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Shamrock Capital (Shamrock) has held the final closing of Shamrock Capital Growth Fund V, (SCGF V), a USD1 billion fund focused on buyout and later-stage growth equity investments within Shamrock’s core industries of media, entertainment, and communications.
Shamrock’s private equity funds target companies seeking USD25-200 million of equity capital in both control and non-control transactions. SCGF V is managed by the Partners of Shamrock and other investment professionals in Los Angeles, California. Shamrock has approximately USD3.5 billion of total assets under management.
“We are grateful for the continued support of our longstanding investors and welcome our new investors as
Scalable Capital, a fast growing neo-broker and one of Europe’s largest digital wealth managers, has raised more than USD180 million (EUR150 million) in a Series E funding round led by by China’s leading technology company Tencent.
This purely primary investment round brings the total capital raised to over USD320 million (EUR260 million). Existing shareholders participated as well. The funding will be used to accelerate Scalable Capital’s European growth and to continue building an integrated digital wealth management and brokerage experience. Five years after go-live in February 2016, the company has over a quarter of a million clients and over USD5
Preqin, a specialist in alternative assets data, tools and insights, has appointed Kumsal Bayazit — CEO of world leading science and health information and analytics provider Elsevier — to the company’s Board of Directors.
Bayazit joined Elsevier as CEO in 2019 from its parent company RELX, an R&D-driven FTSE 20 company. She has played an active role in Elsevier’s partnerships to support a sustainable and equitable future and is a lifelong champion of diversity and equality in science, health and the workplace.
Since 2004, Bayazit has held multiple management positions, including Chief Strategy Officer at RELX, and chairs RELX’s
Curam, a UK-wide carer platform that has set out to use technology to positively disrupt the UK’s GBP38 billion social care sector, has launched of its Series A round of fundraising.
Since its launch in 2018, Curam has raised GBP3.6 million from high net worth and angel investors, and has rolled out its Curamcare platform and app across all the UK’s 124 postcode areas. The software behind the platform and app was designed and developed in-house in order to suit precisely the needs of care workers and their clients. With Curamcare, carers receive on average 25 per cent higher earnings
Singapore-based fintech BondEvalue has raised USD6 million in its Series A round of fund raising, with MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia and Citigroup among the new investors. Both institutions are expected to be represented on the board.
The latest round brings the total raised by the company to USD10 million and affirms investor confidence as its digital exchange for trading fractionalised bonds continues to gain momentum.
Other investors included existing shareholders Potato Productions, a company helmed by entrepreneur Lee Han Shih, and Octava, a Singapore-based family office.
BondEvalue was established in 2016 to provide electronic bond trading and to make bond
VTB Capital has entered the growing Russian carsharing market, acquiring a USD75 million minority equity stake in Delimobil Holding , which controls the Russian entities owning the Delimobil, Anytime and Anytime.Prime brands.
The funds raised in this transaction by Delimobil Holding will be used by Delimobil for further development and to strengthen the Group’s position in the Russian carsharing market.
A Memorandum of Cooperation was signed at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum by Yuri Soloviev, First Deputy President and Chairman of VTB Bank Management Board, and Vincenzo Trani, founder and president of Delimobil and MIKRO KAPITAL.
Vincenzo Trani, founder
Overhaul, the industry’s first and only software-based, supply-chain visibility, integrity, and security solution for the world’s leading brands, announced its USD35 million Series B funding today. The current round is led by Macquarie Capital, with participation from Edison Partners and Avanta Ventures (venture arm of CSAA Insurance Group). Overhaul will use the investment to accelerate its roadmap in continuing to optmise its current category-creating products.
The Artisanal Spirits Company (ASC”, owner of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) and the largest collection of single malt single cask whiskies in the world, as well as a complementary range of premium spirits, has begun trading on AIM with an opening price of 118.75p per share.
This price delivers a return of approximately 3x cost on the price Edinburgh-based private equity firm Inverleith Fund invested into the Company nearly three years ago.
Inverleith also has majority shareholdings in consumer brands Good Hemp, which produces food & drink products from hemp seed; Montezuma’s, a premium British chocolate manufacturer; Planet
Greenleaf Power Consolidated LLC (Greenleaf), backed by Denham Capital, has secured USD36.7 million in project financing from East West Bank through its wholly-owned subsidiary Greenleaf Biomass Holdings LLC. This transaction marks one of the largest biomass power project financings in recent North American history.
This financing will be used to recapitalize two of Greenleaf’s prime assets – the 30 megawatt (“MW”) Honey Lake Power (“HLP”) project in Lassen County, California, and the 22 MW St-Félicien Cogénération (“SFC”) project in Quebec, Canada. Both HLP and SFC are power generation facilities that convert woody biomass waste into electricity that is sold under
EmergeVest, the Hong Kong-based growth-oriented private equity investment group, has become a signatory to the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA)’s worldwide Diversity in Action initiative.
ILPA represents more than 550 institutional investors that together hold more than USD2 trillion in private equity funds, and the initiative seeks to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the private equity industry.
The initiative highlights support for advancing diversity and inclusion amongst both fund managers and institutional investors, encourages actions to be taken now and provides a platform for shaping and adopting best practice over time.
As a signatory, EmergeVest – with holdings
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