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According to the first estimates obtained by the Spanish Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (ASCRI), through the European platform EDC, the volume of investment in Spain reached EUR2,056.8 million in the first half of the year in a total of 394 investments, 27 per cent more than in the same period of 2020.
Venture Capital has surpassed all record highs, with EUR731 million in a total of 316 investments.
Aquilino Peña, President of ASCRI, says: “International investors continue to bet on Spain, which shows that, despite the uncertainty of this period, our country remains attractive and the Venture
Treblle, a startup providing developers and companies with an API (application programming interfaces) monitoring and analytics platform has raised EUR1.2 million in a funding round led by Nauta Capital.
With a mission to make working with APIs easier and more efficient, Treblle saves developers and companies time and money in every stage of the API lifecycle from development to post-production.
The use of APIs has exploded exponentially: APIs represent 83 per cent of all web traffic with the number of API calls made in some of the biggest digital brands exceeding tens of billions per day. However, the biggest
Future Fund: Breakthrough, announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Budget 2021, is now open for applications. This UK-wide programme will deliver GBP375 million of government funding via British Patient Capital, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank.
Due to high research and development costs, breakthrough technology companies typically require more capital than other companies, to fuel the later stages of their growth. Because of their ability to grow rapidly and have a significant economic impact, the growth of these innovative companies is critical to the UK’s future prosperity and economic recovery.
Through the Future Fund: Breakthrough programme,
GCA Altium has advised Aspria, a London headquartered, founder-led operator of super premium health focused clubs and hotels across Europe, on a EUR53 million investment from funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group (Fortress).
Aspria, founded in 2000 and headquartered in London, UK, is a collection of Europe’s finest private members’ clubs in unique locations across Belgium, Italy and Germany. The exclusive clubs feature a wide range of sports, leisure, health, wellness, childcare and educational facilities, restaurants and hotel accommodation, and currently serve a member base of around 40,000.
Founded in 1998, Fortress manages approximately USD53.1 billion of
CV VC, a Swiss blockchain venture capitalist and incubator has not only extended its VC operations internationally to UAE and Africa but now offers fully compliant, bankable and transferable participation in an underlying portfolio of blockchain assets, delivering a balancing opportunity, high return potential and diversification.
The CV VC investment vehicles are Actively Managed Certificates (AMC) with a Swiss ISIN code allowing qualified global investors to securely engage in blockchain, a technology megatrend whose business value-add will reach a staggering USD3.1 trillion by 2030.
CV VC Blockchain T4T: The Blockchain Technology for Tomorrow allows qualified investors to participate in a
Fuse Venture Partners (Fuse), a European internet growth venture investor, has appointed Dipam Patel as a Principal, bringing over 10 years’ technology and investing experience to the firm.
Patel will work with the eight-person London-based European-focused team led by Managing Partner Spyro Korsanos as it looks to expand the firm’s investments into promising technology companies, focusing on Series B and C funding.
Having held roles with both GP Bullhound and Bryan Garnier, where he was involved in executing fundraising and M&A transactions generating over USD5 billion in aggregate value, Patel has significant technology, entrepreneurship and finance experience. He also
Bowmark Capital has further strengthened its investment, portfolio and origination teams with six new appointments.
Jessica Collins, Ben Culverwell, Jamal Lakhani and James Swainston join Bowmark as investment executives, while Sam Beesley and Jemma Litkie become members of the firm’s portfolio management and origination teams.
Collins was previously a senior consultant at Oliver Wyman where she focused on commercial due diligence and corporate strategy projects. Prior to that, she was an equities analyst at Fidelity International covering small cap companies.
Culverwell joins Bowmark from Houlihan Lokey where he was a member of the corporate finance team and worked
Schroders Capital has reached the EUR1 billion hard cap fundraising target for the Schroder Euro Enhanced Infrastructure Debt Fund II (JULIE II).
The fund, which is managed by Schroders Capital’s specialist infrastructure team, was launched in Q3 2020 and invests in European sub-investment grade infrastructure debt opportunities. The fundraising has been evenly split between Asian and European investors.
Today’s news follows shortly after an update in June which confirmed that more than EUR700 million had been raised. The fund is the second vintage of this strategy whose first fund (JULIE I) was launched in 2017, raising close to EUR350 million.
XPhyto Therapeutics Corp is to acquire 3a-diagnostics, Frickenhausen, Germany (3a), the company’s exclusive diagnostics development partner.
Pursuant to the definitive agreement, XPhyto will acquire all of the outstanding shares of 3a for EUR400,000, to be paid immediately, and EUR3.5 million, to be paid on closing, planned for on or around 31 October, 2021.
Hugh Rogers, CEO of XPhyto, says: “We have collaborated closely with the 3a-diagnostics team on several diagnostics products and have found them to be a highly innovative and focused partner. The successful development and recent launch of the 25-minute PCR test Covid-ID Lab is a great example
Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Wilkie) has appointed Dvir Oren as a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Financial Services Department, where he will be part of Willkie’s Private Equity Practice Group.
Oren, who was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, will be based in the firm’s New York office.
“Dvir is an outstanding lawyer and strengthens Willkie’s premier private equity platform, further enhancing our deep bench of talented private equity attorneys practicing throughout the US and Europe,” says Jeffrey Poss, Co-Chair of the Private Equity Practice Group. “We are very pleased to welcome him to the Firm.”
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