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Keiretsu Forum has launched Keiretsu Ventures, a premier business accelerator designed to radically accelerate the path to market and liquidity of participating companies.
As the world's largest private equity angel investment network, Keiretsu Forum brings vetted investment opportunities to its global network of diverse and active angel investors. Keiretsu Ventures matches select, high-growth companies to a dedicated team of Keiretsu specialists who share their extraordinary expertise, mature foresight, and collective intelligence to guide and build these companies faster, smarter, and more profitably.
Randy Williams, Founder & CEO of Keiretsu Forum, announced the launch on 20 November, 2014 in front of
Krones AG has acquired a majority stake in Till GmbH to strengthen its technology portfolio.
Headquartered in the Bavarian town of Neutraubling, Krones is one of the world's leading manufacturers of beverage filling and packaging technology. Till GmbH develops systems for digital direct printing on containers. The founders of Till GmbH will continue to play an operational role in the firm.
A team from CMS led by Munich-based partner Dr Martin Kolbinger advised Krones AG on all legal aspects of the transaction.
The Krones Group plans, develops and manufactures machines and complete lines for process, filling and packaging technology. The
Advisory firm Clearwater International has advised Business Collaborator on its sale to private equity house YFM Equity Partners and the Management Team, led by Chairman Richard Beaton and CEO Sanjeev Shah.
Business Collaborator is at the forefront of providing Building Information Modelling (BIM) software tools, designed to ease the transition of asset construction and maintenance projects to an interactive paperless environment. The Reading-based SaaS business has over 16 years of experience and 160,000 users of its software worldwide.
The investment from YFM will see Business Collaborator exit UNIT4, a Netherlands-based global software company with operations in 26 countries worldwide,
Law firm Eversheds has advised Phoenix Equity Partners (Phoenix) on the acquisition of day nursery provider, Just Childcare Limited (Just Childcare).
The acquisition represents an initial investment alongside the founders of Just Childcare to support the future development of Just Childcare.
Just Childcare operates six day nurseries in the Northwest of England, with a seventh to open shortly. Phoenix hopes to use the acquisition of Just Childcare as a platform from which to build a leading business in this sector through bolt-on acquisitions and new openings, for which it is committing substantial additional funding.
The team was led
Invest in Africa (IIA) has signed a USD1 million African Development Bank (AfDB) grant that will enable it to support a unique business skills training programme for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana.
IIA will use the grant provided by the AfDB's Fund for Private Sector Assistance (FAPA) to implement a Business Linkage Programme designed to upgrade the capabilities of selected SMEs registered on IIA's recently launched African Partner Pool (APP) online directory.
The Business Linkage Programme is the next phase of the APP: an online directory supporting local businesses to gain visibility and connect with international
The Carlyle Group and Old Mutual Private Equity are to acquire 100% of South African tyre retailer and wholesaler Tiger Automotive (TiAuto) from Ethos Private Equity and the founders.
Funding for this investment will come from the Carlyle Sub-Saharan Africa Fund and Old Mutual Private Equity Fund IV, and TiAuto founders will also re-invest equity in the company. The transaction is expected to close in early 2015, subject to regulatory approvals.
TiAuto, which operates the iconic “Tiger Wheel & Tyre” brand as well as the new “Tyres & More” retail store format, is a retail and wholesale distributor of
Appear Here, the UK’s largest online marketplace for retail space, has raised USD7.5 million of new funding, in a round led by venture capital firm Balderton Capital.
This significant new investment follows 18 months of dynamic growth from Appear Here, which has facilitated over 500 short-terms lets in the last 12 months and now has over 600 properties available to hire at prime locations across the United Kingdom.
Appear Here was founded in 2012 by Ross Bailey, a 22-year-old entrepreneur who started out with his own pop-up shop on Carnaby Street, selling limited edition T-shirts to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee.
Creo Medical has closed a GBP3.5m funding round, led by Finance Wales, angel investors and the Angel CoFund.
The Government-backed Angel CoFund joins existing investors Finance Wales, the Arete Angel syndicate and individual business angels, including lead angel Mark Farmer, bringing the total Creo investment received to date to GBP7.9m. This is the second co-investment deal between the Angel CoFund and Finance Wales this year.
Since 2009, Creo Medical has developed innovative medical devices. This funding will be used towards the continuing development of the CROMA platform – the first new electrosurgical system in a generation – specifically with
The introduction of the AIFMD has fuelled strong growth in European fund domiciles, with the number of alternative investment funds increasing by 10% since 2010, and assets under management increasing by 13%.
That’s according to a report published by the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry, carried out by Oliver Wyman.
“The introduction of the AIFMD increased the attractiveness of European onshore domiciles,” comments Marc Saluzzi, Chairman of ALFI. “Whilst many were against it when it was first introduced because of the fear of high compliance costs and additional complexity, this piece of regulation has brought significant benefits, allowing
London-listed private equity fund JZ Capital Partners Limited has expanded its US vertical portfolio by making two acquisitions alongside Edgewater Funds LP (Edgewater).
JZCP and Edgewater invested USD1.6 million each to acquire Action Products Marketing Corporation and ConShield Technologies Incorporated ("APMCS"), an infrastructure rehabilitation company headquartered in Johnston, Iowa. The company specialises in formulating and selling cementitious manhole and pipe rehabilitation products and provides the associated equipment used for application itself. The acquisition of APMCS is the third for the water infrastructure sub-vertical and the sixth for the water business overall.
JZCP and Edgewater also invested USD1.31 million each to
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