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SWEN Capital Partners, a specialist in sustainable private equity investments, has added Christian Lim and Olivier Raybaud, co-founders of Blue Oceans Partners, to its investment team and executive committee.
The two new managing directors are committed to financing innovations that have a systemic impact on ocean regeneration.
Ocean regeneration is one of the major environmental challenges of our time. A sanctuary of biodiversity, the ocean also plays a vital role in the production of oxygen (50 per cent of the oxygen we breathe) and is critical to the fight against climate change, absorbing 93 per cent of the excess heat
The BUILD Fund (BUILD), an impact fund created in partnership between Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), has made its inaugural investment, providing a USD500,000 working capital facility for Mwezi, a Kenyan distributor of solar products.
Mwezi is a last-mile solar energy solutions distributor targeting rural Kenya. The company provides high-quality solar-powered, Lighting Global accredited products. Mwezi offers customers access to these products through a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) solution to address the financing barriers that have historically held back low-income households in rural sub-Saharan Africa from affording clean energy.
Mwezi sells and distributes products
Akur8, an insurtech automating insurance pricing with its proprietary Transparent AI, has closed a Series B funding round of USD30 million, bringing its total funding to USD42 million.
The investment round closed less than two years after the P&C and health insurance pricing SaaS solution provider first commercialised its platform, and just 15 months after its Series A led by BlackFin Capital Partners and MTech Capital. Both are reinvesting in this round.
Founded in 2018, Akur8’s vision is to transform insurance pricing with its Transparent AI, to empower actuaries and pricing teams to make better decisions, faster. The cloud-based
Inflexion has completed the acquisition of Infront ASA, a European provider of financial market data and software solutions currently listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
The founders of Infront, CEO Kristian Nesbak and CIO Morten Lindeman, are reinvesting a portion of their proceeds alongside Inflexion. The investment is being made by Inflexion Buyout Fund V and Supplemental Fund. The business will be delisted shortly after the acquisition.
Headquartered in Oslo, Infront provides a suite of data and software solutions which allow financial institutions to manage investment decisions, reduce costs and comply with changing market requirements. The company serves more than
Cardano, a pensions risk and investment management specialist, has made three new hires in its Manager Research division.
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Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its Global Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) into Spain, with the appointment of two Madrid-based Managing Directors, Cristina Almeida and Ignacio Basagoiti.
The arrival of Almeida and Basagoiti marks the latest move in the group’s strategic growth plans and follows the recent appointment of Ali Anwar, Managing Director and Middle East Practice Leader, in Dubai.
The newly established team in Spain will work closely with Global TAG’s existing teams around the world to meet local market demands and address growing cross-border M&A requirements, with enhanced integrated due diligence and transaction
Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa) has completed the simultaneous acquisitions of UAB Pigu (Pigu) and Hobby Hall Group OÜ (HHG), becoming the majority shareholder in the combined group, which represents the leading e-commerce and online marketplace platform operating across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, with a growing presence in Finland.
With several million registered customers across four countries, over 3,000 merchants onboarded on its proprietary marketplace platform over the last year, Pigu also has a unique portfolio of online shopping destinations such as pigu.lt, kaup24.ee, hansapost.ee, 220.lv, xnet.lv, and hobbyhall.fi.
Mid Europa says the combined Group is expected to lead the
Gemcorp Group, an emerging markets investment, commodities and energy group, has completed a management buyout from its seed investor.
The Gemcorp management team, led by founder and CEO, Atanas Bostandjiev, now owns 100 per cent of the business. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The buyout marks the latest step in Gemcorp’s expansion. Since its inception as an emerging markets investment management firm in 2014, Gemcorp has grown organically, adding a successful physical commodity solutions business and an energy business. The group now employs more than 138 employees, operating across 9 cities.
The Group’s three business
E-commerce investor Clearco has announced ambitious international expansion plans supported by two key executive hires – UK Head and Chief Growth Officer.
After launching in the UK last October and the Netherlands last month, Clearco is also planning on rapidly expanding its European footprint and operations. In addition, it plans to start its expansion into Asian Pacific markets by the end of 2021. The announcement comes on the heels of the company’s Series C capital raise at an almost USD2 billion valuation, and rebranding from Clearbanc to Clearco.
To accelerate its ambitious international expansion plans, Clearco has identified several
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, has launched an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) and specialised depositary services in Ireland.
The launch of an AIFM management company follows approval by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) for the acquisition of Beechbrook Capital’s Irish AIFM, and authorisation for Alter Domus’ specialised depositary services.
Alter Domus is the largest specialist service provider in the Irish market to offer a full suite of vertically integrated and tailored solutions locally for global private debt, private equity, real estate and infrastructure investors who market, raise and invest private
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