Allocations
Claret Capital, a London-based Pan-European growth capital provider, has held the final closing of Claret European Growth Capital Fund III, with total commitments of €297 million.
KKR has launched the Highways Infrastructure Trust (HIT), a roads infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) in India. The new vehicle is KKR’s third InvIT in India, following the launch of the Virescent Renewable Energy Trust, India’s first renewable energy InvIT, and India Grid Trust, a transmissions InvIT.
Together, these platforms operate and manage 33 assets valued at over $3.8 billion across 22 states or union territories across India.
HIT’s initial portfolio comprises of six roads assets with a total length of more than 450 kilometers across six states in India. The assets, which include a diversified mix of toll and annuity
Ampersand Capital Partners has held the final closing of the firm’s latest fund, Ampersand 2022 (AMP-22) Limited Partnership, with $1.2 billion in limited partner commitments.
This fund, which is Ampersand’s eleventh primary fund since 1992, was significantly oversubscribed and held a single close less than three months after launch. Ampersand secured commitments from a diversified and global set of institutional investors including endowments, foundations, pension plans, insurance companies, funds of funds and family offices.
With this new fund, Ampersand intends to continue the firm’s strategy of partnering with great entrepreneurs within our core sectors through both majority and minority investments
Swiss Life Asset Managers has launched its second dedicated international renewable energy fund, Fontavis ESG Renewable Infrastructure Fund II, the successor to the first international fund, Fontavis ESG Renewable Infrastructure Fund Europe.
The newly launched fund Swiss Life’s fourth renewable energy fund and the second which invests globally.
The fund will be advised by a dedicated renewables team which build on strong and long-term partnerships with project developers, energy companies, investors, public authorities, and other stakeholders to provide robust opportunities for investing its clients’ capital.
DTCP has held the second closing of its Digital Infrastructure Vehicle II (DIV II) with around €1 billion of capital commitments. The Fund was launched in June 2021 and has raised additional capital from new, leading international investors, including BlackRock and abrdn, as well as a sovereign wealth fund from the Middle East and various German insurance companies.
The fund will continue to raise significant capital until its final closing in 2023.
DIV II invests in digital infrastructure – fibre networks, mobile towers and data centres – to accelerate digital transformation and create value for its investors, its portfolio
Arcano Partners, an international alternative asset manager with offices in Europe and the US, has been ranked in the top 10 globally in the HEC Paris-Dow Jones ranking of private equity secondary funds. This list ranks the top PE secondary fund managers globally, in terms of cumulative performance and consistency of funds raised between 2008 and 2017.
The annual HEC Paris-Dow Jones ranking, created by HEC Paris professor Oliver Gottschalg, analyses the returns achieved by private equity managers and their consistency over a decade, both in absolute and relative terms across funds of those vintages.
The 2021 ranking was compiled
Standard Bank has provided a fund subscription credit facility of $75 million for AfricInvest’s largest and most recent private equity fund to finance investments in accordance with its investment strategy. The fund, AfricInvest IV, achieved its final close earlier this year with total commitments of USD411 million.
Alteria Capital Advisors is looking to raise up to INR35 billion ($438 million) for its third debt fund, according to a report by DailyAlts. The Indian venture debt firm’s latest funding, will reportedly be in the form of a dual structure consisting of a primary debt fund and a secondary pool that will be deployed as working capital finance for startups.
TA Associates has closed an investment in iCIMS, a talent cloud company majority owned by Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
Vista and TA will partner to further accelerate global growth and product development expansion at the company. Susquehanna Growth Equity, which first invested in iCIMS in 2012 and made an additional investment in 2015, will continue to be a shareholder.
iCIMS powers talent transformation for more than 4,000 organisations worldwide, including CVS Health, Target, and IBM. Employers leverage the iCIMS Talent Cloud to attract, engage, hire and
ArabyAds, an AdTech company in the MENA region, has raised $30 million in pre-Series B funding round from AfricInvest, a pan-African investment platform managing multiple alternative asset classes including private equity, venture capital and private credit.
ArabyAds will use the new financing to expand its footprint and further invest it to accelerate its technological advancement and talent acquisition to support the growth.
The transaction marks the eighth investment for AfricInvest’s Maghreb Private Equity Fund IV, which provides growth capital to small and mid-cap companies to expand regionally and across the African continent, spurring productivity growth and sustainable job
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