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Tikehau Capital has reaped the benefits of its differentiating business model and delivered strong financial results in 2021 across its businesses with net profit totalling EUR319 million.
The Group’s asset management business delivered robust growth on all fronts from AuM to revenue while further improving its profitability.
Tikehau Capital’s balance sheet portfolio returns increased sharply during the year thanks to an active and relevant portfolio rotation as well as the strong ramp-up from the investments made by the Group in its own funds.
As a result of these strong performances, Tikehau Capital will propose the payment of a dividend
Tevent, a technology platform for virtual events, has raised USD2 million (GBP1.5 million) throughout its series of seed funding rounds to support product development.
The company secured significant financial backing from leading Silicon Valley investors, including Leslie Stretch CEO at Medallia, Co-Founder of MeshDynamics.io; Rory Cameron EVP at Medallia; Jimmy Duan CCO at Medallia; Shreesha Ramdas, Co-Founder of Strikedeck; and Nathalie Scardino SVP at Salesforce.
The company will use the investment to scale its platform to meet soaring demand and to double down on product development speed by focusing on serving particular use cases and more niche segments and developing
Society Brands, an Amazon aggregator built for and by founders, has raised USD240 million in its first institutional capital funding round which was led by by i80 Group, a provider of capital to breakthrough technology companies.
A combination of debt and equity, Society Brands will use the newly raised capital to continue acquiring Amazon FBA businesses at a rapid pace. The capital raise positions Society Brands as one of the best-funded Amazon aggregators in the world, and in a prime position to grow its portfolio to over USD1 billion in revenue in the next few years.
Society Brands, launched in
US law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP has added Business Law partner Martin Zivitz to its Indianapolis office.
Before joining Quarles & Brady, Zivitz was a partner at a national law firm and a vice president and general counsel for a medical management company.
Zivitz counsels publicly and privately held business clients on corporate matters such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, commercial transactions, private equity investments and other complex transactions. He represents businesses of all sizes and from multiple industries including healthcare, skilled nursing, education, technology, energy, manufacturing and distribution, and financial services. He holds a Juris
Olsam Group (Olsam), an ecommerce platform that acquires and scales e-commerce businesses, has hired Steven Wait as Director of eCommerce.
This new appointment comes following Olsam’s recent USD165 million fundraise and the acquisition of US based aggregator FlyWheel Commerce, as the business looks to continue to scale theitsir portfolio of brands.
Wait joins Olsam after almost five years at Mountain Warehouse where he was their Head of UK eCommerce, leading all commercial and operational activities on 16 eCommerce marketplaces across three continents as well as the company’s UK D2C channel.
Global alternative investment manager Oaktree is to acquire a majority stake in 17Capital, a provider of strategic finance for investors in private equity.
17Capital specialises in providing non-dilutive capital to high-quality private equity management companies, funds and institutional investors that are seeking to finance value creation and portfolio management initiatives. Oaktree specialises in alternative investments, including credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities.
The partnership will give 17Capital access to Oaktree’s deep global network and add to Oaktree’s extensive suite of private capital solutions. Following the closing of the transaction, 17Capital, which is headquartered in London, will continue
Golding Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading alternative investments managers, increased its institutional assets under management to a record EUR12 billion in 2021.
Golding received capital commitments of some EUR2 billion over the course of the year, at the same time as making investments of EUR1.5 billion – both figures being also new records in its more than 20-year company history.
In 2022 Golding is planning to increase its assets under management by at least a similar volume, despite the challenging market environment and higher geopolitical risks. Growth is being driven by further internationalisation and a broad range of alternative
Mission Hill Hospitality, a KSL Capital Partners portfolio company focused on transforming select service and extended stay hotel investing, has acquired the Killington Mountain Lodge, Tapestry Collection by Hilton,l ocated in central Vermont’s Green Mountains.
Terms of the deal are undisclosed.
This is the 15th property added to the Mission Hill Hospitality portfolio since the company was launched in March 2021.
GAM Investments has launched a low carbon infrastructure strategy in Australasia.
The investment strategy, managed by GAM’s Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) team, seeks to achieve medium to long-term capital appreciation predominantly through investing in private funds providing access to low carbon, energy transition infrastructure projects.
The infrastructure investment private funds market has over USD800 billion in assets under management globally, and this is projecting to grow to USD 1.9 trillion by 2026.
FOV Ventures, a new specialist VC firm to invest in early-stage founders at the forefront of the Metaverse, has he’d the first close of its target EUR25 million fund at EUR16.5 million.
The fund will invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across Europe, leveraging the industry expertise of its founding partners and its active ‘Edge Network’, a community of leaders in the field helping to scout new deals and support the fund’s portfolio.
The two Founding Partners of FOV Ventures – Dave Haynes and Petri Rajahalme – are industry veterans. Prior to launching FOV Ventures, the team has backed Metaverse
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