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HSBC Global Asset Management has closed its HSBC Vision Private Equity 2020 Fund at just over USD260 million.
Investors in the fund, which will invest in a number of private equity opportunities from primaries and secondaries to direct co-investments, include HSBC Private Banking and HSBC Global AM’s institutional clients.
The HSBC Vision Private Equity 2020 Fund is a continuation of last year’s programme, which raised 250 million globally. The next in the series of Vision funds is intended to launch in Q4 2020.
The annual programme of Vision funds provides exposure to a global diversified portfolio by geography,
Baird Capital, the direct investment arm of Baird, has acquired an interest in eCube Solutions Limited (eCube), a provider of storage, disassembly and parts re-use and recycling services to global aircraft owners in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including major airlines and aircraft leasing companies.
Baird Capital’s James Benfield and Andrew Dyer will join the eCube board of directors.
eCube’s primary operations and headquarters are in St Athan, Wales, with a second parking and disassembly facility in Castellón, Spain. Over the past decade, the company has grown rapidly as a leader in accuracy, turn-around and innovation alongside the
Quorum, a public affairs software platform for legislative tracking, stakeholder engagement, and grassroots advocacy, has secured a growth investment from Serent Capital, a San Francisco and Austin based private equity firm focused on investing in high-growth technology and services businesses.Quorum’s software helps public affairs professionals at organisations like Coca-Cola, Walmart, Toyota, the US Travel Association, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Air Force work smarter and move faster with legislative tracking, stakeholder engagement, and grassroots advocacy. Founded in 2014 by Alex Wirth (CEO) and Jonathan Marks (CTO), Quorum is used by thousands of public affairs professionals across all 50 states
Chicago-based private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners’ (CORE) portfolio company Fathom has acquired GPI Prototype & Manufacturing Services (GPI), a metal additive manufacturing services provider.CORE acquired Midwest Composite Technologies in 2018, and FATHOM and ICOMold in 2019. All four companies will be moving forward under the FATHOM brand.
Founded in 2007 as one of the first metal additive manufacturing services providers in the country, GPI uses Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) to print parts with complex geometries for on-demand manufacturing applications. Utilising a variety of metal powders, including aluminium, stainless steel, tool steel, titanium, inconel and cobalt chrome, GPI
Two of the UK’s four largest Private Equity firms are live on Holland Mountain’s Data Platform.
AST Private Company Solutions (AST PCS) has partnered with Standish Management, a fund administration provider to private equity with over USD130-plus billion under administration. Users of PCS’s Astrella capitalisation (cap) table and ownership tracking platform will be able to integrate relevant ownership data from Astrella to Standish. Standish will use this data to support limited partner (LP) financial reporting and communications, capital calls and distributions and partnership accounting.
Astrella was built by AST PCS, the Silicon Valley-based business unit of ownership data management leader AST, as a new cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to manage private company ownership data. The solution
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrial, and software industries, has appointed Mitch Aiello, who has over 30 years of commercial, technical and operational experience in highly-engineered materials and component manufacturing, to the firm’s Strategic Advisory Board (SAB).Aiello served as Chief Executive Officer of former Genstar portfolio company Boyd Corporation, a market leader in thermal management and engineered materials solutions serving a diverse set of end markets, including mobile computing, consumer and enterprise electronics, transportation, data storage, medical, and aerospace. Under Aiello’s 20-plus years of leadership, the company grew
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital), a Washington DC-based private equity firm, is to sell Centauri to KBR for USD827 million. Centauri is an independent provider of space, directed energy, and other advanced technology solutions to the United States Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Centauri is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia with 22 offices strategically positioned within the United States and employs more than 1,750, half of whom have advanced degrees.
David Wodlinger, a Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “During our partnership, Centauri achieved dramatic growth and, through unique subject matter expertise along with aggressive investments in technology, solidified its role
Lever VC, an alternative protein VC fund whose partners were investors in Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and Memphis Meats, has held a first close of its first fund, which currently has USD23 million in commitments.
Palo Alto-based Social Capital, a tech holding company founded by Chamath Palihapitiya that supports innovative companies in healthcare, artificial intelligence, climate change and space has acquired Hustle, a peer-to-peer text messaging platform.
Chief executive officer Steven Pease and the Hustle management team will continue in their roles following the deal.
Founded in 2014, Hustle offers peer-to-peer text communication tools that create human connections between organisations and their contacts. Hustle’s TCPA compliant platform enables two-way conversations that develop connections over text messaging, eliminating barriers and igniting support for advocacy groups, fundraising, admissions and recruiting.
Organisations using Hustle already include the American
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