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Delio has raised a further USD8.3 million to enable financial institutions of all sizes to create greater investor access to alternative assets such as private equity, private debt, and real estate.
The fintech, which digitises the private markets strategies of leading banks, wealth managers and other financial firms, received the backing from Octopus Ventures, one of Europe’s most active venture capital investors. Additional investment from early-backers Maven Capital Partners brings the total equity funding raised by Delio to USD15.5 million.
The USD8.3 million investment will further enhance Delio’s international operations and lay the foundations of its non-conflicted private markets infrastructure.
CesiumAstroa developer of advanced aerospace communication systems, has closed an oversubscribed USD60 million Series B fundraising co-led by Airbus Ventures and Forever Ventures, with strategic participation from L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX).
Xpansiv, a global marketplace for ESG commodities, is to acquire a 100 per cent ownership stake in APX, Inc, a provider of registry infrastructure for energy and environmental markets.
Upon receipt of regulatory approvals, Xpansiv will initially acquire a 20 per cent minority ownership interest in APX and is expected to acquire the remaining stake later this year.
The parties have previously partnered to launch various spot contracts for voluntary carbon and renewable energy credits, and in 2019 Xpansiv acquired EMA from APX. EMA is a multi-registry environmental portfolio management system, through which more than one billion environmental credits were
Public transport ticketing specialist Masabi has secured significant strategic growth investment from private equity firm Accel-KKR.
Existing investors Shell and Smedvig Capital also participated in the round.
The investment will fund the acceleration of product development and additional new deployments of Masabi’s Justride platform in North and South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
International law firm, RPC, has advised Danish private equity fund, Axcel on its acquisition of Carousel Logistics, a pan-European specialised provide of aftermarket and spare parts logistics.
The RPC team, led by James Mee, David Wallis and Ben Magahy, worked alongside Danish law firm Accura, who led on Axcel’s concurrent acquisition of Danx, an in-night distributor of spare parts across the Nordics and Baltics.
SKW Schwarz provided German law advice and the transaction was completed on 28 February.
Axcel has acquired both firms to create a combined in-night logistics specialist offering end-to-end supply chain solution handling of time-sensitive spare
LaSalle Investment Management (LaSalle) has selected RealBlocks to cover the firm’s USD77 billion global real estate business.
Legends of Learning, Inc, creator of the nation’s leading educational game platform for K-12 students, has raised USD5 million in a seed round led by Konvoy Ventures, a venture capital fund dedicated to the games industry.
Angel investors also participating in the round include James Park (Co-founder and CEO of Fitbit), Holly Liu (Co-founder at Kabam and former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator), Jeremy Liew (Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners), and Kun Gao (Co-founder and Founding CEO of Crunchyroll).
Legends of Learning launched in 2017 as a solution to better engage students with academically rigorous coursework. Legends of Learning offers
PA Capital has held final closes for two of its private equity funds earlier, with its ninth flagship fund, PA Small Company Private Equity Fund IX (Fund IX) closing at USD473 million, above its USD350 million target, and the PA Small Company Co-investment Fund II (Co-invest II) at its USD200 million hard cap.
Consistent with PA’s predecessor multi-manager funds, Fund IX invests with an emphasis on the lower end of the middle market, building a diversified portfolio of fund investments, co-investments, and secondary investments. Co-invest II seeks to capitalise on the firm’s co-investment deal flow generated through its deep GP
HIG Capital (HIG) has appointed Gwen Watanabe as a Managing Director in the firm’s dedicated life-science investment affiliate, HIG BioHealth Partners.
Watanabe has more than 28 years as an investor, entrepreneur, executive and board member in the medical device industry. Most recently, she was the Vice President and General Manager for Smith & Nephew’s US Robotics business unit.
Watanabe holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School. She also holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gen II Luxembourg Services (Gen II), a wholly-owned subsidiary of private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services, has completed the firm’s International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3402 Type I Report in the areas of fund accounting, transfer agency, and depositary services.
The ISAE 3402 is an internationally recognised auditing standard issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB). A service organisation’s auditor’s examination, in accordance with the standard, represents an in-depth audit of a service organisation’s control objectives and activities. These activities often include controls over information technology and related processes.
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