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Bambu, a provider of robo-advisory technology, today announced it has completed a USD3 million Series A funding led by Franklin Templeton Investments, with Singapore family office Octava and prominent Japanese Fintech investor Mamoru Taniya also joining the round.
The year 2018 has already become a marquee year for the two-year-old startup, signing clients in both North and South America as well as across Asia, and newly opened offices in London and Kuala Lumpur. Bambu also continues its commitment to its proprietary AI research and solutions, with further hires and completion of the team’s first research publication.
“We are incredibly
A Guernsey fund investing in songs and musical intellectual property rights, set up by Merck Mercuriadis, the former manager of Beyoncé, Elton John, Morrissey, Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses was admitted to the London Stock Exchange on 11 July 2018 after raising GBP202.2 million.
Three Guernsey advisors collaborated in the IPO of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited (Hipgnosis Songs) on the Specialist Fund Segment of the LSE. Fund administrator Estera International Fund Managers (Guernsey) Limited, law firm Ogier and PwC worked closely with investment adviser The Family (Music) Limited (TFM) on the launch of the first London-listed vehicle to offer
Parisian operational marketing firm group Marquetis has restructured its capital and strengthened its development through an investment from Omnes.
Headquartered in Boulogne Billancourt, and part of the French marketing and communications sector since 1996, Marquetis has been managed for more than 20 years by Virginie Massa and Evangelos Vatzias. Marquetis operates through its subsidiaries Marquetis One, Marquetis Connect and Marquetis Call. It offers a 360 degrees service, ranging from global communication consulting to automated cross-channel marketing in SaaS mode.
The group has a portfolio of customers made up of key accounts from different sectors (automotive, services, insurance, banking, etc).
The EQT Ventures fund has made a EUR23.4 million investment in BIMobject AB, a Swedish technology company with a global presence operating at the forefront of digitising the building industry.
Hjalmar Winbladh, Partner and Head of the EQT Ventures advisory team at EQT Partners, will join the company’s board.
BIMobject provides a cloud-based platform and powerful technology to make digital product information available for Building Information Modelling (BIM). This ensures that digital representations of each component can be used early in the building process for visualisation, specification, and analysis. Every element can be digitally built, checked and issues identified
EFG Fund Services has been selected as full service provider to Index Ventures’ two latest funds, extending a relationship that dates back to 2000.
Index Ventures IX, a Jersey Expert Fund, has closed at a hard cap of USD650 million in commitments and will continue Index Ventures’ seed and venture investment in technology start-ups.
Index Ventures Growth IV, also a Jersey Expert Fund, has closed at a hard cap of USD1 billion in commitments to continue Index Ventures’ investment in growth phase technology companies. These are the tenth and eleventh funds to which Index has appointed EFG Fund Services
The partners of Bedell Cristin have announced a plan to merge with Cayman-based law firm, Solomon Harris. It is hoped that the deal will complete by the end of August, and Solomon Harris will rebrand as Bedell Cristin at a later date.
Founded in 1998, Solomon Harris is a full service law firm employing 28 people in Grand Cayman. It has been awarded recognition for its legal expertise across a broad range of services including as a premier firm for captive insurance and investment funds, capital markets, inward/local investment, private client services, corporate/residential real estate, immigration, litigation and insolvency &
Constellation Brands has acquired Dallas-based brewer Four Corners Brewing Co producer of a range of premium products including Local Buzz Honey-Rye Golden Ale and El Chingón IPA.
Four Corners, which will join Constellation’s Craft & Specialty Beer Group, was founded in 2012 by longtime friends George Esquivel, Greg Leftwich and Steve Porcari. The founders and their team will all remain involved with Four Corners following the acquisition.
“We like to say that Four Corners Brewing is our collective beer journey, and partnering with Constellation continues that journey by opening amazing possibilities of where our brand and company can go,”
Investment vehicles managed by Colony Capital have their entire stake in DATA4 to AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets, acting on behalf of AXA France.
DATA4 is a European specialist in dedicated and colocation data centres that offers services to Cloud providers, digital service companies and large and medium-sized firms. DATA4 finances, designs, builds and operates its own data centres, in order to offer its customers hosting solutions that are flexible, scalable, high-performing and secured. The company currently operates 15 data centres in Paris, Milan and Luxembourg.
Founded in 2006 by Colony Capital, DATA4 was one of the first
Bridges Fund Management (Bridges), a specialist sustainable and impact investor, has completed a second fundraise for Bridges Evergreen Holdings (Evergreen), its permanent capital vehicle, hitting its GBP50 million target three months ahead of schedule.
Evergreen is a new kind of investment vehicle, designed specifically to be a long-term partner for ambitious mission-led organisations. By providing a permanent source of capital, as well as hands-on strategic and operational support, Evergreen supports the growth of these organisations and enables them to increase their impact over a longer time-frame – helping to tackle entrenched social challenges at scale. It launched in December 2016,
The partners of Ironwood Capital have successfully completed a USD400 million capital raise for Ironwood Mezzanine Fund IV LP and its affiliated funds (IMF IV), with commitments from over 40 domestic insurance companies, banks and pension funds.
This new fund will enable Ironwood to continue investing both subordinated debt and equity in buyouts, growth investments, full and partial recapitalisations, generational transitions and other transactions in support of business owners and sponsors.
“This was the largest raise in our history and it came together through the combined efforts of our ad hoc internal fund raising team and the support of
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