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Perwyn has appointed Gurinder Sunner as a Partner. Sunner joins the firm from BGF, where he has worked since 2011, and led the investment team in the Midlands and Milton Keynes and was also a member of BGF’s Investment Committee.
Sunner led over 20 transactions at BGF, with notable investments and exits including Chase Distillery, ReBound Returns, GCI, Victoria, and CHS Healthcare.
Prior to his career at BGF, SUnner worked at BDO, where his responsibilities included distressed transactions during the 2008 recession, alongside other corporate finance work. Key deals included acting on the buyside for LDC’s acquisition of the Emergency
Weavr, a London-headquartered technology provider that enables businesses with Plug-and-Play financial solutions, has closed a USD40 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global.
The company is disrupting the current banking-as-a-service (BaaS) model – which can serve only a limited audience because of its heavy costs, compliance and technical burdens as well as long implementation times – by making embedded financial services available to any business with a digital presence. The financing will support Weavr’s international expansion plans, beginning with an official US market launch.
Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) has become a signatory to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
IK Partners (IK) is to invest in Sofia Développement Group (Sofia) via the IK Small Cap III Fund, joining existing shareholders Extens, Capital Croissance and Bpifrance to finance the acceleration of organic growth and acquisitions to come.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Sofia is a leading e-health player in France and was created in 2019 following the merger of two software publishers, IDEA (Topaze and Télévitale) and SNAL (Albus).
IK’s investment will help accelerate Sofia’s growth and support its strategy to expand the offering beyond web and mobile tele-transmission towards a fully integrated digital practice
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has realised its investment in GP Service (GPS), an authorised provider of online services for general medical consultations and prescriptions, through a sale to LSE listed Kanabo Group (Kanabo) which generated a 1.95x return on cost for VCT shareholders.
GPS offers a secure end-to-end system that allows patients to consult with qualified doctors via online assessment questionnaires and through secure video chat.
The Maven VCTs originally invested GBP2.5 million in GPS in 2016 and supported the company’s growth through two further funding rounds.
The acquisition by Kanabo will support the continued growth of GPS’ digital and
Financial Crime Intelligence startup Schwarzthal Tech has raised GBP150,000 in a pre-seed funding round from UK seed stage investor SFC Capital.
Schwarzthal Tech uses AI to fight financial crime by gathering publicly available information and building an individual’s network to support investigations into potential criminals. Schwarzthal Tech will use the funds to further develop the platform, build a marketing team as well as filing for an intellectual property patent on their unique “Know your Network” methodology.
Principal Real Estate, the real estate investment team for Principal Global Investors, has completed the first close of its closed-end fund dedicated to acquiring data centre assets in Europe.
The initial capital raise for the Principal European Data Centre Fund (the Fund) beat its target, reaching EUR155 million. Subscriptions were received from seven investors, including asset managers, pension funds, and insurance companies located in France, Germany, Spain, and Malaysia. The amount is one-third of the total equity hard cap of EUR450 million set by Principal for the Fund.
The Fund will focus on manage-to-core data centre assets. At least 60
Funnel Leasing, a renter-centric leasing platform, has completed a USD36.5 million Series B funding round led by proptech VC investor RET Ventures.
Camden Property Trust and Morgan Properties, two of the country’s largest owners of multifamily properties, as well as Wilshire Lane Capital, Trinity Ventures and Camber Creek, also participated in the round. Additional strategic investment was provided by RET Ventures Limited Partners MAA, Essex and Cortland.
The financing will expand Funnel’s reach in the enterprise and mid-markets of leading property owners and management companies who recognise the value of centralised leasing and renter-centric models for success.
Pioneer Point Partners (Pioneer), a specialist sustainable infrastructure investment firm, has reached a Final Close of EUR575 million on its maiden institutional fund, Pioneer Infrastructure Partners SCSp.
The Final Close exceeded the EUR500 million target that Pioneer initially set.
The Fund generated significant interest, with commitments from 15 highly reputable and long-established European and North American institutional investors, including pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, financial institutions and family offices.
The Fund is targeting a 15 per cent-plus IRR over a ten-year term, including an annual cash yield of 4-6 per cent, through a diversified portfolio of eight to 10 investments.
Fiera Real Estate UK (FRE UK) has held the final close of Fiera Real Estate Opportunity Fund V (FREOF V) at GBP180 million.
FREOF V is the fifth and largest Fund in the Firm’s value add series which has raised over GBP780 million to date.
The firm launched FREOF V in November 2019 to take advantage of the unprecedented transitional buying opportunities created by Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. The fund is targeted to deliver a 15 per cent total net IRR to investors with little to no leverage.
The GBP180 million came from both UK and overseas investors, which,
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