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Alantra, an independent global mid-market investment banking and asset management firm, has added to its Private Debt team with the appointments of Alberto Pierotti (managing director), Jean-Philippe Lantrade (managing director), Alfonso Sousa (director), and Carlos Pulido (associate).
The new appointments will support the growth plans of the private debt team and its internationalisation.
Alberto Pierotti joins to develop the private debt business in Italy. His most recent experience includes stints at Seaport Global and Avenue Capital. Jean-Philippe Lantrade joins from Be-Spoke Capital, a Madrid-based direct lending platform where he helped originate and fund more than 50 family-owned middle-market companies across
IK Partners portfolios company Blanchon Group has acquired Rigo Verffabriek and Rigo Verfcentrum (RIGO), a Dutch family-owned business specialising in the design and manufacturing of finishing products for wood and paints for heritage buildings, dedicated to professional customers.
This acquisition is part of the Blanchon Group’s strategy to accelerate its international growth and become a European leader in protection, maintenance, renovation and decoration of indoor and outdoor wood surfaces and vinyl flooring.
RIGO’s previous owners and top management will remain fully involved in the company and takes over the overall responsibility for the Benelux region, and have invested into the
17Capital has held the final close of its inaugural 17Capital Credit Fund, which raised $2.9 billion, hitting its hard cap and exceeding its initial $1.65 billion target.
It is the largest debut private credit fund raised globally since 2009 and is one of the largest debut funds ever raised .
17Capital’s credit fund provides NAV loans to high-performing private equity managers in Europe and North America, which are mostly used by managers to grow their portfolios but also to generate interim liquidity for their investors. It is a natural extension of 17Capital’s well established preferred equity offering that 17Capital pioneered
Tristone Healthcare, a buy and build social care investment group, has acquired Beyond Limits (Plymouth) Ltd.
The acquisition of the Plymouth-headquartered provider – which operates across Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Dumfries and Galloway – follows the addition of Seaside Care Homes to its portfolio of businesses in February. At the end of 2021, the investor announced it has the backing of £20 million of funding from Duke Royalty, which has supported this latest transaction.
Beyond Limits was founded in 2011 and specialises in supporting people with learning disabilities, mental health issues and other needs. Employing 131 staff and
Panthera Biosciences (Panthera) has secured £10 million of investment from BGF and Gresham House Ventures, the latter investing on behalf of the Baronsmead VCTs.
This investment will allow Panthera to further grow its network of dedicated clinical trial sites across the UK and Western Europe. Since launching in late 2019, with an initial investment from Gresham House Ventures and Catapult in 2020, Panthera has grown to become a major player in the UK with nine sites and a rapidly growing order book.
This investment round will be used to fund further expansion in the UK and Western Europe,
Tangany, a BaFin-regulated white-label platform for custody of crypto assets, has raised €7m in a seed round led by Nauta Capital.
Existing investor HTGF and new investor C3 VC Fund also participated in the round.
Tangany’s WaaS (Wallet as a Service) provides highly secure storage for digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, security tokens and NFTs. The company’s proprietary solution supports both hot and cold wallets to provide clients the easiest way to adopt blockchain.
Bowmark Capital has acquired a majority shareholding in WSD, a provider of document and workflow automation software solutions to the global structured products industry.
WSD’s document, workflow, connectivity and data solutions enable straight-through processing and deliver improved efficiency, accuracy and insight for its capital markets clients.
As part of the transaction, Peter Little will join WSD’s board as non-executive chairman, bringing extensive experience of growing financial services software companies.
Vaayu, a climate tech start-up that helps retailers reduce their carbon footprint in real-time, has closed an $11.5 million seed funding round led by Atomico.
CapitalT also made a follow on investment as part of then round, while Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s firm Seven Seven Six, along with a select group of angel investors including Cristina Stenbeck, Chairperson of the Zalando Supervisory Board and non-Executive Director of Spotify and Bryant Chou, co-founder and CTO of Webflow, also participated.
As part of this round of investment, Atomico Partner Terese Hougaard will join Vaayu’s board, making it 75% female.
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After a successful first round of funding, multi-family investment office Arete is leading a £1 million round in digital scale-up platform, Vivify.
Founded in 2020 by the current management team of Russell Teale and Alaine Swis, who have since been joined by finance director, Carl Cox and chairman Richard Millman, North West based Vivify works with schools across the country to hire out their facilities outside of school hours to enable them to generate much needed revenue that can be invested back into their facilities, teachers, and pupil experience.
Arete first met the business before it launched its booking platform
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, has appointed Jason Breen as a partner in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice in Los Angeles.
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