of 2015 up 5.32 per cent, compared to 2.47 per cent for the MSCI World Index.
Strong performance from many of the larger index constituents around the world overcame the negative currency impacts of the continued strengthening of the US Dollar.
"Listed Private Equity firms had a strong quarter, outperforming global indices despite a negative impact of almost 4per cent from the stronger dollar," says Mike Trihy, GLPE Index Manager at Red Rocks Capital. "The dollar volume of US buyout deals in Q1 was the highest level
Take Eat Easy, the Belgian start-up that claims to be ‘reinventing food delivery’, has closed its series A round at EUR6 million.
The funds will be used to reinforce the company’s stronghold in Brussels and Paris, as well as expand its activities to other major European cities in Germany, Spain and the UK.
The new capital was raised from Rocket Internet (investments include TravelBird, DaWanda, MarleySpoon), global early and growth stage venture firm DN Capital (investments include Shazam, Happn, Windeln.de and Quandoo) and Piton Capital (Fanduel, Quandoo, DaWanda).
Following the rapid growth in Paris, the new investment will
Onbone, the developer of novel casting technology material, Woodcast, has raised a total of EUR10 million in a financing round led by MVM Life Science Partners, with participation from Finnish Industry Investment, Finnish private investors and existing investor Inveni Capital.
The funding round will be used to finance the international launch of the Woodcast suite of casting and splinting products.
Onbone's innovative technology improves the clinical care of patients whilst reducing cost for hospitals and lowering the environmental impact of current technologies. The product suite is ecological, user-friendly and applicable for all orthopaedic and traumatology uses.
Woodcast is manufactured from
Affiliates of investment funds managed by Oaktree Capital Managementt have completed the acquisition of Pulse Electronics Corporation.
Oaktree invested a total of USD17.0 million in Pulse and subsequently acquired 100 per cent of its outstanding shares, making Pulse a private company.
As a result of the transaction closing, Pulse’s stock will no longer trade in any public market. Pulse shareholders are entitled to receive USD1.50 in cash for each share of common stock they held as of 13 April, 2015. Pulse will continue to be led by Mark Twaalfhoven as Chief Executive Officer.
Dentons US LLP acted as counsel to
Patron Capital Partners’ UK forecourt business, Motor Fuel Group (MFG), which is owned in partnership with Alasdaie Locke, has acquired 90 petrol filling stations from Shell for an undisclosed fee.
Of the 90 sites, 53 per cent are located in the South East of England, including 21 sites in London. This acquisition brings the total number of petrol filling stations that will be owned by MFG to 373, making it one of the largest independent fuel station operators in the UK. MFG was this week ranked No9 in The Sunday Times Profit Track 100 list that ranks private companies by
Credibility Capital, a marketplace lender focused on prime credit small business borrowers, has launched its online lending platform at www.CredibilityCapital.com.
New York-based company seeks to close a critical gap in small business lending, providing affordable financing solutions to businesses many of which are too small for traditional banks and are frequently pushed to more expensive financing solutions that are not commensurate with their credit profiles.
“We are filling a void in the small business financing landscape that took shape in 2008 with the pullback of bank lending,” says Brett Baris, President of Credibility Capital. “Because of our partnership model, we
SEI has launched SEI Firm Compliance, a new global regulatory management framework that equips investment organisations to oversee and orchestrate compliance functions firm-wide, across investment products and regulatory jurisdictions.
SEI’s Investment Manager Services (IMS) division developed the compliance framework as an add-on to the customised global operating platform it provides to its investment manager clients.
SEI’s offering takes a new approach in that it centralises an investment firm’s internal and outsourced compliance functions in a single management framework tailored to the user’s mix of business activities. SEI has incorporated the compliance framework into the Manager Dashboard of SEI’s global
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