Managers
LeapFrog Investments, a Profit with Purpose investment firm, has acquired a 16.94 per cent stake in Ghana’s largest privately-owned bank, Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited from Amethis, an investment fund manager dedicated to the African continent, and Edmond de Rothschild Equity Strategies (ERES), a mid-cap growth and buy-out franchise affiliated with the Edmond de Rothschild Group, with a global investment mandate.
It is expected that LeapFrog will leverage on its decade of investment experience across Africa’s financial services sector to build upon the outstanding success achieved by Fidelity Bank in financial inclusion and general business growth.
Following the investment from Amethis
I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III and ISQ Growth Markets Infrastructure Fund, has invested approximately USD200 million as a first tranche of a USD300 million equity raise in AG&P City Gas.
AG&P City Gas is a Singapore-based company that is developing twelve city gas distribution networks, or concessions, in India under the brand name AG&P Pratham, across 280,000 square kilometers, an area approximately the size of Italy. AG&P City Gas was previously owned wholly by the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Group (AG&P), a Singapore-based downstream LNG business.
In its twelve concessions, AG&P City Gas is responsible
Lord Wei of Shoreditch has joined the Board of Fortunis Capital as a Non-Executive Director.
Wei’s background makes him the ideal partner both to promote the Fortunis mission and development, attracting the best technology and innovation from around the world and developing it here in the United Kingdom, whilst at the same time reinforcing his own strong positive social change agenda.
Wei started as a McKinsey & Company consultant specialising in technology with a subsequent shift towards venture capital and social enterprise as a catalyst for influential positive change. Most recently, his focus has been primarily concerned with
Dentotal, a Romanian dental distributor, backed by the Central European private equity investor Abris Capital Partners (Abris), is to acquire Dentatechnica, a dental distributor in Bulgaria.
The agreement is conditional upon securing clearance from the relevant antitrust authorities.
Founded in 1991, Dentatechnica is the largest distributor of materials and digital equipment for the dental care market in Bulgaria, providing a comprehensive selection of high-quality products. The company has a strong track record for technological innovation in the Bulgarian dental market, delivering its products to more than 3,000 dental clinics and laboratories across the country.
“At Abris we remain committed
Aiera has closed a strategic funding round with the support of Citigroup, Franklin Templeton, and Fin Venture Capital, and announced a strategic partnership with Helios, a tonal analytics firm.
The ability to pause, rewind, and listen again during live earnings calls was never possible before Aiera, the only live event monitoring & financial search platform covering all available Wall Street events. At the heart of this audio innovation is Aiera’s proprietary event connection workflow, which has paved the way for the largest library of live investor events anywhere in the world.
“Aiera continues to push the envelope in event access
Partners Group, a global private markets firm, has, on behalf of its clients, agreed to sell Straive, a global provider of technology-driven content and data solutions, to funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA).
Established in 1980 and headquartered in Singapore, Straive provides a suite of technology-driven platforms and services for the creation, enrichment, and dissemination of e-learning content, research content, and specialised data solutions. The Company today has over 17,000 employees in 15 locations across the Philippines, Singapore, India, China, Vietnam, US, UK, and Nicaragua.
Partners Group acquired a majority stake in Straive, then known as SPi Global,
InTandem Capital Partners, a healthcare services focused private equity firm, has adopted an updated brand platform, and as part of that effort, has launched a new website.
The changes are intended to better reflect and communicate the firm’s overarching mission and investment strategy.
Unveiled last week, InTandem’s updated website incorporates typography, photography, and design elements that build upon the firm’s established brand equity while offering a more modern, differentiated and user-friendly appearance and experience. The website also includes recent podcasts developed and recorded by the firm’s senior executives that outline InTandem’s value-added operating capabilities and partnership techniques that, together, seek
Graycliff Partners’ portfolio company WorldWide Electric, a provider of industrial electric motors, gears and motor controls for an array of industrial end‐markets, has completed the acquisition of Georator Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of rotary and solid‐state power frequency converters for applications in the industrial, aerospace, and government sectors.
WorldWide Electric will also acquire Georator’s subsidiary, Athlon Generator, a provider of generators for industrial applications.
The acquisition of Georator and Athlon enables WorldWide Electric to expand its product offering, adding frequency converters and generators to its extensive offering of motors, motor controls, and gear reducers. Through this expanded product offering,
Despite another third wave of Covid pandemic looming large and slow economic recovery, venture capital (VC) investors seem to be keeping faith with the Indian startup ecosystem. In fact, Indian startups stood next only to Chinese counterparts in terms of VC funding value among the Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries during January to July 2021, reveals GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
An analysis of GlobalData’s Financial Deals Database reveals that a total of 828 VC funding deals were announced in India during January-July 2021 while the total disclosed funding value of these deals stood at USD16.9 billion.
Aurojyoti Bose, Lead
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