Allocations
British Business Investments Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its fourth commitment through its GBP500 million Managed Funds Programme.The cornerstone commitment of up to EUR75 million is being made to manager Isomer Capital’s second fund, Isomer Capital II, which will be targeted at early stage venture capital managers across Europe, that invest primarily into early stage tech companies. Isomer II will also pursue a co-investment strategy, investing alongside its fund managers, with additional capital made available for the most promising, high-growth companies from the underlying portfolio.
By taking a cornerstone position, capital from British Business
The pandemic has made investors ask a different set of questions, and shown how a ‘hybrid-approach’ will increase efficiency in the new normal, according to Sebastian Junoy, speaking on the operational due diligence panel at the PEWlive event today (2 September).
BGF invested GBP15 million into Yorkshire Wildlife Park (YWP) just before lockdown. Despite the well-documented challenges facing the business and wider sector, BGF has supported the Park and enabled the expansion development to continue.
Based on visitor reviews, YWP was recently ranked within the top 10 per cent of visitor attractions globally by the Travellers’ Choice Awards.
Set up in 2008 by founder directors Steve Minion, John Minion, Cheryl Williams and Neville Williams, Yorkshire Wildlife Park is located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. YWP is a dynamic, interactive centre for animal conservation and welfare, home to more than 450 animals
CenterOak Partners’ (CenterOak) portfolio company Service Champions has acquired ASI Hastings (ASI), a provider of residential HVAC and plumbing services in San Diego, California.
Climeworks has completed a CHF100 million funding round, in what the company says is the largest ever investment into direct air capture.
The funding will be used to further scale and optimise Climeworks’ direct air capture technology and make it accessible to even more stakeholders; individuals, businesses and organisations alike.
Climeworks is one of the global leaders in carbon dioxide removal. Its patented direct air capture technology removes carbon dioxide directly from the air. It uses clean, renewable energy, thereby providing a truly pure carbon dioxide removal solution.
Current customers include established businesses and organisations worldwide,
Inflexion has made a minority investment in Auxadi, a Spanish tech-enabled, corporate services business. Auxadi provides a range of outsourced services including accounting, tax, payroll and related administration. The investment is being made by Inflexion’s dedicated minority investment fund, Partnership Capital II, and is Inflexion’s first investment in Spain following other successful investments in Europe.
Auxadi is the largest independent provider of corporate services operating in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin American markets. Headquartered in Madrid with a further 16 international subsidiaries, Auxadi has 500 customers across 50 countries, including leading real estate and private equity funds as well as major
Limerston Capital Partners I has acquired Forensis Group Limited and Forensic Axis Limited, (trading respectively as Forensic Access and Axiom International, specialists in forensic science services and international institutional reform and capacity building. Operating from state-of-the art facilities in Wantage (Oxfordshire), Forensic Access was established by Professor Angela Gallop in 1986 to provide high quality advice and guidance, and cutting edge science across all sectors of criminal and private sector justice. Forensic Access has since evolved to provide a comprehensive range of forensic science services both in the UK and internationally, with particular expertise in firearms and ballistics, fingerprints, forensic
Baird Capital’s global private equity team has invested in Blue Matter Consulting (Blue Matter), a strategic consulting firm serving the life sciences industry. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.Founded in 2012, Blue Matter provides consultancy services to the global pharmaceutical sector, principally in the areas of product and portfolio strategy, organisational design, and product launch planning and readiness. Blue Matter is a global business with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Zurich, and Berlin. The company has a wide range of therapeutic expertise, with a deep focus on oncology and rare diseases.
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Squla (Futurewhiz), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired Scoyo, an online learning platform for primary and secondary school students in the German market.Squla is the leading consumer education company in the Netherlands and provides interactive educational tools for primary school pupils (Squla) and secondary school students (WRTS). Squla is linked to the national curriculum and is designed to supplement a student’s education in a fun and adaptive way. The company’s products are used in over 50,000 classrooms and by over 1.4 million users throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland. With the acquisition of Scoyo, Squla
Muzinich & Co is pleased to announce the first close of the Muzinich Pan-European II Private Debt Fund, at EUR210 million.Like its predecessor vehicle, the Fund focuses on providing growth capital to lower middle-market companies to fund acquisitions, expansions and transitions in family and founder-owned businesses. The Fund follows on the successful EUR706.5 million. closing of the firm’s first Pan-European Private Debt Fund in 2018. The firm has been active in European private debt since 2014 when local regional teams started investing in country specific funds.
“We are one of the very few private lenders in the lower-middle market
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