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London-based Cofndrs, a customer-powered technology platform that enables companies and their customers to co-found and co-fund socially and environmentally-conscious initiatives, has completed a GBP550,000 seed investment round.
Cofndrs is on a mission to bring people and businesses together to accelerate solutions to social and environmental challenges. According to Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, over 30,000 new products are introduced every year, with 95 percent doomed to fail. The Cofndrs platform enables brands and their customers to harness their collective power to collaborate on financing, new product development, marketing and sales.
People can support brands they love and become co-founders
Quest Software (Quest), a global cybersecurity, data intelligence, and IT operations management software provider, announced it signed a definitive agreement with Clearlake Capital Group is to acquire Quest Software (Quest), a global cybersecurity, data intelligence, and IT operations management software provider, from Francisco Partners.
Patrick Nichols, current CEO of Quest, will continue to lead the Company supported by the existing executive management team. Upon closing of the transaction, Clearlake will become the majority shareholder in Quest. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“We have long admired Quest as a leading identity-centric cybersecurity, data intelligence, and IT operations
La Mancha Fund SCSp (La Mancha) has deployed a total of USS86 million via a strategic investment in Horizonte Minerals Plc (Horizonte).
The investment comprises a USD71 million equity investment and a USD15 million convertible loan note (the Horizonte investment). The Horizonte Investment forms part of the broader USD633 million funding package Horizonte announced on 24 November 2021 (the Funding Package).
The Horizonte Investment represents the first investment that La Mancha has made since it announced the creation of a fund structure open to outside capital in July 2021. Horizonte intends using the Funding Package proceeds to develop its 100
UNNOX GROUP, a portfolio company of the Iberian private equity firm Sherpa Capital, has completed – along with the Turkish masterbatch company AKSOY PLASTIC – the creation of a joint-venture UNNOX AKSOY.
UNNOX AKSOY will commercialise and distribute both product portfolios of AKSOY PLASTIC and UNNOX GROUP in the Middle East and Eastern European markets.
AKSOY PLASTIK, founded in 1982, is a renowned manufacturer of color and additive masterbatch based in Istanbul. The company offers its clients a wide array of high-end, personalised products both for the colour and additive masterbatch segments.
The creation of UNNOX AKSOY is part of
Asterion Industrial Partners, an independent investment management firm focused on European infrastructure in the mid-market, has partnered with MS3, a provider of full fibre services to homes and businesses.
For some time, the VCT and EIS fund industry has wrestled with balancing the tax and investment aspects of its products. Unfortunately, the former is easier to articulate, and usually ends up being emphasised over the latter. A new white paper from Hardman & Co, ‘How much should clients invest in venture capital?’ firmly tips the balance back in favour of the investment case.
It applies a rigorous approach, using standard asset allocation methods to show that, for most investors, the best portfolio includes some venture capital, even without any tax reliefs. This can raise expected returns for clients. Importantly,
A few weeks after the acquisition of the Daudin group, a specialist in the manufacture of mobile living facilities, the GSCM group (Groupe Solfab Constructions Modulaires) has completed the acquisition of Deltamod, a specialist in the reuse of modular buildings.
Since its creation in 2013, Deltamod has given a second life to modular buildings by reconditioning them and selling them as second hand. Operational know-how combined with complementary services such as dismantling, transport, reinstallation and recovery of old modular buildings, makes Deltamod a mature and experienced player within the reuse market. Faced with the many challenges of the construction industry
Tricor Group (Tricor), an Asian business expansion specialist, has received regulatory approval and completed its acquisition of NZGT Holding Company Limited (NZGT Holdings) together with its wholly owned subsidiaries The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Limited (Guardian Trust) and Covenant Trustee Services Limited (Covenant) from Complectus Limited.
Tricor is the largest pure-play corporate services platform in Asia Pacific, serving over 50,000 client entities across its 21-market footprint. A positive move for Guardian Trust and Covenant, this acquisition will see the group and its New Zealand clients benefit from Tricor’s significant financial backing and global best practices.
Guardian Trust and Covenant
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Fund (NPIF), has invested a six-figure funding package in Margin Guardian Ltd (MG), a platform that provides fashion retailers with data insight and targeting services.
Funds will allow the business to invest in its platform, commercialise and develop an android version of its app, in addition to the iOS version, as well as fuel its marketing activities.
Headquartered in Liverpool, MG has built a platform that provides retailers with unique data insights – such as price, viewed products and saved products – direct
AEW, a global real estate investment manager, has launched a new value-add Spanish logistics partnership, RELOG, with EUR150 million of equity commitments from the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and Migdal Insurance.
AEW intends to build RELOG into a large-scale Spanish logistics platform. The initial commitments provide cEUR400 million of investment capital which will target infill and last-mile assets that accommodate the growing demand from retailers and third-party logistics providers for well-located space close to urban populations following a fundamental shift in consumer habits.
AEW and Vega Partners, RELOG’s local operating partner, have completed the first acquisition on
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