Managers
The future looks bright for London’s tech sector, according to a new report from London & Partners and Dealroom.co, showing that 2021 was another record year for venture capital investment into London’s tech firms.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested in Bramble Foods (Bramble), a manufacturer and distributor of more than 2,000 products, ranging from preserves, pickles, chutneys and sauces, to cakes, biscuits, confectionery, hampers and seasonal goods.
LDC is backing the existing management team, led by founder and CEO Tony Foster, alongside Finance Director Chris Neville and Sales Director Ken Osborne. As part of the transaction, co-founder Nigel Foster will retire to pursue other interests.
The investment was led by Rob Schofield, Partner in LDC’s Midlands team alongside Investment Director Phil Hinson. A team from Orbis Partners, led by Partner Gary
Jet Edge International, an Ohio-based private aviation company, has raised an additional USD75 million of funding from credit funds and accounts managed by KKR.
The new funding expands KKR’s total credit and equity investments in Jet Edge to approximately USD265 million over the past year.
Following the initial USD150 million credit facility announced in June 2021, KKR has continued investing in Jet Edge amidst historic demand for its direct-to-consumer Reserve Membership programme. Jet Edge will utilise the funding to further expand the company’s extensive Gulfstream and Challenger fleet.
Jet Edge has 20 additional Gulfstream & Challenger aircraft slated to be
Golding Capital Partners, an independent asset managers for alternative investments, has held the final closing of its first dedicated secondaries fund with commitments of some EUR280 million.
Thanks to strong demand from institutional investors, particularly from the client segments pension funds and savings banks, the original target volume of EUR200 million was substantially exceeded. Golding’s experienced secondary market team has already completed 14 transactions, quickly building a diversified portfolio of more than 80 small and mid-cap companies, primarily in Europe
Golding is planning to launch a follow-on fund in the first half of 2022 and believes that the continued availability
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and SME investment manager, has made a GBP4 million investment in Newsflare Limited (Newsflare) from its VCT funds, together with an additional GBP1 million investment from existing investor, Edge Investments.
Newsflare is a marketplace for the monetisation of user generated video (“UGV”) and has one of the largest fully-rights cleared video libraries in the world, with over 244,000 licensable videos currently on its platform.
This funding round will enable Newsflare to grow the number of fully licensed UGV clips on its platform and accelerate growth. The business’ proprietary technology and Trust Algorithm authenticates
Amsterdam-headquartered global financial institution ING, has become the first financial institution shareholder in EIT InnoEnergy, an innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe supported by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
The investment in EIT InnoEnergy underlines ING’s commitment to support the energy transition. ING joins other leading companies actively involved in the energy transition as an EIT InnoEnergy shareholder, including Volkswagen, TotalEnergies, Naturgy, and EDF.
Since 2010, EIT InnoEnergy has invested EUR560 million in over 380 companies with a combined forecasted turnover of over EUR16 billion by 2026. Standout successful
Fan Controlled Football (FCF), a professional sports league that empowers fans to make the key decisions for their favourite team, has closed a USD40 million Series A investment round led by Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital.
Along with Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital, other investors include Gemini Frontier Fund, 6th Man Ventures, Jump Crypto, Red Beard Ventures, Spartan Capital, NGC Ventures, executives at GoldenTree Asset Management, and Sebastian Borget, co-founder of The Sandbox. Additionally, all of the league’s initial Seed investors participated, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Talis Capital, Verizon Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and Basecamp Fund.
FCF made its debut
North Sky Capital (North Sky), a pioneer in impact investing, has raised USD200 million to support the development and construction of new sustainable assets in Low Income Communities across the United States.
North Sky launched its Low Income Communities Investment Initiative in late 2019 with two parallel investment vehicles: Infrastructure Investment Fund (IIF), a Qualified Opportunity Fund focused on clean energy, waste and water projects in Qualified Opportunity Zones, and National Impact Fund (NIF), a Qualified Community Development Entity focused on clean energy, green manufacturing and sustainable agriculture projects in New Markets.
SEBA Bank, a fully integrated, FINMA licensed digital assets banking platform, has secured CHF110 million in a Series C funding round co-led by a consortium of specialised blockchain and fintech investors, comprised of Altive, Ordway Selections, and Summer Capital, as well as DeFi Technologies, a NEO listed leader in decentralised finance.
Alameda Research, a global cryptocurrency quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider, as well as core partner of FTX, also participated in the round, which was significantly oversubscribed, with demand far exceeding the initial funding target. Existing investors, including Julius Baer, increased their positions in the funding round.
Accelerant, a provider of risk exchange and data analytics to the, insurance sector has raised in excess of USD190 million at a USD2 billion pre-money valuation in a funding round led by Eldridge.
Deer Park, Marshall Wace, MS&AD Ventures, and others also participated along with existing majority investor Altamont Capital Partners.
Accelerant will deploy the capital to continue to rebuild the way that underwriters share and exchange risk to improve outcomes for program managers, primary issuing carriers, and ultimate risk-bearers.
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