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2015 was a busy year for both the Silverfleet team and its portfolio companies. The firm successfully raised its second independent fund, closing at its hard cap of EUR870 million.
Shortly thereafter the fund made its first investment in The Masai Clothing Company. Silverfleet was also delighted with the successful exit of OFFICE, its UK headquartered shoe retailer, and the add-on acquisition made by Phase One, itsDanish headquartered digital camera technology manufacturer, with the purchase of the assets of Mamiya Digital Imaging in Japan.
Silverfleet’s other portfolio companies were also very active: Kalle continued its product innovation and successfully
Business communications provider, Olive Communications (Olive), has secured a GBP15.25 million funding package to further scale up its operations.
BGF (Business Growth Fund) has invested GBP10m growth capital while Barclays has provided GBP5.25m in new debt facilities.
Headquartered in High Wycombe, Olive provides unified communications solutions which help corporate and small and mid-sized organisations in Britain to improve the way they run their IT infrastructure across voice, data, applications and mobile devices.
As a result of significant growth – which has seen revenues climb from GBP11m in 2012 to close to GBP30m at the end of this financial
mPrest, a provider of monitoring and control software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has raised a USD20 million Series A round of funding led by GE Ventures, the venture arm of GE, and OurCrowd, one of the world's leading equity crowdfunding platforms.
mPrest will use the investment to expand its international presence in the industrial and commercial markets and rapidly scale to meet the soaring needs of the IoT world.
mPrest delivers leading-edge software for “connecting the dots” across multiple complex systems of any scale, from a single facility to a multinational corporation. mPrest’s groundbreaking, generic software platform
Prevalent, a specialist in vendor risk management and cyber threat intelligence analytics, has raised USD8 million in Series B financing from Fulcrum Equity Partners and Spring Mountain Capital.
The round augments a 2014 Series A round by Fulcrum Equity Partners. The funds will be primarily invested in growing Prevalent's sales and marketing organisation, which is focused on selling its proprietary software products and related services, along with continued software development.
"We're excited and honured to partner with Fulcrum Equity Partners and Spring Mountain Capital to continue our growth strategy," says Jonathan Dambrot, CEO and co-founder of Prevalent. "We're also
Ariadne Capital (Ariadne) has launched the Ecosystem Economics Fund I, a GBP150 million investment fund based out of London.
The fund solely focuses on backing ‘Digital Enablers’ – typically fast-growing, young businesses who bring the ability to exploit Ecosystem Economics to big and established businesses – transforming existing non-technology traditional industries. There already is strong investor interest and a cornerstone investor, targeting a first close in Q1 2016.
The fund offers investors disruptive economics to its Limited Partners in that it is only charging a 1 per cent management fee with 25 per cent carried interest and no fees on
Supply chain solutions proviser DSV has completed its acquisition of UTi Worldwide Inc.
Jens Bjørn Andersen, CEO of DSV, says: “We are proud to welcome customers and employees of UTi to DSV. I have no doubt that the combination of DSV and UTi is a recipe for success; and with our united network, we will create exciting opportunities for both customers and employees. We will now start the integration process while taking care to maintain a high service level towards all customers. The commercial activities of DSV and UTi will continue under the DSV brand as we move forward."
Private equity firm Mid Europa Partners has reached an agreement with CEE Equity Partners, the investment advisor to the China CEE Investment Co-operation Fund (China-CEE Fund), to invest in Energy 21.
Mid Europa invested in Energy 21 in 2010 and has since developed it into the largest Czech-based independent operator of photovoltaic power plants in Central and Eastern Europe, with an installed generation capacity of 61 megawatts peak.
The China-CEE Fund was established by China Exim Bank in partnership with other institutional investors from the CEE region to capitalise on investment opportunities in CEE countries.
Pavel MalecÌŒek, the
Private investment firm Guardian Capital Partners has acquired the assets of Rose America Corp the compnay behind the dog toy brand Hyper Pet.
In addition to dog toys, the company also designs, manufactures and markets pet collars and leashes and other useful pet products under the Hyper Pet brand, PetWear brand and private label.
Guardian Capital Partners has been proactively seeking to make investments in the pet products sector; an industry that has grown to USD61 billion in 2015 with a 4.5 per cent CAGR over the last five years and is comprised of approximately 85 million pet owners in
Goodwin Procter has advised Kreos Capital on its fundraising of Kreos Capital V, the debt provider’s latest growth debt fund. Kreos Capital V was significantly oversubscribed, hitting its hard cap of EUR400 million.
Kreos Capital provides debt financing to high-growth companies in Europe and Israel, meeting the diverse needs of growing companies at different stages in their development. There is a strong demand for flexible financing and Kreos V has already closed initial commitments to several businesses.
Goodwin Procter’s team was led by Tom Beaudoin and Greg Barclay, partners in the firm’s Private Investment Funds Practice. Goodwin Procter’s team
Guernsey firms Carey Olsen and Northern Trust have assisted private equity secondaries specialist Coller Capital on the USD7.15 billion final close of Coller International Partners VII (CIP VII), one of the island’s largest fund launches of 2015.
Like its six predecessor funds, CIP VII will take a flexible approach. Advised by a multinational team based in London, New York and Hong Kong, the fund will target a wide array of secondary transactions, targeting assets and sellers located anywhere in the world, and making individual investments ranging in size from USD1 million to USD1 billion plus. CIP VII, which had a
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