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ENSO, which is developing a revolutionary EV tyre that can increase the distance that an electric vehicle can travel and at the same time reduce tyre pollution (air and micro plastic pollution), has launched a crowdfunding campaign via the Crowdcube platform.
The Crowdcube campaign, to support the R&D and commercial development of ENSO, coincides with the success of a hypermile challenge by Mission Motorsport (the UK Armed Forces’ motorsport charity) to break the world record of driving a standard Renault ZOE electric car the longest distance on a single charge. On Thursday June 10th, the ZOE – equipped with ENSO’s
Aksiom Services Group, a partnership between Ara Partners and the Aksiom Group, has acquired Anesco Holdings, the parent company of the Anesco Group, for an undisclosed sum.
Anesco joins the group’s growing portfolio of companies who are developing and building low carbon infrastructure and helping accelerate global decarbonisation.
As a UK market leader in renewable energy, Anesco manages the development, design, construction, maintenance and market optimisation of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
The company has developed and constructed more than 115 solar farms and energy storage facilities, including the UK’s first solar farm free
The Heubach Group (Heubach), in partnership with SK Capital Partners (SK Capital), is to acquire Clariant’s Pigments Business (Clariant Pigments).
The combined business will operate under the Heubach name, creating a global pigments leader generating more than EUR900 million in annual sales.
The transaction values Clariant Pigments at approximately CHF805 million, with additional consideration of CHF50 million contingent on the 2021 financial performance of the business unit. As part of the transaction, Clariant will be reinvesting for a minority stake in the combined business, demonstrating its continuing commitment to the success of Clariant Pigments and the substantial growth opportunity
Growthdeck, a private equity investment firm, has added Hugh Clark, a former Director of the Clarks shoes business, to its new advisory board.
Clark joins eight other new board members in being appointed to Growthdeck’s recently formed advisory board. The board has been launched to assist Growthdeck with the appraisal of investment opportunities and to help the firm’s investee businesses with their growth plans.
The board is made up of experienced business leaders who have had successful careers steering businesses to high levels of growth. The board members will offer guidance and support to the management teams of Growthdeck’s investee
Fresha, a beauty and wellness software platform, has secured USD100 million in a Series C investment round led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, with strategic participation from Huda Kattan of HB Investments and the founder of Huda Beauty, as well as Michael Zeisser of FMZ Ventures, former Chairman Investments at Alibaba Group, and Jonathan Green of Lugard Road Capital.
Fresha’s existing global investors Partech, Target Global and FJ Labs also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total fundraising to USD132 million to date. Fresha will leverage the new funds to further broaden its global community of
Two major issues will drive change in LPs’ private equity portfolios in the next few years, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer.
hree quarters of all LPs will invest differently in response to issues connected with sustainability and climate change, and a similar proportion will focus on new opportunities in healthcare and biotech.
“The fact that key ESG issues – climate, sustainability and health – are at the top of investor agendas should surprise no one,” says Jeremy Coller, Chief Investment Officer of Coller Capital, “but the fact that half of all private equity investors think
Globeleq, Africa’s independent power producer, and the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), the infrastructure development and finance organisation, have officially broken ground on a 9MWp solar and 7MWh storage power project at Cuamba in northern Mozambique, bringing clean power and jobs to the region.
Globeleq is majority owned by CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor.
The USD32 million project marks a major milestone as it will be one of the first IPP grid-scale storage plants in sub-Saharan Africa. The Cuamba Solar project will provide clean energy to 18,000 households and support job creation in
BlackPeak Capital successfully completed first closing at EUR68.5 million of its target EUR120 million BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund.
The Fund targets growth equity investments of EUR5-10 million in dynamic SMEs in Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia. The Fund focuses on partnering with the region’s outstanding entrepreneurs who have the ambition to build world-class companies on the basis of continued innovation, organic growth, and add-on acquisitions. The Fund has a generalist sector approach with strong preference for IT/software, niche manufacturing, business services, healthcare, and consumer sectors.
BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund is backed by the European Investment
Paul Hastings LLP, a global law firm, is advising Six BidCo Ltd (a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of investment funds managed by PineBridge Benson Elliot) on its acquisition of Sigma Capital Group plc, a provider of Private Rented Sector housing in the UK.
The boards of Six Bidco Ltd and Sigma Capital Group plc this morning announced they have reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a recommended cash offer by Six Bidco for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Sigma.
The Acquisition values the entire issued ordinary share capital of Sigma at approximately GBP188.4 million
The pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital, through one of its portfolio companies, Electrum Holding Sàrl, has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Element Solutions Inc, for the purpose of the sale of its stake in Coventya, an international specialty chemicals business headquartered in France, generating a 2.5x gross money multiple. Completion of the transaction is expected to occur by Q3 or Q4 2021.
Founded in 1927, Coventya is a leading developer and manufacturer of specialty chemicals used for surface treatment within the General Metal Finishing plating industry. The firm operates in 60 countries across four continents, employing c700 staff
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