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Nordic lower mid-market growth and buyout group Priveq, which invests in companies within the consumer, healthcare, IT and software sectors, has closed its sixth fund on SEK 2.5 billion.
The fund’s investors include existing and new Nordic, European and North American investors, including public and private pension funds, insurance companies, charitable foundations, endowments, public institutions, family offices and fund-of-funds.
Magnus Hardmeier, executive chairman of Priveq, said the firm had its first investor meeting with regards to the new fund on March 17th, the same week authorities announced Corona restrictions in Sweden.
“We managed to follow our time plan in a
MayStreet has closed a Series A financing round led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, a Fintech growth equity group that invests in high-growth private businesses that interact with the financial services industry.
The USD21 million investment will be used to accelerate MayStreet’s growth through the full globalisation of its industry-leading market data infrastructure platform across asset classes, further product development and the expansion of the company’s sales and marketing presence. In addition, as part of the investment, trading technology and market data industry veteran Rishi Nangalia will join the MayStreet board.
MayStreet was founded in 2012 by software
Visionable, a video collaboration platform designed especially for healthcare teams’ advanced clinical needs, has raised GBP6 million in an oversubscribed Series A1 funding round.
The private placement, completed within 24 hours, was led by West Hill Capital.
To meet unprecedented demand, Visionable is rapidly upscaling its operations by building up its team to be 60 strong by the end of June, from 14 employees in May 2019, accelerating technology research and development, and in international expansion. In the four weeks since lockdown was announced Visionable increased video conferencing hours by 1,607 per cent, facilitated 4,200 hours of patient consultations
Eurazeo Capital’s portfolio company Planet has acquired 3C Payment, an omnichannel payment platform for businesses, hotels and restaurants.
UK-based alternative asset manager Bridgepoint has agreed to acquire EQT Credit in a deal that will resulting in a total AuM of close to EUR7 billion for the combined group.
According to Bridgepoint managing partner William Jackson, this transaction – which is scheduled to complete in the fourth quarter of 2020 – moves the firm’s credit strategy “significantly forward”. It also provides further diversification for the Bridgepoint Group.
“This is in line with our strategic objective of offering a broader range of compelling middle market focused alternative asset investment strategies,” said Jackson.
“It will also broaden Bridgepoint Credit’s geographic exposure
Private investment firm Inverness Graham Investments has acquired Catheter & Medical Design (CMD). Based in Roseville, MN, CMD develops and manufactures complex catheters and catheter shafts for a broad range of interventional and endosurgical applications. This is the third Inverness platform investment in the medical device outsourcing market, following Inverness’ successful ownership of ExtruMed and AdvancedCath Technologies.
“We are excited to invest in another medical device outsourced manufacturing business and believe CMD is a highly attractive platform, offering a compelling value proposition to its global, blue-chip customer base,” says Aliya Khaydarova, Managing Principal of Inverness Graham. “As medical device companies continue to outsource
Hoxton Ventures has held the final close of its second fund, an early stage European VC fund, which includes seed investments in Babylon Health, Deliveroo and Darktrace.
Existing investors in Hoxton’s first fund have invested in the second fund as well, alongside capital from new British, Swiss and US institutional investors. New LPs include the largest investor in UK venture capital – British Patient Capital.
London-based Hoxton Ventures is one of Europe’s top-performing early stage VC firms; according to a recent evaluation by data sharing platform Dealroom, the firm’s first fund has the highest ratio of unicorns to investments in
Haven Cyber Technologies Group (Haven Group), has secured a further investment of EUR5.7 million from C5 Capital, A specialist investment firm investing in the secure data ecosystem. In addition, the Haven Group announced Andrew Miller had been appointed as Group Chief Financial Officer, and James Armstrong had been appointed Finance Director of ITC Secure, one of Haven Group’s operating companies, to lead the next phase of growth.
Haven Group is a European focused pure play cybersecurity provider. Its operating companies, ITC Secure and Onevinn, provide enterprises with leading cybersecurity services and products. C5 Capital’s investment will support the Haven Group’s
Growth equity investment firm FTV Capital (FTV) has closed its sixth and largest fund to date, FTV VI, at ts hard cap of USD1.2 billion in capital commitments from existing and new limited partners. Over its 22-year history, FTV has raised nearly USD4 billion and invested in 114 innovative, high-growth companies in its core sectors: enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing. The new fund will continue to pursue opportunities in these sectors with a target equity investment of USD30 to USD100 million, helping portfolio companies accelerate expansion.
FTV had a highly productive year in 2019 with
KKR is to acquire Roompot Group, a provider of holiday parks in Western Europe, from European private equity firm PAI Partners. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, having already received positive works council advice. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1965 in the region of Zeeland (the Netherlands), Roompot has progressively developed to become a leading holiday parks operator in Europe. The business directly owns and operates 33 parks in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, and works exclusively with more than 100 third-party park operators to support their booking and distribution efforts and provide development, design and
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