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Bixin Ventures has launched a USD100 million proprietary capital fund to support the global blockchain ecosystem and infrastructure necessary for the future of open finance through a permissionless and decentralised network.Bixin Ventures participated as co-lead investor in a strategic round for O(1) Labs, the team incubating Mina Protocol, contributing USD2 million to the raise, and has invested in projects including Microbit, xDai, Algorand, Nervos, Arweave, Conflux, Certik, and Marlin.
Earlier in 2020, Bixin Ventures announced a USD66 million proprietary fund of funds enabling hedge funds and liquidity providers to strengthen the global liquidity framework in bitcoin markets, with qualifying fund
British Patient Capital has made a USD35 million commitment to The Evolution Technology Fund II. The Fund is expected to achieve a targeted USD250 million final close in the coming months and is already investing in growing cybersecurity and enterprise software companies.
Evolution Equity Partners has been investing in cybersecurity companies over the past 20 years, building global leaders over several economic cycles, including to IPO. Their strategy targets companies that are making use of big-data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and SaaS.
Fund II portfolio companies include Quantexa, a London based big data intelligence and risk analysis firm where Evolution
DSW Angels, the venture capital investment business of the Dow Schofield Watts group, has changed its trading brand to DSW Ventures to reflect the increasing scale and reach of the business at a time of a massive increase in market activity.DSW Ventures will continue to work as an angel investment network – funding EIS qualifying venture capital deals for its growing network of over 100 individuals, as well as institutional investors including British Business Investments, the commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank.
The Cheshire-based investment house has so far built a portfolio of six high-growth companies but plans to
Global Processing Services (GPS), a payments issuer processor, has secured a strategic investment from long-standing partner Visa Inc to accelerate its global expansion. GPS powers next generation fintech payment companies and sits behind many of the world’s most exciting fintech companies and digital banks including Revolut and Starling Bank. Details of the investment have not been disclosed.
GPS was backed by UK private equity firm Dunedin in June 2018, in what was the largest B2B fintech financing in the first half of 2018. Since then, it has achieved spectacular growth with its operations expanding from the UK into Europe and
A consortium led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets’ (MIRA) Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 6 (MEIF6) is to acquire a portfolio of Romanian power assets owned by ČEZ Group.The integrated energy infrastructure portfolio is comprised of an 86,665 kilometre regulated electricity distribution network and an electricity and gas supply business with 1.4 million residential and industrial connections in the South West of Romania. The acquired assets also include a renewable energy platform, with 622 MW of primarily onshore wind farms and plans to develop its portfolio further.
Leigh Harrison, Head of MIRA EMEA, says: “Romania is one of Europe’s most
Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) are to sell their majority stake in Group of Butchers, a manufacturer and supplier of artisanal specialty meat products based in Tilburg in the Netherlands, to Dutch investment firm Parcom Private Equity (Parcom). Equistone acquired Group of Butchers in 2017 and since then has supported the company’s growth strategy through a range of targeted acquisitions. The financial terms of the transaction are undisclosed and the transaction remains subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities.
Founded in Tilburg in 1997, Group of Butchers has developed into a Dutch market leader for high-quality artisanal
The second quarter of this year saw two potentially worrying trends in US corporate credit: the number of public filers carrying debt of more than 7x going into Q3 had risen to 35 per cent (compared to 14 per cent in Q4 2018), while the percentage of leveraged loan defaults rose sharply from 2 per cent at the start of the year to north of 4 per cent, by March.
Those numbers, recently conveyed by S&P Global Market Intelligence and based on the S&P/LSTA Loan Index, were symptomatic of the early stages of the lockdown. It is perhaps unsurprising to
Less than three months since launching its pilot program, e-bike subscription service DANCE has closed a EUR15 million Series A funding round. Led by Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss, Alexander Ljung and Christian Springub, DANCE has ambitions to offer its all-inclusive service subscription package into expanded markets across Europe and eventually the US.
E-bikes are the fastest and most efficient means of urban transport on routes up to 10 kilometres (6.2 miles). As city commuters and consumers alike look to greener and more reliable transport alternatives for all aspects of their daily lives, DANCE offers a new model.
“The goal of DANCE is to
Global private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired NMi Certin (NMi) from First Dutch Innovations (FDI).With its origin in the Dutch government since 1937, NMi (het Nederlands Meetinstituut) is the leading independent specialist for legal metrology testing and inspection services in Europe and a trusted brand globally. NMi specialises in type approval & certification, verification & calibration and consultancy services covering a broad range of advice on complex regulations and accreditations. NMi is headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands and has cultivated the industry’s most experienced and knowledgeable workforce.
Erik van de Graaf, Managing Director of NMi, says:
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