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New research with senior private equity and venture capital professionals reveals 71 per cent expect there to be more than 160,000 commercial air taxis operating around the world by 2050. Some 17 per cent anticipate there will be over 200,000.
Private equity, family office and merchant banking firm DPG is set to close in excess of a billion dollars in private capital over the next 18 months.
“We have structured many new deep investment partnerships with significant capacity combined with various private capital strategies we are actively deploying into the markets today,” says Chairman Dan Galvanoni. “DPG has established new institutional capital partnerships and ultra-high net worth family office clients that are aggressively looking to deploy capital into the current market dislocations we are witnessing today. We have never seen such liquidity within our investor base.”
The DPG senior management
Alantra, a global investment banking and asset management specialist, has appointed Tommaso Ferrari as Managing Partner to lead its Investment Banking division in Italy.
Ferrari brings to the role more than 20 years of experience in investment banking, strategy consulting and private equity in the Italian market. This includes market-leading transactions on behalf of Autogrill, Borsa Italiana, Dea Capital, Diasorin, Ducati, Italgas, Fincantieri, Finmeccanica, IlSole24Ore, Illimity Bank, MZB Group, NB Aurora, and OVS, as well as a range of SME companies in support of their expansion in Italy and internationally.
Ferrari joins Alantra from UBI Banca, where he led the
Addition Capital, the London-based family investment office, has completed a control investment into Be-A Education Ltd, supported by funding from Shawbrook Bank.
Hertfordshire-based Be-A Education is the operator of the highly successful and fast-growing New Skills Academy and Staff Skills Training businesses with a mission to make learning accessible to consumers and businesses globally. To date, the award-winning company has sold nearly 1 million courses to consumers in over 30 countries.
The strategic investment, in partnership with Be-A’s founders, marks a new phase in Be-A’s continuing mission to bring affordable and accessible upskilling courses to consumers and businesses globally through
Access Holdings, a Baltimore-based mid-market investment firm specialising in a purposeful buy-and-build investment approach, has added three new team members who will play key roles in further developing Access’s digital origination and portfolio monitoring capabilities.
Matt Johl, George Shipley, and Ellen Kirk Jarosinski will join Steve Chang and Merritt Davis in applying digital tools and capabilities to drive lead generation and performance management across the Access portfolio.
“I’m thrilled to now have four digital experts on our team who can help our firm and our portfolio companies embrace and apply digital tools and technology to drive growth,” says
Vidrio Financial (Vidrio), a provider of software and data services for institutional alternative allocators globally, has launched Vidrio ”One,” its first non-enterprise offering driven by increased demand from a broader range of institutional investors including pensions, endowments, foundations, consultants and family offices to allocate across the alternatives landscape.
Private-equity backed Access Partnership has secured an undisclosed investment from Shawbrook Bank.
The international firm, also backed by Mobeus Equity Partners, specialises in shaping international public policy for the global technology sector.
The Group has witnessed rapid growth in recent years, driven by market dynamics around increasing regulatory pressures in data security, communications and artificial intelligence.
Supported by Mobeus, the Access Partnership management team are pursuing a period of organic and acquisitive growth, further funded by an undisclosed commercial facility from Shawbrook Bank, a specialist lender to UK SMEs.
“Governments and their citizen-stakeholders want technology on terms that are fair
Alteri Investors, a specialist investor in the European retail sector, has appointed Charlie Edwards as UK Investment Director.
Edwards joins from Caledonia Investments where he led multiple investments over the last 10 years with a focus on UK MBOs. Prior to Caledonia, he spent eight years at KPMG, principally in Restructuring and Transaction Services. Edwards will lead the generation, execution and management of Alteri’s UK deals.
Edwards’ appointment follows a number of other new hires, as Alteri further develops its operational expertise, extends its analytical capabilities and enhances its organisational effectiveness. Namely, Raul Portela (eg Helly Hansen, Triumph and
The Gresham House British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF) made a GBP10.5 million investment into Borderlink Broadband Limited (Borderlink).
Borderlink is a Fixed Wireless Access and Fibre broadband operator serving business and residential customers across Scotland, Cumbria and Northumberland. Borderlink is headquartered in the Scottish borders with depots and offices based at Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Kelso, and Carlisle respectively. Borderlink’s current network focuses on rolling out high speed fibre broadband connectivity across five counties today, with the intention to grow more widely across Scotland and Northern England.
Borderlink will use the BSIF investment, in conjunction with the various Government schemes available to support
Hospitality technology platform LOKE has raised GBP2.85 million in a funding round led by Guinness Asset Management.
LOKE provides hospitality and retail businesses a sales and marketing platform designed to create new revenue channels, increase the average order value, frequency of transactions and reduce labour costs. This is achieved via a suite of digital sales and marketing tools powered by a bespoke rewards and promotion engine.
LOKE’s platform ‘democratises’ technology previously only available to the world’s biggest brands to any hospitality or retail business. With eight years of experience developing solutions, its expertise has helped support SMEs thrive during
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