Managers
Tikehau Capital reached €35.5 billion in Group AUM as of 31 March 2022, up 21% year-over-year.
The Group exceeded its target of reaching, by the end of 2022, more than €35 billion in Group AuM.
Private Debt funds were the main contributor to Q1 deployment, accounting for 63% of the total, followed by Private Equity funds, representing 24%, and Real Assets 13% of the total.
At of 31 March 2022, AuM for Tikehau Capital’s asset management business reached €34.1 billion, representing a 23.2% growth year-over-year and a 3.5% growth compared to 31 December 2021.
Tikehau Capital’s investment portfolio meanwhile, amounted to €3.2 billion at 31 March 2022, compared to €2.7 billion at 31 December 2021.
Global investor services group IQ-EQ, an Astorg portfolio company, has completed the rebrand of its US-based group companies – Blue River Partners LLC, Constellation Advisers LLC, Concord Trust Company, and Greyline Partners – as IQ-EQ.
Bringing each of these individually successful firms together under the IQ-EQ brand means IQ-EQ’s service offering is now available to the group’s US-based clients looking to do business either in the US or exploring commercial opportunities more globally.
Vivaris Capital, a multi-strategy fund offering hybrid hedge and private equity structures, has agreed a strategic, joint-venture partnership with the Tesla Foundation to form Tesla Climate Capital.
Tesla Climate Capital will commercialise leading technologies in vehicle electrification, energy storage, carbon sequestration, and power generation. It will also incubate aspiring global entrepreneurs active in the technology sector.
Tesla Climate Capital will work with Vivaris Capital to raise capital from industry partners, financial institutions, family offices, and individual investors and then either invest via Vivaris Capital’s VICAN Fund or directly into the portfolio company. The VICAN Fund provides investors with access to
Newly-formed Meriwether Group Capital (MWGC) has launched this month to make commercial loans available to businesses that fall outside the criteria required by traditional lenders.
The MWGC Hero Fund focuses on small to mid-sized companies that meet the fund’s revenue qualifications and financial needs. The new lender operates in partnership with Meriwether Group, the 20-year Portland firm known for the accelerator and advisory services it has provided to companies like Voodoo Doughnuts, Dave’s Killer Bread, Stumptown Coffee, Alpenrose Dairy, and dozens of other well-known brands in the Pacific Northwest.
Global alternative investment firm Investcorp has launched a private infrastructure investment business in North America.
The new platform will apply the firm’s global expertise and track record in real estate and private equity to make investments in critical infrastructure companies and projects across North America.
Michael Ryder has joined Investcorp as a Senior Advisor to lead the infrastructure business. He has a long history of successfully investing in the private equity and infrastructure spaces, previously holding leadership positions at Morgan Stanley, Blackstone and OMERS Infrastructure.
Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, has committed to help drive actionable change on greenhouse gas emissions by signing the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and joining the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF).
The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, a consortium of 236 asset managers, supports the goal of reaching Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C. A core part of this commitment is to ensure transparent and standardised measurement and reporting of financed greenhouse gas emissions.
PCAF is a global alliance enabling
Imaginary Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm co-founded by Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown, has announced its third fund of USD500 million across early and late stage vehicles.
In addition, the firm has promoted Kelly Dill and Logan Langberg to Partner.
The new vehicles have a diverse focus including underserved markets and emerging consumer needs. With Fund III, Imaginary is also positioned to take advantage of the consumer shifts emerging through Web3 as new opportunities spanning consumers, brands and communities are created at a rapid pace.
In just four years, Imaginary has grown from a start-up venture fund with
Verdane, a European specialist growth equity investor, has committed to neutralise all its future residual emissions with engineered, permanent carbon removals, essentially extracting CO2 out of the air and either storing it or converting it to naturally occurring materials such as stone.
As the first private equity investor globally to make this commitment, Verdane aims to catalyse demand for crucial net zero technologies that urgently need to be scaled and brought down the cost curve.
To accelerate the progression toward global net zero, Verdane is partnering with three highly respected carbon removal service providers: Climeworks, a Swiss firm operating the
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has been formally renamed British International Investment (BII). Watch here.
The organisation will invest between GBP1.5 and GBP2 billion per year in green infrastructure, technology and other sectors to support countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
Situated in seven locations across the Continent, BII has a portfolio value of over USD4 billion, with over 600 local businesses. Portfolio highlights include: Global Partnership for Ethiopia, FirstBank Nigeria, 14Trees, ETG, AfricInvest, Novastar, Zambeef, Equity Bank, Access Bank plc, Redstone Concentrated Solar Power Project among many more.
Fireside Ventures, an early-stage, consumer focused venture capital investors, is targeting between USD150 million USD200 million for its third fund, according to a report by VCCircle.
The report credits people familiar with the matter for the information with Fireside said to be in talks with LPs about soft commitments. The firm’s predecessor fund, Fund II, secured around USD118 million in capital commitments, surpassing its original target of USD100 million, while Fireside’s debut fund raised USD52 million at final close in March 2018.
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