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Climate X, a London-based climate risk analytics provider, has raised GBP4.1 million in seed funding.
CommerzVentures and A/O PropTech led the round – joined by Voyagers Climate Tech Fund, Blue Impact Ventures, Deloitte LLP and angel investors including David Rowan (founding Editor-in-Chief at WIRED), Kat Borlongan (former Director at La French Tech) and Renaud Visage (co-founder and former CTO at Eventbrite).
European lingerie brand Hunkemöller is to be acquired by Parcom, a Dutch investment company, and Opportunity Partners, the investment company of Dutch entrepreneur Robert van der Wallen.
Global investment firm Carlyle, an existing shareholder, will reinvest for a minority stake.
The new investors have an established track record in developing retail and e-commerce consumer goods brands and are ideally suited to support Hunkemöller’s strategic ambitions.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Future Planet Capital, an international venture capital and impact investor, has closed a new EUR20 million Blue Ocean mandate aimed at tackling key issues affecting the world’s oceans.
The mandate, which Barclays Private Bank helped implement, will be partnered with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and the Monaco Government in the context of the Monaco Blue Initiative (MBI) and in the framework of the Monaco Ocean Week, at the end of March.
Managed by Future Planet Capital’s experienced investment team, including Ed Phillips, Partner and Head of Origination, and Lyle Pentith, Portfolio Manager, the Blue Ocean mandate will
VG, one of Jersey’s largest independent providers of trust, corporate and fund administration solutions, has strengthened its corporate team with the appointments of Gabriela Jakubczyk, Matthew Hibbs and Zach O’Shea.
The new hires build on a host of other appointments so far this year as VG continues to develop its corporate and capital markets offering.
Jakubczyk joins VG as Associate Director in the corporate team where she will work alongside Steve Langan, Director of Corporate and Capital Markets, to build and develop the team and VG’s offering. She joins from Aztec Group, a fund and corporate services provider to the
Global mid-market M&A activity has continued robustly in the first quarter of 2022, says audit, tax and consulting network RSM, as it announces it worked on 614 completed deals in Europe last year.
New research commissioned by Parkwalk, a UK growth EIS fund manager, has found that the total volume of equity investment secured by spinouts between 2012 and 2021 is GBP10.9 billion, a record amount.
The total number of equity deals secured by spinouts between 2012 and 2021 now stands at 3,207 and the number of first-time equity deals secured by spinouts in 2021 is 102. The number of international investors who participated in equity deals in 2021 has also increased to 40 per cent, whilst the number of exits via IPO or acquisition undertaken by spinouts between 2012 and 2021, stands
Apex Group Ltd has been appointed to provide fund services for by OurCrowd, a global venture capital investment platform.
Formed in 2013, OurCrowd is Israel’s most active venture capital firm, having deployed over USD1.8 billion in committed capital to date.
OurCrowd, has recently launched its global venture capital fund, OurCrowd 50 (OC50), a highly diversified investment vehicle giving investors exposure to global venture backed assets across a mix of sectors, geographies and from early stage through to later stage companies.
OurCrowd has appointed Apex to provide Fund Administration, Transfer Agency and Custody Services to OC50. These services, underpinned
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced it has appointed Jesse Cole as global head of its Private Markets segment.
In this role, Cole will be responsible for defining and executing State Street’s global strategy for Private Markets and will work closely with his peers in global sales and the product organisation to manage and grow private markets business across all client segments.
Cole is based out of Chicago, IL and will report to Paul Fleming, global head of State Street’s Global Alternatives Segment.
Wilshire Advisors has been selected by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System as a consultant for the pension schemes’ private debt asset class, according to a report by Chief Investment Officer.
The decision was made at CalPERS board meeting last week.
Private debt was added as a new strategic asset class to CalPERS investment strategy last November, with a 5 per cent asset allocation to private credit.
Skyports, an electric air taxi infrastructure and drone services provider, has raised USD23 million in the first close of its Series B funding round.
The capital, from a combination of new and existing investors, will enable Skyports to consolidate its position as a global leader in the advanced air mobility infrastructure and drone operations markets.
All existing institutional shareholders participated in the round including Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures, Groupe ADP, Solar Ventus, Irelandia and Levitate Capital with a number materially increasing their stake. These investors were joined by Japanese conglomerate Kanematsu Corporation, global industrial property group Goodman Group, Italian airport
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