Managers
Validus Capital (Validus), Singapore’s leading SME financing platform, has successfully raised USD15.2 million (SGD20.5 million) in an oversubscribed Series B funding round.
Investment in Validus’ Series B round was led by FMO, Netherlands’ public-private development bank. FMO has over 300 investments in banking and financial services institutions (BFSIs). Its investment in Validus marked FMO’s first fintech investment in Southeast Asia, a region which saw over USD5.7 billion in fintech investments in 2017 according to KPMG. Participating investors also include Taiwan’s Cathay Financial Holdings, Singapore’s Openspace Ventures (previously NSI Ventures), Temasek investment arm Vertex Ventures, Thailand’s AddVentures by SCG and Vietnam’s
BlueMountain Capital Management (BlueMountain) has launched a new national behavioural health platform, led by industry veterans Kirk Kureska and Rob Waggener.
The new company, Promises Behavioral Health (Promises), initially will operate 12 facilities and programs across seven states to provide a comprehensive range of treatment options for substance abuse, sexual addiction, trauma, eating disorders, and other mental health disorders, as well as programs for veterans.
BlueMountain and an associated investor group recently completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Elements Behavioral Health (Elements) upon its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 1 March, and also own
Wavecrest Growth Partners (Wavecrest) has held the close of its first fund, with over USD190 million in commitments.
Investors include public pension funds, endowments and foundations, fund-of-funds, insurance companies, and family offices. To date, Wavecrest has led investments in three leading B2B software companies.
Founded by partners Deepak Sindwani and Vaibhav Nalwaya, Wavecrest is a growth equity firm that helps capital-efficient B2B technology entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley to accelerate their business plans and optimise performance through a combination of capital and real operating knowledge and experience. Wavecrest provides a differentiated combination of best practices to fuel company growth
SE Capital Partners (SE Capital) has acquired TLC Companies (TLC) under its recent partnership with Berggruen Holdings.
“The partnership, Berggruen/SE Capital Holdings (BSECP), is extremely flexible on transaction size and structure, focusing largely on lower middle market transactions with enterprise values ranging from USD15 to USD100 million,” says Paul Mulvaney partner at SE Capital. BSECP is looking to deploy at least USD400 million of equity capital across multiple investment platforms with TLC representing the first such investment platform of the partnership.
“We partnered with SE Capital as a result of their long track record of buying, building and growing
Quick Reach Powered Access – a UK-based equipment hire business – has secured a GBP4.5million equity investment from Mercia Fund Managers.
The investment, which is the second from Mercia’s GBP45.1million EV Growth II fund, will allow the Manchester-based company to double its fleet of powered access equipment and continue its nationwide growth.
Founded in 2014 by brothers John and David Barton, who have a background in the equipment hire industry, Quick Reach now has depots in Manchester, Birmingham, Doncaster, East London and Wishaw in Scotland, and a fleet of over 1,000 units ranging from large telehandlers to smaller scissor
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company, Orion Business Innovation (Orion), has combined with MERA, an outsourced product development business headquartered in Switzerland.
OEP is making a significant investment in MERA to support the transaction.
MERA provides customised solutions and software services, including outsourced product development, software and architecture design, implementation and integration, and project management, to blue chip clients internationally. The company has a 30-year history of providing highly technical solutions in the telecommunications and telecom equipment, industrial automation, automotive and transportation, and financial technology industries. MERA has over 1,200 software engineers in off-shore
Cognizant has acquired Meritsoft, a privately-held financial software company based in Dublin, Ireland, best known for its FINBOS platform for post-trade processing, an intelligent automation solution for managing taxes, fees, commissions, and cash flow functions between financial institutions.
Meritsoft’s products are currently used by five of the world’s eight leading investment banks. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Cognizant and Meritsoft have a track record of working together, meeting demand for integrated solutions that leverage the agility of Meritsoft’s FINBOS platform and Cognizant’s managed services and digital operations capabilities.
“Increased compliance and regulatory obligations focus
Prestige Funds, a provider of private finance to the UK’s agriculture, clean energy and SME markets, has completed a GBP14.7 million funding deal to finance an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Kent.
The deal is the latest in a long series of financing agreements to fund anaerobic digestion facilities in the UK, which are helping farms and food business to process waste into energy. Prestige, via its specialist asset backed lending funds, provides funding for loans. The latest project, which is being managed by dedicated Finance Arranger and Project Manager Privilege Finance, part of the Prestige group of companies, is
Legal & General Capital (Legal & General) has taken a circa 13 per cent stake in Pod Point, one of the UK’s largest electric vehicle charge point operators.
Through its Future Cities business, Legal & General looks to make investments that are focussed on creating sustainable communities with good employment opportunities, high quality and varied housing in a digitally-connected and clean environment. Legal & General believes that electric vehicles will be an integral part of delivering that clean environment and transforming the UK’s transport systems.
There are around 32 million cars on the road in the UK, of which plug-in
Astorg, one of Europe’s leading private equity groups with over EUR8 billion of AUM, has made its first investment in the US with the acquisition of Anaqua, a global leader of intellectual property management solutions. Astorg sees significant opportunities in the IP space and by taking a controlling shareholder position in Anaqua, it replaces Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Boston-headquartered Anaqua serves approximately 50 per cent of the top 25 US patent filers and 50 per cent of the top 25 global brands. Its IP platform is used by nearly one million IP executives, attorneys, paralegals, administrators, and
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