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Centauri Therapeutics Limited (Centauri), an immunotherapy company founded by Animatrix Founders LLP and focused on the treatment of infectious diseases, today announced the close of its GBP24 million Series A investment round.
Centauri secured equity funding from Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Evotec SE, and Novo Holdings REPAIR Impact Fund. Existing investors include founding investor Animatrix Founders LLP (via its company LAK Holdings LLP), as well as Kent Life Science LLP and Wren Capital.
The funds will support the continued advancement of the Company’s antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research and development, using the Alphamer® platform to identify and progress novel antibacterial candidates
Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has achieved compliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) ISAE3402, SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3 standards for the twelfth consecutive year.
In 2011, Options became one of the first cloud infrastructure providers to achieve SOC 2 Type II compliance. The firm has continued to meet the latest AICPA examinations each year since. Audit compliance attests that Options meets the latest information security, data availability, and privacy standards.
Mayer Brown has appointed investment funds lawyer Matthew Griffin as a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice in London.
Griffin advises on fund formations and fund investments across illiquid and liquid asset classes in Europe and around the world for sponsors, institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds. His practice also includes advising on co-investments, secondary transactions, carried interest arrangements and other complex fund related matters, including fund restructurings, continuation funds and liquidity events.
Griffin joins Mayer Brown from White & Case, where he was head of the London funds and investment management practice. He has also worked in
Sharegain, a capital markets infrastructure fintech, has raised USD64 million in a series B round led by WestCap.
Citi, EJF Capital LLC and Optiver PSI, also participated, along with existing investors include Maverick Ventures Israel, Blumberg Capital, SixThirty, Rhodium, and the Kessler family office.
The round is the largest series B to date in the securities lending industry. WestCap Partner Scott C Ganeles will join the Sharegain board. Ganeles presently sits on the boards of Tradeweb and NYDIG, and is the former CEO of Ipreo, a global fintech company servicing global financial institutions.
Three Hills Capital Partners (THCP), an investment house providing flexible capital solutions to successful entrepreneurs and management teams in the European mid-market, has invested in Gorent, an Italian specialist in the rental of eco-sustainable vehicles for urban sanitation, via Three Hills Capital Solutions III (THCS III).
THCS III has committed cEUR50 million to support further organic growth of the business as well as the buyout of certain minority shareholders. The transaction, which is expected to complete in March 2022, represents the third investment in Italy for THCS III and the last investment out of the Fund’s portfolio of ten assets.
Reebelo, an APAC-focused marketplace for affordable, sustainable tech devices, has raised USD20 million in a Series A funding round led by Cathay Innovation and June Fund.
Other participants included FJ Labs, KREAM (an affiliate of Naver), Moore Strategic Ventures, French Partners, and Gandel Invest. Existing investors participating in the round include Antler, Maximilian Bittner (co-founder Lazada, CEO Vestiaire Collective), Michael Cassau (Founder & CEO Grover), and others.
Founded in 2019 by Philip Franta and Fabien Rastouil, Reebelo is a platform for buying pre-owned electronic devices.
The new funding round will be used to hire 50-plus team members across all existing
Northern Lights Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition corporation and SHF – dba Safe Harbor Financial – (Safe Harbor), a cannabis industry-focused financial services provider, have signed a definitive business combination agreement that will result in Northern Lights’ acquisition of Safe Harbor from a subsidiary of Partner Colorado Credit Union (PCCU), a Colorado-chartered credit union based in Arvada, Colorado.
Upon the closing of the transaction, Northern Lights and Safe Harbor will be led by Sundie Seefried, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Safe Harbor. The boards of directors and managers of Northern Lights, PCCU, and Safe Harbor have unanimously approved
GP Bullhound has acted as financial advisor to InterCloud, a leading Cloud Connectivity platform, on its EUR100 million Series D fundraising round, led by Aleph Capital.
Existing investors Ventech and Open CNP also participated along with Orange, BPI, Caphorn, Hiinov, UL Invest and Weber. This round brings InterCloud’s total financing to EUR138 million.
As a pioneer in the Software-Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI) market, InterCloud’s mission is to provide secure, fast, and reliable private network access to cloud-hosted data and applications, which is achieved through its advanced network management capabilities, robust connectivity backbone, and close partnerships with the world’s biggest
Floward has appointed its first independent board member, Nicholas Farhi, as it looks to meet international governance standards.
Floward has grown its revenue by more than 30 times since 2020, and has raised USD34.2 million to date, the latest of which was its Series B funding round of USD27.5 million – led by STV with participation from Impact46 in June 2021.
With over 20 years of experience, Farhi, who graduated from Oxford University, is currently a partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising CEOs and shareholders on strategy. He also chairs UnLtd, a charity which has backed over 10,000 startup
Australian superannuation fund Cbus is looking to boost its private equity exposure via international co-investments, according to a report by Private Equity International.
The pension fund, which manages AUD65.6 billion on behalf of Australia’s construction and building unions, currently has a private equity exposure of about 1.9 per cent. Private Equity International quotes Cbus Deputy Chief Investment Officer Brett Chatfield as saying that that allocation is set to be increased as part of a wider portfolio review which the company exacted to complete in June.
According to to Chatfield, any increase in private equity allocations will not be at the
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