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For the first time in history, global venture investments surpassed USD100 billion in Q1 2021. According to the research data analysed and published by Sijoitusrahastot, worldwide VC funding in Q1 2021 rose by 94 per cent YoY to USD125 billion. During the period, two unicorns on average were created daily, raising the quarterly total to 112.
In this week’s podcast, Priya Karkar, investor relations representative at secondaries-focused firm Kline Hill Partners, talks about fundraising in the ‘new business normal’ and how LP sentiment regarding committing to private funds has evolved since the onset of the global pandemic more than a year ago.
By Sam Gilbert-Ward, business analyst, Pollen Street Capital – Looking to the future, post-Covid, the success of ESG impact investing can be secured by championing three key pillars. First, building ESG into the culture of organisations, supporting initiatives with the resource it deserves. Second, establishing best practice. And third, going beyond reporting, focusing on the actual impact and celebrating successes.
Pillar one – Build the culture
As with any change in a business, culture is key. Until ESG is embedded throughout the business it can get stuck as a collection of well-intentioned efforts that struggle to deliver impact. In the second
KGAL Investment Management GmbH & Co KG has continued to strategically expand its presence in the Polish renewable energy market with the 27 MW Rywald project, its third Polish onshore wind farm.
“Central and Eastern Europe and Poland in particular offer attractive risk-return profiles in both wind energy and photovoltaics (PV). Poland, a country heavily reliant on coal, has a huge need for additional renewable energy capacity, which our institutional investors can benefit from as part of a strategic portfolio addition,” explains Michael Ebner, Managing Director of KGAL Investment Management and responsible for the infrastructure asset class. “We are currently
Procensus, an opinion sharing community for institutional investors, has launched a premium service which extends access to the platform’s benchmarking data to corporates, capital markets bankers, alternative asset managers and regulatory authorities, providing them with enhanced market intelligence.
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Independent non-alcoholic spirits brand Lyre’s, has completed a seed-plus funding round valuing the business at over GBP100 million.
This milestone has been achieved in under 24 months of trading, during which time Lyre’s has become the most widely distributed non-alcoholic spirits brand – now available in 43 countries – generating double-digit monthly revenue growth with annualised sales on course to exceed GBP35 million by the fourth quarter of this year.
Lead institutional investors introduced in this funding tranche – Lyre’s third round since inception – include US-based Morgan Creek Capital Management (early-backers of Alibaba, SpaceX, Lyft, Drizly NinjaVan and Allbirds)
Flexstone Partners’ Global Opportunities IV, has attracted USD322 million of commitments after a first close in November 2020 and has already completed three investments.
Like its predecessors, the fund is backed by long-standing Flexstone Partners investors, including Natixis, as well as new, top-tier Institutional investors in Europe, Australia and Asia. The fund will make more than 40 investments in privately-owned companies across the world alongside high conviction managers.
With a focused investment strategy – providing increased exposure to high conviction managers in their core areas of expertise – Global Opportunities IV will follow the same strategy and selection processes
NorthEdge has launched its first ESG report in which it reviews the progress made by the firm in 2020 across sustainability, D&I and community, as well as setting out ambitious plans for the year ahead.
The report, titled Taking Responsibility, looks back on the achievements made at the private equity firm and across its portfolio.
These including gaining the United Nations supported Principles for Responsible Investment A+ status for Strategy and Governance for the third year running, placing NorthEdge in the top 12 per cent of all private equity firms with <USD1 billion AUM in this category, and gaining
CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investments in European SMEs – has acquired a majority stake in Eidosmedia, an international player in Content Management System (CMS) solutions.
Eidosmedia develops innovative content management solutions serving clients with high-value content and complex workflow management needs. Its software covers the end-to-end content lifecycle for very large media, financial research, academic and public research and corporate organizations.
Established in 1999, with an engineering team based in Milan, Eidosmedia is today a leading global supplier with over 200 employees based across Europea, North America, and Asia Pacific, and generates EUR29 million
Nexif Energy, an Australian and South East Asian power company, backed by Denham Capital has reached financial close on its 154 MW Snapper Point Power Plant under construction in South Australia.
This project will convert turbines using diesel to cleaner natural gas and, in conjunction with Nexif Energy’s Lincoln Gap Wind Farm, provide firm renewable power to the grid.
The Snapper Point project is a flexible and fast response dispatchable power plant under fast-track development. The project, which received development approval in August 2020, will utilise five gas turbine generating units leased for 25 years from the South Australian
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