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The UK’s BGF has been named the world’s most active investor in businesses seeking growth and expansion funding in Pitchbook’s 2018 global league tables, following a record year of investment.
Pitchbook’s annual global league tables rank the most active private equity and venture capital investors from around the world. BGF was also recognised as the most active investor in UK and Ireland – a title it has held since 2014 – and the most active global investor in B2C businesses. Most recent B2C investments include in-car technology business Lightfoot, Cornish clothing business Seasalt, dental engineering company Evo and action sports
Energy investment firm Exergy Capita, and Dalma Capital Management, an alternative investment fund accelerator in the Dubai International Financial Centre, have established a Sharia-compliant investment strategy to develop the infrastructure and technology required to reshape the energy value chain.
The investment strategy seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing in real assets, infrastructure and companies which have developed innovative technologies, products and services throughout the energy value chain, predominantly in Europe. It pursues a private equity style investment strategy generating capital gains for investors and focusing on uncrowded niches in the energy and interconnected sectors.
The current global
Audax Private Equity (Audax), in partnership with management, has completed the sale of Rogue Wave Software (Rogue Wave) to Perforce Software (Perforce), a Clearlake Capital portfolio company.
Headquartered in Louisville, CO, Rogue Wave is a leading provider of software development tools and code components to Global 5000 enterprises, helping developers tackle the hardest and most complex issues in building, connecting and securing applications. Rogue Wave’s product offering solves problems across a broad portion of the software development lifecycle, spanning Open Source Support, API management, Java Development, and other key focus areas for developers. Known for its commitment to help developers
Chinese companies have outpaced their western counterparts by value in the top five VC funded companies in the global payments space during 2018, according to GlobalData, a leading and data analytics company.
Of the top five, two companies represented China with a combined value of USD14.73 billion, followed by two American firms with a combined value of USD0.6 billion and one UK-based company with USD0.25 billion.
Ant Financial, the parent company of Alipay (largest mobile payments network in China), has attracted the highest VC funding among all companies in the payments space during the period. Interestingly, the USD14 billion
Monroe Capital has acted as co-lead arranger on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the growth of Mindbody, by private equity sponsor Vista Equity Partners.
Based in San Luis Obispo, California, Mindbody is the leading technology platform for the fitness, beauty and wellness services industries. Local entrepreneurs worldwide use Mindbody’s integrated software and payments platform to run, market and grow their businesses.
Consumers use Mindbody to more easily find, engage and transact with fitness, wellness and beauty providers in their local communities.
SALU Capital (SALU), together with its partners Apex Group (Apex), and Inlife Holding (Inlife), has closed the purchase of all outstanding shares of Augur Financial Opportunities 2 SICAV (AFO-2), a Luxembourg investment vehicle managed by German Augur Capital that includes the fund’s portfolio companies, German life insurer myLife Lebensversicherung (myLife) and Luxembourg-based fund administration and ManCo business LRI Group (LRI ), from the Fund’s investors in a secondary fund buy-out transaction.
The closing of this complex transaction, upon receipt of all regulatory approvals in Germany and in Luxembourg, is the latest step of SALU Capital, a young and growing private
CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), an industrials-focussed private equity firm based in Chicago, has held the final close of CORE Industrial Partners Fund I with total commitments of USD230 million.
The Fund was significantly oversubscribed with demand in excess of an initial target of USD200 million and initial hard cap of USD225 million.
The Fund’s limited partners come from a diversified base of institutional investors including leading university endowments, insurance companies, public pensions, corporate pensions, foundations, asset managers, family offices, and fund of funds.
“We are enormously honoured and humbled by the overwhelming interest in our inaugural fund,”
European impact investor, Wermuth Asset Management, has completed its second round of funding under the Green Gateway Fund 2 (GGF2) portfolio, doubling its investment in NexWafe.
Until recently silicon solar wafers have been the costliest single components of a solar module, accounting for around 40 per cent of the total product cost. But new wafer technology company, NexWafe, has stepped in as an industry disruptor with the development of a drop-in replacement for wafers specifically designed for future high efficiency solar cells with a low energy and material consumption during production that significantly brings down the costs.
“The historic
Venture capital funding to automotive start-ups totalled USD8 billion in 2018, according to the latest Automotive Technology M&A Market Report from international technology mergers and acquisitions adviser, Hampleton Partners.
In parallel, almost 100 M&A deals were inked, including Renault, Ford and Volkswagen’s autotech acquisitions in the second half of 2018; however, total disclosed M&A transaction value reached USD3.9 billion in the time period, the lowest in over five years.
The report also shows the growing role of Private Equity (PE) in the autotech M&A market, accounting for almost one quarter of all transactions in 2018. The largest PE acquisition
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made two investments totalling GBP1.95 million into two fast-growing Lincolnshire based businesses, Firetree Chocolate Ltd and YPP Group via the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).
Foresight completed a GBP950k investment into premium chocolate maker Firetree Chocolate Ltd (Firetree) as part of a GBP1.2 million funding round in late January. Firetree was set up in 2017 as a bespoke high-end chocolate manufacturer. It has been successful in securing several prominent B2B supply contracts in the ‘super premium’ chocolate market, as well as securing two lucrative private label contracts. Firetree’s ambition is to develop its own brand of
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