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The innovation lab for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, IDB Lab, announces a USD4 million investment commitment, along with an additional technical cooperation grant of USD500,000, to support innovative solutions to tackle the growing problem of plastic waste ending up in the oceans and waterways of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
This circular economy investment will be combined with a capacity development program specifically for the Caribbean region, that would enhance the building of a potential investment pipeline in the Caribbean, through the support of regional innovation ecosystem actors. The investment will be managed by Circulate Capital, the
Archwest Capital (Archwest Capital) has completed a strategic minority investment by Aspida Holdings (Aspida), an indirect subsidiary of Ares Management Corporation (Ares).
As part of the transaction, Aspida will enter into a flow agreement, through which Archwest Capital will provide Aspida with multifamily and mixed-use first mortgage assets to help support Aspida’s growth initiatives. The Ares team plans to provide its experience in connection with the acquisition of these first lien mortgages originated by Archwest Capital and overseeing the ongoing surveillance and monitoring of these investments.
Archwest Capital’s chief executive officer, Shawn R Miller, says: “The perennial housing supply shortage
Airbus Ventures has invested in ispace, inc, a company pioneering the future of commercial lunar exploration. ispace’s state-of-the-art lunar lander is on schedule to launch on its first mission, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the second half of 2022.
Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB) has secured a significant investment from August Equity to fast-track ambitious growth plans and realise AAB’s strategic vision of becoming a key UK regional player in the accountancy and wider business services market.
AAB is currently a leading Scottish regional player, with offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and plans to build its market share across the Central Belt of Scotland alongside growing the number of regional hubs it operates from in key major cities across the UK. AAB also has a London office focused on payroll, global mobility and virtual finance which supports some
Toca, provider of no code apps and automation fabric, has raised an additional GBP2 million of funding from private investors – an extension to the GBP1.4 million raised in a 2018 seed round.
As more alternative fund managers explore the yield opportunities in private debt, one of the risks is introducing too much complexity to their middle- and back-office operations. Outdated accounting and portfolio management systems or insufficient internal resources for tracking individual loan performance increase that risk.
VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has completed the sale of Coretelligent (the Company) to Norwest Equity Partners.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Coretelligent is a leading provider of comprehensive managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services to customers within the financial services, life sciences, professional services, and related sectors. VSS will participate in Coretelligent’s next phase of growth as a minority investor in the Company.
Coretelligent is a provider of comprehensive managed and co-managed white glove IT support, cybersecurity, backup and disaster recovery as well as cloud
Promus Ventures’ Orbital Ventures Fund has closed at EUR120 million. Anchored in Luxembourg, the Fund is focusing on early-stage, space-related companies.
The European Investment Fund committed EUR40 million, adding to the Fund’s international exposure. Other investors include international corporate, institutional, and private investors, as well as public actors. Among them is the Luxembourg Government via the Ministry of the Economy and the National Credit and Investment Institution (SNCI) which have invested in the Fund, reaffirming the country’s leading position on the international space stage.
Orbital Ventures has invested in several companies providing solutions to the challenges facing the space
Kirkland & Ellis is advising international investment firm BC Partners in connection with the extension of BC Partners’ investment in Springer Nature, a Fund IX asset.
The investment was transferred to a new Single Asset Acquisition Fund. In total, the fund has attracted more than EUR1 billion of investment, making it one of the largest such vehicles in Europe. The fund is capitalised by lead investor Neuberger Berman, as well as syndicate investors, reinvesting BCEC Fund IX investors and BC Partners’ most recent fund, Fund XI.
Springer Nature Group is a global publisher with brands including Springer Nature and
Ironwood Capital has exited its investment in precision manufacturer Momentum Manufacturing Group (MMG), a provider of multi-operation metal contract manufacturing and precision machining based in North East USA.
“The investment thesis for MMG, when Ironwood Capital originally invested in late 2017, was to grow the company organically and through strategic acquisitions in an effort to build a leading domestic engineered products manufacturer, providing a wide variety of finished, specialty products and sub-systems with metal components for diverse applications as a key strategic partner to customers,” notes Alex Levental, partner at Ironwood Capital.
Over the past three years MMG has invested
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