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Nivaura, a regulated FinTech company focussed on automating the issuance and administration processes for financial instruments, has closed a strategic funding round, raising GBP20 million in seed and seed extension capital from a number of prominent partners.
Founded three years ago, Nivaura’s focus is on the deployment of digital investment banking platforms for banks, exchanges and other financial institutions, to connect and automate fragmented and manual processes involved in the issuance and administration of instruments such as any form of debt, equity and structured products. For certain transaction types, this can reduce time to market by as much as 60-80
ORIX Mezzanine & Private Equity (OMPE), a business unit of ORIX Corporation USA, has exited its equity investment in Perennials and Sutherland. OMPE partnered with Acacia Partners on the investment in December of 2015.
“We are very pleased with the outcome of our investment,” says Jeff Sangalis, head of OMPE. “Perennials and Sutherland, along with Acacia Partners, worked incredibly hard to increase the value of the brand, invest for growth and solidify its position as a leader within its market. We are thankful for their effort and dedication to making this a great equity investment.”
Perennials and Sutherland is
Shawbrook Bank has provided private equity firm Rubicon Partners with a funding line to complete the purchase of leading specialist manufacturer Cortland Fibron BX Ltd.
Founded in 1987, Fibron is the leading global supplier of sub-sea umbilicals to the offshore oil & gas, remotely operated vehicles, geophysical, diving, defence and oceanographic markets. From its headquarters in Hertfordshire, UK, the Company designs, engineers and manufacturers umbilicals for safety- and process-critical applications around the world. It was acquired by Actuant in 2008.
Rubicon Partners is a hands-on investment partnership focused on acquiring complex industrial businesses across Europe and North America. Over
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has led a USD62 million financing in New York-based YieldStreet, a digital wealth management platform.
YieldStreet will use the funds to introduce new investment offerings, expand investor access, and increase retail investor education and engagement.
While fintech innovation continues to upend traditional banking and investing, wealth creation and investment diversification through multi-asset investments and yields available to institutional investors remain elusive to both accredited and non-accredited investors alike. YieldStreet eliminates this inequity by enabling investors to participate in investments across a broad range of asset classes such as real estate, legal finance,
Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity investor, has closed an investment in Backstage, a global platform that enables productions, brands, marketing agencies, and businesses to discover and work with creative talent.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“Ridgemont is focussed on identifying data, information, and marketing services investments with strong growth prospects across many industries,” says Jack Purcell, Partner at Ridgemont. “We are impressed with Backstage’s outstanding leadership team, unparalleled subscriber growth, user engagement, platform traffic, and the vibrant level of activity on each side of its marketplace as content creators of all types
Insight Venture Partners (Insight), a global venture capital and private equity firm based in New York City, has acquired the majority of Israeli Venture Capital Fund’s Genesis Partners IV (Genesis Partners) portfolio.
Dr Eyal Kishon, Eddy Shalev, Jonathan Saacks and Gary Gannot of Genesis Partners will continue to serve on the boards of their respective investments.
“This acquisition signifies Insight’s deep commitment to our existing portfolio in Israel, as well as innovation in the region at large,” says Jeff Horing, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Insight Venture Partners. “Genesis Partners has built a strategic portfolio that has evolved to align
Private equity (PE) funds produced another impressive surge in investment value in 2018, capping the strongest five-year stretch in the industry’s history with USD2.5 trillion in disclosed buyout deal value.
Limited partners (LPs) remained highly enthusiastic and continued to flood the market with fresh capital. For general partners (GPs), putting record amounts of capital to work meant getting comfortable with a certain level of discomfort when investing. They were paying prices they swore they would never pay and looking to capture value that may prove elusive post-close. The most effective GPs stepped up their game to identify targets and sharpen diligence,
Summa Equity has closed the Summa Equity Fund II at its hard cap with investor commitments of SEK6.5 billion (circa EUR610 million). With Fund I and II, Summa Equity now manages aggregated capital commitments of SEK11 billion (circa EUR1 billion).
Summa Equity was amongst the first Private Equity firms to commit to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligning its investment and value creation strategy with the SDG framework.
The announcement of Fund II comes three years after inception of the firm, and Fund I closed with commitments of SEK4.7 billion (circa EUR440 million). Fund II will continue to
LBO France has acquired a stake in Moustache Bikes, a company that specialises in designing, assembling and distributing electric bikes.
The private equity firm Initiative & Finance is selling its 55 per cent stake held since 2015, and the company’s founding managers, Emmanuel Antonot and Grégory Sand, who hitherto owned 45 per cent of the capital, are reinvesting significantly.
The company, based in the Vosges and set up in 2011 by these two bike-lovers, has established itself on a recent, fast-growing market. Moustache Bikes has become the leading brand on the premium market in France, while exporting around 40
Palamon Capital Partners’ (Palamon) portfolio company Simplify Group (Simplify) is to acquire My Home Move. The businesses will be combined under the group name Simplify to become one of the largest conveyancing services business in the UK.
My Home Move owners Smedvig Capital will continue to hold a significant minority stake in the business.
Palamon invested in Simplify Group in 2014 on the basis that regulatory changes in the UK legal services market had created a significant opportunity for scale players to form and build market share through the creation of new technology-enhanced conveyancing service delivery. Despite a period of
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