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Bolt, a European on-demand transportation platform, has launched a dedicated environmental impact fund with seed capital of EUR10 million aimed at initiatives which deliver global social and environmental benefits.
The fund’s first transaction will finance a forest creation project that plants trees to increase natural carbon sequestration, increase biodiversity, stop pollutants from entering water courses, and prevent the erosion of topsoil. The initiative involves planting over 9,500 trees on 5.8 hectares of land in Angus, Scotland.
Bolt’s environmental impact fund forms part of the company’s wider environmental strategy known as ‘the Green Plan’ which focuses on long-term commitment to
US and Israel-based cybersecurity startup company, Sepio Systems, has raised USD6.5 million in its latest funding round led by Hanaco Ventures and Merlin Ventures.
Sepio’s existing investors Energias de Portugal (EDP), Mindset Ventures and Pico Partners also participated in the funding round. Since its establishment, Sepio Systems has raised USD11 million.
In conjunction with the financing, Sepio has also made two new appointments to its management team. Gili Sahar is to join as CFO and Chen Ben Eliyahu has been appointed Vice President of Business Development.
Sepio offers an end-to-end solution that detects and mitigates hardware-based attacks, rogue
As investors scramble to build their private equity allocations, PE groups are responding in kind in a bid to meet demand. Developing new products, however, is no easy task. If it is done in a vacuum, without genuine investor interest, or if a fund is developed too quickly, such that the manager is unable to deliver on the investment promise, the outcome is often bad.
Which is precisely why the largest PE groups avoid such pitfalls.
One of the biggest and most successful, in terms of fund raising and exceptional multi-year performance is The Carlyle Group. Leading its fund raising
Anacapa Partners, a private equity firm focused on the lower middle market, has completed a growth investment in Agasus, a Brazilian hardware-as-a-service (HaaS) provider.
Headquartered, in São Paulo, Agasus provides rental services for critical technology hardware infrastructure such as desktop computers, notebooks and tablets, to large and medium size enterprise customers. The company serves customers in 12 states and 186 cities throughout Brazil.
“We are excited to partner with 220 Capital, a search fund through which this investment was made, to provide Agasus and its management team with the means to further expand service offerings and geographic reach,” says
Prime Capital AG, the independent asset management firm and financial services provider, has closed a 254 MW onshore wind project in Sweden.
The project, realised in close collaboration with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE), was acquired by a consortium of Korean institutional investors, Siemens Financial Services and German Pension Fund Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung, from Holmen AB, one of Sweden’s largest forest owners. Prime Capital structured and commercialised the project and will build and manage it on behalf of the consortium.
The wind energy project called “Stavro” is located in the northern part of Sweden, northwest of Umeå, and divided into
Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP), a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in middle-market healthcare business, and Bourne Partners Strategic Capital (BPSC), a pharmaceuticals services and consumer healthcare-focused investment firm, have acquired Pharmaceutical Associate Inc (PAI).
PAI, a company that focuses in liquid unit-dose, bottle prescription and over the counter medications, will work EHP and BPSC to expand its manufacturing capacity, product lines and market footprint.
PAI manufacture and markets generic liquid pharmaceuticals for hospitals, independent pharmacies, retail chains, long-term care facilities and government agencies. PAI offers a complete line of hard-to-find liquid products in both out-patient out-patient
Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC) has acquired MKG, a national creative agency and Pink Sparrow, a national design and fabrication shop specialising in experimental environments.
The transaction was led by ACC Founder and CEO Michael Nyman and Founder and Chairman of MKG and Pink Sparrow, Maneesh K Goyal.
Founded in 2018, ACC is composed on acquired marketing, media and communications agencies and complemented by an advisory service. MKG was founded in 2003 and has offices in New York and Los Angeles. Pink Sparrow was launched in 2013 and operates from Brooklyn and Los Angeles, working with brands in the
Immersive Labs, the world’s first fully interactive, on-demand and gamified cyber skills platform, has closed USD40 million in funding led by global growth equity investor Summit Partners, with participation from existing investor Goldman Sachs.
The investment will be used to support expansion initiatives in North America, where customer demand highlights a clear need to optimize cyber skills and guard against constantly evolving threats. We believe this new round of funding illustrates how this dynamic technology is ushering in a new era of active training that enables professionals to acquire additional skills in richly immersive environments at their own pace and
Investcorp, a global alternative investments manager, China Resources, an owner and distributor of food brands in Greater China, and Fung Strategic Holdings Limited, a member of Fung Investments, have jointly launch a private equity platform dedicated solely to investing in food brands in Asia, specifically China, Singapore and greater Southeast Asia.
Fung Investments is the private investment arm of the families of Victor Fung and William Fung, the controlling shareholders of the Fung Group, a Hong Kong based specialist in the global consumer goods supply chain.
The new platform is aiming to raise USD500 million and will be jointly owned and
Cadence Aerospace (Cadence), a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital), has acquired B&E Group’s OEM Manufacturing Division (B&E), a provider of complex and difficult-to-machine engine components for aerospace and defence customers.
Similar to Cadence’s existing Tell Tool and ADM facilities, B&E focuses on hard metal and complex engine components, and is headquartered in Southwick, MA (40,000 sq ft facility), with another 30,000 sq ft facility in Westfield, MA. B&E will continue to be run by Bob Quaglia and the existing management team.
Peter Manos, a Managing Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “The acquisition of B&E builds on our
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