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Waracle, one of the UK’s largest mobile apps and digital products developers, has received a GBP4.8 million investment from BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, to support its long-term growth plans. Waracle designs, develops and manages mobile apps and other digital products, working with some of the UK’s largest businesses across sectors including fintech, digital health and energy. Waracle continues to develop industry-leading digital solutions across the full mobile app development spectrum, including mobile, IoT, and Extended Reality (AR and VR). Founded in Dundee in 2007, the business has since scaled across Scotland with 140
Nuvei, a global payment technology provider, has completed a USD270 million (CAD358 million) common equity financing, valuing the company at USD2 billion (CAD2.65 billion). The investment comes primarily from Nuvei’s existing shareholders: leading Canadian private equity firm Novacap, supported by some of its key limited partners, and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), one of the largest Canadian institutional investors. This financing allows Nuvei to further bolster both its organic and acquisition growth plans. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec and having offices across the globe, Nuvei delivers omnichannel, end-to-end payment acceptance solutions, streamlined payouts, foreign exchange services, local acquiring,
The CapStreet Group (CapStreet), a Houston, Texas based private equity firm that invests in privately held, lower middle-market companies, has held the final closing of CapStreet V, at its hard cap, with total commitments of USD500 million. CapStreet V exceeded its original target of USD400 million with commitments from a diverse group of existing and new investors. “We were pleased with the strong support that we received from our existing base of limited partners, and we were also fortunate to be able to expand this investor base by adding a select group of new limited partners to CapStreet V,” says
A partnership between Signature Capital and PGIM Real Estate has acquired the Arrow Portfolio in Berlin from Patrizia AG as a share deal. The portfolio comprises four office properties in Berlin’s central districts of Mitte and Kreuzberg, with a total area of circa 32,000 square metres, as well as an additional fully permitted development of circa 8,500 square metres. PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment business of PGIM, the US$1tn global investment management businesses of US-headquartered Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), and has been a market leader in open-end fund management since it launched its flagship open-end core
Proof of Impact (POI) has  closed its first institutional investment round led by Franklin Templeton. Proof of Impact is building a global marketplace on the blockchain where one can donate or invest directly into measurable impact outcomes. In connection with the investment, a representative of Franklin Templeton will serve on the Proof of Impact board, offering their expertise in the application of blockchain technology and impact investing as well as scaling the POI offering globally. Proof of Impact’s co-founder Fleur Heyns will be pitching the company during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos in January 2020. In addition
Omega Funds, an international investment firm focused on delivering impactful medicines to patients, has closed Omega Fund VI with USD438 million in capital commitments. Fund VI will continue to execute on the firm’s strategy of creating and investing in life sciences companies that target the most urgent medical needs. Since its inception in 2004, Omega Funds has raised more than USD1 billion to invest in exceptional entrepreneurs developing innovative products across multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology, immunology, rare diseases, precision medicine and others. Omega Funds has a strong track record of identifying and supporting great management teams and companies by
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has made a significant growth investment to recapitalise Endo1 Partners (Endo1), a fast-growing specialty dental services organisation headquartered in Houston. VSS has partnered with co-founders Dr Matthew Haddad, Dr Daryl Dudum, Dr Mark Haddad, and Dr Darron Rishwain. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed. Formed in 2019 with operations in Texas and California, Endo1 provides comprehensive knowledge, resources and shared back-office support to endodontists across the country through an Endodontic Partnership Organization (“EPO”). Endo1’s offering empowers endodontists’ ability to provide
International law firm Ashurst advised long-standing client Agilitas Private Equity on the sale of Norway-based property remediation and environmental services specialist Recover Nordic to EQT Partners. The deal gives the company an enterprise value of NOK3 billion (GBP248 million). Recover Nordic, which was acquired by Agilitas in 2013, is the largest emergency response and damage control business in the Nordic region, primarily serving insurance companies, municipalities, industrial and commercial clients. Following the Agilitas-backed management buyout, Recover Nordic has experienced strong organic growth and completed 17 add-on acquisitions. Headquartered in Oslo, the company has over 2,100 employees across 92 locations in
Ada Ventures has raised a new USD34 million (GBP27 million) fund which will invests in ‘overlooked’ company founders. At present, 92 in every 100 dollars invested in Europe goes to all male teams, 83 per cent founders are white, 82 per cent are university educated. In the UK, a quarter of investment committees saw no female founders in 2017 and 72 per cent of Venture Capital funding is invested in London alone.   Ada Ventures was founded to change that. Ada Ventures is a first-cheque seed fund, and is on a mission to make venture capital truly accessible to the
5G connections
With a predicted USD275 billion of investment expected from US wireless providers over the next few years, not to mention up to three million new jobs and an annual USD500 billion GDP boost for the US economy, it’s no wonder that 5G is being a dubbed truly transformative technology. And as James Williams finds out, private equity investors are keen to help finance the revolution…

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