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The Blue Ocean strategy managed by alternative investment firm EnTrust Global (EnTrust) has completed the acquisition of Maas Capital Shipping from ABN AMRO.
Since its inception in the late 1990s, the Maas Capital platform has deployed close to USD1.0 billion in equity maritime investments and is currently one of the world’s leading institutional shipping equity investors.
The acquired portfolio includes a diversified portfolio of 15 equity joint venture investments, consisting of a fleet of 76 high-quality vessels within the product/chemical tanker, dry bulk, LPG, container, and offshore services segments.
In addition, the portfolio includes an equity stake in a growing
Bites, a specialist in the employee communications and training industry, has raised USD5 million a seed funding round.
With Bites, anyone within an organisation can create and distribute professional, social-media-styled videos and content without having to download special software or new applications to their phones. While remaining remote, managers receive feedback through discussion boards and have access to robust analytics data showing engagement and completion rates.
The funding round was led by Vertex Ventures Israel, an Israeli venture capital firm. Surround Ventures, a US-Israeli VC specialising in early-stage media and eCommerce startups, Oryzn Capital, an Israeli venture focused on early-stage
Risilience, a climate change business platform, has secured a Series A investment of GBP6 million from international investors led by IQ Capital.
Leucid Bio (Leucid), a biotech company pioneering next-generation cell therapies for hard-to-treat cancers, has successfully raised GBP11.5 million in a Series A financing round.
The investment was led by Epidarex and new investor Vulpes Investment Management, with participation from new investors 2Invest and Future Fund of the British Business Bank, and existing investor Sofinnova Partners. Proceeds from the financing will be used to initiate a Phase 1 trial of its lead candidate, LEU-011, for the treatment of platinum resistant ovarian cancer.
CAR T-cell therapy is a revolutionary technology in which the patient’s own immune cells are reprogrammed so they
Procuritas’ portfolio company Werksta, a car damage repair chain in the Nordics, has completed three add-on acquisitions, adding Alppilan Autohuolto Oy in Finland, Skadeverkstad Uppsala Östra AB in Sweden and Follo Bilskade AS in Norway into the group.
Werksta was formed in 2015 through Procuritas’ investment in two individual body shops with a combined revenue of EUR12 million, which has grown into a Nordic EUR150 million revenue business with over 900 employees.
Catherine Sahlgren, CEO of Werksta, says: “We are delighted to expand our operations with these latest acquisitions that strengthen our position as the leading independent Nordic car
Credit Suisse and BlackRock have partnered to build the next generation of purpose-driven investments that aim to provide attractive private equity returns in line with the Credit Suisse Supertrends.
This will be the first in a series of investment initiatives created for the private wealth market for eligible individual investors. They will seek to achieve a double impact: attractive multiples on the capital invested and positive contribution to addressing major societal trends.
The Health and Wellbeing Fund is designed to tap into a rich set of opportunities across four sub-themes, including physical health and wellbeing, mental health and development,
Bob Concierge, a Romanian startup which has developed an intelligent system of automated devices that provide and sell products and services within residential complexes and office buildings, has received a new investment of EUR6 million from American fund NCH Capital.
The company aims to use the funds to continue to innovate and scale up the business, in order to become the major marketplace for residential services in Romania and in the European region. With this new round, the total investments in the Romanian startup have exceeded EUR11 million.
Currently, Bob Concierge operates a network of 64 devices in the country,
Insurami, a commercial real estate Deposit Guarantee platform, has raised GBP42 million, consisting of debt alongside existing equity investment, to expand its unique Deposit Guarantee products across the entirety of the commercial property sector.
The platform, which offers commercial real estate tenants an alternative to locking up cash in a deposit, while providing landlords the equivalent level of security and risk management as a traditional cash deposit, has seen investment from Fasanara Capital, joining existing investors including Global Founders Capital, Entrepreneur First and Clocktower Ventures.
Insurami has experienced momentum across the real estate sector throughout the pandemic including institutional
US institutional investor and private equity fund VCM Global Asset Management is eyeing new alternative investments strategies including medical lien receivables just months after buying a significant stake in London-based fintech MillTechFX.
SkyHive, a SaaS platform providing workforce transformation and labour market development guidance, has secured USD40 million in a Series B investment round led by Eldridge, with participation from other investors Allegis Cyber, Accenture Ventures, Workday Ventures, and the Partnership Fund For New York City.
Recently recognised by The World Economic Forum as a 2021 Technology Pioneer, SkyHive is solving dislocation in modern labor economics and human capital management using its proprietary Quantum Labor Analysis (QLA) methodology, which is active in 90 countries and 400,000 unique locations worldwide. QLA combines economic theory, workforce modelling, human analytics, and data science to provide
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