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Credit Suisse and BlackRock have partnered to build the next generation of purpose-driven investments that aim to provide attractive private equity returns in line with the Credit Suisse Supertrends.
This will be the first in a series of investment initiatives created for the private wealth market for eligible individual investors. They will seek to achieve a double impact: attractive multiples on the capital invested and positive contribution to addressing major societal trends.
The Health and Wellbeing Fund is designed to tap into a rich set of opportunities across four sub-themes, including physical health and wellbeing, mental health and development,
Bob Concierge, a Romanian startup which has developed an intelligent system of automated devices that provide and sell products and services within residential complexes and office buildings, has received a new investment of EUR6 million from American fund NCH Capital.
The company aims to use the funds to continue to innovate and scale up the business, in order to become the major marketplace for residential services in Romania and in the European region. With this new round, the total investments in the Romanian startup have exceeded EUR11 million.
Currently, Bob Concierge operates a network of 64 devices in the country,
Insurami, a commercial real estate Deposit Guarantee platform, has raised GBP42 million, consisting of debt alongside existing equity investment, to expand its unique Deposit Guarantee products across the entirety of the commercial property sector.
The platform, which offers commercial real estate tenants an alternative to locking up cash in a deposit, while providing landlords the equivalent level of security and risk management as a traditional cash deposit, has seen investment from Fasanara Capital, joining existing investors including Global Founders Capital, Entrepreneur First and Clocktower Ventures.
Insurami has experienced momentum across the real estate sector throughout the pandemic including institutional
US institutional investor and private equity fund VCM Global Asset Management is eyeing new alternative investments strategies including medical lien receivables just months after buying a significant stake in London-based fintech MillTechFX.
SkyHive, a SaaS platform providing workforce transformation and labour market development guidance, has secured USD40 million in a Series B investment round led by Eldridge, with participation from other investors Allegis Cyber, Accenture Ventures, Workday Ventures, and the Partnership Fund For New York City.
Recently recognised by The World Economic Forum as a 2021 Technology Pioneer, SkyHive is solving dislocation in modern labor economics and human capital management using its proprietary Quantum Labor Analysis (QLA) methodology, which is active in 90 countries and 400,000 unique locations worldwide. QLA combines economic theory, workforce modelling, human analytics, and data science to provide
Salsify, a Commerce Experience Management platform, has acquired SKUvantage, an Australian provider of products and services to help retailers, distributors, and manufacturers deliver engaging digital product content to buyers, with less time, cost, and effort.
With this acquisition, Salsify expands its growing global footprint to this strategic market. The thousands of brands using Salsify will now have seamless access to Australia’s biggest retailers through Australia’s most trusted product content network, SKUVantage. These organisations will benefit from a unified system of product experience management and access to the world’s fastest growing retailer network in a vibrant ecommerce market. According to IBISworld,
The Riverside Company has invested in Nabenet, a provider of injury management and occupational rehabilitation services.
The company is an add-on investment to Riverside’s platform, Altius Group Holdings (Altius), a leading provider of allied health services in Australia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1993 and based in Victoria, Australia, Nabenet provides occupational rehabilitation services to workers with both physical and mental injuries to help them return to work and everyday life as quickly and safely as possible. Nabenet has 17 locations throughout Victoria and also supplies nurses into regional hospitals and prisons.
“Nabenet is an excellent
QED Investors, a global venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive financial services companies, has hired Alexandra (Ale) Piedrahita.
Prior to joining QED, Piedrahita was a senior associate with Los Angeles-based venture firm March Capital, an early growth, B2B fund where she focused on fintech strategy, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure.
“Across the UK we are seeing significant growth in deal flow from pre-seed to growth-stage companies,” says QED Investors Co-Founder and Managing Partner Nigel Morris. “As we expand, we are delighted to have Ale on board. She brings a wealth of talent, energy and a truly global
LBO France and Haixia Capital, a subsidiary of China SDIC Gaoxin Industrial Investment Corp Ltd, one of the five private equity management firms of SDIC, are establishing a long-term partnership with, as a first step, the creation of a joint-venture to invest EUR500 million in companies with high development potential in China and Europe.
Based mainly in Beijing and Fuzhou, Haixia Capital has been one of the best-known private equity firms in China in recent years (with EUR6.9 billion in assets under management by the end of 2020).
As the EU’s leading country in foreign investments, the world’s fourth-largest exporter
LB Equity has introduced two new programmes to continue incorporating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives into the investment firm and across its portfolio companies.
The firm has consulted a number of international frameworks and standards to develop its own roadmap for integrating ESG principles into the investment firm and portfolio companies. They have adopted the UN’s Six Principles for Responsible Investment to guide decision making within the fund and among portfolio companies. To implement these principles in a meaningful way, LB Equity has developed a proprietary scorecard and questions incorporating tools such as the GIIN and SASB frameworks
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