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Stafford Capital Partners (Stafford) has raised over EUR450 million for its fourth dedicated infrastructure secondaries fund – Stafford Infrastructure Secondaries Fund IV (SISF IV).
The specialist real assets and private markets manager held a third close of SISF IV, welcoming five investors into the fund.
The close builds on two successful previous closes in August and December 2020.
SISF IV has a fundraising target of EUR750 million and hard cap of EUR1 billion. It is expected to remain open to investors throughout 2021.
The fund acquires interests in existing core infrastructure funds, predominately in Europe, North America and Australasia.
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Apex Group (Apex), a global financial services provider, has partnered with i80 Group, an investment firm that partners with pre-eminent venture and growth companies, to provide loan administration and ESG Ratings & Advisory services, in addition to its existing fund administration services.
New York headquartered i80 Group provides companies with bespoke financing solutions that are designed to scale with a company’s accelerating growth plans while minimising dilution. Apex will provide i80 Group with a comprehensive range of loan administration services to support these transactions from initial set up to maturity.
Apex’s market leading Loan Administration service encompasses operational support to
Moonfare, a digital investment platform for top-tier private markets funds, has signed the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the United Nations–supported organisation with over 4,000 signatories worldwide.
PRI signatories commit to responsible investment principles that provide a framework for integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their decision-making processes.
“With the growth of our assets under management at Moonfare, we will continuously redouble our focus on the responsibility that comes with managing these large sums,” says Moonfare founder and CEO Steffen Pauls. “Signing the PRI allows us to once again underscore our commitment to backing managers who hold themselves
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led the GBP2.6 million investment in cloud-based internal communication and employee engagement platform Oak Engage Limited (Oak).
A total of GBP1.825 million has been provided by Maven’s Investor Partners network alongside a further GBP775,000 from the Maven managed North East Development Capital Fund and the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Northstar Ventures, as well as existing and new private investors. Today’s transaction has now completed the series A round, in which Maven has invested a total of
Eurazeo has held the final closing of its fourth secondary programme at EUR 1.0 billion. The capital raised includes EUR700 million for Idinvest Secondary Fund IV, exceeding its initial target of EUR600 million, and EUR300 million of additional secondaries capital raised from private individuals.
The previous secondary programme closed on EUR570 million of commitments in 2017.
Eurazeo has been active in the secondary market since 2003 and has closed over 100 secondary transactions. Eurazeo’s secondary focus is to capture attractive European mid-market secondary opportunities in mature private equity funds or through acquiring portfolios of selected companies.
This fourth
Private equity firms Flexpoint Ford and Vestar Capital Partners are to acquire LERETA, a provider of real estate tax and flood services for mortgage servicers. The transaction is expected to close within 30 days.
LERETA’s chief executive officer, John Walsh, and the current senior management team will continue to lead the Company.
LERETA serves more than 4,000 customers nationwide. The Company processes more than USD17 billion in tax payments annually and monitors more than 25 million loans for flood determinations. Over the past two years, the Company has met 99.9 per cent of its service level agreements for all
Single.Earth – a tokenisation platform that enables forests, wetlands, and other planetary resources to generate profit for landowners by selling them as carbon and biodiversity credits, instead of raw materials – has secured USD7.9 million in seed funding.
The round was led by EQT Ventures, with participation from existing investor Icebreaker and Ragnar Sass and Martin Henk, founders of Pipedrive. The funding will be used to launch its marketplace for nature-backed MERIT tokens and for hiring talent.
The climate crisis is the biggest existential risk that humanity has faced in the last 200,000 years – but countries are still
Munich-based AgTech start-up Agrando has completed its Series A with an investment of EUR12 million, the highest Series A amount ever raised by a European agribusiness.
yabeo Impact AG, an impact fund of early-stage investor yabeo from Munich, led the round, while Sony Innovation Fund and Investbridge also participated. Existing investors such as the technology VC June Fund and the London family office JLR Star invested again. Agrando will use the funding to invest in internationalisation and R&D.
Agrando, founded in 2017, is an independent platform that connects all players in agri-trade. It supports farmers, retailers and producers using optimised
The Life Sciences Investment Programme, previously announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has opened for applications from fund managers. To be delivered by British Patient Capital, a commercial subsidiary of British Business Bank, the programme will bring more large-scale specialist UK focused fund managers to market, increasing the supply of venture growth finance to UK life sciences companies.
At the forefront of breakthrough treatments of disease, the UK is a world leader in life sciences. The discovery and development of new drugs, vaccines and cell/gene therapies have placed the UK at the frontier of responses to global challenges. These
Vortex Energy, a global renewable energy platform managed by the private equity arm of EFG Hermes, has reached first close of USD200 million (including a USD25 million conditional commitment) for its fourth fund, which is anchored by EFG Hermes and Abu Dhabi sovereign institutional investors and family offices, among others.
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