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Colmore, the service and technology provider for private market Limited Partners (LPs) and allocators, has appointed Christine Campney as relationship management director.
Campney, who joined from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), will sit on Colmore’s Executive Committee and be responsible for client relationship management, bringing over 25 years of industry experience.
Campney joins Colmore following her previous role as Director, Real Assets and Private Equity Operations, with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments).
FPE Capital LLP (FPE), the software & services focused lower mid-market growth investor, has successfully closed its third fund (FPE Fund III), with investor commitments of £185 million ($235 million).
The Fund hard cap was raised during a compressed fundraising process to accommodate excess demand and the final fund size is a material increase on FPE’s prior Fund II of £101 million.
Leading international investors have chosen to continue to invest in FPE for Fund III, with a 100% institutional re-up rate from Fund II and a group of new investors joining for Fund III. Fund III is comprised of
Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for the global alternative asset management industry, has hired David Lourie as Vice President and Senior Counsel, Regulatory Affairs.
Prior to joining MFA, Lourie served as Associate General Counsel at General Atlantic.
Lourie brings a decade of experience in the alternative investment industry. Prior to joining MFA, he was Associate General Counsel and Vice President at General Atlantic where he worked closely on issues relating to ESG.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Southern California.
Bansk Group (Bansk), a consumer-focused private investment firm dedicated to building distinctive consumer brands, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in amika and Eva NYC, two of the fastest-growing scaled independent haircare brands in the US.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
StepStone Group Inc, a global private markets investment firm, has made the final closing of StepStone Credit Opportunities Fund I (SCOF I), raising over $600 million of commitments.
Through SCOF I, StepStone seeks to invest in both liquid and illiquid credit at stressed, dislocated, and distressed entry points or opportunistic situations across asset classes, industries, and geographies.
A diverse group of limited partners from around the world is invested in the Fund.
Soluna Holdings, Inc (SHI), the parent company of Soluna Computing, Inc (SCI), has secured $35 million in project financing to develop green data centers co-located with renewable energy assets.
Spring Lane Capital, a private equity firm, invested private funds in Soluna as a part of their strategy focused on hybrid project capital for sustainability solutions in the energy, food, water, waste and transportation industries.
The capital will help develop three behind-the-meter (BTM) projects designed to convert wasted renewable energy into clean computing services such as bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence.
QHP Capital LP, the management company for NovaQuest Private Equity (NQPE), has made the final close of its private equity investment fund, NovaQuest Private Equity Fund II, LP (NQPE II) at $500 million of LP commitments.
NQPE II closed at its hard cap, exceeding the fund’s initial target of $425 million, and was fully committed in less than seven months of fundraising.
The oversubscribed fund includes commitments from a diverse group of new and returning investors including pension plans, insurance companies, asset managers, private foundations, and family offices.
Linedata, a global provider of asset management and credit technology data and services, has launched its Cognitive Investment Data Management Service, a front office data management solution for asset managers and alternative funds.
With the rise of digital transformation and the explosion of data, asset managers and credit analysts are often strapped for time and facing an information overload. With this solution, investment teams can act faster to spot alpha while gaining back time and productivity. Intelligent data extraction cuts opportunity screening and idea validation times by nearly 60% compared to analyst-driven research.
Travel Manager, the owner of the Hotailors brand, which offers a comprehensive tool for booking business trips, has secured EUR 23 million from DC24 ASI.
The amount raised will be used for further development of the company on international markets (USA, MENA), the launch of new products (insurance and financial), and the rebranding process of Hotailors to WorkTrips.com.
Aston Particle Technologies, a company which has developed a novel dry powder coating technology, has completed a £1 million funding round led by DSW Ventures.
The investment into Aston Particle Technologies (APT), a spin-out from Aston University, was led by DSW Ventures alongside Aston University and an Aston alumnus.
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