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Speedinvest, one of Europe’s leading early-stage investors with more than EUR600 million AUM, today announces the launch of a new EUR80 million Climate & Industry Opportunity fund.
The fund will primarily provide long-term support for Speedinvest’s existing sustainability-oriented startups, while also targeting selected non-portfolio startups that are accelerating European industry’s efforts to digitise and decarbonise.
The fund will conduct follow-on funding for Speedinvest’s existing and growing portfolio of sustainability-focused investments, including TWAICE, Planetly, Sylvera, Greyparrot, and One.Five. The new fund will back these innovative companies through co-investments in new rounds via Speedinvest’s existing pro-rata rights, allowing them to scale further
Global consultancy Berkeley Research Group (BRG) has released the results of its 2021 BRG M&A Disputes Report which featured quantitative and qualitative research providing an outlook on the global M&A disputes landscape.
As the M&A market remained extremely strong in 2021 and is expected to stay that way into next year, the data delivers insight into factors driving an increase in disputes. Those factors include innovative deal structures, new investment vehicles, advances in technology and rapidly changing economic conditions.
Following BRG’s inaugural effort from 2020 focused specifically on the Asia–Pacific (APAC) region, this year’s report offers a global outlook adding
Growth equity investor Gresham House Ventures has sold its stake in Vian Marketing, the holding company for stand-up paddleboard owner Tushingham Sails, best known for its Red Paddle Co brand.
Thought Machine, a cloud native core banking technology firm, has closed its series C funding round, bringing USD200 million into the business from new and existing investors. This new round sees Thought Machine achieve unicorn status.
This round was led by Nyca Partners, a New York and San Francisco-based venture capital firm, with investment also coming from the investment arms of some of Thought Machine’s global tier one banking clients – ING Ventures, JPMorgan Chase, and Standard Chartered Ventures. Existing investors Lloyds Banking Group, British Patient Capital, Eurazeo, SEB, Molten Ventures (formerly Draper Esprit), Backed, and IQ Capital have all
Raycast, a platform that provides developers with quick access to their tools, has raised USD15 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel and Coatue.
Also participating in the round were angel investors Johnny Boufarhat, CEO and founder of Hopin; Jeff Weinstein, Product at Stripe; Jason Warner, former CTO of GitHub and Ott Kaukver, CTO of Checkout.com and ex-CTO of Twilio, among others. The investment will be used to double down on building Raycast’s community of developers and tools, accelerate platform growth and, for the first time, bring Raycast to teams.
Raycast was founded in 2020 by
EverImmune, a biotechnology company specialising in the development of live biotherapeutic products in the field of microbiota oncology, today announces it has raised more than EUR5 million (approximately USD6 million) in a Series A funding from undisclosed private investors.
EverImmune was created in 2016 as a spinoff from Gustave Roussy; Europe’s first cancer institute, based near Paris, France. It harnesses the gut microbiota for the development of a unique theragnostic approach combining diagnostic and therapeutic technologies to restore the response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer patients.
The proceeds of this funding will support the clinical development of
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has acquired Habitat Energy Limited, a UK-based optimisation and trading platform for grid-scale battery storage.
Habitat Energy’s team is based in Oxford, UK, and comprises data scientists, software engineers, battery storage experts and power market trading professionals.
It has developed and uses advanced machine learning and algorithmic capabilities to optimise the strategic and financial value of battery storage assets within deregulated power markets, both stand-alone and co-located with renewables.
Habitat has established itself as one of the top performing platforms amongst UK market players focusing on optimising flexible generation and storage. It has been ranked
Principal Global Investors, through its direct lending business, Principal Alternative Credit, has served as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on senior secured credit facilities for Versant Diagnostics, an Iron Path Capital portfolio company, in partnership with Alliance Pathology Consultants.
The financing supports Versant Diagnostics emergence as one of the largest, independent, physician-led pathology groups in the Midwest region.
“We are pleased to support Iron Path Capital and Versant as they continue to successfully execute their acquisition strategy,” says Doug Koch, managing director for sponsor originations with Principal. “We look forward to the continued growth and expertise that Versant’s talented
Partners for Growth (PFG), a global specialty lending firm focused on emerging growth companies, has made a number of promotions and new hires.
Jason Georgatos, who joined Andrew Kahn and Don Campbell as a founding member of the PFG investment team in 2004, has been elevated to President. In this newly created position, Jason will lead PFG’s investment business globally, while maintaining an active role as a key partner to our portfolio companies. During his more than 17 years with PFG, Jason has led deals with over 100 companies, oversaw the expansion of the Sydney office and helped grow the
IK Partners’ (IK) IK IX Fund is to acquire Renta Group Oy (Renta Group) from Intera Partners (Intera), alongside management and employees who will be reinvesting. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Renta Group is a full-service machine and equipment rental services company with more than 100 depots across Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. The equipment offered meets a broad range of customer needs across construction, infrastructure and industrial markets. The Company also offers modern site facilities, scaffolding and weather protection services in addition to other site services such as temporary plumbing and heating, ventilation and
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