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Appital has secured a GBP2.5 million investment from Frontline Ventures and a number of seasoned capital markets angel investors to bring technological innovation and automation to today’s equity capital markets.
The investment will accelerate the development of Appital’s technology infrastructure, integration with financial institutions as well as technology vendors and enable the expansion of their engineering team to support the delivery of their go-to-market strategy.
Appital’s mission is to bring innovation to Equity Capital Markets, an area largely untouched by automation, plagued by opaque legacy processes. A new trading platform that enables the discovery of latent liquidity, Appital offers the
General Atlantic has led a EUR100 million Series C funding round in online luxury watch marketplace Chrono24. This latest round follows Chrono24’s 2019 EUR 43 million Series B financing from Sprints Capital, former Richemont director Gianni Serazzi, and YOOX-NET-A-PORTER founder Alberto Grignolo, as well as the company’s EUR37million Series A from Insight Partners in 2015.
The American Investment Council (AIC) has released a new report that demonstrates how private equity continues to fuel the Covid-19 economic recovery across America. Specifically, the report reveals that US private equity investment volume jumped to USD175 billion in Q2 2021 from USD109 billion in Q2 2020, a 60 per cent increase.
In the first half of the year, there was a 76 per cent increase in capital committed to private equity funds from the same period in 2020.
The US has seen tremendous economic growth in recent months with significant support from private capital. Private equity made major
Champ Titles, a technology company that is changing the way that vehicle titles are created, managed, and transferred in the United States, has closed an USD8.5 million Series A investment.
The round was led by EOS Venture Partners and W R Berkley Corporation, and brings the company’s combined funding to over USD17.5 million.
Champ Titles was launched in 2018 and can reduce the amount of time it takes to create, manage, or transfer a vehicle title to just one day. The money raised will be used to accelerate the distribution of its breakthrough technology across multiple vehicle title ecosystem
Ocorian, a global leader in fund administration, capital markets, corporate and fiduciary services, has promoted Charlotte Cruickshank to Global Head of Fund Onboarding and Solutions.
Ocorian provides bespoke technology-led specialist funds services to private equity, venture capital, real estate, and infrastructure focussed fund managers. It is one of Ocorian’s fastest growing business lines.
Cruickshank is based in Ocorian’s Jersey office and joined Ocorian as Executive Director – Funds in 2018. She has an extensive background in fund administration and accounting and in particular working closely with clients to define their specific requirements and build tailored administration solutions to meet their
The plant-based foods market could make up to 7.7 per cent of the global protein market by 2030, with a value of over USD162 billion, up from USD29.4 billion in 2020, according to a new report by Bloomberg Intelligence (BI).
The report Plant-Based Foods Poised for Explosive Growth identifies growth expectations for the plant-based foods market through 2030, as global animal and dairy protein demand is poised to reach USD1.2 trillion by then.
According to the new report, industry giants including Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and Oatly are driving an increase in plant-based food options as they partner with
In a drive to better serve its clients and increase transparency and understanding of private markets, Preqin — a specialist in alternative assets data, analytics and insights — has acquired Colmore, a private markets technology, services and administration business.
Preqin supports more than 110,000 professionals globally in raising capital, sourcing deals and investments and understanding performance by providing them with the most comprehensive alternative assets data and insights. Colmore’s key solutions include portfolio monitoring, analytics, fee tracking and validation, and fund administration services for its LP and allocator clients. The rapidly growing business monitors more than 3,000 private market funds
GovSpend, a provider of government intelligence solutions and a portfolio company of Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) and Endicott Growth Equity Partners (EGEP), has completed the acquisition of Fedmine, a provider of detailed federal government contracting and spend intelligence solutions headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The founder-led-and-owned Fedmine (www.fedmine.us) was founded in 2004 and provides an advanced online database application containing integrated datasets uniquely curated to serve both industry and government organisations seeking decision-quality information on federal contracts and business opportunities. The acquisition combines this powerful federal focused database with GovSpend’s proprietary state
New Heritage Capital (Heritage), a Boston-based private equity firm, has made a new platform investment in Icelandirect, an importer, manufacturer and packager of marine oils and other nutraceutical products.
Icelandirect has proven to be an invaluable partner for its customers, with extensive in-house formulation & packaging capabilities, a reputation for sourcing high-quality, hard-to-find ingredients from its global supplier base, and ability to meet fast turnaround times. Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) acted as financial advisor to the Company in the sale transaction.
Heritage completed the investment through its unique Private IPO solution, which leaves operating control in the hands
Nautic Partners (Nautic) has completed the acquisition of Aurora Plastics (Aurora), in partnership with management.
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Streetsboro, Ohio, Aurora Plastics is a leading producer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other customised polymer compounds for customers across North America. Aurora is known for providing high-quality polymers, industry-leading service, and customised solutions. The company offers a broad range of products, all delivered with special attention to consistency and reliability, and designed to meet specific customer needs through a collective exchange. Aurora’s compounds are used in a variety of end products including applications in building & construction, industrial,
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