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High-net-worth investors across Europe, Asia, and South America have placed faith in private markets specialists over the last 18 months, as illiquid investment opportunities were seen as a safer bet during the uncertainty of Covid-19.
Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has further strengthened its Sustainable Infrastructure team with the addition of investment manager Ana Janine.
The hire complements the recent successful GBP100 million first close of Gresham House’s British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund II (BSIF II), backed by the Worcestershire Pension Fund and Teesside Pension Fund. BSIF II, a direct follow-on to the now fully invested infrastructure strategy BSIF I, targets profitable, real assets-based solutions addressing pressing environmental and societal challenges encapsulated by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Led by Peter Bachmann, the Gresham House Sustainable Infrastructure team has vast experience in infrastructure investment and
MDOTM, a European specialist in AI-driven investment strategies, has completed a EUR6.2m Series B fundraising. The funds will accelerate MDOTM’s international expansion, double the size of its teams in London and Milan, and see the company open a new office in the US.
The new funds have been raised from institutional investors, private individuals and leading finance professionals, including Federico Ghizzoni, Chairman of Rothschild Italy and former CEO of UniCredit; Lorenzo Pagani, Managing Director at PIMCO; and Alberto Zaffignani, Managing Director and Head of Global Markets Italy at Natixis. Zaffignani also joins MDOTM as a non-executive board member.
MDOTM was
Preqin has entered a partnership with the Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (IVCA), under eligibility from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), to produce performance benchmarks for alternative investment funds (AIFs) as an official benchmarking agency.
AIFs in India – classified as CAT I, II or III – operate across a wide range of asset classes including private equity & venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, private debt, and hedge funds. With a total of more than 730 such funds currently, they represent a part of the alternative investments ecosystem that is growing and becoming increasingly important
Vytelle, a precision livestock company, has closed an oversubscribed Series A funding worth USD13.2 million. Private equity firm Open Prairie, through the Open Prairie Rural Opportunities Fund, and Kansas-based Ag-tech VC, Fulcrum Global Capital co-led the round. The financing also included participation from new Midwest investors Serra Ventures, Innovation In Motion, and KCRise, as well as existing investor, UK-based Wheatsheaf Group.
VoxSmart Ltd, a specialist in communications surveillance, has acquired GreenKey Technologies Inc, an automated speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) provider, to further bolster its communications surveillance offering to global financial institutions.
The addition of GreenKey’s domain-specific communication analysis expertise will enable VoxSmart to rapidly accelerate growth and position the company as the de facto market leaders in natural language processing (NLP) and voice analytics for Financial Markets.
Oliver Blower, CEO of VoxSmart, says: “By acquiring GreenKey, we have added an extremely valuable asset to our product portfolio enabling us to provide even greater value and deeper
TMF Group, a provider of administrative and professional services – together with Private Equity Wire – have launched TMF Group’s 2021 Global Private Debt Insight Report, a global survey on how private debt managers view opportunities across the Private Debt asset class.
The report focuses on private equity-like distressed M&A deals and shorter-term non-performing loans, through to senior loan origination, and captures insight from 75 managers from across the world.
Analysis reveals that for distressed debt M&A opportunities, the challenges of Covid-19 mean that private debt firms appear to be waiting for the dust to settle while assessing the
Sanome, a European health start-up, has raised GBP2 million as its first round of funding from a number of leading UK and European HealthTech specialist investors.
The round was led by Heal Capital, with participation from Crista Galli Ventures, Selvedge Ventures, o2h Ventures, Meltwind and a number of high-profile angels including David Cleevely and Pam Garside.
Sanome has developed a diagnostics innovation engine that combines biomarkers to develop medical grade, at home diagnostic products (IVDs) more efficiently and effectively. Most digital health, wearables and consumer biotech tools have limited medical use because it’s hard to validate them clinically. Sanome’s novel
Pilot Freight Services (Pilot), a worldwide transportation and logistics services provider has acquired franchise stations in strategic markets in the Pacific Northwest and Oklahoma.
The franchises will be seamlessly integrated into Pilot’s corporate organisation with no disruption in service offerings or senior management.
The franchises, located in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Oklahoma, are attractive assets due to strong historical growth and operational performance. The serve a robust domestic and global customer-base, with a particular expertise in perishables freight forwarding. The leadership and employees of the franchises will join the Pilot organisation as part of the transactions.
“We are truly excited
PFR Ventures has extended its PFR Private Equity programme. The investing arm of Polish Development Fund will invest over EUR110 million in new private equity funds, growing the overall budget of the programme to EUR240 million.
PFR Ventures has already invested capital from the newest pool closing on a new partnership.
PFR Private Equity (PFR PE) is a programme with the goals of investing in local private equity firms to support development of a local ecosystem, and joining international teams, to increase Poland’s exposure to them. PFR Ventures has already invested EUR130 million in three local and four international private
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