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Masa Finance, a hybrid credit protocol, has come out of stealth and completed a pre-seed funding round of $3.5 million led by Unshackled Ventures, executives from GoldenTree Asset Management (a $46 billion credit-focused fund), Flori Ventures (Celo-focused fund), GSR, Decentranet, Intersect VC, Lateral Capital, Peer VC, Alves Ventures, and several angel investors in the fintech/blockchain space including Louis Beryl (founder of Earnest), Gustavo Menezes (24hr of Le Mans Driver for Peugeot Sport), and Jacob Riglin – a high-profile NFT artist who will be launching future NFT-collateralised loan products.
Masa has developed critical infrastructure for Web3 that enables on-chain credit scoring
JB Capital, an alternative credit manager investing in areas of the market underserved by traditional banks, has launched the Real Estate Lending Income Fund.
The fund, the next iteration in JB Capital’s commitment to providing credit solutions to underserved markets, will provide solutions-oriented capital to professional owners, operators and developers of multi-family and industrial real estate assets ignored and underserved by traditional funding sources in key markets across the US.
The equity gap required for most investors and developers is increasing. It forces even the most successful and experienced industry professionals to look outside traditional sources of capital to close
Golding Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading independent asset managers for alternative investments, has analysed the magnitude and repeatability of alpha returns from private equity investments compared with the stock market.
The study carried out in association with Professor Oliver Gottschalg from HEC School of Management Paris shows that the excess return from private equity is persistent over the period 2000-2021.
The average alpha compared with similar stock market investments is 9.9 per cent, rising to as much as 35 per cent during periods of crisis.
The study indicates that the driver for recurrence of attractive alpha is not the
Brian Mulcahy has joined BakerHostetler’s Chicago office as a partner in the firm’s Business Practice Group and member of the Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions teams.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, has led a $580 million Series B Funding round in Anthropic, a public benefit corporation and AI startup lab ached in 2020, according to a report by DailyAlts.
The round, which follows a $124 million Series A fundraise in 2021, also included participation from Caroline Ellison, Jim McClave, Nishad Singh, Jaan Tallinn, and the Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR).
Anthropic, which is based in San Francisco, was founded by the brother-and-sister team of Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, who were vice presidents at AI research lab OpenAI LLC. Its 40-person team focuses on
OMERS Capital Markets has participated in Group14 Technologies’ $400 million Series C funding round.
OMERS’ investment will be overseen by its global Capital Solutions team, which is focused on identifying and executing on complex opportunities across a number of themes, including decarbonisation, clean-tech and life sciences. The team’s goals include fostering long-term partnerships with innovative companies to help them scale up and help shape the economy of the future.
Centre Partners-backed Midwest Mobility Solutions and Slayton Wireless, both AT&T National Authorised Retailers, are to merge creating a new AT&T National Authorised Retailer with a footprint of over 160 stores in 11 states in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.
Micross Components, a provider of high-reliability microelectronic product and service solutions for aerospace, defense, space, medical and industrial applications and a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, has acquired the High-Reliability Discrete Diodes and Assemblies business of Semtech Corporation, a global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms.
Micross’ acquisition – the fifth under Behrman Capital’s ownership and first since consummating a continuation fund transaction in February of 2022 – addresses a number of strategic priorities for the Company. The addition of Semtech’s High-Reliability Discrete Diodes and Assemblies Product portfolio provides Micross with power management components that
Antwort Capital, a Luxembourg-based feeder fund platform which provides qualified private investors access to top-tier private market funds, has held the final closing of the Antwort Buyout Opportunities FF with €26 million in capital commitment from private investors.
More than 60 investors from Luxembourg and internationally participated in the Fund.
The Fund’s aim is to get exposure to the private equity buyout segment in Europe and North America by investing in SwanCap’s multi-strategy fund “Swan V” as the underlying fund.
SwanCap specialises in the private equity buyout segment and offers its predominantly institutional investors an “integrated investment strategy” by combining
AMECO, a leading provider of construction and maintenance Site Services planning and delivery and portfolio company of One Equity Partners, has acquired F&M MAFCO, an international supplier of tools and equipment rental, sales and service programmes.
Tim Fries, F&M MAFCO’s CEO, has been named chief growth officer of both organisations and president of F&M MAFCO. He will report directly to AMECO CEO Gary Bernardez and be responsible for developing and implementing a long-term growth strategy that fully leverages the synergies of both businesses to drive comprehensive solutions to clients. Fries will oversee all joint strategic planning, business development, marketing and
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