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Thrive Alternatives, a private funds advisory firm has launched to address the increasingly crucial role of Asia as an investment hub and bridge the market gap for intelligent technology for the future of institutional fundraising and global capital markets.
The firm is led by CEOs and Co-Founders, Jackson Chan and Gianluca D’Angelo who are both veterans in the industry.
The Singapore headquartered firm provides General Partners and Limited Partners globally with greater access to market information which has previously been fragmented and geographically siloed. The firm’s adoption of Asense showcases the firm’s commitment to invest in technology to better
The Luxury Bank has raised USD10 million from Dubai’s ICICB Group, an investment management company that fosters and funds luxury projects in banking, cryptocurrency trading, commercial real estate, and other related industries worldwide.
The funds will be leveraged across The Luxury Ecosystem’s various projects, including The Luxury Bank, The Luxury Foundation, a cryptocurrency PoS system, offline cryptocurrency exchanges, an NFT marketplace, a job portal, and a news magazine. The funds will also be used to complete The Luxury’s much-anticipated Luxandia, a metaverse platform similar to Second Life and Decentraland, which is dedicated to serving the luxury industry.
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Procuritas Capital Investors VI (Procuritas), a private equity investor focused on investing in and growing Nordic mid-market companies, has appointed Arja Taaveniku as the new Chairperson of its portfolio company Polarn O Pyret, an iconic Swedish children’s clothing brand.
Arja joins with extensive experience from her long career in international retail with companies such as IKEA and Kingfisher. She currently serves on the Boards of Dunelm plc, Nobia Group, and Handelsbanken Group and is Chairman of the Board of Svenska Handelsfastigheter. As well as working in various roles at IKEA and Kingfisher, she was CEO of Ikano Group, an international
OJ Brands’ sleep brand, Kally Sleep has acquired the fast-growing online home textiles marketplace, Woven, in a bid to capitalise on the UK’s burgeoning homewares market.
Led by CEO Ori Leslau aims to expand OJ Brands group into a leading European brand house. Today, the firm generates revenue in excess of USD20million.
“Never before have we invested in our home quite like we do today,” says OJ Brands’ CEO, Ori Leslau.
“Our intention is for Woven to become the UK’s leading soft furnishings destination online, simplifying the shopping journey for users and offering an unparalleled catalogue of the
Kindred Group has completed the previously announced acquisition of the remaining outstanding shares in Relax Gaming, a growing B2B iGaming supplier.
Kindred Group announced on 2 July 2021 that it had entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining 66.6 per cent of the outstanding shares in Relax Gaming. Relax Gaming is a market leading B2B iGaming software supplier that designs and develops online casino games, supported by an open distribution platform for third party aggregation as well as proprietary poker and bingo products. Relax Gaming was founded in 2010 and has today c240 full-time employees with four main hubs
Intertrust Group has made two new hires to strengthen and support its continued expansion into the private capital sector.
Inflexion has appointed Isabelle Pagnotta as a Partner in its Services team. Pagnotta has 18 years’ private equity experience, most recently as a Managing Director at OMERS Private Equity where she focused on Services & Software in the French and UK markets.
Prior to this, she worked at Bridgepoint and Arcapita and started her career at Bear Stearns in Investment Banking. She holds a MSc from ESCP Business School. Isabelle’s appointment further strengthens Inflexion’s Services team which is responsible for originating and growing a key sector for the firm.
Inflexion has continued to invest in its team in 2021 and
General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, has appointed Samir Assaf as a Senior Advisor.
He will also serve as a member of the Advisory Board for BeyondNetZero, General Atlantic’s new climate venture. Based in London, Samir brings with him more than three decades of financial services experience and will advise on a range of areas, including sourcing, developing relationships with entrepreneurs around the world and portfolio company support.
Assaf spent 27 years at HSBC in a number of key leadership roles. Most recently, he was the Chairman of Corporate and Institutional Banking, with responsibility for strengthening HSBC’s ties
European Food Tech venture capital firm Five Seasons Ventures has announced the final closing of a EUR180 million second fund.
The new Fund II will continue making Series A and B investments into the most promising European Food Tech companies, with an emphasis on fast-growing consumer-focused food with a quantifiable environmental or social impact. Fund II was raised on the back of a very successful Fund I portfolio of European Food Tech champions.
Five Seasons Ventures’ investment thesis is to prove that Food Tech startups can grow at the same speed as ‘traditional’ tech startups. Only the top 10 per
Development Partners International (DPI), an investment firm focused on Africa, has raised USD900 million for African Development Partners III Fund (ADP III), exceeding its USD800 million target. The find also attracted an additional USD250 million of dedicated co-investment capital, bringing a total of USD1.15 billion for investments on the continent.
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