Managers
Mid-market private equity firm Moshesh Partners Fund Management has selected Prescient Fund Services (Pty) Ltd (Prescient) as the Fund Administrator to its first private fund.
The fund’s strategy is to invest in renewable energy and clean infrastructure with the goal of securing South Africa’s long-term energy viability and empowering its people.
Moshesh Partners has been seeded by Thuso Incubation Partners (Thuso), a South African dedicated black majority-owned private equity incubator. In line with Thuso’s mission statement, the fund has embedded Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles.
“At Moshesh we strive to be the best
Intelligence Fusion has secured a GBP400,000 investment from a number of sources to continue its growth in the expanding global intelligence market.
Led by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) the funding has been provided by the Finance Durham Fund, The Future Fund and existing investors. The follow-on investment will support the business as it enters its next phase of growth after it successfully developed and launched its intelligence data feed platform two years ago.
A total of GBP100,000 was invested on behalf of the Finance Durham Fund which was established by Durham County Council to encourage businesses to grow and
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has sold Hedges Direct Group Limited, an ecommerce business in the gardening and landscaping sector based in Euxton, Lancashire.
This is the second exit from Foresight Regional Investment LP (the Fund), following the successful sale of Clubhouse Golf in March 2020 which generated a return of 6.1x. Following just two strong exits, GBP44.1 million has been returned to the Fund, representing 84 per cent of drawn capital, with 15 portfolio companies remaining.
The Fund’s success to date exemplifies the strength of Foresight’s regional buyout strategy, which addresses
In this week’s Private Equity Wire podcast Karin Wasteson interviews Joe Stringer, partner at Octopus Ventures, who shares his views on trends in the healthtech space during the past year, and some of the sector’s key challenges and opportunities moving forward.
JTC, the global provider of fund, corporate and private client services, has acquired INDOS Financial and it subsidiaries (INDOS) for a maximum consideration of GBP12.5 million.
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Tikehau Capital is to sponsor a first Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC), which will focus on the European financial services sector.
Since its inception in 2004, Tikehau Capital has built a strong track-record of backing high-quality companies through equity or debt financing. Investment vehicles like SPACs are a natural extension of Tikehau Capital’s existing investment expertise, and the Group aims to leverage its global network, origination capacity and strong equity base to sponsor value-creating projects, starting with a first SPAC that will focus on European financial services related businesses, with a primary focus on scalable platforms offering strong profit growth
Sherpa Capital, a private equity fund manager focused on mid-market companies with EUR500 million under management, announces the sale of Macrolibros, a leading Spanish printing and binding company for children’s and educational books, to Gráficas Ceyde.
Founded more than 40 years ago and based in Valladolid, Macrolibros is a market leader in the educational and children’s book sector, with a clear international vocation, generating more than 70 per cent of its sales abroad. Macrolibros enjoys product quality, processes, and machinery, allows the company to work with top level clients both nationally and internationally, maintaining a consolidated relationship as a reference
Riata Capital Group (RCG or Riata) has made a strategic investment in Greenix Pest Control (Greenix) in partnership with Bob Nilsen and the Company’s management team.
Greenix, estimated to be the thirteenth largest residential pest control company in the US based on subscribers, is a market-leading provider of subscription-based pest control services to residential customers in thirteen markets across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Eastern regions of the United States. This marks RCG’s first investment as a part of the firm’s strategy to allocate capital to opportunities in the residential home-services sector. Terms of RCG’s investment were not disclosed.
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MIG AG, through its MIG Fonds, has kicked off the year with a seed investment in deep-tech company Zadient Technologies, based in Chambéry, France. and founded in 2020.
Joining the financing round led by MIG is Vestel Ventures, the investment arm of Turkish consumer electronics manufacturer Vestel.
Zadient, which was founded in 2020, specialises in the production of synthetic silicon carbide (SiC) a building block for power semiconductors important for the rapidly growing electric vehicle market and used in a variety of other industrial applications. SiC occurs in nature as the extremely rare mineral, moissanite. Current processing methods of synthetic
A Cambridge University programme has produced a raft of the UK’s ‘next generation’ entrepreneurs and world-class innovators – attracting over GBP50million (GBP53,561,000) of funding and investments over the last four years for the alumni’s life-changing projects.
Notable alumni completing the programme have included:
Dr Steve Brierley, Founder/CEO of technology sensation, Riverlane – which is making landmark developments maximising the power and reach of Quantum Computing.
Dr Carmen Palacios Berraquero, national award-winning physicist and Co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology, which is making ground-breaking single-photon components to enable the next generation of commercially-viable photonic quantum technologies – creating a new era of communications,
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