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Arbour Lane Capital Management, a private registered investment adviser focused primarily on opportunistic credit and special situation investments, has held the final closing of Arbour Lane Credit Opportunity Fund II at its hard cap of USD1.2 billion in capital commitments, exceeding its initial target of USD750 million.The Fund focuses on secured bank loans in mid-size structures and out of favor investments at the top of the capital structure, primarily senior secured debt and/or other first lien securities.
Arbour Lane’s management team has experience of credit investing and managing risk for over 20 years.
Growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners has completed the sale of Clearpool Group, a New York-based electronic trading provider and independent agency broker-dealer, to BMO Financial Group. The deal is Edison’s third institutional fintech exit to a strategic buyer this year, which also includes the sale of Scivantage to Refinitiv and Solovis to Nasdaq, and is the second portfolio company exit between Edison and Clearpool CEO Joe Wald.
The acquisition of Clearpool is set to deliver new capabilities to BMO’s electronic trading platform, as the nature of equity trading continues to move online. Clearpool will remain a separate brand under BMO and
Perwyn, BGF, MMC Ventures and Joe Wicks have led a GBP 33 million funding round into recipe box company Gousto. The additional funding takes the total funds raised by Gousto to over GBP130 million in the last eight years. The company aims to have put over 400 million meals on tables by 2025.
Crypto Finance has completed a Series B investment round, raising CHF14 million in new funding from a consortium of investors.
GP Bullhound has acted as exclusive financial advisor to EDITED on a USD29 million growth investment from Wavecrest Growth and Beringea.
Maven Capital Partners and Guinness AM have led a GBP10 million funding round for Push Technology, a real-time data streaming and messaging provider.
Axcel has acquired a controlling stake in Norwegian SaaS CRM provider SuperOffice.
SuperOffice is Axcel VI’s first investment, and the firm will control the majority of SuperOffice’s shares. The company is being acquired from the founder’s family, Visma, and key employees. The current management team will reinvest in the business alongside Axcel.
“As a business majority-owned by the founding family, SuperOffice has maintained its unique down-to-earth culture and has enjoyed continued success for over 30 years,” said Gisle Jentoft, CEO of SuperOffice.
“By always having the customer at the heart of the development process, SuperOffice has successfully transitioned to a
Igloo Vision, a Shropshire-based immersive technology company, has raised an additional GBP435,000 in funding under the UK Government’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).Igloo (www.igloovision.com) creates immersive projection spaces, such as domes, cylinders, cubes, and immersive workspaces. Igloo’s technology can display any 360° or Virtual Reality (VR) content. And, because entire teams can get inside the immersive spaces and engage with the content, the technology is well-suited to training, simulation, and visualisation, as well as events and experiences.
The latest fundraising round, which closed on 5 April 2020, secured investment from several sources. The largest proportion, at GBP200,000, came from the London-headquartered
As stay-at-home orders are taking their toll on the economy and businesses are in need of cash, the private equity industry could be well positioned to pick up better priced assets in the backwaters of the crisis.
David Mussafer, chairman and managing partner of Advent International, told the Financial Times on 5 April that there is now “an opportunity for us to get involved with some of the most incredible businesses on the planet that heretofore might not have been interested, or needed capital, or sought a partner,” particularly in the technology, healthcare and consumer sectors.
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Corigin Ventures, a founder-focused early-stage venture capital firm, has held the final closing of its second fund with total equity commitments of USD36.05 million. The firm is also pleased to announce that Aubrie Pagano, an experienced founder and early-stage investor, has joined as Partner. In this role and as a member of the firm’s Investment Committee, Aubrie will be heavily involved in advancing Corigin’s proven investment strategy including sourcing new opportunities and working closely with founders to unlock their businesses’ potential. In conjunction with Aubrie’s hire, the firm also announced the promotions of Daniel Fetner to Principal and Eric Schoenbach to
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