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Mynt, a Philippines-based digital financial solutions provider and the company behind the popular GCash payment services app, has raised over USD300 million in funding, valuing the business at over USD2 billion.
Liberty Global Ventures, the investment arm of Liberty Global, a specialist in converged video, broadband and communications services, has struck a strategic partnership with specialist impact investment firm Avesta Capital which will see it initially invest USD2 million to help promote diversity and inclusion and tackle the global challenges of climate change and inequality.
With this close, Avesta Capital has now raised over 80 per cent of its target USD20 million fund.
Avesta will use the capital to provide seed investment to start-ups that specifically offer scalable solutions to issues such as boosting economic opportunity or aiding the fight against
Kempen Capital Management’s (Kempen) new private equity fund, the Kempen European Private Equity Fund II, has raised over EUR173 million at its first closing. The fund is focused on small and lower mid-market private equity buy-outs in Europe.
Sven Smeets, Managing Director of the Private Markets team, says: “We are pleased that our clients have shown strong interest in this fund. Van Lanschot Kempen’s clients increasingly want to invest in less liquid solutions. The Kempen European Private Equity Fund II makes this investment category more accessible for, among others, high net-worth private investors and family offices. The considerable interest shown
HIG Growth Partners (HIG Growth), the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has participated in a USD202 million Series D funding round for Everlaw, a cloud-native investigation and litigation platform.
HIG Growth invested alongside TPG and existing investors CapitalG, Menlo Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and K9 Ventures.
Everlaw is used by 91 of the Am Law 200, as well as the attorneys general in all 50 US states. Total cases on Everlaw’s platform have more than doubled since the Company’s Series C raise in March 2020 as the Company signed significant new contracts with corporations and government agencies. During
eEquity AB, a Stockholm-based growth investor focusing on investments in digitally enabled businesses, has sold price comparison website PriceRunner to Klarna, a global retail bank founded in Sweden.
PriceRunner will bring new features in the form of product reviews, rich product discovery and price comparisons to the Klarna app to enhance the shopping, payments and banking experience for consumers globally.
eEquity invested in PriceRunner in early 2020 and Klarna will acquire PriceRunner at a valuation over SEK9 billion, bringing eEquity’s total return on investment to over 15 times. Klarna will pay 40 per cent of the price in cash and
Offen Petroleum (Offen) has completed two separate transactions where it acquired a portfolio of branded motor fuel dealer contracts from Petroleum Management (PM), a motor fuel distributor headquartered in Platteville, Colorado, and certain logistics assets of Pathfinder Transportation (Pathfinder), a distributor of propane in Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
Offen is an independent distributor of motor fuels, propane, lubricants, and offers petroleum logistics services in 26 states throughout the Western and Midwestern United States. The business combinations continue to strengthen Offen’s geographic density and product offerings.
Petroleum Management is owned jointly by Bill Scaff and Ed Holloway and is
Bridges Fund Management (Bridges), a sustainable and impact investor, has appointed Eva Sarma as an Investment Director for Bridges Evergreen, its long-term capital vehicle.
Sarma previously spent 11 years at 3i, latterly as a Director in the UK private equity team. More recently she was Chief Operating Officer and Company Secretary of Level 20, a not-for-profit organisation that champions gender diversity in the private equity industry. She has extensive experience as a Non-Executive Director: she currently holds board positions with Level 20 and The Place, the UK’s premier contemporary dance centre, while her previous board positions include Mayborn, owner of
AXA IM Alts, a global leader in alternative investments with cEUR163 billion of assets under management, has expanded its suite of Secured Finance solutions for pension fund clients, with the launch of a new Global Secured Assets (GSA) Strategy.
The new strategy invests through an open-ended vehicle across a wide range of assets in both public and private markets to provide clients with a diversified portfolio of global secured finance assets, delivering yield pick up over traditional credit, while focusing on capital preservation.
The strategy leverages the expertise of AXA IM Alts’ Real Assets and Structured Finance teams, to
Waterline Renewal Technologies, a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, has acquired Pipe Lining Supply, a full-service cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) lateral lining and drain, waste and vent (DWV) sewer pipe rehabilitation supplier specialised in best-in-class customer support and training.
Aligned with Waterline Renewal Technologies’ growth strategy, the acquisition will provide Waterline Renewal Technologies with a solid foundation for the continued development of its business in North America. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2004 by Linda Heisler and later joined by her husband John Heisler, Pipe Lining Supply is a provider of consumables and equipment for
VU Compare, a vehicle finance and insurance comparison site, has secured GBP70,000 in pre-seed capital to support product development and marketing, ahead of its official launch later this year.
Tim Borthwick, Managing Director of VU Compare, says: “VU Compare is such an exciting proposition and one that myself and the team are exceptionally proud of. It promises to be a real market disrupter, offering a much more comprehensive suite of comparison facilities, compared to its nearest competitors.
“We’re thrilled to have raised such a significant amount of capital in a short period, which will make a huge difference as
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