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Aviva, has announced a GBP10 million investment, and a five-year extension to its innovation partnership with Founders Factory to support new start-ups in the UK.
Founders Factory is a global venture studio and accelerator that was co-founded by Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox in 2015. Since its inception, over 200 businesses have been created and accelerated through the Founders Factory and have gone on to raise more than GBP400 million in funding.
Aviva has been Founders Factory’s strategic partner in the FinTech sector since 2016. In the next phase of the partnership, Aviva and Founders Factory will support the
Prometheus Alternative Investments has raised USD5 million in an oversubscribed seed round.
The round was led by 8VC/Joe Lonsdale with participation from a diverse set of prominent investors including Kyle Bass (Hayman Capital), Gaingels, John Quinn (Quinn Emanuel), Gil Weisblum (family office of Barry Diller), Jared Rothman (family office of Dennis Washington), Thane Ritchie, Curtis Macnguyen (Inflection Capital & Ivory Capital), Kim Kolt (For Good Ventures), Alok Agrawal (Bloom Tree Capital), Chris Blum (Global Head of Equities at JP Morgan Wealth Management) and Khalid Malik (Meridiem Capital).
Founded by former star hedge fund manager Michael Wang, Prometheus brings together a
A new metric looking at the performance of private equity and venture capital funds has revealed a strong industry internal rate of return (IRR) of 19.6 per cent and Total Value to Paid In multiple (TVPI) of 1.9x for funds that started investing over the last decade.
African Capital Alliance (ACA) has acquired a stake in Africa’s leading multi-brand QSR group, Food Concepts Plc (Food Concepts), from pan-African returns and impact-driven private equity firm DPI.
The deal will see the sale of 31 per cent of Food Concepts by DPI, a pan-African returns and impact-driven private equity firm with a strong track record of investing across the continent and USD2 billion AUM, to ACA. ACA is a pan-African alternative investment firm focused on managing investments across sub-Saharan Africa, with USD1.2 billion AUM. DPI will retain ownership of a majority stake in the Company.
Commenting on the deal, David
Apex Group has launched a new digital marketing platform, Apex Profilir (Profilir), which offers clients a modern approach to investor relations, incorporating a digital marketing platform designed to connect LPs and GPs and support the capital raising process.
Following the acquisition of SaaS platform Senasen, Apex Group has rebranded the digital marketing platform as Apex Profilir, to reflect its unique offering, specifically designed to enhance relationships between Investors, Asset Managers and Companies by connecting them instantly and providing a means to for more efficient, meaningful and productive relationships. Market demand for secure and user-friendly digital engagement channels has risen following
Cybersecurity specialist BlueVoyant has acquired global professional services and big data solutions consultancy, Concanon, to provide the services and solutions to further empower Splunk customers worldwide and to maximise their investments in Splunk Cloud Platform.
With this acquisition, Concanon becomes a standalone but wholly-owned subsidiary of BlueVoyant. Concanon will coordinate services through BlueVoyant’s Modern SOC for Splunk® Cloud Platform, featuring 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR), and powered by BlueVoyant’s 24/7 cloud-based managed security operations center (SOC).
The acquisition will enable Concanon to expand their services to Splunk customers to optimize their investment and accelerate migration to the Splunk Cloud
The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) has partnered with Triple Point Investment Management, an Investment Manager for Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), a London Stock Exchange (LSE) listed investment trust.
Triple Point is a UK-based Investment Manager with over GBP2 billion under management and employs over 150 people. Since 2004, Triple Point has been active in areas such as energy efficiency, social housing, and digital infrastructure, unlocking investment opportunities that make a difference. Each of Triple Point’s strategies looks to solve societal challenges, and each creates opportunities for investors.
D9 is an investment trust, listed on the London Stock Exchange, managed
Advent France Biotechnology (AFB), an AMF-regulated investment company dedicated to life sciences, has held the first closing of its second fund at EUR86 million (USD102 million).
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the Fonds national d’amorçage 2 (the French Seed Fund 2) managed on behalf of the French State by Bpifrance, participated in the fund, along with corporate ventures including Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Pierre Fabre and a major Asian pharmaceutical company, family offices and AFB’s management.
This new fund, dedicated to early-stage investments in European life sciences companies with a focus on France, will build on the successful investment
After delivering more than 100,000 shipments in Germany, constructiontech startup Schüttflix has raised USD50 million of additional capital and is preparing to enter the Austrian, Polish and Czech markets in 2022.
The recently completed Series A financing round was led by European venture capital investor Draper Esprit. Also boosting their investments in this round are the founding team surrounding co-founding investor Thomas Hagedorn and CEO Christian Hülsewig, as well as HV Capital, Speedinvest and STRABAG.
Christoph Hornung, Investment Director, Draper Esprit says: “Over 2.5 million tonnes of construction bulk-materials delivered since its founding shows that Schüttflix works. The startup has
O’Melveny has advised DL Chemical Co, a subsidiary of DL Holdings Co (formerly Daelim Industrial Co), on its merger agreement to acquire 100 per cent of Kraton Corporation (NYSE: KRA), a global sustainable producer of specialty polymers and high-value bio-based products, in an all-cash transaction with an equity value of approximately USD1.6 billion.
The company’s enterprise value was USD2.5 billion.
The agreement was announced on 27 September, 2021 and is subject to certain customary closing conditions, including the receipt of stockholder and regulatory approvals.
Based in Korea, DL Chemical is a petrochemical company with more than 46 years of operational
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