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OnePlanetCapital has launched a specialist sustainability EIS Fund to invest in sectors including green tech, tech, fintech and broader B2C businesses.
Founded in 2019 by entrepreneurs Matthew Jellicoe and Ed Stevens, together with Tony Flanagan of Wilton Group, the OnePlanetCapital fund will focus on climate change, the environment and consumer sustainability; by looking at environmental impact, social purpose and corporate governance in its investee companies.
The initiative comes as Prince Charles is asking companies to join the Earth charter, which is being set out at his virtual address to the One Planet Summit today.
“In 2019 the UK became the
KKR has held the final close of KKR Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors SCSp, a USD3.9 billion fund focused on infrastructure-related investments across Asia Pacific.
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund, a UK operational utility-scale battery storage fund, has completed the acquisition of the 25MW Tynemouth battery project located in North Shields, Tyne and Wear. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Fast-growth web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired UK-headquartered Pickaweb as part of its ongoing buy and build strategy.The acquisition of Pickaweb is the twelfth acquisition for Miss Group over the last two years, and adds a further 7,000 SME customers across the UK and Spain. Pickaweb will be integrated into existing brands within the Group, with the UK business joining Hostek UK and Pickaweb’s Spanish business integrating with Profesional Hosting in Spain.
In February 2020, private equity investor, Perwyn acquired a majority position in Miss Group to support the growth ambitions of the business through international expansion and
Vypr plans to strengthen its sales and marketing operations as it invests in its team and expands into new sectors and overseas markets following a GBP2.5 million growth capital investment backed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM) through its British Smaller Companies VCTs.
Bracewell (UK) has appointed Tom Jamieson, Jo En Low and Gordon Stewart as parthers in the firm’s global energy practice in London.
Mid-market private equity firm ECI Partners has appointed three new Partners, among a raft of other senior promotions. Despite market uncertainty, ECI’s portfolio has remained resilient, and the business delivered on five new investments and five exits over the course of the year.
Michael Butler, Duncan Ramsay and Stephen Roberts have all been promoted to Partner. Together, they have a wealth of experience at ECI and have played a key role in delivering growth for investments across all sectors in ECI’s portfolio.
Prior to joining ECI, Butler held roles at Canaccord Genuity and Deloitte. Butler led the recent investment
BGF, the UK’s most active investor in growth economy businesses, has completed a multi-million pound investment in Cirrus, an award-winning provider of omnichannel cloud contact centre solutions.Founded in 2013 by Jason Roos, Cirrus’ software is used by private and public sector organisations looking to digitalise their customer service operations. The business has seen continued growth across the UK and North America making it one of the leading Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) platforms.
Surrey-based Cirrus’ technology allows businesses to interact with their customers across a wide range of digital channels (email, video, messaging and social media) in addition
Investec Bank (Investec) has held the first close of its inaugural debt fund, Investec Private Debt Fund I (PDFI), a discretionary direct lending fund with capital commitments of EUR165 million.Investec PDFI (the fund) is a close-ended Luxembourg-based special limited partnership focused on providing senior secured debt (including unitranche) and subordinated debt for PE and corporate backed businesses between EUR3 million to EUR75 million EBITDA primarily based in the UK, Ireland, Benelux, and DACH regions.
The fund has a primary focus on growth-orientated businesses in the lower end of this EBITDA range, which remain underserved by banks and fund providers.
The
Unreasonable Collective has held the close of its first syndicate investment in Air Protein, a pioneer in producing nutritious, ultra-sustainable, alternative proteins that can feed the world’s growing population sustainably, founded by Dr Lisa Dyson.The Series A is led by ADM Ventures, Barclays, and GV (formerly Google Ventures).
Unreasonable Collective, a by invitation only members club, was recently launched by the Unreasonable Group. The membership offers individual accredited investors from diverse backgrounds, unique access to co-invest alongside top institutional groups, via managed syndicates, in high impact, high growth ventures operating at the intersection of impact and technology, generating societal
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