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The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has promoted Jason Fulton to Partner at the Riverside Capital Appreciation Fund (RCAF).
Fulton, who has worked for Riverside in the US and Australia, was previously a Principal at RCAF.
Fulton has been an integral part of the leadership team on the firm’s recent investments in: Abracon, Clinical Education Alliance, HMI Glass, iCEV and Red Nucleus. Since joining Riverside in September 2011, Fulton has been involved in or led eight portfolio company investments, five exits and 27 add-on investments.
Launched in 1988, the Riverside
Menlo Ventures has appointed Kandace Elam as Director of GTM Talent with a focus on cultivating relationships with top sales and marketing executives across the firm’s focus areas – SaaS, infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
Elam comes to Menlo with deep experience in go-to-market recruitment and has already placed top executives at several of the firm’s most prominent portfolio companies, including Poshmark (NASDAQ: POSH) and Benchling.
Prior to Menlo, she spent the past decade as an executive recruiter at Daversa Partners, building management teams for venture-backed startups, growth equity deals, and public companies. Most recently, she was Head of Talent Network for
The first HEC Paris – Dowjones MidMarket Buyout Performance Ranking, which has just been released, is a follow–up study to the already established, and informative HEC – DowJones Large Buyout Private Equity Performance Ranking which lists the world’s large Top Private Equity (PE) firms in terms of aggregate performance.
With the new ranking, HEC Paris Professor Oliver Gottschalg, the study’s main author, wanted to address the lack of attention given to companies and investors targeting MidMarket firms which, according to the US Department of Commerce, are businesses with pre-tax earnings between USD5 million and USD250 million. The ranking lists Private Equity
Decentriq, a Swiss enterprise SaaS platform providing the most secure and compliant data clean rooms, has closed a USD15 million Series A funding round led by Eclipse Ventures.
Existing investors Atlantic Labs, btov Partners, and Paladin Capital Group also participated in the round.
Decentriq will use the investment to further accelerate the development and commercialisation of its data clean rooms based on AI, state-of-the-art encryption and privacy-enhancing technologies (PET).
The funding will also be used to expand the types of analytical tools available on the platform, such as Python, R and machine learning, as well as PET features like synthetic
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate and investment funds practice in Jersey have acted for Falko Regional Aircraft Opportunities Fund LP and Falko Regional Aircraft Opportunities Fund II LP (the Jersey Funds) in relation to a proposed sale by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) of Fortress’ equity interests in those funds to Chorus Aviation Inc (Chorus).
The sale, which is valued at approximately USD855 million (including debt and cash assumed), includes Falko’s asset management platform and equity interests in 126 owned and managed regional aircraft.
The combined company will have a total of 353 owned, operated, and managed regional
Earth Venture Capital (EVC) a global venture capital investor investor focused on digital solutions to tackle climate change has successfully closed its first fund.
The fund is building a pipeline of early-stage startups which align with its investment strategy, on a global scale. The average ticket size ranges between USD500,000 and USD3 million.
With a team of experienced investors and tech entrepreneurs, EVC hunts for startups working on applicable technologies to provide scalable solutions to solve climate challenges, including abandoning fossil fuels, switching to renewable energy, and planting more trees.
In addition, with the goal of accelerating innovation within the
Innova Capital, a private equity firm focused on Central Europe, has entered into a binding agreement with Recticel to sell is 100 per cent stake in Trimo for an enterprise value of EUR164 million.
Cubico Sustainable Investments (Cubico), one of the world’s largest privately-owned renewable energy companies, has appointed David Swindin as its new CEO.
Swindin replaces Steve Riley who will be retiring after leading the company for five years; building its technical, construction and operational capabilities to the highest standards and growing the geographic and technology footprint to 12 countries and four different technologies.
David Swindin had previously been Cubico’s regional Head of EMEA since it was formed in 2015 and has played a key role in driving the company’s growth over the last seven years.
First Sentier Investors Group (FSI), a global investment manager, has rebranded its direct infrastructure investment team as Igneo Infrastructure Partners.
The establishment of Igneo Infrastructure Partners is part of FSI’s long-term growth strategy to build a global business consisting of in-house investment teams and independently-branded investment teams, offering a range of investment expertise across differentiated asset classes.
One of the largest direct infrastructure investors in the world, the newly branded team has made 60 infrastructure acquisitions since 1994. The 65-strong team currently manages a portfolio of 24 high-quality, mature, mid-market core infrastructure companies in the UK, Europe, North America, Australia
Saphyre, Inc, a FinTech company that leverages patented AI technology to structure all pre-trade data while eliminating post-trade inefficiencies, has completed a USD18.7 million Series A round led by HCAP Partners.
JP Morgan and BNP Paribas also participated in the round.
Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Saphyre’s AI-powered platform enables direct collaboration between multiple financial parties related to the same client. The platform digitises all pre-trade data and documents, eliminating redundant manual processes and allowing for secure, expedited access to data throughout the trade lifecycle.
The Series A funding will be used to accelerate Saphyre’s
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