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BlackRock Alternative Specialists’ David Lomas discusses how its three-pronged approach to deal sourcing makes it well positioned to support private market investors heading into 2021.
Patience will be a virtue for investors as they seek to increase their exposure to private markets heading into 2021. Performance dispersion within private equity and private credit is likely to be accentuated as the long-term impact of Covid-19 is felt; even within Covid-robust sectors such as Healthcare and Technology, there will be plenty of winners and losers.
And with record levels of dry powder waiting to be deployed in the PE space, investors are
Global Ventures, a UAE-based venture capital firm, has partnered with Capria Ventures (Capria), a Seattle-based global investment fund-of-funds. Capria is backed by international investors, including Vulcan Capital, the Ford Foundation, Bill Gates, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, Unitus Labs, and other leading impact investors.
Global Ventures backs global-minded founders who lead growth-stage companies and use technology to transform emerging markets. It has invested in 25 companies, operating across 15 markets, using capital from its two funds. The second fund is focussed on technology companies addressing critical needs and demands in recently accelerated industries. Global Ventures is a leading provider of
FSN Capital has signed an agreement to acquire a 45 per cent stake in Obton Group and enter into a partnership with the founders and management. Obton Group is a specialised alternative investment provider developing, structuring, and managing solar photovoltaic “solar PV” projects on-behalf of high net worth investors.Obton Group has grown sales/EBIT at 35 per cent/45 per cent CAGR respectively since the company was founded in 2008, and today manages almost 1 GW of solar PV power making it the ninth largest solar PV manager in Europe. The solar PV business focuses on the entire development value chain from
Crestbridge is to acquire New Jersey based Ovation Fund Services, a provider of fund administration, accounting and reporting services to US domestic private equity and real estate funds. The acquisition complements Crestbridge’s core service offering in both asset classes.
Ovation will become part of the Crestbridge brand from 31 December 2020 and is the business’ seventh office. All Ovation employees will become members of the global Crestbridge team, ensuring continuity of client service and working with the wider Crestbridge Group to continue to grow and develop the current services offering.
The acquisition substantially expands Crestbridge’s presence in the US, where it
Advent International (Advent), one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, is to sell leading Danish food packaging company Faerch to Danish foundation-owned holding company AP Møller Holding. The transaction values Faerch at approximately EUR1.9 billion.
Alderley Park-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, has secured GBP3.9 million in funding for pioneering technology that could prove integral to the development of new drug treatments.
FORM.com, a global leader in mobile data collection, has acquired GoSpotCheck, a provider of mobile task management and image recognition software, in a carveout. The GoSpotCheck software platform will merge with FORM.com, a leader in the business automation space and backed by Diversis Capital, to further enable low-code/no-code mobile data collection and digital process automation for mid-size and large global enterprises.
“We see a growing demand in the market for low-code/no-code platforms that digitise business processes and deliver real-time operational insights. With this merger, we’ll be combining FORM.com’s mobile data collection and workflow capabilities with GoSpotCheck’s task management and image
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led the GBP17 million management buyout (MBO) of Envitia Group (Envitia), an established data and geospatial technology and services provider to the defence and public sectors. The transaction has been fully funded by Maven’s maiden institutional fund – Maven UK Regional Buyout Fund LP.
Horsham-based Envitia works with organisations to solve data challenges covering a range of specialised areas such as data discovery and access, data modelling, data quality, AI/Machine Learning, analytics and visualisation all within a geospatial niche.
Envitia’s Data Discovery Platform (DDP), geospatial
Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in growth software companies, has sold Comply365, a global provider of operational content and compliance management solutions supporting the aerospace and rail industries, to Liberty Hall Capital Partners.Tom Samuel, Chief Executive Officer of Comply365, says: “Over the last few years, Luminate’s team has partnered with Comply365’s leadership team to build and deliver secure, cloud-based solutions that will support the needs of the airline and rail industries well into the future. Today, we have the scale and dedication to support critical business needs of transportation companies all around the world.”
“Comply365 has
German venture capital investor MIG AG’s MIG Fonds 8 und 16 has invested in GBS German Bionic Systems, Augsburg, Germany, in a Series A financing. Both participating MIG Funds are each investing EUR2 million in the USD20 round, a total EUR4 million (USD4.8 million) from MIG. Besides MIG Fonds, Samsung Catalyst, Storm Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures and IT Farm are co-investors in the Series A financing.
German Bionic is a robotics specialist and has successfully established itself in the German-speaking countries and Japan with its intelligent Cray X power suit. The company was founded in 2017 and has established sites in
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