New private equity firm Next Gear Growth Partners is aiming to disrupt the private equity landscape by offering an all-in-one solution for select B2C e-commerce companies. By pairing broad and deep experience in digital marketing and business growth acceleration with years of private equity investment and management expertise, Barton Creek Equity Partners and Varda Partners are offering owners and management teams the opportunity to either partner with a team of growth experts or to exit their business quickly and efficiently.  Next Gear Growth Partners is open to investing in and working with companies that participate in a wide variety of

First Sentier Investors Group (FSI), a global investment manager, has rebranded its direct infrastructure investment team as Igneo Infrastructure Partners. The establishment of Igneo Infrastructure Partners is part of FSI’s long-term growth strategy to build a global business consisting of in-house investment teams and independently-branded investment teams, offering a range of investment expertise across differentiated asset classes.  One of the largest direct infrastructure investors in the world, the newly branded team has made 60 infrastructure acquisitions since 1994. The 65-strong team currently manages a portfolio of 24 high-quality, mature, mid-market core infrastructure companies in the UK, Europe, North America, Australia

InTandem Capital Partners (InTandem Capital), a healthcare services focused private equity firm, has launched Private Equity for Greater Good, a programme that will enable all full-time employees at InTandem Capital backed portfolio companies to share in the equity gains they help create. Envisioned as an industry-wide effort, Private Equity for Greater Good aims over time to help shift the norms of incentive equity plan construction and employee rewards by broadening the grant of equity-based incentives to align and reward all employees who contribute to their respective portfolio company success, rather than the typical concentration of equity participation among senior executives.

Capital market analyst and intelligence company PitchBook has named Alumni Ventures as the third most active venture capital firm globally. The new rankings place Alumni Ventures behind only Gaingels and Tiger Global Management, testifying to the sizeable portfolio of over 900 companies that the firm has invested in since its founding in 2014. It also reflects the company’s rapid pace in 2021, with AV participating in 351 deals, and the firm’s portfolio companies raising over USD25 billion in total over the course of the year. Unlike conventional VC firms which raise their funding from institutions, Alumni Ventures focuses on democratising

Verdant Capital has been ranked joint No1 by M&A deal flow for 2021 in the DealMakers Africa leagues tables, for the pan-Africa (ex-South Africa) region overall. DealMakers is the pre-eminent league table agency for Africa and announced its results for 2021 on 11 March, 2022. In the East Africa region league table (deal flow), Verdant Capital finished joint first. In West Africa, Verdant Capital finished second.  Landmark transactions completed by Verdant Capital in 2021 include the USD80 million capital raise for leading pan-African telecoms infrastructure company, WIOCC, the USD25 million capital raise for leading East Africa tech-enabled MSE-financing company Tugende

Black Women in Asset Management (BWAM), a non-profit organisation promoting the advancement of Black women working in the asset management industry, has announced Ares Management, BlackRock, Federated Hermes, Helios Investment Partners, JP Morgan Asset Management, M&G plc, Maniyar Capital, Morningstar, Inc, and State Street Global Advisors as new institutional members. Black women remain vastly underrepresented at all levels within the investment industry. A 2019 report by the Investment Association showed that less than 1 per cent of investment managers in the UK are Black. BWAM aims to drive positive change by providing Black women with tools needed to thrive, while

East Ventures has become the first Indonesian venture capital firm to sign the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). East Ventures is committed to taking the lead in identifying and supporting the relevant initiatives to drive more sustainable actions. The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment supported by the United Nation. Through the signing of UN PRI, East Ventures will further practice and implement the signatories’ contributions to develop a more sustainable global financial system, as well as to continue the application of six Principles for Responsible Investment to achieve broader objectives of the society.

AXA IM Alts, a global leader in alternative investments with cEUR183 billion of assets under management, expects the bulk of its investment in 2022 to be in conviction asset classes such as life sciences, healthcare, residential, and industrial & logistics, as well as in repositioning offices, as it announces that it completed EUR10.8 billion of real estate equity transactions in 2021.  This comprised cEUR8.7 billion of acquisitions and almost EUR2.1 billion of disposals, and compares to EUR9.7 billion of transactions completed in 2020. The business’ real estate equity assets under management exceeded EUR87.7 billion by the end of 2021, up

Polkadot was the most popular alt coin with venture capital and hedge funds in the final quarter of 2021, according to a report by Forkast. Twenty four of 57 funds investing in the space held Polkadot – the 11th latest cryptocurrency in the world with a market cap of USD18.7 billion – in Q4 2021. Oasis Network (ROSE) and Near Protocol (NEAR) were the next most popular assets among VCs and hedge funds, according to analysis by Messari says the report.

Tikehau Capital has reaped the benefits of its differentiating business model and delivered strong financial results in 2021 across its businesses with net profit totalling EUR319 million.  The Group’s asset management business delivered robust growth on all fronts from AuM to revenue while further improving its profitability. Tikehau Capital’s balance sheet portfolio returns increased sharply during the year thanks to an active and relevant portfolio rotation as well as the strong ramp-up from the investments made by the Group in its own funds.   As a result of these strong performances, Tikehau Capital will propose the payment of a dividend