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Venture capital firm Menlo Ventures has held the closing of the USD250 million Menlo Opportunity Fund, which will invest in early growth companies, typically Series B and C rounds, when the companies are at their initial inflection point.
This is the first time Menlo Ventures has created a fund solely targeting these types of investments.
The fund, which was raised in six weeks and oversubscribed by existing limited partners, was formed to take advantage of early growth stage opportunities at a time when funding in this stage is declining. Menlo Ventures intends to help fill the "Venture Valley" by focusing
European Buy & Build activity in 2015 reached its highest level since the first half of 2011, according to Silverfleet Capital’s annual European Buy & Build Monitor.
The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European headquartered companies backed by private equity, identified a provisional total of 404 add-ons in 2015 compared to 393 in 20141.
In Q3 2015 there were 125 add-ons reported, the highest total recorded in a single quarter since Q2 2008 with 143 transactions. The average disclosed value of add-ons in 2015 was GBP40.5 million. The largest add-on by a considerable
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested over GBP8 million in the management buyout of Vital Ingredient, a leading healthy food-to-go retailer, to support the roll-out of the group both within London and throughout the UK.
Santander will provide a further GBP4 million of funding to support the expansion.
Founder, Alex Heynes, opened its first store in London’s West End 15 years ago, and the business now operates 17 stores in the capital which offer a range of fresh, healthy, natural and responsibly-sourced ingredients for consumers to create their own food-to-go meals. Its offer includes salads that are tossed to
AnaCap Financial Partners, the specialist European financial services private equity firm, is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Barclays plc’s French retail banking and wealth businesses.
Barclays will continue to operate its corporate and investment banking operations in France.
Barclays’ French retail banking and wealth business operations are focused on the affluent segment, offering banking services such as current accounts, deposits and mortgages, as well as a variety of products including life insurance and wealth management. The business has a network of 74 branches across France.
AnaCap’s banking investments comprise Aldermore in the UK, which is now publicly listed
Health and hygiene company RayVio Corp has closed new funding rounds of in USD26 million in total led by IPV Capital and Tsing Capital.
RayVio will use the new funding to scale production to meet global consumer demand for protection against germs in water and environments. RayVio’s powerful Ultraviolet (UV) LED technology enables compelling new health and hygiene products, such as point-of-use water disinfection, and creates new markets and revenue streams for original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners around the world.
“Consumers in too many countries lack control over major environmental health risks that lurk in everything from drinking water to
Dunedin backed EV Offshore (EV), which designs, manufactures and provides ruggedised video cameras that are used to diagnose and analyse problems in oil and gas wells, has completed its acquisition of Epidote Limited (“Epidote”).
The transaction value has not been disclosed.
Investment in the oil and gas industry has been affected by low oil prices. However, EV is an example of a business that is positively bucking this trend, investing in a strategic capability that will allow it to best support the needs of its clients.
Dunedin backed the GBP69m MBO of EV in June 2014.
Windsor Circle, a provider of predictive lifecycle and retention marketing software and services for retailers, has raised USD4.1 million in an over-subscribed funding round, and secured a USD2.5 million line of credit from Square 1 Bank, a division of Pacific Western Bank.
This latest funding will help Windsor Circle continue to expand product development and enhance predictive algorithms and data science capabilities to power more effective automated marketing campaigns for retailers. They will also add new talent to their sales and ecommerce professional services teams, plus engage in other high-growth endeavours.
“We’ve got big plans for these new funds,” says
Salvepar has increased ts stake in Asten Santé to 22.3 per cent of the capital and voting rights by acquiring a portion of the interest held by Gemmes Venture which remains the majority shareholder for EUR12 million.
The Asten Santé group is a French multiregional homecare provider, from the voluntary sector and medical world, operating in Pays de la Loire (Aliséo), in Midi-Pyrénées (Sadir Assistance), in Haute-Normandie (Adir Assistance) and, since 2015, in Franche-Comté (DDS Assistance). Several entities complement the group for the development of operations in Ile-de- France (S2A Santé Ile-de-France) and the development of innovative technologies, especially focused
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised specialist European financial services private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap) on the sale of UK online insurance distributor Simply Business, to New York-based Aquiline Capital Partners.
Completion of the transaction is subject to the approval of the Financial Conduct Authority.
The exit comes just short of three years since AnaCap acquired Simply Business and will generate a return of 4.5 times its original investment.
The Norton Rose Fulbright team in London was led by partner Richard Bull and included senior associate, Andrew Houghton.
Norton Rose Fulbright has advised
Isomer Capital has launched a EUR150 million investment fund to help investors capitalise on the boom in European technology-based businesses.
According to Tech.eu ‘European Tech Exits Report for 2015’, last year nearly 600 disclosed European tech company exits generated EUR137 billion. A figure which, according to Isomer, most traditional institutional investors missed out on given how difficult and resource intensive research, selection, and execution of small technology investments can be.
Many of the best deals in the European technology market are private, move fast, require specialist expertise and still have high individual risk profiles. In fact, initial start-up funding for
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