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The ongoing global geopolitical issues and volatile market conditions continue to pose downside risk to the deal activity (mergers & acquisitions [M&A], private equity, and venture financing deals) for the second consecutive month across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
Elbow Beach Capital, an impact investment company, has launched a venture vehicle with an initial GBP20 million of committed capital, focused on decarbonisation, sustainable energy, and social impact opportunities.
Elbow Beach Capital invests in early-stage businesses whose technologies have the potential to solve the planet’s biggest challenges, while simultaneously achieving significant commercial growth. The fund targets long-term value creation, while working with founders and entrepreneurs to accelerate the development and implementation of positive impact technologies.
Elbow Beach Capital will invest across a range of opportunities including: innovative and disruptive technologies which decarbonise supply-chains and create profitable circular economies; sustainable
Plans to exclude performance fees from workplace pension caps and recently launched changes to pension investment rules would generate a GBP5.26 billion annual boost to UK science and technology investment by 2030, according to the latest Market Spotlight report on the UK’s science and technology sector by Bruntwood SciTech.
In addition, some 8,900 science and tech jobs would be created by 2025, and 20,500 by 2030 with an annual boost to the UK economy of GBP1.44 billion.
The report also reveals that he North of England and Midlands would reap the biggest growth benefits relative to the size of their
Asana Partners has held the final close of Asana Partners Fund III, with aggregate equity commitments of USD1.5 billion.
A diverse group of institutional investors from North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific made commitments to the Fund, Asana Partners’ fifth and the third in its flagship series of value-add funds focused on acquiring and repositioning mixed-use assets in high-quality urban and near-urban neighboorhoods in the United States.
Archeon, a specialist in CPR artificial intelligence, has completed a EUR5.5 million Series A financing round, led by three investment funds, Karot Capital, Majycc eSanté Invest and Daphni.
The road was also supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF – European Social Fund for Franche-Comté and Massif du Jura), and by Bpifrance.
The funding will speed up Archeon’s access to new markets including North America and allow it to expand its range of medical ventilation devices to new pre-hospital and hospital uses. In addition to the EOlife unit, the PulmonAIR device currently developed is destined to be the first
Capital market analyst and intelligence company PitchBook has named Alumni Ventures as the third most active venture capital firm globally.
The new rankings place Alumni Ventures behind only Gaingels and Tiger Global Management, testifying to the sizeable portfolio of over 900 companies that the firm has invested in since its founding in 2014. It also reflects the company’s rapid pace in 2021, with AV participating in 351 deals, and the firm’s portfolio companies raising over USD25 billion in total over the course of the year.
Unlike conventional VC firms which raise their funding from institutions, Alumni Ventures focuses on democratising
Alpha Blue Ocean’s (ABO) Global Tech Opportunities investment fund has entered into an additional financing agreement of CAD 65m with Halo Collective Inc (“Halo”) in the form of convertible debentures.
Cornerstone OnDemand, a leader in adaptive cloud-based HR software solutions and a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital, is to acquire EdCast, a learning experience platform (LXP) software provider.
Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in Q2 2022, have not been disclosed.
This acquisition is the first planned transaction by Cornerstone since joining the Clearlake portfolio in late 2021. Clearlake and Cornerstone plan to continue accelerating the company’s value through inorganic and organic growth, transformation and market consolidation.
Personal care brand Plum is looking to raise USD25 million in a Series C funding round with several private equity funds and growth stage investors said to be interest in backing the business, according to a report by VC Circle.
A91 Partners is one of the funds said to be in an “advanced stage of discussion” with Plum, which is operated by Pureplay Skin Sciences (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Previous funding rounds have been supported by the Unilever Ventures – the VC arm of the consumer good giant – and mid-market PE firm Faering Capital.
The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, announced it has created a forum of alternative investment industry organisations committed to addressing diversity in the alternatives industry.
The forum is chaired by the SBAI and its members include 100 Women in Finance, The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), The Asset Owner Charter UK, CFA Institute, The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA), The Diversity Project, The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA), Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), Investor Leadership Network (ILN), and The Value Reporting Foundation (VRF).
Diversity is a widely
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