Managers
Private equity firm Montagu has completed its investment in Waystone, a provider of institutional governance, risk, and compliance services to the asset management industry, while Hg, a global software and services investor, is also joining as a strategic investor and joint shareholder in the firm.
Montagu first announced its investment in Waystone in July 2021. Hg’s investment is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.
Founded in 2000 and based in Dublin, Waystone serves clients with assets under management totalling more than USD1 trillion, delivering the tools and expertise to manage their governance and regulatory requirements, enabling them to
Unity Technologies Founder, Nicholas Francis, is launching a specialised Agricultural Technologies (AgTech) VC fund together with Investbridge Capital.
The goal is to create a market leading VC fund investing in the most scalable and innovative technology companies revolutionising global food production.
Francis has made a career predicting how software will develop in the face of massive hardware and societal changes and sees another tremendous investment opportunity in AgTech. To this end, he has committed USD10 million as a cornerstone investor. Working alongside the Investbridge team, Francis will use his experience in entrepreneurialism, VC and the global tech market to help
According to the first estimates obtained by the Spanish Association of Capital, Growth and Investment (ASCRI) through the European platform EDC, the volume of private capital investment in Spain during 2021 reached EUR7.49 billion from a total of 841 investments.
Despite the new global pandemic scenario, the venture capital segment hit a record high while middle market deals hit their second-highest level ever.
The VC sector saw a record high in both volume (EUR1.94 billion) and number of transactions (691). International VC also registered record levels of investment (EUR1.57 billion from 173 transactions, 248 per cent more than in
Prevail Partners, an affiliate of Prevail CInfoWorks, has led a USD10 million Series A funding round in PolyPhotonix Limited, a developer of a noninvasive treatment for diabetic retinopathy.
Napier Park Global Capital (Napier Park) and Ethical Power Group (Ethical Power) have formed a joint venture, Lynher Energy, to invest in large-scale solar and battery storage assets in the UK and Europe.
Ethical Power will act as servicer to the joint venture, including the provision of services relating to development, construction, operations and maintenance, and asset management.
The partnership intends to invest in development assets to which Ethical Power can bring its extensive experience in the design, optimisation and construction of renewable energy projects to build high-quality, valuable assets.
Napier Park plans to fund the investment in the venture
Pegasus Asia, Tikehau Capital’s third sponsored SPAC globally and its first to be listed in Singapore has successfully raised SGD170 million (cEUR111.2 million) in its initial public offering.
Similar to Pegasus Europe and Pegasus Entrepreneurs launched in 2021, Pegasus Asia was launched by Tikehau Capital alongside co-sponsors Financière Agache, Jean-Pierre Mustier and Diego De Giorgi. The sponsors collectively have an extensive proprietary network and resources to search and evaluate targets.
Tikehau Capital and its co-sponsors were the only European sponsors to successfully launch two European SPACs in 2021. Pegasus Europe, which raised approximately EUR483.6 million in April, is among
BigTime Software, a provider of cloud-based software for professional services firms, has secured a USD100 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
Global alternative investment firm Värde Partners has agreed to sell its 52 per cent stake in Trastor REIC (Trastor), a real estate investment company, to Piraeus Bank for EUR98 million. The deal will take Piraeus Bank’s total shareholding to 97 per cent.
Trastor owns a portfolio of 59 real estate assets in Greece with a gross asset value of over EUR315 million across the retail, office and logistics sectors, comprising more than 238,000 sq m of total leasable area.
Värde Partners initially bought its stake in June 2016, in a deal that formed part of Piraeus Bank’s wider restructuring
StepStone Group, a secondaries investor across private markets, has recapitalised early-stage venture capital investor Vertex Ventures Israel’s (Vertex Israel) Vertex Israel Fund IV (Fund IV).
StepStone was the sole investor in the GP-led strip sale transaction, valued at approximately USD160 million, inclusive of future commitments.
The transaction provides partial liquidity to existing Fund IV limited partners while allowing both Vertex and its fund investors to realise further upside as the portfolio’s assets mature.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Augusoft, a specialist in enrolment management for continuing and corporate education programmes.
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