Allocations
Alitheia IDF (AIF), Africa’s first women-led and women-focused private equity fund, has he’d it’s final close at USD100 million with European Investment Bank (EIB) joining as the closing investor with USD24.6 million.
With this final close, Alitheia IDF becomes the largest gender-lens private equity fund by value in Africa.
Led by principal partners Polo Leteka and Tokunboh Ishmael, Alitheia IDF invests in growth-stage companies across six African countries: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Zambia. The fund has a mandate to plug the over USD42 billion investment gap between male and female entrepreneurs as a means of catalysing the
BB Capital Investments has completed the sale of childcare software provider KidsKonnect to Five Arrows Growth Capital.
BB Capital initially took a majority interest in Flexkids in 2018 and subsequently formed KidsKonnect following a merger between Flexkids and Konnect. The childcare software provider, with headquarters in Haarlem, offers fully integrated software solutions for daycare centres, out-of-school care, childminder organisations and primary education centres.
KidsKonnect today serves more than one million children in the 0-12 year age group with childcare software solutions in the Netherlands and Belgium via its integrated platform, and has established itself as a market leader in the
Hypi, the London-based SaaS platform that makes no-code app development accessible to everyone, has secured GBP150,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital.
The funding will support the growth of Hypi platform and push their new no-code solution out to users who want a simpler, more visual way of developing and launching their app ideas.
Hypi’s low-code platform allows non-technical people to create their own ready-to-launch professional web and mobile apps in minutes, using a visual tool that aims to be as simple and easy to use as a standard word processor.
Pontiff’s has led a EUR87 million Series A funding round in biotech company Emergence Therapeutics.
Existing and new investors also participated along with the Emergence Therapeutics management team which was advices by ARQIS.
Proceeds from this funding round will be used to advance the company’s next-generation antibody drug conjugate (ADC) targeting Nectin-4 to clinical proof-of-concept as well as the development of additional ADC programs. Antibody drug conjugates are among the most promising areas of research in the fight against cancer.
MVI Advisors AB (MVI) has held the final closing of its second private equity fund, MVI Fund II AB (Fund II) with commitments of SEK1.1 billion, exceeding its target of SEK1 billion.
MVI’s previous fund, MVI Fund I AB (“Fund I”), had commitments of SEK 478 million.
The Fund, led by Stefan Karlsson and Daniel Nilsson, is pursuing the successful strategy implemented by MVI since 2011 of completing buyout investments in high-quality, small companies in the Nordic region, with a particular focus on Sweden. Its focus will be to acquire control positions in companies that take advantage of sustainable industry
Muzinich & Co SGR, acting on behalf of Azimut ELTIF Capital Solutions Strategy, has invested EUR18 million in Italian textile producer Canepa.
Consumer growth investor Active Partners, with participation from existing angel investors, including John Ayton, Christian Woolfenden and Matt Barker, have invested GBP4 million in Subdial, a platform for trading pre-owned luxury watches.
The fresh funds from Active Partners will be used to enhance the digital experience for collectors, helping them navigate the platform more easily, as well as to bolster international expansion to accommodate demand.
eCOGRA, an independent and internationally approved testing and certification agency for the online gambling industry, has been acquired by Hanover Investors.
eCOGRA focuses on using its in-house certification methodologies and expertise to enable player protection, fair gaming and responsible conduct by operators and software providers through its Generally Accepted Practices (eGAP).
eCOGRA offers testing and inspection services, cybersecurity assessment, product certification and accredited ISO/IEC 27001 information security management certification. It is an approved testing agency and certification body for more than 30 jurisdictions across Europe, North and South America and Asia. It has also been approved to provide alternative dispute
Norwest Venture Partners, a venture capital and growth equity investment firm, has closed a USD3 billion fund, Norwest Venture Partners XVI, LP.
The new fund will target innovative companies with transformational businesses, empowering its portfolio leaders with the resources and connections to enhance their growth and create sustainable value. NVP XVI brings the firm’s total capital under management to USD12.5 billion.
German venture capital firm MIG Capital AG has closed a EUR22.5 million Series B funding round for Mimi Hearing Technologies, a specialist in hearing wellbeing and audio personalisation software.
The funding round is led by MIG Capital in a consortium with a larger Munich-based family office and Salvia, the family office of Helmut Jeggle, along with additional German family offices and existing shareholders.
Mimi licenses its science-based hearing enhancement technology to B2B customers including electronic device manufacturers and streaming providers. The additional funding significantly enhances their successful and ongoing efforts to deliver better and healthier hearing experiences to millions of
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