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ARX Equity Partners (ARX) has successfully completed the exit of its investment in Fincentrum, an independent financial advisory business operating in the Czech Republic and Slovakia respectively.
Fincentrum facilitates the sale of mortgages, life insurance and investment products and boasts more than 3,000 financial advisors and a turnover in excess of EUR60 million. It ranks as the largest, independent distribution partner, primarily for banks and insurance companies, in the Czech and Slovak markets.
The ARX exit was finalised via a 100 per cent sale to the Swiss Life Group, a European provider of comprehensive life, pension and financial solutions. This
Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Petershill programme has made a strategic minority investment in middle-market private equity firm Harvest Partners.
The passive investment, which represents 15 per cent of the firm, will allow Harvest Partners to expand the ownership of the firm and further develop its platform, building on the firm’s long history of investing in the middle-market in North America. As part of the transaction, Harvest Partners’ senior leadership has made long-term commitments to the business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Thomas Arenz, a Partner of Harvest Partners, says: “We are very pleased to be partnering with Goldman Sachs,
Mid-market private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) has submitted a binding offer for the acquisition of the whole business of Courir.
The equity value of this offer is EUR283 million.
Equistone has now entered today into exclusive negotiations with Groupe Go Sport.
The completion of the deal, which is expected in H1 20189, is subject to the consultation of employees’ representative bodies and clearance from the relevant antitrust authorities.
METRON, the France-based developer of an energy intelligence platform for industry, has completed a new EUR8 million fundraising.
The fundraising includes commitments from BNP Paribas, Financière Fonds Privés, which enables private investors to invest directly in high potential companies, and existing shareholder, Breed Reply, a leading active operational investor in early-stage Internet of Things businesses.
The funds will enable METRON to accelerate its international growth, and the further development of its AI-based energy optimisation solutions. Since its creation in 2013, METRON has raised nearly EUR12 million, including this round.
Vincent Sciandra, CEO and Co-founder of METRON, says: “We
Guernsey has registered a Guernsey-domiciled agribusiness fund as the world’s first regulated green fund.
The Cibus Fund, launched last year, becomes the first fund to be awarded the Guernsey Green Fund regulatory “kitemark” by the island’s regulator, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, following the launch of the Guernsey Green Fund rules in July this year.
“This landmark places Guernsey well and truly at the forefront of the development of green finance,” said Dr Andy Sloan, speaking from Shanghai, where he was representing Guernsey, as the head of financial sector strategy development for the island, at the AGM of the
Independent asset manager Dunas Capital has launched the Rainforest Dunas Iberia Fund I FCR, the first private equity fund of funds that will invest exclusively in Spanish and Portuguese GPs.
The fund of funds manager will look for investment opportunities in buyout and growth capital funds but will also have some flexibility to invest in venture capital, private debt, infrastructure and special situations. With a target size of EUR100 million, Rainforest Dunas Iberia Fund I FCR plans to start making commitments to Iberian private equity firms in the next few months.
The fund is managed by Inverseguros Gestión, which
Palatine Private Equity has exited its investment in the telecoms arm of MJ Quinn following the sale to Visabeira/Constructel.
MJ Quinn, which is headquartered in Liverpool, specialises in the provision of a variety of telecoms services including access network solutions, fibre roll out for businesses and households and provision of energy efficient cooling solutions. Palatine initially backed the secondary buyout of the business in 2008 from its maiden GBP100 million fund.
Visabeira/Constructel is headquartered in France and is a major provider of telecommunication network infrastructure engineering with operations throughout Europe and Africa. The acquisition of MJ Quinn’s telecoms business
Talis Capital, a London-based VC family office focussed on early-stage technology companies and one of the largest investors, has announced a USD20 million seed funding round into Oh My Green, a concierge-style provider of healthy food and wellness services for corporations of all sizes.
Other investors that participated in the round included Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Powerplant Ventures, Backed VC, ZhenFund, and Stanford-StartX Fund. The new capital will be used to further advance Oh My Green’s innovative wellness platform, which incorporates artificial intelligence and IoT technology to enhance supply chain management and improve personalization of the company’s food services. Additionally,
London-based investment fund, Fuel Ventures, has invested GBP500,000 in an on-demand manufacturing platform Manufacturingsource.com, which connects design and production engineers with suitable and trusted manufacturers to create custom parts.
The site, which has attracted a global network of engineers and manufacturers, allows customers to get instant quotes and place orders, from prototypes to full scale production, on a single platform.
Entrepreneurs Sam Al-Mukhtar and Will Hoyer Millar launched Manufacturingsource.com in 2017, after the pair realised there was a clear opportunity to address a known problem within the Manufacturing sector, which was last year estimated at GBP384.5 billion in the
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP1 million investment into Nottingham-based Alpkit Limited (Alpkit) on behalf of the Foresight Nottingham Fund, alongside bank funding provided by HSBC.
Alpkit is a fast-growing designer and retailer of outdoor clothing and equipment. Targeting the outdoor adventure enthusiast, Alpkit provides high quality clothing and equipment at an affordable price and offers over 500 lines across clothing, equipment and bikes. All products are designed at the Company’s HQ in Newthorpe, Nottingham, with a focus on technical performance, providing their customers with “gear that costs less but works harder.”
Alpkit was founded in 2004 by
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