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CHRONEXT, a curated online marketplace for luxury watches, has closed a series C financing round of EUR11 million led by Partech Ventures and joined by new backer Octopus Ventures alongside existing investors, Capnamic Ventures, NRW.BANK and InVenture Partners.
Founded in 2013 in Switzerland, CHRONEXT is a secure marketplace where new and second-hand luxury watches can be bought, sold, or serviced at fair prices. The company operates in the multi-billion Euro market for luxury watches. Currently, online sales account for 1 to 2% of the market and represent the fastest growing segment of the industry.
CHRONEXT achieved an impressive traction and
WorldQuant Ventures, an angel investment firm focused on disruptive companies in technology, has invested in Cycle Computing, a specialist in Big Compute software.
WorldQuant Ventures’ investment allows Cycle Computing to expand access for financial services companies to flexible and affordable cloud-based computing solutions.
“We are excited to announce our investment in Cycle Computing,” says Steven Lau, Managing Director at WorldQuant Ventures. “Companies in the financial services industry are increasingly turning to computing resources to help meet business and regulatory needs. We believe Cycle Computing’s innovative cloud computing platform, along with the growing demand for computing services, provides an attractive
Vivo Capital, a global healthcare investment firm, has closed a new healthcare venture capital focused fund, the Vivo PANDA Fund, at over USD100 million.
Vivo plans to invest the capital primarily in innovative early-stage healthcare companies across the industry spectrum, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and diagnostics. The addition of Vivo PANDA will enable the firm to invest in all stages in the life science industry's development cycles. Vivo PANDA will complement and build synergies with Vivo Capital Fund VIII, which invests primarily in later development stage and growth stage healthcare companies.
Vivo also intends to continue its strategy of
NextEnergy Capital Group (NEC) has held the first close of NextPower II, a private equity fund focused on acquiring operating solar power projects in Italy.
NextPower II has secured an initial commitment of EUR150 million, and will begin deploying capital imminently.
NextPower II’s strategy is to consolidate the large but highly fragmented Italian solar market. Italy has the second largest installed base of operating solar plants in the EU, and is the fifth-largest market globally, but is fragmented with the top 10 players accounting for only 7 per cent of the market. The majority of Italy’s solar assets were constructed
Specialist finance and advisory firm TCA Fund Management Group Corp is planning to launch a small-cap private equity fund to invest in under-served growth stage companies, primarily in the US and UK.
TCA Opportunities Fund I, LP, registered with the Guernsey Financial Services Commission will seek just to target 15 to 20 companies, using a US Dollar based vehicle as well as having a US based feeder.
According to the US census, there are more than 28 million small businesses with revenues between USD25-USD150 million who fall short of capital requirements from banks, peer to-peer lending, traditional private equity and
Private equity firm Inflexion’s portfolio company Succession has secured an investment package of over GBP25 million from HSBC and its existing shareholders, to continue its growth strategy through the acquisition of the best 50 firms from its affiliated membership by the end of 2017.
In the last three years Succession has acquired 25 firms to create a highly profitable, organically growing, national advisory business of scale.
Group Chief Executive of Succession, Simon Chamberlain, says: “We are at the half way point in our plan to create the UK’s largest independent wealth management business, with strong funds under management, and
Two thirds of Limited Partners (LPs) believe that the rapid growth of private equity ‘shadow capital’ – direct investments, co-investments and separate accounts – will reduce the returns of commingled private equity funds, according to Coller Capital.
The firm’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer explains the popularity of co-investments, a form of shadow capital embraced by around half of private equity investors: almost two thirds of LPs report that their co-investments have generated higher returns than their overall private equity portfolios in recent years.
Investors believe the investment environment is becoming more difficult to navigate – almost 70 per
Daphne Dufresne, Managing Director and founding partner of RLJ Equity Partners, is to leave the firm to pursue smaller, higher growth companies which are outside of the investment scope of the firm. Dufresne will continue to serve as a Special Advisor to RLJ.
Rufus Rivers, RLJ Equity Partners' Managing Partner, says: "I am deeply saddened that my partner for the last 10 years, and one of the founders of RLJ Equity Partners, has decided to leave the firm to pursue her passion to invest in small, high growth companies. While I'm sad, I'm also excited for Daphne and I look
Private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has supported the management buy-in (MBI) of Prime Document (Prime), a specialist provider of outsourced document management services.
Maven’s backing will help the team strategically grow the sales and marketing capability of the business, expanding its footprint into the electronic document management (EDM) sector, which is forecast to grow strongly over the next few years.
The senior buy-in team has significant experience in the document management outsourcing market, with Managing Director Martin Hurley and Operations Director Alan Hall having previously held senior positions with several large companies in this arena. Phil Dearden
Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) has entered into a strategic financing relationship with Calfrac Well Services (Calfrac), an Alberta-based pressure pumping services provider.
AIMCo's investment in Calfrac provides its clients with an attractive opportunity to gain direct exposure to an innovative provider of pressure pumping services focused on North America's premier unconventional natural gas and light oil plays plus strategic international markets. With state-of-the-art equipment, in-house research & development, a diversified customer base, an expert team of employees, and experienced management, Calfrac is strongly positioned for long term success.
"AIMCo is very pleased to provide this strategic funding to Calfrac
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