Managers
Thirteen has successfully issued a private placement to a group of high-profile UK and US institutional investors, securing a GBP100 million injection of new capital.
As the largest housing association in the North East with over 34,000 homes, Thirteen secured the funding after its leadership team impressed investors at a series of roadshows.
The GBP100 million private placement is spread over a number of tranches with 25-year to 35-year maturities and a weighted average cost of funds of 2.86 per cent.
The new funding will support the delivery of Thirteen’s development programme during the next five years, further strengthening an
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made its second cornerstone commitment this year through its GBP500 million Managed Funds Programme.
The GBP100 million commitment is being made to the Hermes GPE Innovation Fund which is seeking to raise a target of GBP250 million. Investments are expected to be focused on later-stage opportunities in technology-enabled businesses across the UK and Europe with a productivity, people or sustainability theme.
The Managed Funds Programme seeks to draw in more institutional capital to the UK venture and growth capital markets and increase access to longer-term capital for
Barings has served as mandated lead arranger and sole provider of a senior secured credit facility to support Montagu Private Equity (Montagu) in its acquisition of Jane’s from IHS Markit.
Jane’s is a leading global provider of open source information to the aerospace, defence and security industries. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
“With its century old heritage, Jane’s is the global reference source for open-source defence related information and data,” says Joseph Buckley, Director in Barings’ Global Private Finance group. “We are delighted to support Montagu’s investment in Jane’s, further strengthening our two firms’ long-term relationship.”
Jane’s
Octopus Investments’ Development Capital team has led a GBP3.6 million funding round, alongside Calculus Capital, into FISCAL Technologies, a world leading provider of forensic solutions and services headquartered in Reading.
FISCAL Technologies’ solutions empower purchase-to-pay teams across the globe to protect their organisational spend. Its NXG Forensics® enterprise solution provides continuous protection through transactional risk analysis, supplier risk profiling, anti-fraud controls and ongoing reporting.
NXG Forensics has specifically been designed for modern procure-to-pay, accounts payable teams, identifying the areas of risk and fraud within supplier spend, utilising unique forensics technology with advanced algorithms and machine learning, and building up
The Catalyst-CEL China-Israel Fund (CCF) has made an investment in Arbe Robotics (Arbe), the provider of next-generation 4D Imaging Radar Chipset Solution that enables high-resolution sensing for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles.
The Fund led Arbe’s USD32 million B-round fundraising, and is joined by Beijing Automotive Investment Capital, MissionBlue Capital, and AI Alliance, along with the Company’s previous shareholders. Current CEO Kobi Marenko founded Arbe in 2016. Its breakthrough radar chipset, 4D Imaging Radar Chipset Solution, generates an image 100 times more detailed than any solution on the market today.
With the new funding, Arbe will focus on
NewHold Enterprises (NewHold), a long-term investment holding company and direct investment platform focused on middle market industrials and services firms, has invested in PRIME AE Group, (PRIME AE). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
PRIME AE is focused on the architecture and engineering services (AE) industry and represents NewHold’s second platform, following its investment in the non-hazardous liquid waste industry, through American AllWaste LLC in mid-2018.
“We are thrilled to welcome PRIME AE to the NewHold family. We have been studying the engineering and architecture sector for more than a year and have been working closely to find
Private equity firm FFL Partners (FFL) is to sell EyeCare Partners (ECP), a vertically integrated growing network of full scope medical optometry and ophthalmology practices in the US. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2015, ECP provides best-in-class eye care services from an integrated network of over 500 optometrists and 85 ophthalmologists located in 13 states throughout the Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southwest. Under FFL’s ownership, the Company’s revenue grew at a compounded growth rate of 65 percent while expanding its geographic footprint from 63 to more than 450 sites of service through over
Accenture has invested in and formed a strategic alliance with TradeIX, a Dublin-based company whose open platform uses distributed ledger technology to facilitate the flow of goods, services, transactions and information within a secure environment for global trade.
Terms of the equity investment have not been disclosed.
Current trade relies on time-consuming manual transaction processes that can be costly and hard to reconcile. Distributed ledger technology enables new ways to share data and the full automation of finance and accounting processes, increasing productivity and working capital while reducing overall risk for banking parties.
“Building on TradeIX’s solid foundation across the banking
Fondo Agroalimentare Italiano (FAI) has held its final close with commitments of EUR55 million. Sponsored by Unigrains, the Fund’s subscribers include French, Italian and Swiss institutional investors and family offices as well as several Italian entrepreneurs.
FAI invests in minority stakes either in growth capital transactions or in buyout transactions as a sector specialist, in the capital of Italian agri-food SMEs with sales generally between EUR10 million and EUR150 million. These investments contribute to financing the development of companies through external or organic growth, internationalisation or in the context of managerial transitions.
Managed by a team of 3 investment
Atrium Sports (Atrium”, a full-service technology platform for sports and video data content, has acquired Synergy Sports Technology (“Synergy Sports”), a global provider of data and video analytics tools for the NBA, the MLB and NCAA Division I-II-III basketball and Division I baseball.
This acquisition will accelerate Atrium’s expansion strategy and strengthen its end-to-end technology solution offering globally.
The acquisition was completed with a lead investment from Eldridge Industries and additional investment from Elysian Park Ventures, Atrium executives and other Atrium and Synergy Sports shareholders.
Synergy Sports provides teams with the analytics and tools that power scouting, player
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