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Octopus Titan VCT’s latest offer closed on Thursday 18 November, having raised its full fundraising target of GBP200 million in four weeks.
Meanwhile demand for VCTs is soaring, already raising almost 3.65x as much as the total raised at this point last year.
Managed by Octopus Ventures, one of Europe’s largest venture capital teams, Octopus Titan VCT has grown to be the largest VCT, with net assets of GBP1.28 billion (June 2021, before the latest fundraise). Since 2007, it has invested in 100s of businesses and helped create four unicorns (private companies valued at over GBP1 billion). In the
Trilantic Europe, a private equity firm focused on mid-market transactions in Europe, has invested in Denver, a manufacturer of bicycles and e-bikes for large European retailers.
Michele and Giuseppe Beraudo, the two co-founders of Denver, will remain as minority shareholders.
Based in Dronero (Italy) and founded more than 20 years ago, the company offers a wide range of products such as: e-bikes, city bikes, mountain bikes, leisure bikes and children’s bikes. The company sells more than 800,000 bicycles per year in Europe (with Italy and France currently being the core markets) and revenues are evenly split between traditional bicycles and
Edge Investments has raised GBP85 million for its second venture fund, Create the Future, which is targeting a final close at GBP100 million.
The British Business Bank, the cornerstone investor in the fund, has committed GBP50 million through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme, which aims to increase the supply of equity capital to high-potential, early-stage UK companies and lower barriers to entry for fund managers looking to operate in the VC market. This is the second investment from the ECF programme to an Edge fund, following a GBP24 million commitment in 2015 to Edge’s Edge Creative Enterprise Fund (ECEF).
Exus Management Partners (Exus), an expert in powering sustainable investments through operational excellence, has continued its global expansion by announcing a new office in Istanbul.
The new operation will focus on managing and optimising renewable energy projects within the host nation, as well as neighbouring regions in the Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East and north Africa. The announcement comes after a successful year, with Exus onboarding 4GW since 2020, reaching 9GW in assets under management (AUM) across the full scope of the company’s services.
Exus Partner Aygen Yayıkoğlu will head up the office, bringing with him 25 years of energy and
Cyber Manufacture Co, a narrative-based Web3 platform behind the next generation NFT project GAMA, has closed a USD6 million pre-Series A funding round led by Synergis and Collab+Currency.
Seneca Partners’ EIS portfolio company, Manchester-based Wejo Limited (Wejo), a specialist in connected vehicle data, has completed a reverse merger with Virtuoso Acquisition Corp (VOSO.O) and the enlarged business is now trading on Nasdaq.
The deal will enable Wejo to accelerate expansion of markets across traffic management, advertising, fleet management, insurance, remote diagnostics, car sharing and rental, roadside assistance, payments, SaaS solutions and more.
Every day, Wejo collects in near-real-time 14.6 billion data points and analyses 66 million journeys across a network of 10.7 million live vehicles from a supply base of over 50 million connected vehicles. Wejo expects its
ScaleUp Capital, a specialist in investing in and supporting scaling B2B digital businesses with revenues of GBP1 million to GBP10 million, has closed a GBP4 million investment round in Sifted.
The investment will enable the media outlet to continue scaling the definitive resource for insights on the European startup ecosystem. It will use the capital raised to expand its existing team of 40 employees to double that number next year, adding to its editorial, commercial, marketing and tech and data teams. The editorial team already consists of 15 journalists in London, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona, with plans to expand
Ropes & Gray has represented Bain Capital Private Equity in its majority investment in InnovaCare Health, a regional leader in integrated and value-based healthcare services.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Throughout its 20-plus year history, InnovaCare Health has owned, operated and managed an integrated portfolio of leading medical groups, health plans, medical service organizations and clinical networks. Bain Capital Private Equity has partnered closely with management teams to provide the strategic resources that build great companies and help them thrive since its founding in 1984.
The Ropes & Gray team that represented Bain Capital Private Equity was
RiverGlade Capital (RiverGlade), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has sold its controlling stake in US Oral Surgery Management (USOSM) to Oak Hill Capital (Oak Hill).
Formed by RiverGlade in 2017, in partnership with the Thurston Group, USOSM is a healthcare management services company to the oral surgery sector and represents the largest network of oral surgery practices in the country.
“Early on we recognised the positive industry tailwinds within oral surgery and saw a strategic opportunity to create the first platform of scale in the space,” says Garrick Rice, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of RiverGlade. “Starting with two anchor
Ravesncroft has announced plans to acquire the Channel Islands’ operation of MitonOptimal Group.
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