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SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has appointed Daniele Ferrari as Senior Director.
Ferrari brings over 35 years of direct operating and executive experience in the chemicals industry, most recently serving as the CEO of Versalis, one of Europe’s largest chemicals companies, and as Chairman of Matrìca, a joint-venture with Novamont, a leader in the bio-plastics industry at the forefront of the renewable chemistry sector. At Versalis, Ferrari led the company’s efforts to reposition downstream and grow the company’s portfolio of higher margin, specialty and renewable chemical products, including creating
The London Technology Club (LTC), has invested in TIER, a European provider of micro-mobility solutions, as part of a USD250 million fundraising round.
Launched in October 2018, TIER has successfully expanded its offer to more than 90 cities across 10 countries worldwide. The investment by LTC members was made through a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) offered by White Star Capital.
LTC took part in the Series C funding round, which was led by SoftBank¹, with participation from existing investors Mubadala Capital, White Star Capital, Northzone, Goodwater Capital, Novator and RTP Global.
The European micro-mobility market alone offers a EUR200 billion
Private capital funds face growing demands for transparency as mainstream investors increasingly turn to the sector to chase the higher returns it offers, new research from Intertrust and Global Custodian reveals.
Intertrust Group, a specialist in providing administration services to clients in over 30 jurisdictions, estimates that around USD5.5 billion will need to be spent to meet these increasing demands worldwide over the next five years.
The report, entitled The future private capital CFO: Evolving in a digital age and created in partnership with Global Custodian, shows that CFOs at private capital funds expect their limited partners (LPs) to require
Umbra, a Santa Barbara-based intelligence and technology company, has raised USD32 million in an equity financing led by the family office venture fund of John Burbank, founder of hedge fund Passport Capital.
The company’s existing investors – CrossCut Ventures, Starbridge Ventures, Hemisphere Ventures, PonValley, and others – also participated.
Umbra is the inventor of a micro-satellite that can see through clouds, at night, in high resolution (<25 cm GSD). The company has agreements to deliver data to the United States government and commercial geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) firms.
Umbra was founded with a contract from a prime aerospace and defence firm,
Premium liquid supplements specialist YourZooki has secured a GBP1.6 million funding facility with Metro Bank as it looks to accelerate its expansion into North American markets.
The new funding comes as revenues trebled in the previous twelve months, with online demand rising 750 per cent during the pandemic.
The funding will enable YourZooki to scale up its international distribution network, after signing a recent contract for US and Canadian market entry with GNC (General Nutrition Centre), the world’s biggest specialist supplement retailer. It furthers YourZooki’s share of the rapidly growing global dietary supplement market, estimated to reach USD53bn by
Global growth private equity firm TA Associates (TA) is to make a majority investment in IGEL, the provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces.
TA joins existing IGEL investor C Melchers GmbH & Co KG (Melchers), which has been IGEL’s primary investor since its founding in 2001 and will maintain a significant equity interest in the company. After handing over the position of IGEL CEO to Jed Ayres last year, founder and former CEO of IGEL Heiko Gloge also remains as a minority stake holder and board member. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
IGEL
Mid-market private equity firm Moshesh Partners Fund Management has selected Prescient Fund Services (Pty) Ltd (Prescient) as the Fund Administrator to its first private fund.
The fund’s strategy is to invest in renewable energy and clean infrastructure with the goal of securing South Africa’s long-term energy viability and empowering its people.
Moshesh Partners has been seeded by Thuso Incubation Partners (Thuso), a South African dedicated black majority-owned private equity incubator. In line with Thuso’s mission statement, the fund has embedded Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles.
“At Moshesh we strive to be the best
Intelligence Fusion has secured a GBP400,000 investment from a number of sources to continue its growth in the expanding global intelligence market.
Led by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) the funding has been provided by the Finance Durham Fund, The Future Fund and existing investors. The follow-on investment will support the business as it enters its next phase of growth after it successfully developed and launched its intelligence data feed platform two years ago.
A total of GBP100,000 was invested on behalf of the Finance Durham Fund which was established by Durham County Council to encourage businesses to grow and
Growth investor Grafton Capital has appointed Amaad Mahmood and Daniel Cheung to its investment team.
Mahmood joins as an Investment Director, and will focus on sourcing, evaluating, and executing investments. Prior to joining Grafton, Mahmood was a growth investor at Mobeus Equity Partners.
Cheung joins Grafton Capital as Associate Director from Downing Ventures having begun his career in Corporate Finance at Arma Partners.
Last month, Grafton Capital announced the appointment of Tom Morrell as Chief Financial Officer, who joined from Brookfield Asset Management.
These recent appointments to Grafton Capital’s investment and operational team come at a time
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has sold Hedges Direct Group Limited, an ecommerce business in the gardening and landscaping sector based in Euxton, Lancashire.
This is the second exit from Foresight Regional Investment LP (the Fund), following the successful sale of Clubhouse Golf in March 2020 which generated a return of 6.1x. Following just two strong exits, GBP44.1 million has been returned to the Fund, representing 84 per cent of drawn capital, with 15 portfolio companies remaining.
The Fund’s success to date exemplifies the strength of Foresight’s regional buyout strategy, which addresses
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