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Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with over USD51 billion of assets under management, has appointed Joost Mioch as regional head of Benelux, operating out of the firm’s Munich office.
Mioch joins from BlackRock and brings with him considerable private markets expertise.
The new appointment reflects Adams Street’s commitment to serve the demands of a greater share of capital within the region, where it has been active for over two decades. Benelux has witnessed considerable growth in deal volume over the past decade. It has also seen pension funds taking an increasingly sophisticated approach to private market
Palatine’s Impact Fund has acquired a significant minority shareholding in newly created environmental services group, Cura Terrae.
Headquartered in Sheffield, Cura Terrae, the Latin form of ‘take care of the earth’, is a purpose-driven business led by experienced entrepreneur Professor Pete Skipworth.
Cura Terrae comprises three market-leading businesses, Environmental Monitoring Solutions (EMS), Ecus and Envirocare, and will look for further suitable complementary acquisitions to add to the Group as part of a strategic growth plan.
Ecus provides holistic environmental consultancy services to support the development of UK infrastructure and services include air quality, arboriculture, carbon services, ecology, environmental
Europe’s leading online private investment platform, Buildiro.com, has launched a crowdfunding investment round on Seedrs.
The private equity fundraising market in 2022 will be the most congested yet – with 15 funds returning to raise more than USD15 billion each. Where does that leave everyone else?
CoinRoutes, an algorithmic trading platform for digital assets, has completed a USD16 million Series B funding round, led by Ayon Capital.
The CIO for Ayon Capital, Rahul Pagidipati, Co-CEO of Zebpay and Board Member for Brave Browser, will join the CoinRoutes Board.
The funding round includes investments from Susquehanna International, Cboe Global Markets, Celsius, CMT Digital, Genesis Global Trading, Galaxy Digital, Arca, Mirana Ventures (venture partner of Bybit and BitDAO), GSR Markets, AscendEX, and others.
CoinRoutes began operations in 2017 and has been providing the institutional community with pure-play crypto SaaS trading technology for over five years. Delivering the tools
Anaplan, the provider of a cloud-native platform for orchestrating business performance, is to be acquired by Thoma Bravo, a software investment firm, for USD66.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD10.7 billion.
Bionic, an application security posture management platform, has closed a USD65 million Series B funding round led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners.
Existing investors, Cyberstarts, and Battery Ventures also participated in the round.
Bionic will use this new funding to expand investment in R&D and scale its rapidly growing sales and customer success teams.
Since launching from stealth in December 2020, Bionic has experienced significant growth and helped dozens of customers such as GSK, Armis, Chipotle, Freddie Mac, and Inspire Brands significantly accelerate their digital transformation projects and de-risk their application security posture.
Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), a listed global infrastructure fund, is to invest EUR43 million (GBP36 million at current exchange rates) in a European transport and logistics company through Pomodoro Holdings Limited (Pomodoro), a company controlled by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management (Apollo).
Apollo is a leading global alternative investment firm with a successful track record in the transport and logistics sector.
This is PINT’s first investment since it launched on the London Stock Exchange following a successful and substantially over-subscribed GBP400 million initial public equity offering in November 2021.
The investee company is a specialist market leader
NIO Capital, a Chinese investment firm focused on decarbonisation and digitalisation, has held the successful final closing of NIO Capital’s flagship fund, Eve ONE Fund II at approximately USD400 million.
The fund was oversubscribed and quickly surpassed its original target fund size and hard cap. Notably, this Fund has nearly doubled the capital commitments of its predecessor fund, NIO Capital Eve ONE Fund LP, which held its final closing in 2019. With its comprehensive platform of strategies, NIO Capital supports emerging founders and innovative technologies across the company life cycle.
Despite various fundraising limitations and challenges arising from the Covid-19
Mutumutu International, an online life & income protection insurance startup, is aiming to raise EUR5.5 million in Series A funding.
The funding is to be used mainly for Mutumutu’s expansion across Europe.
Mutumutu aims to maintain a high level of customer engagement using a smart application with weekly sports challenges and regular cashback rewards for sports activities. This proposition leads to an excellent customer rating and a high Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 75.
In the past two has years Mutumutu successfully raised EUR3.7 million from French bancassurance giant Societe Generale Assurances. Mutumutu entered the French market in November 2021
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