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The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) has awarded Beacon Capital Partners an Overall Regional Sector Leader award for its environmental, social, governance, and resilience leadership efforts on behalf of Fund 7.
“GRESB Sector Leaders are the organisations that are setting the pace and driving progress toward a net zero future. We are proud to recognise your determination, achievement, and leadership in creating a more sustainable world,” says Sebastien Roussotte, CEO of GRESB.
Each year, GRESB assesses and benchmarks the ESG performance of assets worldwide, providing clarity and insights to financial markets on complex sustainability topics. GRESB data is used
Adelis Equity Partners Fund III (Adelis III) has held a final close following a short period of fundraising. The Fund, which was significantly oversubscribed, raised EUR855 million from external investors, on top of which Adelis’ employees have committed to invest 9 per cent, or EUR77 million, for a total fund size of EUR932 million.
Investors in Adelis III include leading pension funds, foundations and fund-of-funds from Europe and North America. Investors in Adelis Equity Partners Fund II, all of whom are represented in Adelis III, make up the vast majority of the capital.
Adelis is a growth partner for well-positioned,
Cboe Global Markets, a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, is to acquire Aequitas Innovations, more commonly known as NEO, a fintech organisation that comprises of a fully registered Tier-1 Canadian securities exchange with a diverse product and services set ranging from corporate listings to cash equity trading.
Ownership of NEO will help allow Cboe to provide a more fulsome Canadian equities offering, operating the NEO Exchange, a national securities exchange with trading, listings and other services, in addition to MATCHNow, the alternative trading system (ATS) acquired by Cboe in 2020. This strengthened offering is expected to drive
Untap, a next generation portfolio management solution for private capital markets to manage investments, strategies, ESG and Value Creation, has been accepted into Newchip’s renowned global accelerator programme.
Designed to provide all the skills and tools seed-stage founders need to rapidly fund, build and scale their companies, past accelerator cohorts averaged more than 17.5 times the average funding amount. The equity-free, fully digital accelerator has helped over 1,000 founders from 35 countries raise over USD300 million in funding.
“Newchip evaluates a vast and diverse number of companies from across the globe, selecting only a small percentage to be part of
Robert Bosch Venture Capital, the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, has completed an investment in Variantyx Inc.
Variantyx and Robert-Bosch Hospital join forces to improve personalised oncology treatment with plans to incorporate the Variantyx solution into the oncology treatment process. Variantyx provides clinicians with advanced diagnostics and personalised treatment recommendations for oncology patients’ based on their unique genetic makeup.
“For several years the Robert-Bosch Hospital, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Bosch Group have been joining forces to fight cancer,” says Dr Ingo Ramesohl, Managing Director of Robert Bosch Venture Capital. “Variantyx’s solution is outstanding. Together, Variantyx
Gentronix, the UK-based contract research organisation (CRO) in the field of genetic toxicology, has raised GBP700,000 in a funding round led by existing investor Mercia to support its continued growth.
The latest round, which includes a number of private investors, follows Gentronix’s recent acquisition of the Big Blue® transgenic mutation assay from Merck KGaA. It will be used to fund the onboarding and delivery of the new service and expand the company’s genetic, skin and ocular toxicology services.
Gentronix provides companies developing new chemical or pharmaceutical products with toxicology tests required by regulators to show that they are safe
Ferreira de Sá, a company backed by private equity firm Sherpa Capital, has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of Desistart, a Portuguese company dedicated to the production and marketing of carpets for the luxury segment, from its founders.
Founded by Henrique Ferreira and Rosa de Lurdes de Sousa Marques, Desistart has experienced fast growth in recent years thanks to the quality of its products and the entry into new markets, which has led it to double its sales since 2017, up to EUR3 million per year.
With approximately 45 employees, Desistart currently generates more than 80 per
Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity specialist, has acquired Opus Talent Solutions, a global recruitment business specialising in the technology and renewable energy markets, backing a management buy-out from the company’s founder.
Headquartered in Bristol, Opus has more than 1,000 clients in over 50 countries. It employs 300 staff across eight offices spanning the UK (Bristol, Manchester and London), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Australia (Sydney) and the US (New York, Tampa and Dallas).
Opus has three complementary trading brands, all focused on high-growth niche markets, generating a combined net fee income (NFI) of approximately GBP30 million. The largest, accounting
WSO2, a specialist in digital transformation technology, has closed USD90 million in financing from client vehicles advised by Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Credit (Goldman Sachs).
The flexible capital solution will be used to accelerate WSO2’s worldwide business expansion, drive growth of the company’s global partner network, and support rollout of its next-generation, cloud-native solutions for securely delivering APIs, applications, and digital services. The new solutions, powered by Ballerina, will offer a seamless blend of low code and pro code experience for enterprises and deliver the power of DevOps and modern SDLC practices including integrated reuse within the organisation and
Grosvenor’s Wheatsheaf Group, an international investor in Food & AgTech, is introducing a new partnership model to lead the organisation through its next phase of growth and development – this will also see Wheatsheaf being renamed as Grosvenor Food & AgTech from January 2022.
Current Executive Directors Anthony James, Katrin Burt, Monty Bayer, Peter Kristensen and Stephan Dolezalek will lead the business as managing partners, taking decisions collectively in the best long-term interests of the business and its stakeholders – working with portfolio companies to support their growth and development, scaling up their reach and impact, while pursuing new investment
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
