Managers
Comitis Capital (Comitis) has acquired a stake in PetCo, a Austrian supplier of super premium dog and cat food.
With its three brands Dog’s Love, Cat’s Love and WOW, PetCo covers the entire premium and super premium segment. PetCo founders Stefan and Katharina Miklauz will continue to lead the company in the future and retain a significant stake. Joint goal of the partnership is to develop the company during its upcoming growth and expansion phase into a champion in the European market.
PetCo, based in Vienna, Austria, was founded in 2014 and is one of the leading suppliers of super
Tax efficient investment manager Deepbridge Capital has exceeded GBP200 million of funds deployed across its EIS and Estate Planning Service funds, with a current NAV in excess of GBP250 million.
Founded in 2010, Chester-based Deepbridge launched its first EIS fund in the 2013/14 tax year and specialises in providing venture capital to early-stage technology, life sciences and renewable energy companies.
Deepbridge has, to date, invested in 71 companies across the UK with Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funding, a further 63 companies at Seed EIS stage, with three profitable exits.
Earlier this year, Deepbridge reported a record year of
A portfolio company of Leeds-based private equity investor Endless has acquired GBP20 million turnover party brand Ginger Ray which is based in Weybridge, Surrey.
Amscan International, which has a turnover of GBP200 million and employs more than 300 people in the UK and 2,500 worldwide, has made the acquisition as part of its ambitious strategic growth plans.
It marks the Milton Keynes-headquartered global designer, manufacturer, distributor and retailer of party products and supplies company’s second acquisition in two months. The first was the purchase of Germany-based foil balloon printing technology business Luftballon-Markt in August.
Both deals have happened
Vanguard has completed the acquisition of Just Invest, a provider of tax-managed, tailored wealth management technology.
Just Invest’s offerings, including direct indexing platform Kaleidoscope™, provide financial advisors with technology solutions that cater to their clients’ unique financial needs. The acquisition adds direct indexing, or personalised indexing, capabilities to bolster Vanguard’s world-class investment product lineup and service offering for advisors.
“Financial advisors understand that each client’s circumstances and values are personal,” says Tom Rampulla, managing director of Vanguard Financial Advisor Services. “We are excited to integrate Just Invest’s personalised indexing offering into our intermediary business and help advisors unlock new
With demand for litigation finance continuing to grow among businesses of all sizes, dispute funder Validity Finance has raised a new managed fund of USD70 million in capital commitments.
The newly raised “sidecar” fund further diversifies Validity’s business and advances its experience as an alternative asset manager. To date, Validity’s third-party managed funds total nearly USD150 million of assets under management, in addition to its permanent capital base.
Validity’s latest fund investors include its original private equity investors, as well as previously committed third-party investors and a prominent family office.
Since its launch in mid-2018, Validity has committed nearly USD300
Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset management group, today is aimingto manage at least EUR5 billion of AUM, dedicated exclusively to the fight against climate change, by 2025.
The Luxury Bank has raised USD10 million from Dubai’s ICICB Group, an investment management company that fosters and funds luxury projects in banking, cryptocurrency trading, commercial real estate, and other related industries worldwide.
The funds will be leveraged across The Luxury Ecosystem’s various projects, including The Luxury Bank, The Luxury Foundation, a cryptocurrency PoS system, offline cryptocurrency exchanges, an NFT marketplace, a job portal, and a news magazine. The funds will also be used to complete The Luxury’s much-anticipated Luxandia, a metaverse platform similar to Second Life and Decentraland, which is dedicated to serving the luxury industry.
“This investment from
OJ Brands’ sleep brand, Kally Sleep has acquired the fast-growing online home textiles marketplace, Woven, in a bid to capitalise on the UK’s burgeoning homewares market.
Led by CEO Ori Leslau aims to expand OJ Brands group into a leading European brand house. Today, the firm generates revenue in excess of USD20million.
“Never before have we invested in our home quite like we do today,” says OJ Brands’ CEO, Ori Leslau.
“Our intention is for Woven to become the UK’s leading soft furnishings destination online, simplifying the shopping journey for users and offering an unparalleled catalogue of the
Kindred Group has completed the previously announced acquisition of the remaining outstanding shares in Relax Gaming, a growing B2B iGaming supplier.
Kindred Group announced on 2 July 2021 that it had entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining 66.6 per cent of the outstanding shares in Relax Gaming. Relax Gaming is a market leading B2B iGaming software supplier that designs and develops online casino games, supported by an open distribution platform for third party aggregation as well as proprietary poker and bingo products. Relax Gaming was founded in 2010 and has today c240 full-time employees with four main hubs
European Food Tech venture capital firm Five Seasons Ventures has announced the final closing of a EUR180 million second fund.
The new Fund II will continue making Series A and B investments into the most promising European Food Tech companies, with an emphasis on fast-growing consumer-focused food with a quantifiable environmental or social impact. Fund II was raised on the back of a very successful Fund I portfolio of European Food Tech champions.
Five Seasons Ventures’ investment thesis is to prove that Food Tech startups can grow at the same speed as ‘traditional’ tech startups. Only the top 10 per
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