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Elbow Beach Capital, the decarbonisation, sustainability and social impact investor today announces its first investment, backing wastewater treatment and bioenergy company, WASE with an initial GBP400,000 investment, to be followed by a further GBP300,000, following closure of the oversubscribed Seedrs campaign.
Receiving further support from the Science Angel Syndicate, and the European Union’s Climate-KIC’s investment support programme Found by Us, Funded by You, WASE has raised over GBP1 million.
Funds raised this round will go towards installing a commercial industriWASE Biocentre system at Hepworth Brewery, progressing WASE’s sales pipeline, increasing R&D spend and supporting key hires across the commercial,
Crestbridge, a global provider of independent, end-to-end professional administration solutions to corporates, asset managers, institutional investors, and family offices, has appointed Barry Hindmarch as Director and Head of Real Estate – UK.
Based in London, Hindmarch will be responsible for leading Crestbridge’s UK Real Estate business and for the management and evolution of its services, building on its reputation as a leading service provider for real estate asset managers.
With over 25 years’ experience across UK and international real estate, Barry specialises in real estate finance and also has significant expertise in fund management and outsourcing having managed teams in
Investment firm, Certares Management, dedicated to the travel, tourism and hospitality industries, is looking to raise between USD5 billion and USD6 billion for a new PE fund, Certares Holdings II LP, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The New York-based firm may hold a first for close the fund as early as next month at USD1 to USD2 billion and is currently in talks with institutional investors.
Fresh capital commitments across hedge funds, private equity and real estate of USD4.4 billion have been approved by The State of Wisconsin Investment Board in Madison, manager of state retirement assets and other portfolios, according to a report by AlternativesWatch.
MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a New York-based alternative asset manager specialising in alternative credit investments and middle-market private equity, has made senior-level promotions in its credit business, including Robert (Tripp) Sullivan to the firm’s Investment Committee, Michael Levitin to Portfolio Manager, and Carol Chung, Adam Goldberg and Opal Leung to Principal.
Sullivan joined MidOcean in 2016 and was appointed to the firm’s Investment Committee in 2022.
Levitin joined MidOcean in 2015 and was promoted to Portfolio Manager in 2021, where he joins existing portfolio manager Ryan Dean in providing portfolio management responsibilities to the MidOcean Absolute Return fund and certain customized
MixMode, a provider of self-learning solutions to detect cyberattacks in real time, has raised USD45 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG, a growth equity firm that partners with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth.
Existing investor Entrada Ventures also participated in the round.
MixMode delivers a self-learning platform that helps enterprises and agencies detect and protect their networks against the most advanced cyberattacks.
Bower, an app that directly rewards users with money or coupons when they recycle everyday waste items, has raised EUR4.1 million (USD4.7 million) in a Late Seed round.
The round was led by blq Invest, a new investor in the company, together with existing investors, Almi Invest GreenTech, Verdane Foundation, Orkla Ventures and other major investors participating.
Bower has raised EUR5 million (USD5.7 million) in investment to-date.
Blue Horizon, a pure play impact investor in the future of food, has invested in Syocin Biotech, a synthetic biology startup focusing on improving food availability and protecting crop production in balance with Nature.
Blue Horizon today announced a Seed portfolio investment in Syocin, a cutting-edge biotechnology company developing high-precision, non-toxic, fully bio-degradable protein-based solutions to protect food crops from bacterial diseases. Blue Horizon co-invested in Syocin with the LATAM biotech fund GRIDX and the European GISEV Family Office, anticipating Syocin’s Seed round that will be opened in the coming months.
Syocin is developing a proprietary Synthetic Biology Platform capable
Fair Harbor, a sustainable lifestyle brand, has secured an investment from Broad Sky Partners, a private equity firm that partners with leading middle market business services and consumer companies.
Terms of the transaction, which marks Fair Harbor’s first institutional capital, have not been disclosed.
Fair Harbor plans to use the investment from Broad Sky Partners to fuel its expansion into new product lines, retail channels and sustainability initiatives.
AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a US-based private equity firm specialising in aerospace, defence & government services, space, power and utility services, and specialty industrial markets, has rebranded its fire and life safety services platform to Altus Fire and Life Safety (Altus).
Concurrently, Altus announced that John K Adams has joined the Company as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
Previously known as Cross-Fire & Security Co, Altus is a full-service life safety company specialising in the design, engineering, installation, maintenance, monitoring and servicing of state-of-the-art fire and life safety services and systems.
Adams, a senior executive with deep experience driving
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