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Nordic buyout investor Polaris Private Equity (Polaris) has held the first close of Polaris Flexible Capital (PFC) at DKK500 million. The fund has a final total target of DKK1 billion.
PFC is a new fund launched by Polaris in 2021 to make investments in subordinated loan capital (junior capital etc.) and minority shareholdings. The Fund will make capital available to companies which need financial backing while maintaining control of their business, and is expected to begin to deploy capital this quarter. The closing follows Polaris’ successful completion of fundraising for its latest flagship vehicle, Polaris Private Equity V K/S, which
Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has appointed Matthew Kirsch as Managing Director in its 10-people strong Credit team, led by Pemberton’s Chief Credit Officer Nicole Gates.
Kirsch brings over 15 years of experience in the European leveraged finance market as both a credit analyst and originator. At Pemberton, he will be joining the company’s independent Credit team as a Managing Director, advising on the credit risk associated with new opportunities and existing investments.
Prior to joining Pemberton, Kirsch spent over 3.5 years at Apollo, where he was the founding member of the firm’s European Private Credit team, focusing on
The Off Grid Electricity Fund (OGEF), a renewable energy access fund for Haiti supported by the World Bank, has provided a USD230,000 investment in the form of debt financing and catalytic grants to Alina Eneji to pilot mesh-grid technology at scale.
Alina Enèji’s is a Haitian company established in 2021 to provide reliable, clean, and affordable, energy to rural households in the country. It launched an initial pilot of 35 households in the Dulagon area with Okra Solar, whose mesh-grid technology enables households to access clean and productive power.
OGEF was launched by the Haitian Government in 2019 with
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), invested a total of GBP17 million in 14 dynamic, high growth businesses in 2021.
In addition to the direct investments, NPIF – Maven has also successfully leveraged an additional GBP34 million in private sector finance for local businesses creating 402 new jobs last year alone.
Appointed by the British Business Bank in February 2017, Maven manages GBP96 million worth of equity finance after being allocated an additional GBP15 million to invest in businesses until the end of 2023 for the
m3ter, a metering and pricing engine for SaaS companies, has launched from stealth with USD17.5 million in funding from Kindred Capital, Union Square Ventures and Insight Partners.
m3ter’s early traction corresponds with a rapid increase in the number of SaaS businesses switching to usage-based pricing (UBP), a pricing model becoming popular because charging customers for what they consume allows for easier adoption, costless upsell, better margin control, and greater customer satisfaction.
The funding will help the company to build on its early traction and meet growing global demand for its product with new hires in Europe and the US.
Rocky Robots, a digital coaching startup designed to guide and motivate young professionals, has closed a GBP300,000 pre-seed investment from Jenson Funding Partners alongside other investors.
The company is the developer of Rocky.AI, an app with an interactive sparring partner, powered by Artificial Intelligence, that encourages self-improvement and reflection to help ambitious workers build a growth mindset.
The pre-seed investment will be used to scale Rocky Robots and build on the existing customers across the core UK and North American markets, while continuing to enhance the product further.
Apprenticeship training provider, Apprentify, has secured a GBP5 million investment from the UK’s most active growth capital investor, BGF.
Alderley Park-headquartered Apprentify specialises in digital marketing, social media and tech courses, enabling employers to recruit and train apprentices skilled ‘for the jobs of tomorrow’.
The investment, alongside debt funding from OakNorth, has allowed the business to acquire West Midlands based Netcom Training, a digital training provider for adults seeking to up or reskill, whilst also positioning the group to execute an ambitious buy and build strategy in the apprenticeship and adult education market.
The UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) Infrastructure Debt Platform has financed CapMan Infra’s acquisition of Koiviston Auto, a Finnish transport operator with the largest bus fleet in the country.
The financing will also fund Koiviston Auto’s expansion into electric vehicles, with aims to increase the number of electric buses in its fleet six-fold by 2026 to 33 per cent of total vehicles.
The funding from UBS-AM, acting as the sole lender on the transaction, represents cEUR100 million of debt, allowing CapMan Infra, a Nordic infrastructure investor, to fully acquire Koiviston Auto’s issued share capital. The transaction was the final investment
EY-Parthenon has appointed Infrastructure specialist Francois-Xavier Delenclos as a Partner with a focus on serving Infrastructure investors in the Private Equity team, including pension, infrastructure and sovereign wealth funds across the transport, energy and telecommunications sectors.
Delenclos brings strategy consulting and executive experience and joins from the Private Equity practice of a leading management consultancy. Prior to that he was Group Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development at AP Moller Maersk where he led a team in charge of M&A and Corporate Strategy in the infrastructure business covering ports and logistics. There he gained experience in M&A and divestments
Piper Sandler Companies has completed the acquisition of macro research firm Cornerstone Macro.
Cornerstone Macro’s senior research analysts connect macro insights from around the world to deliver a comprehensive overview of important global trends. Cornerstone Macro will continue providing its as Piper Sandler & Co’s macro research team, led by Nancy Lazar, Andy Laperriere, Roberto Perli and Michael Kantrowitz.
Cornerstone Macro’s research and equity derivatives trading team is an ideal complement to Piper Sandler’s single stock coverage platform, with over 1,000 companies covered and ranking No1 in total names under coverage in the small & mid-cap category.
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