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Claret Capital Partners Limited (Claret) (formerly Harbert European Growth Capital), has held the first closing of its third fund, which will continue to invest in innovative growth stage tech and life science businesses throughout Europe primarily to support organic growth and M&A.
Astia has launched a USD100m early-stage venture fund aimed at addressing the disparity in funding for companies that include women in founding or executive roles.
Led by an investment from Mastercard, the Astia Fund will invest globally in high-growth companies that have at least one woman in an executive, equity-holding position. Additional investors include: Priya Mathur, past president of the board of CalPERS; Jim O’Neill former chief economist and former chairman of Asset Management at Goldman Sachs; Farvatn Venture; Portola Creek Capital; Tides Foundation; numerous members of Toniic, a global network of impact investors; and other notable LPs.
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a mid-market private equity investor, has sold Equa bank (Equa) to Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) through its Czech subsidiary Raiffeisenbank as.
Based in the Czech Republic, Equa is a tech-enabled full-service challenger bank that focuses on private individuals and Small and Medium Enterprises segments. Equa has an omni-channel distribution strategy that combines an intuitive digital banking platform alongside a selective physical distribution network.
AnaCap has transformed Equa into a market-leading, digitally driven challenger bank. Under AnaCap’s stewardship, the bank has grown its deposit base and loan book by more than 12x, leading to increased market shares across
By Alex Di Santo (pictured), group head of private equity at Crestbridge – It’s a good time to raise assets – which will more than double for the private equity and venture capital space by 2025.
Kirkland & Ellis is advising Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona) on its acquisition of Signature Foods from funds managed by IK Investment Partners.
Signature Foods is a leading chilled convenience food company active in the growing European market, with a strong presence in Benelux.
The team was led by transactional partners David Holdsworth and Rachel Greenhalgh and associate Sam Hare, debt finance partner Kirsteen Nicol and associates Stefan Arnold-Soulby, Jessica Kim and Maurice Walsh, antitrust and competition partner Sarah Jordan and associates Arjun Chandran and Jordan Goater and tax partner Timothy Lowe and associate Anthony Antioch.
Two West Midlands’ businesses are set to pursue new growth following funding packages from The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) totalling over GBP1.7 million.
The duo of deals includes Birmingham-based insurance services firm, Parker Norfolk & Partners Ltd (“Parker Norfolk”) which secured GBP1.6 million, with Worcestershire company, AirTube Technologies Ltd (AirTube), receiving GBP175,000.
MEIF is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and backed by the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).
Parker Norfolk provides multi-discipline insurance services that offers businesses a range of multi-insurance asset classes across different geographical markets. The funding package from MEIF Maven Debt
Information Venture Partners, a Toronto-based venture capital firm that primarily invests in early-stage North American B2B financial technology and enterprise software companies, has appointed Jane Podbelskaya as Principal.
Podbelskaya will be responsible for sourcing and executing new investments and providing operational support to Information Venture Partners’ existing portfolio companies.
Podbelskaya brings 20 years of experience in software, operations, investment and management consulting. Prior to joining Information Venture Partners, she most recently worked at Georgian Partners, a North American fund investing in growth-stage SaaS companies, where she held a number of roles over her six year tenure. Focusing both on
Eurazeo has come to an agreement with a group of international investors that will provide EUR340 million additional investment capacity for its Eurazeo growth strategy.
The investors will commit to a newly created continuation fund that will acquire a 32 per cent stake in Eurazeo Growth assets which were financed through the Eurazeo balance sheet. Eurazeo remains fully committed to the development of these companies; it will hold on to the remaining 68 per cent of these assets and will maintain full control through the management of the continuation fund. This transaction remains subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions
EQ Health Acquisition has closed its upsized initial public offering of 21,999,960 units at a price of USD10.00 per unit, including 2,869,560 units issued pursuant to the exercise in full by the underwriters of their over-allotment option.
The units began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol EQHA.U on 29 January, 2021. Each unit consists of one share of the Company’s Class A common stock and one-half of one redeemable warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock at a price of USD11.50 per share. Once
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the financial adviser to Leadec in its acquisition of Diversified Automation, Inc.
Founded in 2002, Diversified Automation is a leading automation controls and software solution provider to the express parcel industry. It serves global express parcel and e-commerce companies, prime contractors and integrators with end customers that include Amazon, FedEx Ground and UPS. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and with annual sales of approximately $100 million, Diversified Automation has more than 140 engineers and project managers operating in seven locations across the United States.
Leadec, a portfolio company of Triton, is headquartered in Stuttgart,
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