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Hedgehog Markets, a decentralised prediction markets platform built on the Solana blockchain, has raised USD3.5 million in a seed funding round.
Investors include prominent venture and digital asset firms Reciprocal Ventures, Republic Labs, Alameda Research, Divergence Ventures, MGNR, and Manna. Hedgehog also received a grant from the Solana Foundation.
Hedgehog will use the new funding to propel its mainnet launch (the platform is currently in open beta), bring on additional key talent, and continue reaching development milestones. Not only will Hedgehog have evolved from idea to live product in less than a year, but it will also be the first
Galway Sustainable Capital (GSC) has entered into a new, broad-based funding partnership with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, (Oaktree).
Under the terms of the deal, GSC secured a minority equity investment and closed a new, multi-year, multi-tranche credit facility with Oaktree. GSC is private equity backed by lead investor Cordillera Investment Partners. GSC was founded in 2020 by three experienced ESG professionals who collectively bring over 50 years of expertise in structured finance, sustainable infrastructure, and yield-oriented investments. GSC provides flexible, full stack debt and equity capital solutions to support companies, developers and sponsors that are accelerating the transition
Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity firms, is to sell a majority stake in Bruneau to TowerBrook Capital Partners.
The transaction remains subject to regulatory approval and consultation with employee representative bodies.
Bruneau is an online distributor of office furniture and supplies in Europe. Founded over 65 years ago, the Group offers a wide range of products for all professionals, with over 25,000 office items available for delivery within 24 hours and over 100,000 items in total. In recent years, Bruneau has dynamically extended and consolidated its European reach. Now actively present in six countries
Avedon Capital Partners is to support staffing agency Pro Industry in its ambitious growth path.
Together with its new partner Avedon, Pro Industry aims to accelerate its organic growth by opening new locations in The Netherlands and Belgium and investing in digitization. The partnership will take place subject to the approval of the competition authorities.
Pro Industry focuses on staffing scarce operator profiles to industrial and manufacturing customers in various end verticals, amongst others pharma, food processing and chemical. The company has over last decade developed in-depth knowledge of its customers’ end-markets and is able to effectively find and
Aquila Capital and Axpo, a Swiss renewable energy producer and specialist in wind and solar energy trading, have agreed on a series of power purchase agreements (PPA) and representation services for a solar PV portfolio located in Portugal.
Under these PPAs, Axpo Iberia is committed to provide representation services for the solar PV plants and will purchase 100 per cent renewable energy from Aquila Capital from the four assets of the portfolio.
With the recent signing of the last PPA, Aquila Capital secures this series of long-term power purchase agreements with Axpo, which have a competitive price structure and
CEVEC Pharmaceuticals (CEVEC), a provider of high-performance cell technology for scalable manufacturing of advanced bio-therapeutics, has closed an internal growth financing round.
Being profitable in 2020, the company plans to use the funds to accelerate company growth and to further build up cell line development capacities to address the growing market in viral vector production. CEVEC also announced that the ELEVECTA Technology is currently being implemented in HEK293 as a second host cell type. As HEK293 is the most widely used host cell line in gene therapy manufacturing, CEVEC expects to see a significant increase in demand from clients and
Novo Holdings, a leading international life science investor, has led a USD118 million Series C financing in new portfolio company Genomatica, which harnesses biology to remake everyday products and materials with a reduced environmental impact.
The funding will be used to accelerate the global commercialisation and expansion of Genomatica’s sustainable materials, with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 100 million tons per year.
Genomatica will use the investment to scale production for its portfolio of products and continue investing in new technologies to amplify the impact of sustainable materials across a range of industries. Genomatica replaces widely-used
Turquoise, a UK merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency, has announced its tenth deal for the Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2 (LCIF2), a GBP250,000 investment in pH sensor company ANB Sensors (ANB).
LCIF2 led the GBP997,000 equity round which included Hatch Accelerator Fund and Applied Technology Ventures as co-investors.
ANB was founded in 2015 to develop and commercialise next-generation, calibration-free pH sensor technology that is robust enough to use in hostile environments, including the deep ocean where measurements help in modelling the impacts of climate change. This is in contrast to existing sensors which are fragile, require
iCapital Network, a global financial technology platform focused on access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries, has raised USD440 million in funding round led by Temasek, with participation from Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital; MSD Partners; Noah Holdings and Golub Capital.
Additional commitments came from existing investors WestCap, Ping An Voyager Partners, Blackstone, UBS, Pivot Investment Partners, BNY Mellon, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Today, the company’s valuation is approximately USD4.0 billion.
The company will use the proceeds from the capital raise to enhance its platform technology,
Global private markets firm Partners Group has agreed, on behalf of clients, to acquire Reedy Industries (Reedy), a US-based heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) service provider, from Audax Private Equity.
As part of the transaction, the Reedy family, management, and Audax, will remain minority investors in the Deerfield, Illinois-headquartered business. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021.
Founded in 1930 with a 90-year history, Reedy provides mission-critical maintenance, repair and replacement services for commercial HVAC, chilled water, plumbing, building automation, and controls equipment in the US. The Company has over 1,500 employees who keep
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