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Venture capital firm FinTech Collective has announced fundraises for its existing early-stage strategy and its new strategy focused on decentralised finance (DeFi).
FinTech Collective raised a combined USD250 million in capital across the two strategies, bringing the firm’s total assets under management (AUM) to over USD500 million.
FinTech Collective backs entrepreneurs rewiring how money moves through the world and invests thematically and across capital markets, wealth and asset management, banking-lending-payments, and insurance.
The firm raised USD200 million to focus on early-stage investments as well as USD50 million focused on open-source, composable financial protocols and applications being built on smart-contracting platforms
Bridges Fund Management (Bridges), a specialist sustainable and impact investor, has completed the sale of The Vet, a UK-based affordable veterinary services provider, to CVS Group, one of the UK’s leading providers of integrated veterinary services.
Bridges created The Vet in 2013 (in partnership with founder/CPO Jane Baldwin), recognising that while the number of pet owners was growing steadily, many were finding it hard to access quality veterinary services. The goal was to create a differentiated proposition in the sector by offering accessible care in a bespoke, high-quality clinical environment, particularly within lower-income areas.
The Vet operates eight large
ATL Partners (ATL) has made a majority investment in GEOST, a designer and integrator of small-to-medium sized electro-optical/infrared sensors for high-value, national security space missions. ATL’s investment will support GEOST as the Company enters the next phase of growth.
Since its founding in 2004, GEOST has been focused on the cutting edge of the United States Department of Defense and the intelligence community’s efforts to enhance the country’s national security capabilities in space through optical systems and solutions. GEOST is a leading provider of small and medium, low-cost payloads for space domain awareness, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, missile warning, and
Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has sold Saavi EnergÃa (Saavi), the fourth largest independent power producer and the largest privately held stand-alone power generator in Mexico, to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).
Terms of the transaction have not been released.
Saavi has a geographically diverse 2.2 net GW portfolio of six CCGTs, three compression stations and 65 km of associated natural gas pipelines. Saavi primarily serves the Mexican power market as well as providing reserve capacity for specified markets in California.
GIP’s acquisition of Saavi follows its investment in the Company’s USD325 million Secured Term Loan in 2020,
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising lower midmarket companies, has sold Corporate Visions Inc, a US sales and marketing enablement company, to The Riverside Company. The terms have not been disclosed.
Based in Reno, Nevada, Corporate Visions offers sales, marketing, and customer success messaging, content, and IP-based training solutions to B2B companies. Corporate Visions is a thought leader and innovator in the marketing and sales enablement industry, developing and applying research from its decision-making sciences to help clients win more business and increase profitability. Corporate Visions’ customer base is highly diversified, consisting of global, blue-chip,
Vault Verify, a human capital management platform that allows HR departments to automate employee verification through API integrations, today announced a significant growth investment from PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies.
The investment represents Vault Verify’s first institutional capital and aims to help accelerate the company’s investment in product innovation to help HR departments be more efficient and secure. PSG’s Adam Marcus, Managing Director, and Govind Anand, Principal, will join Vault Verify’s Board of Directors, along with Brian Kelly, Senior Advisor at PSG, who will join the Board as Chairman. Financial terms
Private equity investment firm Growthdeck – alongside existing investors, IP Group and Parkwalk – has closed a GBP1.575 million fundraise for the secure digital archiving platform Arkivum.
Arkivum helps businesses ensure that the data they have collected remains accessible, secure and usable for decades into the future. It works with businesses, often in highly regulated industries, to deal with the data archiving problems that tech consultancy Forrester has described as a ‘ticking time-bomb’.
Many of the organisations Arkivum works with, such as pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs, are required by regulators to retain clinical trial data for 25 years. Failure
Swvl, a Dubai-based provider of transformative mass transit and shared mobility solutions, is to acquire a controlling interest in Shotl, a mass transit platform that partners with municipalities and corporations to provide on-demand bus and van services across Europe, LATAM and APAC – optimising public transport systems and decreasing dependence on costly private options.
Central to both companies’ missions is the belief that providing accessible and equitable mobility solutions is a gateway to social and economic empowerment through access to better jobs, healthcare and education.
With a presence across 22 cities in 10 countries including Brazil, Japan and pan-European footprint1,
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with USD45 billion of equity capital under management, has completed the acquisition of Pegasus Home Fashions (Pegasus).
Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Elizabeth, NJ, Pegasus is one of the country’s largest and fastest growing poly-filled pillow manufacturers with several manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States. The company has a broad portfolio of licensed, private label, and proprietary brands and currently services blue chip customers within the mass-market, warehouse club, and specialty channels. Pegasus is poised for continued growth from expanding its portfolio of company-owned and licensed brands,
China’s startup ecosystem, which produced several world-leading companies, has been in the news in the recent past about the impact of the government regulations on the venture capital (VC) market. However, China had a reasonably good H1 2021 despite the uncertain conditions due to the Covid-19 pandemic and regulatory shakeups.
Now, GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, reveals that Chinese startups raised the highest VC funding amount among all the Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries during January to July 2021.
An analysis of GlobalData’s Financial Deals Database shows that a total of 2,246 VC funding deals were announced in China during
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