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Ogury, a specialist in factual mobile data, has raised USD15 million in a Series B funding round led by Idinvest Partners.
Ogury will use the funds to accelerate international expansion, with a New York office opening later this month, and to invest in technology, R&D and recruitment.
Existing investors Ventech, CoVent Partners and ACG also participated in the funding round, bringing Ogury’s total financing to date to more than USD20 million.
Founded in 2014, and with offices in London, Paris, Milan, Rome and Madrid, Ogury is one of the fastest growing mobile data companies in Europe, reaching over
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to private equity firms in Europe, is providing administration services to OpCapita in the closing of its second fund, OpCapita Consumer Opportunities Fund II.
The fund closed at its hard cap of EUR350 million and attracted strong support from a global investor base.
Ipes will provide services to the fund from its London office.
Founded in 2006, OpCapita specialises in the retail, consumer and leisure industries. The firm invests in underperforming businesses that require expert help and support to make them stronger through better operational management.
Over the past 10 years,
Capitala Group has held an anchor closing on Capitala Private Credit Fund V, a non-SBIC fund, which includes commitments by a global asset manager and an investment grade insurance company.
Fund V's anchor closing, combined with capital available from existing investment vehicles, gives Capitala Group over USD300 million in dry powder.
Fund V's investable capital target is USD500 million.
Capitala’s focus continues to be on US middle market companies with USD2 million to USD50 million in EBITDA, which offer its investor base an opportunity to earn current returns through senior and subordinated debt investments, along with selective equity co-investments.
Capitala has offices in
Boulder Investment Group Reprise (BIGR) has closed a new investment fund, BIGR Ventures, with capital commitments of over USD55 million.
The fund has been founded by industry veterans Carole Buyers, Duane Primozich and Bill Weiland and builds off of the success of their former fund, Boulder Brands Investment Group (BBIG), which included investments in Suja Juice (partnered with Coca Cola) and EPIC Bar (acquired by General Mills).
The fund will make investments in early-stage natural and organic product companies.
The three partners initially established BBIG as an in-house venture fund for Boulder Brands in early 2013, where Buyers
Technology investment firm Asenqua Ventures has closed its fourth investment fund, raising USD125 million which will be reinvested in capital efficient companies with a minimum revenue of USD10 million in niche technology sectors.
Fund IV will target investments in semiconductors, display technology, software, medical technology, wireless communications, and internet infrastructure, cloud computing, ecommerce and networking.
The managing directors of Asenqua, Steve Ross and Jason Yi, are using the USD125 million in funding to aggressively invest in new opportunities.
“We are at a stage where we believe we can take more companies to the next level of growth,” says
Liberty Media has agreed to acquire Formula One, the global motorsports business, from a consortium of sellers led by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in a USD8 billion deal.
Liberty Media owns interests in a broad range of media, communications and entertainment businesses.
These interests are attributed to three tracking stock groups: the Liberty SiriusXM Group, the Liberty Braves Group, and the Liberty Media Group.
The consideration comprises cash and newly issued shares in the Liberty Media Group tracking stock (LMCK) and a debt instrument exchangeable into shares of LMCK. The transaction price represents an enterprise value for
Seedrs has published its first ever portfolio update which reveals that for the first time, on a fair value basis, equity crowdfunding through the platform has produced better annualised rates of return (IRRs) than most other asset classes.
The update looks at the characteristics and performance of the 253 deals funded on Seedrs platform between its launch in July 2012 and the end of 2015.
It finds a platform-wide IRR of 14.44 per cent, which increases 41.87 per cent when impacts of SEIS and EIS tax reliefs are taken into account.
Investors with portfolios of 20 or more
Paul Hastings has advised Jacobs Engineering Group on the acquisition of the patent rights for BAYQIK quasi-isothermal sulfuric acid converter technology and other related technology from Bayer.
BAYQIK technology enables more efficient conversion of process gas with high SO2 concentrations.
Bayer developed, piloted and commercialised the technology over the past 10 years.
A full-scale installation based on the technology has operated successfully for seven years.
The Paul Hastings team was led by corporate partner Ronan O’Sullivan and senior associate Matthew Poxon in London, alongside partner Bernd Meyer-Witting and senior associate Florian Lechner in Frankfurt.
HIG Europe, the European arm of global private equity firm HIG Capital, has acquired a controlling interest in Texbond, a producer of specialty polypropylene nonwovens.
Founded in Rovereto in the Trentino region of northern Italy in 1988, Texbond specialises in nonwovens for specialty applications in the hygienic, medical, construction, automotive, household and agricultural industries.
Terms were not disclosed.
Texbond founder and chairman Giuseppe Gaspari and the chief executive Cristina Parisi have invested in the transaction alongside HIG Europe, providing management continuity as well as technical and strategic expertise to support the growth plans.
Raffaele Legnani, managing director
Elm Capital says it has seen a strong first half with primary fund closings and secondary transactions for many of its clients in Europe and North America.
On 26 July, Montefiore Investment completed the first and final closing of its largely oversubscribed fourth fund at the agreed hard cap of EUR420 million of third party capital, exceeding its EUR350 million target.
This result was achieved within just three months due to a particularly efficient process by virtue of strong support from existing and new investors. More than 20 new institutional investors committed to the fund.
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