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Venture capital firm btov Partners announces the final closing of its new digital technologies early-stage fund with a volume of USD135 million.
It’s the second fund that focuses entirely on digital technologies, and the ninth for btov Partners in total. Investments in earlier fund generations included companies such as DeepL, Raisin, SumUp, Orcam, Seven Senders, Ottonova, Urban Sports Club, Ledgy, Foodspring (acquired by Mars) and Data Artisans (acquired by Alibaba).
The fund works very closely with btov’s Private Investor Network of experienced entrepreneurs. Over 70 of the network members invested personally in the new fund and will work closely with
Bowmark Capital has further strengthened its portfolio management and value creation team with the appointment of Ben Hollowood as a portfolio director.
Ben joins Bowmark after eight years at AnaCap Financial Partners where he was a managing director and provided strategic and operational support to the firm’s portfolio companies. Previously, he worked in the private equity practice at Bain & Company which he joined from LEK Consulting.
Bowmark’s portfolio management and value creation team works throughout the investment lifecycle to help its portfolio companies accelerate their growth and to develop and implement strategies for building long-term value.
Charles Ind, managing
Growth capital investor BGF has invested GBP8.5 million in Birmingham-headquartered Antser, an innovator in social care.
Antser delivers transformational solutions to the social care, health, and education sectors, in partnership with local authority and independent providers. The investment will allow the company to continue to scale its business within the children’s social care sector, as well as increase its reach across adult social care and the adjacent markets. Antser employs 150 people across four UK offices.
With a presence across all 152 Local Authorities in England, as well as a host of public sector bodies and independent care providers,
Global investment firm Capria Ventures is partnering with Indonesian venture capital firm AC Ventures to invest in investing in the next generation of technology entrepreneurs.
AC Ventures manages a total AUM of USD300 million and plans to complete the final close of a USD120 million target fund by this year. The partnership is in line with Capria’s commitment to invest and impact the lives of millions across the Global South including Southeast Asia, India, Latin America and Africa.
Jakarta based AC Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology enabled solutions addressing billion dollar market opportunities in
DiligenceVault, a digital diligence platform that delivers data collection and information exchange solutions for asset owners, allocators and fund managers, has released its latest white paper entitled “2021 Manager Survey: How RFPs and DDQs Get Done.”
The paper presents the results of its recent survey of over 170 private equity, hedge and long-only managers fund managers exploring how marketing, investor relations and compliance professionals are optimising their staffing, processes and technologies to meet the due diligence needs of the allocator community.
The primary areas of focus for the survey are centred around Investor Requests and Team Sizes, Consultant vs Third-Party
Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that it represented NatWest Markets on its role as lead arranger and facility agent for Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) on a EUR2.3 billion environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-linked credit facility for its European private equity and real estate platform.
The facility was formed to support Carlyle’s 30 per cent board diversity target, to tackle climate change by having more accurate and comprehensive measurements of greenhouse gas emissions across all portfolio companies, and to improve ESG outcomes through better governance by providing ESG-competent board training for all Carlyle board directors.
The Reed Smith team
A record number of refinancings and recapitalisations were completed in the first half of 2021 in the UK, according to research from global investment bank GCA Altium.
Data provided by the firm’s MidCapMonitor identified that over the course of H1 2021, 114 transactions were completed in the UK, resulting in the most active first half to a year since the company started the publication in 2016.
The report, which analyses debt transactions across several major European markets, found that in comparison, during the same period 70 deals were completed in France, and 60 were finalised in Germany. A further
Vision Innovation Partners, a leading eye care platform backed by Centre Partners, has acquired Ophthalmic Associates, a provider of integrated eye care services with five locations in Western Pennsylvania.
The acquisition adds to Vision Innovation Partners’ significant presence in Pennsylvania and further strengthens its growing network of ophthalmology practices and ambulatory surgery centres in the Mid-Atlantic region.
“We are delighted that the paths of Ophthalmic Associates and Vision Innovation Partners have aligned. Since its founding in 1905, Ophthalmic Associates has been the trusted vision care provider to communities across six counties in Western Pennsylvania. Our partnership with Vision Innovation Partners
Arcano Asset Management, the asset management division of Arcano Partners, has appointed Matilde Horta e Costa to lead private equity secondary market investments for Europe.
Matilde Horta e Costa has a BA from the University of Cambridge and began her career in the M&A advisory team at Perella Weinberg Partners in London. More recently, Matilde spent over five years in the investment and investor relations teams at Coller Capital, one of the largest private equity secondaries fund managers with over USD22 billion raised in the last ten years.
As a result of her time at Coller Capital, Matilde has
A majority of US startups (52 per cent) are now ‘very optimistic’ about the next 12 months, despite 62 per cent seeing business growth negatively impacted by the pandemic.
This was a key finding of a new study of US startup sentiment coming out of the pandemic, by Angel Investment Network (AIN), the world’s largest online angel investment platform. The study of 1,205 US based startups found 76 per cent expressed optimism overall with 19 per cent quite optimistic and 52 per cent very optimistic, versus just 24 per cent who were pessimistic.
The results show the extent to which
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