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Funds managed by leading global investment firm KKR will be joining long-time partner, Oak Hill Capital, and management as investors in MetroNet. As part of the transaction, Oak Hill and KKR will each make new investments to help accelerate MetroNet’s growth in building and connecting fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) data, television, and telephone services to homes and businesses. This year, MetroNet launched services in its ninth state as it continues to expand its fibre footprint to local communities across the country.
“We value our long-standing partnership with Oak Hill and are proud to welcome our new investors at KKR,” says John Cinelli,
Antarctica Capital, an international private equity firm has formed EarthDaily Analytics (EarthDaily), an integrated data processing and analytics company offering advanced digital products and analytics for delivery to the world’s rapidly expanding global agricultural industry.
EarthDaily Analytics utilises satellites to collect vast amounts of raw imagery of the Earth’s surface. Its market leading, proprietary cloud-based data processing software automatically transforms that raw imagery into scientific grade analytics-ready, calibrated image products and analytics. The company’s digital agriculture platform, Geosys, provides customer-facing tools that deliver actionable proprietary information and insights to agriculture businesses to manage risk and improve profitability. EarthDaily’s technology solutions
Pemberton, a European private debt manager transforming traditional credit markets, backed by one of Europe’s largest insurers, Legal & General Group PLC, has provided facilities to support the full refinancing of Elatec, a technology company providing global RFID technology solutions, backed by private equity firm Summit Partners.
Elatec is a leading global provider of highly-configurable RFID (radio frequency identification) technology solutions used in a variety of end-markets and industry applications, including printing, physical access control, computing, manufacturing and the Internet of Things (IoT). The company designs and manufactures both contact (SmartCard) and close proximity contactless (NFC, RFID, Bluetooth) readers/writers that
Rothschild & Co and Arrowpoint Advisory have advised Paine Schwartz Partners on the buy-out of Kynetec from Inflexion.
Kynetec provides market research for the agriculture and animal health industries, helping companies around the world understand the dynamics of their marketplaces, turning research into business opportunities and enabling clients to create winning strategies. Leveraging proprietary data sources and processing capabilities, Kynetec offers customers a suite of data-driven reporting and tracking solutions, as well as insight studies. Led by an experienced management team and based in Newbury, England and St. Louis, Missouri, Kynetec has 400-plus customers in more than 80 countries.
ARIE Capital Group has been granted approval for its Private Fund Management (PFM) licence from the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC), and its Qualified Foreign Limited Partner (QFLP) licence by the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Bureau of Finance.
These two licences are a significant achievement for ARIE Capital Group and its business in China, where it plans to launch several venture capital and private equity funds. Under the QFLP licence it is now able to raise up to USD120 million from Tianjin Municipality’s investment quota, as well as additional capital from international investors that can be converted into RMB
NorthEdge has made a series of appointments and promotions across its Manchester and Leeds offices.
The lower mid-market private equity specialist, which manages more than GBP900 million of funds, has promoted Partner Prem Mohan Raj to Chief Operating Officer. Prem joined the business in 2016 as Chief Financial Officer and has since played a key part in the firm’s success. His new role will see him take on increased responsibility for Investor Relations and fundraising alongside his responsibilities for finance, operations and marketing.
NorthEdge’s Manchester office has also appointed John Hammond as Director in the Portfolio team. Hammond has extensive
Inovo, a venture capital firm investing in technology startups across Poland and Central & Eastern European region (CEE), has today announced the final close of its second fund, Inovo II, at EUR54 million.
A range of global funds, entrepreneurs and family offices joined the European Investment Fund (EIF) as the cornerstone investor.
Inovo specialises in identifying disruptive tech startups and supporting their development and growth through participation in early-stage, post-traction seed and Series A funding. Having a diverse range of LPs in the fund will enable portfolio companies to secure global funding as they scale and expand abroad. The
Kennet Partners (Kennet), a European technology growth equity investor, has agreed to sell its stake in Dext (formerly ReceiptBank), a digital, multi-product platform for accountants and bookkeepers, to Hg, a leading global software and services investor. The sale will provide Kennet with a 4.4 times return on its investment.
Kennet was the first institutional investor in Dext and acquired its stake in the company in 2016. The sale of Kennet’s stake in Dext comes after a record-breaking financial quarter following its rebrand (from Receiptbank) earlier this year.
Over the last five years, funding from Kennet and subsequent investors including
Alto Solutions, a self-directed IRA platform aiming to make it easier for individuals to access and invest in alternative assets using their retirement funds, has closed a USD17 million Series A funding round led by Unusual Ventures, with additional participation from existing investors Moment Ventures, Acrew Capital, and Alpha Edison, and strategic investments from Carta, Coinbase Ventures, Franklin Templeton, New York Life Ventures, and Stone Ridge Holdings Group.
Eurazeo has launched the Sustainable Maritime Infrastructure thematic fund (the Fund) to finance more environmentally friendly infrastructure and technologies in the maritime sector that support the transition to a low carbon economy.
As a consequence, the fund will have the objective of pursuing sustainable development within the meaning of Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (known as the “Disclosure Regulation”) and will participate directly in the deployment of O+, the Group’s ambitious ESG strategy – one of the pillars of which is the achievement of net carbon neutrality by 2040.
Currently, 90 per cent of the world’s goods are transported
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