Allocations
CapRock Partners (CapRock), an industrial investor, developer and asset manager in the Western US and Texas, has held the final closing of CapRock Logistics Venture at nearly USD700 million, significantly above its initial target of USD450 million.
The venture represents CapRock’s first development-focused vehicle, marking an expansion of its fund business, which has traditionally focused on value-add investments.
CapRock Logistics Venture is fully allocated to new large-scale industrial real estate projects and will fund nearly USD2 billion for Class A developments strategically located throughout the Western US. By the end of 2021, CapRock will be under construction on approximately
Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm, has made a significant investment in Entersekt, a specialist in device identity and authentication solutions headquartered in Cape Town.
The investment will enable Entersekt to accelerate its roadmap, hire top talent and fuel expansion into new markets.
Founded in 2000, Accel-KKR has invested in over 300 mid-market software and technology-enabled services businesses around the world.
Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund (SEQI), the FTSE250 specialist economic infrastructure lender, has made a GBP60 million investment in LightSpeed Broadband, the Internet Service Provider.
The new investment will accelerate the construction of LightSpeed’s FTTP multi-gigabit broadband network to 25 towns across the East of England, with the company’s aim of becoming the region’s leading provider. It builds on LightSpeed’s original GBP55 million backing from AtmosClear Investments, Kompass Kapital and Thesaurium bringing total funding to date to GBP115 million.
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a USD25 million Series A funding round in Atom Learning, an adaptive learning edtech platform.
ATL Partners portfolio company Global Critical Logistics (GCL) has acquired Dynamic International Freight Services and Dynamic Dox, a non-asset-based provider of Film & TV production logistics solutions based in the UK.
GCL is a global holding company for freight forwarding and global logistics providers to specialty sectors. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Main Capital Partners-backed Swedish HR-technology company Assessio has acquired People Test Systems.
European software investor Main Capital Partners backed the company in 2019 with the goal for Assessio to become the market leader in Europe for HR-technology and digital recruitment services. After completion of its second add-on acquisition in the Netherlands in October, the Assessio Group is now further expanding in the Nordic region with the acquisition of Danish e-assessment company, People Test Systems (PTS).
EQT Growth has led a EUR235 million Series E funding round in SaaS banking platform Mambu, the largest financing round to date for a banking software platform.
Eos Venture Partners (Eos), a InsurTech Venture Capital fund manager and Twelve Capital (Twelve), an investment manager specialising in the insurance industry, have joined forces to provide growth funding for successful InsurTech companies.
With a specialised fund Twelve and Eos aim to accelerate the digital disruption of the insurance industry through investing into the global InsurTech sector. According to a study by Valuates Reports published in August 2021, this sector is expected to grow at 34.4 per cent annually and reach USD119.4 billion by 2027.
Ten Coves Capital has led a USD35 million Series B round in Canopy, a cloud-based practice management platform for accounting professionals.
Current investors NewView Capital, Pelion Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Ankona Capital also made significant investments with the funding set to be used further accelerate Canopy’s mission to become the ”default operating system for accounting firms.
SoftBank Vision Fund, Speedinvest, and several venture capital partners have announced a collective USD8.7 million in committed capital to the nine start-ups that make up the first European edition of the Emerge accelerator programme for underrepresented founders.
The companies are: Blloc, Credrails, Fiat Republic, Juli, Kwara, Pear Bio, Robin AI, Vitaance, The Stack World.
Including the investment contribution from Emerge, these nine companies have gone on to cumulatively raise upwards of USD23 million in their latest funding rounds.
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