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HQ Capital has held the final closing of its co-investment program Auda Co-Investment Fund II (ACF II), with USD210 million of commitments, surpassing its original target of USD150 million.
The limited partners in ACF II consist of high net worth and institutional investors including insurance companies, pension funds and family offices.
“With our co-investment program, we offer investors the opportunity to participate directly in select transactions with attractive terms. The high demand for this specialised strategy confirms our approach and is a testament to the confidence our investors have placed in us,” says Dr Bernd Türk, CEO of HQ
EQT Private Equity (EQT) has acquired a stake in Parcel2Go, a UK largest parcel delivery marketplace and e-commerce shipping platform, from Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), management and certain selling shareholders.
Templum, a provider of next-generation capital markets infrastructure for alternatives and private securities, has closed a strategic financing round led by WestCap.
The partnership enables Templum to expand on marketplace services for its growing list of global clientele and enhance liquidity for institutional and retail investors across the ecosystem. Templum and its wholly owned broker dealer subsidiary, Templum Markets, deliver transparency and liquidity to investors and marketplaces with its frictionless, end-to-end white-label trading technology products, using its proprietary Alternative Trading System (ATS) and brokerage solutions.
“The most recent investment from WestCap advances Templum’s strategy to transform the alternative asset sector,”
GP Bullhound has made a new investment in Lingokids, an educational platform for children, as part of a Series C funding round of USD40 million led by an undisclosed investor, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, and Ravensburger among others.
Launched in 2016, Lingokids is the playlearning app for children between two and eight years old, helping more than 30 million families to expand their children’s vocabulary, improve their literacy skills, and develop important social and emotional skills in a fun, 100 per cent safe, ad-free environment.
Lingokids is dedicated to supporting parents in their child’s learning journey,
Car buying comparison specialist, carwow has acquired used car buying platform, Wizzle.
carwow, which investment backers include Vitruvian Partners, Balderton Capital, Accel, Episode 1 and Daimler, connects more online car buyers with more dealers and OEMs than any other online marketplace and is the brand of choice for more than 12 million users who want to research, configure and find their perfect new car online. Last year alone, GBP2.5 billion of new cars were sold on the carwow platform and almost 80 per cent of buyers then had a car to sell.
The acquisition of Wizzle will help
Private capital investments in Spain reached a record volume in 2020, totalling EUR6.27 billion, a growth of 33 per cent of the volume reached in 2019. However, in this booming sector, diversity does not move at the same pace: while many of the jobs that are not directly related to investment (administrative tasks, investor relations and platform) are held by women, gender parity is not the norm in the investment teams.
This is one of the findings of the first study that analyses diversity in Spanish investing firms, especially in venture capital. It was prepared by the international non-profit association
Bitwise Asset Management, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency index fund managers, has raised USD70 million in a Series B funding round led by Elad Gil and Electric Capital.
New backers include Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC, Daniel Och’s Willoughby Capital, Louis Bacon’s Moore Strategic Ventures, Paul Eisenstein’s Vetamer Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, alongside individual investors Henry Kravis, Stanley Druckenmiller, David McCormick (Bridgewater CEO), Daniel Sundheim (D1 CIO), Kevin Warsh (former U.S. Federal Reserve Governor), Nadeem Meghji (Blackstone executive), Tracey Warson (former Head of Citi Private Bank), Fidji Simo (Facebook executive), Helen Riley (Google X CFO), and several others. Existing
Beyond HERizons, a new initiative from London & Partners’ Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) programme designed to specifically tackle the funding gap that exists in the investment landscape, has launched its inaugural cohort of female founders.
Bertram Capital (Bertram) has closed the Bertram Growth Capital IV, & Bertram Growth Capital IV-A (collectivelyBGC IV), with USD940 million of total capital commitments, significantly above its initial hardcap of USD800 million and 80 per cent above the predecessor fund.
The new fund will continue Bertram’s proprietary buy and build strategy, anchored by Bertram Labs, the firm’s in-house technology enablement team. The new Fund builds upon a broad base of distinguished investors including endowments, foundations, consultants, insurance companies, public pensions, corporate pensions, asset managers, fund-of-funds, and family offices from the US, Europe and Asia.
“Bertram greatly appreciates the support of
HSBC Asset Management is bringing together all of its existing alternatives capabilities under a single business unit, HSBC Alternatives, with a 150-strong team and combined assets under management and advice of USD53 billion.
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