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Secondary assets being brought to market this year will require industrial strength and value creation potential, as infrastructure, VC and mid-market GPs plan to bring opportunities to market…
In stark contrast to private equity’s buyout market over the past decade, GP-led secondaries are often characterised by too many deals chasing too little capital.
“Sometimes we feel capital-constrained because there’s so much opportunity out there,” says Valérie Handal, managing director of the global secondaries team at HarbourVest.
With the eight largest secondary funds controlling around 50% of the dry powder in the market, according to Hamilton Lane, GPs are having to
Funds managed by private equity investor CapVest Partners (CapVest), have closed the acquisition of Second Nature Brands, a Michigan-based creator of premium, nutritional and better for you snacks and treats, including Kar’s Nuts, Second Nature Snacks, and Sanders Chocolates, from a private equity fund affiliated with Palladium Equity Partners, LLC.
CapVest has been investing in food businesses around the world for more over 20 years and has a deep understanding of the consumer food sector. Recent successes include the transformation of Valeo Foods from an Irish-only business with less than €200 million in sales, to a leading global ambient food
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Consumer team has advised the shareholders of Plumbworld Limited, one of the UK’s leading e-commerce specialists for bathroom, kitchen, plumbing and heating products on its sale to HIG Capital’s Highbourne Group.
Martin Rauchenwald, a Partner at Financial Services Capital (FSC), a private equity investor dedicated to the transformation of the European financial services sector, has been appointed to the Board of Barion, a Hungarian payment provider backed by FSC.
Barion, in which FSC invested in 2020, is one of Hungary’s leading payment providers, having built a proprietary payment services platform that delivers actionable data intelligence. The company enables merchants to accept card payments online, and allows users to pay in over 11,000 online shops using their mobile app as a prepaid wallet and for wire transfers.
Circularity Capital, a circular economy growth investor, has held the oversubscribed final close of its second fund at €215 million.
Circularity European Growth Fund II (CEGF) is three times arger than Circularity Capital’s debut fund of £60 million which closed in 2018 and makes it the largest specialist circular economy private equity fund across the globe.
CEGF II will continue Circularity Capital’s dedicated strategy to invest into circular economy growth-stage businesses in Europe.
The Circularity European Growth Fund II fundraise was advised by Rede Partners.
An investment programme that has raised more than £220 milliion for North East SMEs, creating over 1500 jobs, is looking for more businesses to apply for investment.
In its first four years of operations, the North East Fund has helped 350 businesses to raise more than £200 million of funding. The £80 million provided by the North East Fund helped those companies to secure a further £140 million from other investors and funders.
The North East Fund plans to invest a further £40 million in at least 150 more companies over the next two years and is calling for businesses
Science Angel Syndicate co-founders, Dr Ben Miles and Dr Johnathan Matlock, apr to join Elbow Beach Capital’s Advisory Board with immediate effect as part of a collaboration agreement.
Elbow Beach Capital (EBC) and Science Angel Syndicate (SAS) have a shared focus on scientific advancement as a catalyst for improving lives and the environment. EBC is an early-stage investor in decarbonisation, sustainable energy, and social impact businesses, while SAS brings together professional investors looking to scientific discoveries not only for financial returns, but as a force for good worldwide.
EBC and SAS have already collaborated to back modular bioenergy start-up,
Bowmark Capital has appointed partner Stephen Delaney to the firm’s senior management committee. At the same time, Luca Mastrodonato has been promoted to the position of origination partner.
Delaney has played a key role in the development of Bowmark’s technology practice since joining the firm in 2014 from Darwin Private Equity. Since then, he has been involved in a number of key investments including Node4, ASK4 and Focus Group.
Mastrodonato leads Bowmark’s origination function which has expanded significantly under his leadership since joining the business in 2011 from professional services group, EY. Luca has been responsible for originating a number
Employee benefits platform Juno has raised $4 million in a fun ding round led by Hoxton Ventures and joined by angels including Juno early adopters Tony Jamous, CEO of OysterHR and Christian Owens, CEO of Paddle.
Other angel investors include the CEOs of Learnerbly, Captify, Jungle Creations, SuperAwesome and Heights.
Founded by British-Iraqi entrepreneur Ally Fekaiki, Juno’s modern benefits marketplace empowers workers to choose experiences and services they actually want, using credits allocated by their employer.
This new injection of capital will enable Juno to fine tune the product and add additional services such as physical debit cards for
Floreat, an independent and privately held investment group, has completed an investment in energy from waste technology firm Standard Gas Technologies Limited on behalf of Principal Investing Fund I Limited.
The initial £3 million from Principal Investing Fund I Limited (a fund advised by Floreat) will go towards developing Standard Gas’s first full-scale commercial plant in the UK.
Standard Gas provides a low-cost, sustainable alternative to landfills and incineration and can make an important contribution to decarbonisation and the development of the circular economy on the path toward Net Zero.
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