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Fraser McCombs Capital (FMC) is launching a second automotive-focused investment fund, FMC Fund II.
FMC was founded by Billy Joe “Red” McCombs and Chase Fraser in 2012. McCombs is the founder of the Red McCombs Automotive Group, a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, a former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, and the Minnesota Vikings, and the namesake of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a long-standing member of Forbes magazine’s top 400 richest Americans and has owned nearly 400 businesses during his career.
The firm’s three directors, Chase Fraser,
Taaleri Plc has acquired a 25 per cent minority interest of its subsidiary Taaleri Private Equity Funds Ltd at a purchase price of EUR12 million. The purchase price is based on an external valuation.
The Board of Directors of Taaleri Plc obtained a positive fairness opinion (available as attached) from Sisu Partners Oy. Following the transaction, Taaleri Plc owns 100 per cent of Taaleri Private Equity Funds Ltd.
The subsidiary’s minority shareholders have been Taaleri Plc’s CEO Juhani Elomaa and Deputy CEO Karri Haaparinne, each with a 10 per cent holding, as well as other Taaleri key individuals, with a
UK venture capital investor Albion Ventures has held the early close of the Albion VCTs Prospectus Top Up Offers after raising GBP36 million across its six venture capital trusts.
The Offers targeted a monthly tax-free income of around 6 per cent p.a. (for investors who invested equally across all Offers), equivalent to approximately 8.5 per cent on the net cost of investment after up-front tax relief at 30 per cent. Investors in the Offers also have the option to boost their capital growth by participating in the dividend reinvestment schemes (DRIS), under which dividends are reinvested in the form of
Slice Labs Inc, an insurtech startup set to launch the industry’s first on-demand insurance platform to support the on-demand economy, has secured USDUSD3.9 million in seed funding led by Horizons Ventures and XL Innovate.
Slice is reimagining insurance for the new economy using design, technology, and data. The Slice on-demand insurance platform allows participants to easily purchase insurance when they need it, with a tap. Slice’s first product launched on the platform will be a proprietary pay-per-use policy for Uber and Lyft drivers that covers the driver from the time they turn on the rideshare app until they turn it
Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management is launching its second infrastructure debt fund as part of its ongoing development of the BRIDGE platform.
The new Luxembourg-regulated fund will have the same investment philosophy as the previous generation and is aiming to raise between EUR 400 million and 800 million.
A second BRIDGE platform fund (Benjamin de Rothschild Infrastructure Debt Generation) is being launched. It will be managed by the same team of 11 experts based in London. The fund seeks to broaden the range, capturing fresh opportunities, whether at the project or operational stage, which have been identified by the investment
I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investment manager, has agreed to acquire Viridian Group Holdings Limited (Viridian) from Arcapita.
Viridian is the leading independent, integrated energy company operating across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. With over 480 employees, the Group comprises two main brands Energia and Power NI and has a c.20% share of domestic electricity sales volume and a circa 27 per cent share of business electricity sales volume on an all-Ireland basis.
Viridian’s generation portfolio consists of 747 megawatts of gas-fired combined-cycle generating technology capacity and 225 megawatts of onshore wind assets in operation and
Dalfen America Corp (DAC) has acquired McKinney Central Business Park located at 2010 and 2040 N Redbud Boulevard in the rapidly growing DFW suburb of McKinney, Texas.
Built in 2001, the 201,425 square-foot, multi-tenant industrial business park is fully leased and comprised of 2 light industrial buildings containing notable tenants such as PODS Enterprises LLC and Dallas Morning News. In addition to the buildings, DAC acquired 6.5 acre parcel of land for future development purposes. The business park is extremely well located with excellent access off of US-75 North Central Expressway and adjacent to Sam’s Club and Walmart.
McKinney is
Castanea Partners has made an investment in Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, a retailer and wholesaler of branded artisanal ice creams.
With the investment, Castanea becomes the sole outside investor joining the Columbus-based company as owners alongside founder Jeni Britton Bauer, her husband, Charly Bauer, her brother-in-law, Tom Bauer, and longtime friend, CEO John Lowe.
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams was founded in 2002 by James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Jeni Britton Bauer. Britton Bauer’s ahead-of-the-trend vision—using whole ingredients and dairy from grass-pastured cows, rather than synthetic flavorings and commodity ice cream mix—coupled with inspired flavors, sparked the artisan ice cream movement
BDC Capital has invested USD6.7 million in Toronto-based Wave, a company that provides online financial tools for small businesses.
This money comes from BDC Capital's new USD150 million IT Venture Fund II announced last month. BDC Capital's investment is part of Wave's Series C funding round, which has now raised USD22.1 million and includes participation from CRV, The Social+Capital Partnership, OMERS Ventures and an unnamed strategic investor in the fintech sector. Wave has earmarked all Series C funds for the ongoing innovation and development of its suite of tools.
The investment was managed by Peter Misek, BDC Capital IT Venture
Affiliates of Balance Point Capital (Balance Point) have made a strategic investment in Ranger Airshop. Balance Point provided equity capital to facilitate the acquisition of the Company led by Argosy Investment Partners (Argosy).
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Easley, South Carolina, Ranger is a full service provider of unit load devices ("ULD") and other cargo control products. ULDs are broadly defined as any platform that is used to facilitate the movement of air cargo. Ranger maintains the industry's largest fleet of ULDs available for one way, short-term and long-term lease and operates more than 30 locations in 18 countries
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