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Sam Rogers, Head of Sales – EMEA
Edge is thrilled to be recognised as Best Cloud Service Provider by the European private equity community. We find ourselves here as a result of staying true to a commitment we made early on to our customers; that our success would come from their success. So, we owe a huge thank you to our clients and to our amazing Edge staff. We wouldn’t be here without you.
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Edge Technology Group is a sector-focused consultancy, exclusively representing alternative investment managers globally. Edge offers fully managed IT services and complete cloud solutions. The company
Ben Harrison, Founder
Having the readers of Private Equity Wire vote for DealCloud as their favorite fundraising and deal origination technology confirms that our platform is built to deliver leading intelligence and support the complex needs of dealmakers.
We are honored to accept this award and to enable efficient and effective dealmaking for finance professionals worldwide.
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DealCloud, part of Intapp, provides a single-source deal, relationship, and firm management platform that enables firms to power their deal-making process from strategy to origination to execution. We offer fully configurable solutions purpose-built for the complex relationships and structures of private equity
The American Investment Council and PitchBook have released a new report today highlighting how the private equity industry is expanding its clean technology footprint.
Private equity investment in clean technology surged to over $27 billion in 2021, up from roughly $20 billion in 2020. Private equity firms have invested almost $150 billion and sponsored more than 1,000 US clean technology companies over the past decade.
Investments in clean technology include a range of renewable energy solutions – such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric – as well as areas like electric vehicles, waste management, food production and supply chain sustainability,
Venice Swap, a Lithuanian-based one-stop crypto exchange platform led by the Venetian engineer and entrepreneur Gianluca Busato, has secured a $100 million capital commitment in the form of a Token Subscription Facility from GEM Digital Limited (GEM).
Tikehau Capital reached €35.5 billion in Group AUM as of 31 March 2022, up 21% year-over-year.
The Group exceeded its target of reaching, by the end of 2022, more than €35 billion in Group AuM.
Private Debt funds were the main contributor to Q1 deployment, accounting for 63% of the total, followed by Private Equity funds, representing 24%, and Real Assets 13% of the total.
At of 31 March 2022, AuM for Tikehau Capital’s asset management business reached €34.1 billion, representing a 23.2% growth year-over-year and a 3.5% growth compared to 31 December 2021.
Tikehau Capital’s investment portfolio meanwhile, amounted to €3.2 billion at 31 March 2022, compared to €2.7 billion at 31 December 2021.
Raiven Capital, a global early-stage tech venture fund, has invested in Vertical Harvest, an AI-driven, urban hydroponic farming startup.
Raiven Capital co-led the investment with Nicoya AB out of Sweden. Raiven General Partner Paul Dugsin and Limited Partner Bjorn Oste have also joined the board.
Vertical Harvest’s agricultural output is attractive from an investment standpoint. Over five years, the company proved their model and streamlined operations in their 14,000 square foot pilot facility. They are now scaling to ten farms across America, each over 200,000 square feet of space.
Portal Innovations, a venture development engine that provides seed funding, specialised equipment, lab space, and management expertise to high-potential early-stage companies, is partnering with Life Technologies Corporation, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
This partnership will further Portal Innovations’ mission to provide premier scientific equipment and resources to its portfolio companies that work out of Portal’s 50,000 sq ft of life science laboratories in Fulton Labs in Chicago.
The partnership will combine Life Technologies’ lab equipment and software with Portal’s seed investments and laboratory infrastructure to allow its portfolio of life sciences startups to quickly and efficiently access premier equipment
OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI) alongside its partners China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Hainan Free Trade Zone Development Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Hainan FTZ Fund), have launched the OGCI China Climate Investments fund.
Private equity firm MiddleGround Capital’s Race Winning Brands (RWB) platform, has completed its second add-on deal with the acquisition of TPT Solutions (TPT).
TPT trades under three market-leading brands—TransGo, RevMax and Transmission Specialties, providing transmission-focused automotive aftermarket performance products for light truck, automotive and SUV/CUV market.
MiddleGround, which makes control investments in North American middle market B2B industrial and specialty distribution companies, acquired RWB in December 2021, and made its first add-on acquisition earlier this month with the purchase of PAC Racing from Peterson American Corporation.
Keensight Capital, a private equity managers dedicated to pan-European growth buyout investments, has exited its investment in SFA Romani, a high-end fragrances house based in France, to Symrise, a global supplier of fragrances, which is acquiring 100% of the shares of the company, held until now by the Romani-Caruso family and Keensight Capital.
Founded in 1963, SFA Romani is internationally recognised for its choice of the finest natural raw materials, its craftsmanship in fragrance creation and the quality of its compositions. For nearly 60 years the company has developed unparalleled know-how in high-end fragrance compounds. The company’s strong reputation is
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