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Dundee Venture Capital, an Omaha-based seed-stage investment firm, has raised USD20 million for its Fund III, which will back start-ups in the broader Midwest US.
The capital will be deployed into seed and early-stage investments targeting e-commerce, B2B SaaS and consumer-network focused start-ups. Dundee Venture Capital has made over 30 investments in start-ups to date, with a goal of actively transforming the business landscape of the Midwest through entrepreneurship.
With a target capital raise of USD30 million, Fund III will be 65 per cent larger than Dundee’s previous fund. The current fund focuses on consumer and B2B investments and
Inflexion Private Equity has acquired a majority shareholding in Group IMD from funds managed by Vitruvian Partners.
Headquartered in London, Group IMD is a global technology business automating the distribution workflow of video advertisements from advertising agencies and production companies to broadcasters and the online video industry. The company connects over 2,500 clients and 14,000 digital and linear media channels in more than 100 countries.
Group IMD’s IMD Cloud is the only global, fully-automated, entirely cloud-native platform for broadcast-grade, video advertising distribution workflow. As mission-critical technology, IMD Cloud is relied upon to distribute a significant proportion of video advertising
UBS Asset Management’s infrastructure and private equity business has held the final close of its inaugural infrastructure debt fund, Archmore Infrastructure Debt Platform (Archmore IDP), which has raised EUR570 million (USD640 million).
The capital has been raised from 17 institutional investors comprising a mix of insurance companies, pension funds and family offices spread across eight European countries and Japan.
This strong level of interest reflects the ongoing trend in the current low-yield and interest rate environment of investors seeking alternative investments, such as infrastructure debt, which offer low risk but higher yielding options relative to traditional fixed income
Graphite Capital, a mid-market private equity specialist, has acquired Beck & Pollitzer, which provides industrial machinery installation and relocation services, from Bridgepoint Development Capital for an undisclosed sum.
Beck & Pollitzer’s blue chip clients, which include Toyota, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls Royce, Rexam, Kimberley Clark and many other international brands, operate principally in the automotive, aerospace, metals and packaging industries.
The company’s services range from moving single machines to the relocation of entire factories and installation of complex production lines.
Beck & Pollitzer employs more than 600 staff in 26 offices located in 14 countries and executes projects
Commonwealth Capital has launched the Commonwealth Capital Income Fund-I to provide investment capital exclusively for start-ups and early-stage companies.
The company also launched a new microsite at commonwealthcapital.fund to assist capital seekers. Entrepreneurs can sign up now and be matched with a no-cost, personal “funding concierge” who guides them through a standardised process for fund eligibility.
Users first engage in an online "proof of concept" stage to gain community support for their project, product or service. They then create a marketable deal structure for investors and an operating plan to attract a well-connected management team. After completing these stages, users potentially
A company backed by the Permira funds is to acquire the majority of P&I Personal & Informatik, a German full suite provider of HR software solutions, for an undisclosed sum.
The current owner HgCapital will continue to be invested as minority shareholder in the company.
Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Wiesbaden, P&I is a supplier of integrated HR software solutions for payroll, human capital management as well as HR cloud and outsourcing services. The company serves more than 15,000 customers, ranging from small and medium-sized private businesses (SMB) to public sector organisations of all size mainly in Germany,
Italmatch Chemicals, a chemical group specialising in the production and marketing of performance additives, has acquired Solvay’s Ionquest 290 and Octyl Phosphonic Acid product range.
They are active in the production and marketing of phosphorus-based process additives for the mining, metalworking fluids, corrosion inhibition and pigmentation industries.
The acquisition involves the Ionquest 290 and OPA-Rhodafac ASI product ranges, their respective patents, the know-how and the client portfolio of Solvay, a global chemical and advanced materials company based in Belgium.
The transaction falls into Italmatch Chemical’s growth strategy and follows the recent acquisition of Compass Chemical International, a North
Align Capital Partners has held the first and final close of its inaugural private equity investment fund, Align Capital Partners Fund I, and Align Capital Partners Fund I-A (collectively ACP I).
Align began fundraising in June 2016 with an initial target of USD250 million and closed at its hard cap of USD325 million.
“We are grateful for the tremendous demand for ACP I from an impressive investor base and appreciative of their support in the successful launch of Align Capital Partners,” says the firm’s co-founder Steve Dyke. “Our highly experienced team and focused investment strategy attracted a diverse group
Smart Communications has completed its spinoff from Thunderhead and has launched as an independent company led by its existing management team and backed by Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm.
As an independent company, Smart Communications will continue to define and lead the next generation of cloud-enabled customer communications management (CCM) by focusing on scaling its growth in new and existing markets, broadening its industry reach, and accelerating innovation and product development.
Smart Communications’ blue-chip customer base spans three continents and includes over 300 customers from a diverse range of industry sectors, including banking, insurance, healthcare, telecoms and retail,
Gide has advised iBionext on setting up the firm’s management company and on structuring its first venture capital fund, iBionext Growth Fund.
The fund specialises in the investment in and development of healthcare start-ups.
iBionext Growth Fund has announced a first closing of USD52.5 million, with a target of USD112 million for 2017.
The fund has drawn interest from international investors, insurance companies and family offices, alongside the Biotech & Healthcare Acceleration Fund (FABS) operated by Bpifrance in the context of the Investments for the Future Program (PIA) managed by General Commissariat for Investment.
Gide’s team comprised partner
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