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RLJ Credit Opportunity Fund, an RLJ portfolio company, has invested in ShareTracker, a provider of communications and telecom market share measurement products.
The announcement supports ShareTracker's efforts to expands its current existing wireless, video, voice and data market share measurement product offerings to include cable, satellite and fibre TV subscription services, as well as mobile and fixed broadband services market and flow share measurement.
"The RLJ Credit investment in ShareTracker promotes American entrepreneurship and skilled job creation in a sector that is vitally important to business performance," says Robert L Johnson, founder of the RLJ Companies. "With our support,
FTBpro, the largest fan-generated media platform in online football, has closed a USD18m investment, bringing its total funding since inception to USD24m.
The company plans to use proceeds to further boost its global expansion, enhance strategic partnerships and enrich its mobile and video product offerings.
The fundraising round involved FTBpro’s existing investors, Battery Ventures and Gemini Israel Ventures, as well as new investment from London-based Dawn Capital and a major Asia-based media investor.
FTBpro, founded in 2011, is headquartered in London with offices in Tel Aviv. Following the investment round, the company will open offices in South East
China's largest fresh fruit shopping site, Fruitday.com, has completed a new round of financing led by ClearVue Partners, a private equity fund targeting fast growing and promising Chinese consumer companies.
SIG Asia Investments also participated in this round of financing.
"We met many PE firms and ClearVue was different. They were strategic, professional and had a deep understanding of our business and the consumer market in China — we are thrilled to receive investment from ClearVue Partners," says Wang Wei, founder and CEO of Fruitday.com. "We believe that there is strong and increasing consumer demand in China for the freshest,
UK fitness network PayasUgym has secured GBP1.6m in a funding round led by Albion Ventures and MMC Ventures, bringing total investment to date to GBP3.5m.
With 12 million ex-gym members in the UK (double the amount of gym members) PayasUgym offers a solution for those looking to get back into the gym, as well as first timers, by offering flexible, discounted gym passes nationwide.
The funding will be used to strengthen PayasUgym’s position in the UK and to launch new products and services – including enabling customers to compare and directly book fitness classes all over the UK.
MENA region commerce platform Souq.com has secured USD75m (AED275.5m) in an additional round of funding from existing investor Naspers Limited.
This round of funding brings the total amount raised by Souq.com to USD150m (AED551m) – the largest amount raised by any internet-based business in the region.
Souq.com has grown more than 10 fold in the past two years. Souq.com registers 23 million visits per month on its website, and 6.2 million registered users. It offers the widest selection of products in over 15 categories, from electronic gadgets to baby nappies, in a combined retail and marketplace model.
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An affiliate of Proprium Capital Partners is to make a significant minority investment of growth capital in Edinburgh-based property developer and investor Chris Stewart Group (CSG).
Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1996, CSG executes city-centre redevelopment projects including its award-winning Advocate's Close development off Edinburgh's Royal Mile. CSG's long term objective is to invest in high quality prime locations, drawing on its relationships and experience.
The first deal concluded by the new partnership involves the purchase of Baxter's Place, a historic Georgian terrace building in Edinburgh's city centre, which is designated for 240-bed upmarket hotel development.
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Aviva has sold its Turkish general insurance business, Aviva Sigorta AŞ, to a private equity consortium led by EMF Capital Partners.
This agreement is part of Aviva’s strategy to narrow the group's focus on businesses where it has a leadership position and can generate attractive returns.
Aviva’s life and pensions business in Turkey, AvivaSA, is unaffected by this transaction.
The sale is subject to relevant regulatory approval and is expected to complete in the first half of 2014.
Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners have acquired Synsam Nordic A/S, an optical retailer in the Nordic region, from Alipes and former store owners.
Synsam’s history stretches back to 1968 when independent opticians in Sweden joined forces under a common brand name.
Alipes identified significant development opportunities within the fragmented Nordic optical market and during the years 2007 to 2009 performed, together with former store owners, over 200 individual acquisitions of Synsam and Profil Optik stores in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Synsam is the largest optical retail chain in the Nordic region with more than 420 own stores
Business Growth Fund (BGF) has invested GBP10m for a minority stake in The Consulting Consortium (TCC), a UK independent regulatory and compliance consultancy.
Headquartered in London with an office in Leeds, TCC provides specialist regulatory compliance services to FCA regulated firms in the financial industry.
TCC has advised over 250 financial services clients since 2001 and more than 140 in the last two years including a number of FTSE 100 and multi-national companies.
Entrepreneur Joanne Smith founded TCC in 2000. With over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, she began her career at the Financial Services Authority
Advent International, ATP and Bain Capital are to acquire 100 per cent of the share capital of Nets from the existing shareholders, a group of 186 primarily Danish and Norwegian banks, for a cash consideration of DKK17.0bn, corresponding to a price per share of DKK92.37.
In addition, the shareholders will receive the dividend for 2013 totalling DKK498m, or DKK2.70 per share.
The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals/confirmations and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2014.
Nets, headquartered in Copenhagen, is a Northern European provider of payments, information and digital identity solutions. Founded in 1968,
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