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New Mountain Capital has closed its latest direct lending fund, New Mountain Guardian III with approximately USD1.15 billion of capital commitments from a diverse group of investors.
Commitments included a substantial investment from the General Partner and employees of the Firm. The Fund is expected to have approximately USD2.0 billion in investable capital, including leverage. Consistent with the Firm’s investment philosophy, New Mountain’s private credit strategy focuses on lending to the highest quality companies in select, non-cyclical defensive growth industries.
As of 30 September, 2021, Guardian III had already deployed more than USD1.1 billion into 79 portfolio companies across
Endpoint, a digital title and settlement services company, has secured an additional USD150 million in funding from its parent company, First American Financial Corporation, a provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions.
This latest investment, which brings the total capital raised by the company to USD220 million, will allow Endpoint to augment its technology team, further invest in title and settlement automation, and expand its capabilities for proptech companies and real estate professionals focused on delivering a re-imagined home closing process to their customers.
“Endpoint’s impressive growth reflects First American’s commitment to leading the
Carbon Capture (CarbonCapture), a climate tech company that makes machines that remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere, has closed a USD35 million Series A funding round and appointed Adrian Corless as CEO.
CarbonCapture will use the funds to accelerate product development efforts and to establish initial deployments of its renewable energy-powered Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems in locations throughout the U.S., starting with the Tamarack Nickel Project in central Minnesota in partnership with Rio Tinto PLC (LSE: RIO) and Talon Metals Corp. (TSX: TLO).
Analyses by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that humanity must remove billions of
Technology expert Vahan Vardanian has inked an agreement to assist emerging markets private equity firm Da Vinci Capital with developing the firm’s pipeline of portfolio companies in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), primarily Armenia and Georgia.
Vardanian has over 25 years of experience in the digital technology, financial technology, retail and market infrastructure industries. From 2013-17, Vardanian was a partner at McKinsey & Company in the CIS. From 2011-13, he was chief information officer of PJSC Moscow Exchange (MCX: MOEX), which concluded an initial public offering in 2013.
From 2004-2010, Vardanian was chief technology officer at Renaissance Capital, where
Taussig Capital has acquired all of the voting shares of Spencer Re I I, an International Insurance Company founded in 2006 and licensed in Puerto Rico.
Joseph Taussig, CEO of Taussig Capital, founded Spencer Re 16 years ago and served as its chairman until 2014. The company is being re-branded as Taussig Capital Re and will offer reinsurance to primary insurers and reinsurers looking to optimise their reinsurance programs and access non-traditional sources of insurance capital.
Taussig Capital Re is able to segregate pools of assets and liabilities, creating unique opportunities for exposure to a broad spectrum of insurable risks
finnCap Group has appointed Zuleika Salter as Co-Head of its Private Growth Capital division.
finnCap is a provider of strategic advisory and capital raising services to growth companies. As an integral part of the firm’s full-service offering, the private growth capital team is focused on partnering with the most innovative, entrepreneurial businesses, helping them raise capital from VCs, VCTs, private equity and family offices.
The appointment will strengthen finnCap’s Private Growth Capital division and enhance the team’s ability to source funding for its clients from an increasingly large pool of capital. By developing long-term relationship with businesses, finnCap, through
Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London and Milan, has closed its latest early-stage healthcare venture capital fund, Sofinnova Capital X, oversubscribed at EUR472 million (USD548 million).
Seraphim Space, the manager of Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc (LSE: SSIT), the world’s first listed Space Tech Fund, has appointed the former Investment Director of Virgin Management, Andre Ronsoehr, to help develop and build out the space investment portfolio. The appointment is effective immediately.
Ronsoehr joins Seraphim Space as Investment Director following a career focussed on the space sector, working for almost a decade at Virgin Management – the family office of Sir Richard Branson. Ronsoehr co-led the seed investment in One Web in 2015 and was instrumental in investments into Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit. During this time
Primer has closed a Series B funding round that values the payments infrastructure startup at USD425 million only 20 months after being founded.
The USD50 million Series B fundraise was led by ICONIQ Growth, a San Francisco based investment firm that has backed global tech companies such as Adyen and Marqeta to Snowflake and Datadog. Existing investors, including Accel, Balderton Capital, Seedcamp, Speedinvest, and RTP Global all participated in the round.
Primer, which was founded in early 2020 by ex-Paypal/Braintree employees and employs more than 70 people across 20 countries, has built the world’s first automation platform for payments.
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Orgnostic, a people analytics platform helping fast-growing companies to democratise people analytics, has raised USD5 million in funding.
The seed round was led by Earlybird Digital East, and includes participation from a roster of impressive investors, including Script Capital and angel investors including Eric Ries and Tiho Bajic of Lean Startup and LTSE, Rony Kahan of Indeed, and Charlie Songhurst of Microsoft. This is in addition to previous investment from South Central Ventures.
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