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Verdane has invested SEK150 million in Inovia, one of Sweden’s leading providers of big data and AI solutions.
Inovia has developed a strong set of AI tools and frameworks, including an AI based virtual assistants (AIVA) and the Voice to Text application for Swedish. With Verdane’s investment, Inovia plans to accelerate the development and commercialisation of AI products and solutions and position the company for expansion to other Nordic countries.
“We have experienced an increasing interest in our services, solutions and products as more and more companies realise the opportunities with AI. Whether it’s automating customer service, improving health
Mayer Brown’s Private Equity team has advised Francisco Partners on the acquisition of ByBox, an international software and supply chain management company, for a purchase price of approximately GBP221 million.
ByBox provides smart-locker technology and field service solutions that improve the efficiency of supply chains across a range of sectors. Headquartered in Oxford, UK, the company employs over 500 employees with a presence in over 20 countries worldwide.
Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity firm that specialises in investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses. Since its launch over 18 years ago, Francisco Partners has raised over
Singapore-based SME financing platform Validus Capital (Validus) has surpassed over USD120 million in funding for local SMEs and businesses through its platform.
The company has financed more than 1,600 loans to date, each of which was approved almost instantly (under 24 hours). The average amount funded per request is USD70,000, with a high degree of diversification across various industry classes.
Much of the company’s growth is in tandem with Singapore SMEs’ increased need for growth capital, with a financing gap of around USD20 billion. Established in 2015, Validus offers access to financing from accredited individual and institutional lenders.
Pengana Capital Group Limited is working on plans for an ASX listed investment trust that will invest in global private equity next year.
It is proposed that the Trust will provide investors with exposure to a diversified portfolio of private equity investments, including funds, secondaries, directs, co-investments and other opportunistic strategies. This would be Australia’s first global private equity listed investment trust.
PCG is working with Grosvenor Capital Management (GCM), who would be responsible for selecting the investments for the Trust and constructing the portfolio. GCM is a global alternative asset manager based in Chicago and, together with its
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Evaneos SA in securing a USD80 million growth financing for the company.
The transaction – which represents one of the largest private fundraisings in France in recent years – will see Partech Partners, Level Equity Management and Quadrille Capital join Evaneos’s existing investor base of BpiFrance, Serena Capital and XAnge.
Evaneos is the world’s leading internet marketplace for complex, tailor-made, long-haul vacations. Evaneos’s platform connects global travellers with carefully-selected local agents to enable customised, authentic, in-destination travel experiences. To date, the company has served over 300,000 travellers. Evaneos plans to utilise
Ashmore Group has acquired a majority stake in Avenida Capital, a Latin America-based private equity real estate investment firm with USD300 million of assets under management.
The acquisition aligns with Ashmore’s strategy to expand its alternative investment product offering in key emerging markets, and further strengthens its footprint in Latin America. Under the continued leadership of founding partners David Smilow and Michael Teich, AshmoreAvenida, as it will be known, will continue to invest in real estate opportunities in primary cities, with steady growth rates and unmet demand in the region.
Christoph Hofmann, global head of distribution for Ashmore, says:
Silicon Line, a specialist in developing and providing innovative ultra-low-power optical link technology for consumer electronics as well as commercial and industrial markets, has raised EUR8.2 million (USD9.5 million) in a Series B financing round led by Capital-E.
Additional investors in the Series B round include LRM, Munich Venture Partners and Unixtar. The financing will be used to ramp-up production of the company’s optical modules – tiny circuit boards inside cable connectors; upgrades to the company’s module factory located in Hasselt, Belgium; the hiring of additional design engineers; and opening of local customer support offices in Asia.
Capital-E, LRM and
Augmentum Fintech, a European fintech venture capital firm, has made an investment of GBP2.5 million in UK-based residential rent-to-own specialist Unmortgage, as part of a GBP10 million fundraising.
Augmentum is participating in this fund raising alongside existing investor Exponential Ventures, and other investors.
Unmortgage will offer a unique part-own part-rent model of home ownership, requiring as little as 5 per cent deposit with customers paying a market rent on the portion of the home that Unmortgage owns, with the ability to increase the equity in the property as their financial circumstances allow.
The new funds are being raised
SVPER, a social, instant video-only app for forming new real-life relationships in real time, has secured strategic investments from LBank, a Superior and Specialized Digital Exchange, and DAEX Blockchain Group (DAEX), a distributed digital asset clearing ecosystem built using a blockchain-based multi-asset clearing and settlement protocol.
SVPER remains in advanced negotiations with many other private sale investors and has received pledges/term sheets for the Company’s token sale.
SVPER is developing a new digital identity standard that is call “Digital DNA”. The SVPER community will validate each other’s identities by leaving reviews based on the accuracy of personal information to
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has invested more than GBP25m in Love Energy Savings, a leading energy price comparison specialist, in a secondary buyout of the business to further accelerate organic growth.
The deal also marks a partial exit for NVM Private Equity, which first backed the business in September 2015.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Bolton, Love Energy specialises in the comparison of business energy prices. It connects small and medium-sized businesses with the UK energy supplier that offers the most appropriate gas and electricity tariff, before helping its customers to switch provider.
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