Managers
ShopFully Group, headquartered in Italy where it operates under the national brand DoveConviene, has received EUR10 million funding from Highland Capital Partners Europe.
The round takes the company’s total funding to over EUR20 million in three years – previous investment was received from Principia SGR, 360 Capital Partners and Merifin.
ShopFully Group’s platform, founded in 2010, is used by over 13 million people worldwide to help them prepare and plan their purchases in physical stores, in the smartest way possible. The digital platform offers a wealth of geo-located information including details about promotions, products, shops, opening times, and contacts of
Happn, a dating app that connects people the moment their paths cross, has closed a USD14 million Series B funding round led by Idinvest with participation from Alven Capital, DN Capital, Raine Ventures and private individuals Fabrice Grinda, David Wolfson and Gil Penchina.
To date, the company has raised a total of USD22 million. The new funding round will be used to drive expansion into Asia and grow its presence in its existing markets.
“The mobile dating space has grown substantially in the last few years and all signs point to its continued proliferation with happn really defining the hyperlocal
Wells Fargo’s Global Fund Services has launched Fund View, an operational system for managing and analysing the middle- and back-office operations, fund accounting, and regulatory and investor servicing functions of hedge funds and private equity funds.
"Fund View provides managers with operational information on a real-time basis enabling them to better manage and analyse post-trade activities,” says Christopher Kundro (pictured), head of Global Fund Services. “It will provide our customers with the critical information they need for monitoring and measuring operational activities, analysing and mitigating operational risk, and ultimately ensuring that their funds are operating efficiently and effectively.”
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AIP Private Capital (AIPPC) and AIP Asset Management (AIPAM), as security agent on behalf of certain of its funds, accounts and partners, are to acquires USD5 million in secured convertible notes and secured non-convertible from Capital Guardian Holding.
Each Holder has the right to convert at any time the convertible notes held by it into voting membership interests of Capital Guardian.
Capital Guardian is a specialist in the Independent Securities Brokerage business and is a diversified hybrid Broker-Dealer, RIA, and Wealth Management firm with corporate offices in New York, Palm Beach, Miami, Naples, and Charlotte. Capital Guardian has approximately
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, has provided a USD50 million senior secured credit facility to Access Integrated Healthcare (AIH), a provider of diagnostic imaging services to specialty sectors including workers’ compensation and personal injury.
The facility will finance the expansion of AIH’s business.
AIH is led by Manel Sweetmore, CEO, and James Castro, executive vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development, and has grown to become one of the largest providers of diagnostic imaging services to the underserved out-of-network workers’ compensation market. In addition to VPC’s credit facility,
MMKT Exchange, a secure digital exchange that introduces efficiency, liquidity and transparency to the middle market loan syndication process, closed a USD5.9MM round of funding on.
The round was led by QED Investors, with Victory Park Capital, Fifth Street Asset Management Inc, Vikram Pandit, Ron Suber and other strategic high net worth and institutional investors also participating.
MMKT will use the funding to accelerate the growth of its infrastructure and sales team, expand its product offering and execute its product roadmap.
"MMKT leverages a robust technology platform to transform one of the few remaining outdated processes in financial
Sup – a new app that helps millennials see their friends more – has launched with USD1.1 million in seed funding from JamJar.
And Sup is the first company to be enrolled in the Tech Business Awards launched by London Chartered Accountants Blick Rothenberg LLP, which will see 10 selected young tech companies being given tailored financial and tax advice and commercial guidance from senior partners at the firm and then judged on their business ability.
Sup is a new venture from ex-Google and GetTaxi marketer Rich Pleeth, ForeverBeta creative agency Founder Robin Gadsby and Managing Partner of ForeverBeta
By James Williams – Preqin has released its latest Hedge Fund Spotlight report, looking at how hedge fund performance varies by size; a useful exercise and certainly one that can help institutional investors steer a course when deciding the type, size, and style of managers to allocate to.
The results generated by Preqin were based on its award-winning Hedge Fund Online service, as well as interviews conducted in June with 300 hedge fund managers.
For some time now, institutional investors have dominated capital inflows into hedge funds. They make up approximately two thirds of the capital base and with that
The AnaCap funds have received regulatory approval from the KNF for the acquisition of FM Bank PBP (FM Bank), a retail and SME bank in Poland.
Under the terms of the agreement, on completion AnaCap funds will acquire 100 per cent of FM Bank – which will become the 5th European bank in AnaCap’s portfolio – for an undisclosed sum. Completion is expected to occur in October.
The investment follows the successful listing earlier this year of Aldermore, the UK- based SME bank. Since its IPO, Aldermore shares have risen by more than 45 per cent, giving it a
UK mid-market private equity firm LDC has backed the management buyout of PEI Media Group Ltd (PEI), an alternative assets information groups.
Founded in 2001 following a buyout from Euromoney Institutional Investor plc, PEI has developed a portfolio of globally recognised publications, databases and branded events focused exclusively on alternative asset finance and investment. Its products and services sit at the heart of the fast-growing markets of private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private debt.
The PEI publication portfolio includes Private Equity International, PERE, Infrastructure Investor, Real Estate Capital and pfm. PEI has also expanded into emerging alternative investment fields
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