Managers
Rothschild & Co has completed the final closing of Five Arrows Debt Partners III (FADP III), its third European direct lending fund, at EUR1.4 billion, comfortably ahead of target and significantly larger than its EUR655 million predecessor fund.
The fund’s investor base comprises a globally diversified group of insurance companies, pension funds and other blue-chip institutional investors, alongside a range of prominent family office and high net worth investors. This is the 19th fund raised above its target by Rothschild & Co since the establishment of its Merchant Banking business in 2009. Total assets under management are now more than
WatchMyCompetitor (WMC) has secured GBP2 million in an investment round through Blackfinch Ventures and Praetura Ventures. Blackfinch and Manchester-based Praetura Ventures have both committed GBP1 million investment to the deal.
WMC’s platform enables organisations to automatically monitor competitors, clients, regulators and key partners. The innovative software uses the latest cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, combined with data analysts’ input to track anything available online, including websites, social media, press and other sources. The service automatically identifies commercial changes such as new product launches, promotions, price changes and organisational changes.
Attracting global customers in multiple sectors, the information captured allows users
Juni has secured USD52 million in a funding round led by EQT Ventures, with participation from FJ labs and other existing investors to add to the USD21 million already raised from a Series-A round in late June this year.
This boosts Juni’s Series A round to USD73 million and takes the total funding to date to USD76 million. EQT Ventures joins Partners of DST Global, Felix Capital and Cherry Ventures in backing Juni to disrupt online banking for internet-first business customers. The company will use the funds to triple the number of its employees and launch an industry-first, fully integrated
The first automated RPA management platform, RPA Supervisor has raised USD5 million in a Seed round led by MMC Ventures.
RPS Supervisor has also appointed a new board member and investor, Pascal Baker, formerly founder of Symphony Ventures and pioneer in the Intelligent Automation Market. The investment will boost the startup’s innovation capabilities, feeding into Research & Development and expansion across EMEA and the US.
The Robot Process Automation (RPA) market where software technology automates digital tasks through robots has experienced rapid growth during the past 18 months. However, 30-50 per cent of RPA projects fail. This often stems
EQT AB is proud to announce that EQT’s science based targets have recently been approved and validated by the SBTi meaning that EQT has formalied its GHG emission reduction targets in line with the 1.5c pathway described in the Paris Agreement.
Tensorflight, an artificial intelligence and imaging-based insurtech, has announced a Series A funding round to accelerate market penetration and product optimisation across the multi-billion-dollar property insurance data analytics market.
The investment was led by QBE Ventures and includes new investors Tareyton Venture Partners and ff Venture Capital Poland. Participating prior investors include ff Venture Capital and HSCM Bermuda.
Tensorflight combines superior satellite, aerial and street level imagery understanding technology, with a proprietary Artificial Intelligence engine to automate commercial property inspections. The benefits it delivers across the global insurance industry include:
• Reduction of premium leakage
• Instant, automated insurance policy
Norwegian start-up OptoScale has raised EUR4.1 million in a financing round led by SWEN Capital Partners, a specialist in unlisted sustainable investment, with additional participation from the Norwegian fund Skagerak Maturo.
OptoScale’s ambition is to use data to improve the real-time monitoring of fish farms and the sustainability of farming conditions in the sector. With this funding, the start-up intends to accelerate the deployment of its technology and continue its expansion in the markets where it is already present, Norway, Scotland and Canada, as well as establishing itself in Iceland, Chile and Australia.
Founded in 2015 by Sven Jørund
Sole Source Capital (SSC), an industrial-focused private equity firm, has held the final closing of its second fund, SSC Partners II (Fund II), with aggregate total commitments of USD555 million.
Fund II was significantly oversubscribed with an initial target of USD400 million and reached its hard cap. With the closing of Fund II, Sole Source Capital now manages in excess of USD1 billion just three years after the launch of Fund I.
Since 2016, Sole Source has completed 24 transactions focusing on driving rapid value creation in lower middle market companies. The Firm is often the first institutional capital partner
Corporate finance boutique Rickitt Mitchell has acted as advisor to certified pre-owned watch specialist Xupes on its strategic partnership with MPN Marketplace Networks.
The group owns digital marketplace Chrono24, the German pre-owned watch firm Zeitauktion and online watch magazine Fratello.
Founded in 2009, Xupes facilitates the buying, selling or exchange of luxury pre-owned watches, handbags and jewellery from the world’s leading brands including Rolex, Omega, Tag Hauer and Cartier.
Earlier this year, the company featured on Channel 4’s ‘Second Hand for 50 Grand’ documentary, which followed the fortunes of Xupes to show the progression of the pre-owned market.
Ohi, an instant commerce platform that enables brands to meet their customers’ expectations of superfast delivery in under two hours, has completed a USD19 million Series A funding round.
Ohi will use the funds to expand its US operations to enable near-instant delivery of everything from CPG products to luxury goods in 25 markets.
The funding round was led by Palm Drive Capital, a New York–based venture capital and growth equity fund, with participation from JAM Fund, a Los Angeles–based venture capital firm led by internet entrepreneur Justin Mateen. Health-Ade, SolaWave and Untuckit are among the beverage, CPG, beauty and
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