Managers
ShangBay Capital, a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage healthcare companies, has appointed Robert Kamen PhD as a Senior Advisor.
ShangBay Capital’s team has a proven track record of identifying, financing, and building various healthcare companies over the last several years. The team brings deep operational experience from more than 100 years of combined industry experience to help entrepreneurs build lasting companies.
“Bob will bring significant value from his more than 35 years of experience of launching and operating successful biotech and pharmaceutical companies,” says William Dai, Founding Managing Partner. “His in-depth experience will help ShangBay continue to
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Halski Systems, a full-service IT managed services provider (MSP).
The company is an add-on investment to Riverside’s platform, Logically, a leading provider of Managed IT Services.
Founded in 2000 and based in Gainesville, Georgia, Halski offers its customers comprehensive outsourced managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud and telecom services. Halski acts as a trusted partner to help clients create and execute their IT strategy.
“As Logically continues to grow, we strive to partner with the best MSPs that provide an exceptional level of
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
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