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HG Ventures, the corporate venture arm of the Heritage Group, has made a USD1.35 million seed round investment in Wildnote, an environmental compliance management solution. HG Ventures invested alongside Entrada Ventures, a Santa Barbara-based venture capital fund. Wildnote is a graduate of the inaugural 2019 cohort of The Heritage Group Accelerator Powered by Techstars, a thirteen-week program for mentoring and developing early-stage companies in “legacy industries” such as advanced materials, infrastructure, and environmental services.
Wildnote operates a software-as-a-service platform that allows users to document compliance with environmental regulations through surveys, photos, and location tracking to generate agency-ready consolidated reports. Wildnote brings
Valsoft Corporation (Valsoft), a Montreal-based company that specialises in the acquisition and development of vertical market software companies, has acquired Young & Partners/Navitrans International (Navitrans), a technology leader offering a complete and integrated suite of logistics, transportation, warehousing and freight forwarding software solutions.Navitrans has provided a premium suite of integrated logistics and transportation software to customers of all sizes for more than 20 years – one that will continue to move forward with an intuitive and customer-centric approach behind their products. As a business full of specialists and knowledgeable professionals, Navitrans understands the critical requirements for each of their customers’ operations.
Emerging markets private equity fund manager Da Vinci Capital has launched Da Vinci Emerging Technologies-Fund III, its third successive fund.
Global law firm Mayer Brown has found that the total annual value of acquisitions of UK companies by US private equity funds jumped 53 per cent last year to GBP14.2 billion; up from GBP9.3 billion in 2018. It is the latest sign of favourable market economics in the UK, which has seen a widening valuation gap relative to European listed equities as the country has convulsed from the vacillations of Brexit.
As Covid-19 (coronavirus) keeps spreading and the death-toll is rising on a daily basis, the UK is waiting to see what will happen next as France confirmed Europe’s first fatality over the weekend.
Triple Point Investment Management has provided a GBP10 million loan facility for WeFlex, a provider of vehicles to the Ride-Hailing market in the UK. Having worked with the team at Weflex for the past five years, Triple Point is delighted to back their growth and development in the UK. The funds will be used by WeFlex to further increase its operations across the country, expand its fleet of electric vehicles, as well as other hybrids to further support the green initiatives in the UK ride-hailing market.
WeFlex is a leading platform providing flexible and affordable Public Carriage Office (PCO) Car
The Luxembourg-based special fund FP Lux Investments is expanding the portfolio of its Wind Infrastructure I sub-fund for institutional investors. Three additional wind energy projects with a total capacity of 19.2 MW have recently been acquired – the Melgven and Callac wind farms are French projects with a capacity of 10.8 MW, while the Gardelegen wind farm is located in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and has a capacity of 8.4 MW. Altogether, the three parks can supply more than 15,300 households with electricity from renewable energy, saving more than 24,000 tons of CO2 per year.
The transaction was managed by the international investment and
Global investment bank GCA Corporation, the parent company of GCA Altium, is to acquire Stella EOC, a technology and media investment banking boutique with coverage in the UK and Europe.
European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has acquired a majority stake in Collectia A/S, a credit management services provider based in Denmark. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Brøndby, Collectia is a debt collection and debt purchase business operating primarily in Denmark with a niche presence in Sweden, Norway and Germany. The Company employs over 175 staff and serves approximately 13,000 corporate customers across over 600,000 active cases.
With its proprietary technology platform, credit database and data analytics capabilities, Collectia has diversified beyond its core debt collection business by increasing its
Macfarlanes has advised UK-based private equity firm August Equity Partners on the raising of its latest flagship fund, AEP V, which has closed at its hard cap of GBP300 million, exceeding its target of GBP275 million.The fund was oversubscribed, with over 40 per cent of the new capital coming from the US and Canada, comprising pension funds and endowments.
The Macfarlanes team for this matter was led by investment management partner Stephen Robinson with assistance from investment management senior solicitor Henry Stewart-Brown. Tax advice was provided by partner Mark Baldwin with assistance from senior solicitor Penny Van den Brande.
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