Managers
In this week’s podcast, Sunaina Sinha, managing partner at Cebile Capital, discusses the findings of the firm’s recent survey of 100 global LPs, including how LPs have shifted their modus operandi in 2020, who the winners are in terms of allocation flow during the pandemic, and the fact that 51 per cent of LPs expect to increase commitments to private equity in 2021.
musicMagpie, a re-commerce business in the UK and US specialising in refurbished consumer technology, has secured GBP20 million in growth financing through a GBP10 million committed revolving credit facility and a GBP10 million accordion facility from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) UK Branch.
Bite Investments, a fintech company with an alternative investment platform, has closed on its Pre Series A+ funding in a round led by JMP Group (JMP), an investment banking and alternative asset management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.
“We are continuing to attract progressive partners who recognise the steady growth and related opportunities associated with both our robust fintech platform and the soaring global private equity market,” says Bite CEO William Rudebeck. “It is a testimony to how the financial industry and investor community are gravitating toward alternative investment opportunities, as well as digitalisation and its transformative value.”
Financial Services Capital, a private equity investor dedicated to the European financial services sector, has completed USD15 million in new financing for NYMBUS, a provider of banking technology solutions, doubling its total investment in the company to more than USD31 million.
As part of the investment, Matt Wallach, Co-Founder of Veeva Systems, will join as a Strategic Advisor and Matthew Hansen, Managing Partner at Financial Services Capital, will join Managing Partner Miroslav Boublik on the Nymbus Board of Directors.
Financial Services Capital launched in 2020 to capitalise on a once-in-a-generation investment opportunity, transforming businesses through a hands-on, operationally focused and
Keensight Capital, a private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth buyout investments, has acquired a majority stake in RAM Infotechnology (RAM-IT), a leading managed services company dedicated to the Healthcare sector based in the Netherlands.
Keensight Capital will leverage its extensive experience in Tech and Healthcare to support RAM-IT’s founders and management team in their ambitious development goals.
Founded 20 years ago, RAM-IT is the leading player in managed services for the Healthcare sector in the Netherlands and a technology leader in Europe, with 220 employees expert in IT infrastructure management. Growing steadily for many years, RAM-IT’s revenues have increased
Odore, a beauty tech start-up working with global brands including Guerlain, Clive Christian and L’Oréal has raised USD830,000 to transform how cosmetics and beauty businesses market their products to consumers.
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a USD25 million growth equity investment in Basis Technologies, a specialist provider of DevOps and test automation software for SAP systems.
Organisations across the world use Basis Technologies’ DevOps technology to support the transition from legacy on premise SAP software to modern cloud-hosted SAP systems, and to increase agility through fast, effective delivery of business innovation. The company provides the only complete automated DevOps and testing platform engineered for SAP and serves global enterprise customers including BP, Procter & Gamble and Booking.com, helping them to accelerate time to market, adopt new development methods and
Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, has formed Aquila Air Capital, a specialty finance platform focused on commercial aerospace, in partnership with aerospace industry veteran Al Wood and investment firm Kepler Hill Capital.
Aquila Air Capital will have a broad mandate to purchase, finance, and lease, aircraft, engines and other aviation equipment. The company’s vision is to become a trusted partner to all players in the value chain, from buyers and sellers of assets to operators in need of creative and timely solutions for their critical business needs.
Al Wood joins Warburg Pincus as an
Alternative finance provider Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided a GBP21.73 million asset-based lending facility to support the growth of Orchard House Foods.
The deal follows Elaghmore’s acquisition of the fresh fruit business in January 2021, and will enable the business to invest in new equipment and ongoing product development.
Orchard House Foods is the UK’s specialist supplier of prepared fruit, fresh fruit drinks and chilled desserts to retailers across the UK and Ireland, including Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Greggs and Pret a Manger. Despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, the business has remained profitable and is well
Infra Impact Investment Managers Proprietary Limited (Infra Impact), a boutique infrastructure investment firm, has selected Prescient Fund Services Proprietary Limited (Prescient) as the Fund Administrator for its first infrastructure fund, the Infra Impact Mid-Market Infrastructure Fund 1.
Infra Impact Investment Managers Proprietary Limited (Infra Impact) is a specialised infrastructure and impact investment management business. The new fund, Infra Impact Mid-Market Infrastructure Fund 1 aims to provide growth capital for South African focused midmarket infrastructure businesses, which own real assets that provide essential services and have value creation potential to enable the infrastructure of tomorrow. Infra Impact typically secures significant minority
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