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Eureka, an Israeli startup offering holistic security across cloud data stores, has secured USD8 million in a seed funding round led by YL Ventures with participation from renowned security executives and serial entrepreneurs.
Industry leaders and security luminaries who participated in Eureka’s seed round include Edna Conway (VP, Security & Risk Officer, Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure at Microsoft), David Hannigan (Director of Product Security Assurance at Google Cloud), Andy Ellis (Former CSO at Akamai Technologies), Maarten Van Horenbeeck (CISO at Zendesk), Assaf Rappaport (CEO at Wiz) and Ben Bernstein (Former CEO at Twistlock, acquired by PANW).
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Elephant has led a USD56 million Series C funding round in Tecovas, a footwear, apparel, and accessories brand, bringing total lifetime equity funding to approximately USD120 million.
Elephant, which also led Tecovas’ Series A and Series B rounds, is joined by new and existing investors, including Access Capital, Seamless Capital, and Kemmons Wilson Companies.
Blackstone has held the final close of Blackstone Capital Opportunities Fund IV (COF IV) bringing the total of funds available to Blackstone Credit’s opportunistic private debt strategy to USD8.75 billion.
COF has an almost 15-year track record of providing private financings for businesses of all sizes and across industries.
COF IV has already made 12 investments and commitments with a focus on high growth industries, such as technology and healthcare.
The future looks bright for London’s tech sector, according to a new report from London & Partners and Dealroom.co, showing that 2021 was another record year for venture capital investment into London’s tech firms.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested in Bramble Foods (Bramble), a manufacturer and distributor of more than 2,000 products, ranging from preserves, pickles, chutneys and sauces, to cakes, biscuits, confectionery, hampers and seasonal goods.
LDC is backing the existing management team, led by founder and CEO Tony Foster, alongside Finance Director Chris Neville and Sales Director Ken Osborne. As part of the transaction, co-founder Nigel Foster will retire to pursue other interests.
The investment was led by Rob Schofield, Partner in LDC’s Midlands team alongside Investment Director Phil Hinson. A team from Orbis Partners, led by Partner Gary
Jet Edge International, an Ohio-based private aviation company, has raised an additional USD75 million of funding from credit funds and accounts managed by KKR.
The new funding expands KKR’s total credit and equity investments in Jet Edge to approximately USD265 million over the past year.
Following the initial USD150 million credit facility announced in June 2021, KKR has continued investing in Jet Edge amidst historic demand for its direct-to-consumer Reserve Membership programme. Jet Edge will utilise the funding to further expand the company’s extensive Gulfstream and Challenger fleet.
Jet Edge has 20 additional Gulfstream & Challenger aircraft slated to be
Golding Capital Partners, an independent asset managers for alternative investments, has held the final closing of its first dedicated secondaries fund with commitments of some EUR280 million.
Thanks to strong demand from institutional investors, particularly from the client segments pension funds and savings banks, the original target volume of EUR200 million was substantially exceeded. Golding’s experienced secondary market team has already completed 14 transactions, quickly building a diversified portfolio of more than 80 small and mid-cap companies, primarily in Europe
Golding is planning to launch a follow-on fund in the first half of 2022 and believes that the continued availability
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and SME investment manager, has made a GBP4 million investment in Newsflare Limited (Newsflare) from its VCT funds, together with an additional GBP1 million investment from existing investor, Edge Investments.
Newsflare is a marketplace for the monetisation of user generated video (“UGV”) and has one of the largest fully-rights cleared video libraries in the world, with over 244,000 licensable videos currently on its platform.
This funding round will enable Newsflare to grow the number of fully licensed UGV clips on its platform and accelerate growth. The business’ proprietary technology and Trust Algorithm authenticates
Bernhard Capital Partners (BCP), a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm investing in middle market businesses providing essential services to owners of critical infrastructure, has made five promotions.
Mark Spender has been promoted to Partner, Catherine Cusimano, Bryan Poppler, and Chris Ringswald to Principal, and Jason Badeaux to Senior Associate.
Amsterdam-headquartered global financial institution ING, has become the first financial institution shareholder in EIT InnoEnergy, an innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe supported by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
The investment in EIT InnoEnergy underlines ING’s commitment to support the energy transition. ING joins other leading companies actively involved in the energy transition as an EIT InnoEnergy shareholder, including Volkswagen, TotalEnergies, Naturgy, and EDF.
Since 2010, EIT InnoEnergy has invested EUR560 million in over 380 companies with a combined forecasted turnover of over EUR16 billion by 2026. Standout successful
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