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Liquid Stock, a partner for private company shareholders seeking liquidity, has expanded its team with the hiring of Annie Woodworth, Vice President of Legal, and Khatija Teekay, Investment Associate.
Woodworth joins Liquid Stock from 500 Startups, a global venture capital firm where she served as Counsel and was primarily focused on deal execution.
Teekay joins Liquid Stock from Deloitte, where she specialised in large-scale lending technology transformations as part of the firm’s Digital Banking practice.
Alpha Real Capital (Alpha), a specialist manager of secure income real assets, has joined the UN Global Compact, a programme whereby companies like Alpha can align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the area of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 12,000 companies and 3,500 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and 69 Local Networks.
Alpha supports the Ten
Abris Capital Partners, a Central European private equity investor, is to acquire Dentstore, a distributor of dental consumables and equipment in Central Europe.
The acquisition is Abris’ third in the sector, following its investments in Dentotal in November 2019 and Dentatechnica in November 2021.
The agreement is conditional upon securing clearance from the relevant antitrust authorities.
Following the acquisition, Dentstore co-owners Bogdan Tufeanu and Adrian Fortescu will continue to run the business.
Allianz Global Investors has created a dedicated Private Markets Impact unit within its Sustainable investment platform, which will be led by Matt Christensen, Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at AllianzGI.
The Private Markets Impact unit combines existing equity and debt investing expertise with a newly created impact measurement and management capability. Christensen will oversee the team of 12, completing AllianzGI’s Sustainability platform which was created in 2021 to push the boundaries of sustainability for clients.
Martin Ewald, Lead Portfolio Manager, leads the Private Equity Impact Investing team, which seeks to invest in real assets and private companies which
Astia, a twenty year old organisation dedicated to levelling the investment playing field through intentional investment in women-led companies, has released the findings from a three-year pilot, which was launched when Astia first uncovered a racial bias within its investment decision-making process.
Astia Edge, Our Failure to Invest in Black Founders and What We Have Done About It, highlights that investment, advocacy and access are critical to levelling the playing field for Black female founders, and the pilot demonstrated a 22-times leverage on invested capital, along with portfolio companies raising >USD5 million in outside investment.
Three years on since
KKR is to invest USD45 million to lead a Series C funding round in GrowSari, a B2B e-commerce platform serving micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the Philippines.
KKR’s investment in GrowSari will support the Company’s expansion into more regions across the Philippines and strengthen its financial services capabilities.
Prior to KKR’s investment, which is being made from its Asia next generation technology strategy, GrowSari had raised funding from global financial and strategic investors, including Temasek-affiliated Pavilion Capital, Tencent, the International Finance Corporation, the Gongkowei family-controlled JG Summit, Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc, Wavemaker Partners, Saison Capital, and the Investment
Hunters has secured USD68 million in a Series C round led by growth equity firm Stripes, with participation from new investors DTCP, Cisco Investments and Databricks, and existing investors YL Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Microsoft’s venture fund M12, US Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital and Snowflake Ventures.
The new funding brings the total investment in Hunters to USD118 million.
Hunters’ SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter across the entire attack surface. Global enterprises, including leading Fortune 500 companies in financial services, media, retail and manufacturing choose Hunters as their main SOC platform, replacing
Onramper – a fiat-to-crypto gateway aggregator – has raised USD6 million in a seed funding round, led by EQT Ventures, with participation from Backed VC and TRGC.
Vending Machines International (VMI), has secured a SGD135 Million capital commitment from GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (GGY), a Luxembourg-based private alternative investment vehicle.
Under the agreement, GGY will provide VMI with a Share Subscription Facility of up to SGD135 million for a 36-month period following a public listing of VMI’s common stock. VMI will control the timing and maximum amount of drawdowns under this facility and has no minimum drawdown obligation.
Dawn Capital (Dawn), a European specialist B2B software investor, has made a number of internal promotions as well as five new appointments to its team. Most notably Henry Mason has been promoted to Partner, making him the fourth partner promoted internally at Dawn.
Half of Dawn’s General Partners are internally promoted.
Dawn is immensely proud of the talent in its team which enables it to draw on rich and diverse perspectives. The team comes from a broad range of countries and backgrounds, with over 20 languages spoken and an age range spanning four decades. It also maintains a 50/50
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