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Greenspring Associates, has successfully completed a continuation fund transaction for Giza V, a 2008 vintage venture-capital fund, managed by Giza Venture Capital (Giza).
The continuation fund, with around USD100 million in commitments, provides Giza with the opportunity to increase the value of the portfolio companies by providing additional time and capital for growth. The portfolio companies were transferred into the continuation fund with limited partners in Giza V having the option to cash-out or to roll-over into the continuation fund.
“As global venture investors in fund, direct and secondary opportunities, we have seen increasing volume in GP-led restructurings, both on
Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has opened a new latest Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) office in Luxembourg.
The new AIFM licence will enable Foresight to meet the needs of its EU investor base and strengthen its presence in continental Europe. Foresight currently manages two EU domiciled funds, the EUR75 million Foresight Italian Green Bond Fund (IGB) and the EU-taxonomy validated cEUR430 million Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP).
This strategic milestone in Foresight’s expansion demonstrates its commitment to ensuring post-Brexit continuity of the provision of Fund Management services within the EU. Luxembourg has
BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has invested in PixelMEDIA (Pixel), a digital commerce services firm dedicated to helping brands launch, manage, and grow their ecommerce business on Salesforce.
Co-founders Erik Dodier, Chief Executive Officer, and Thomas Obrey, Chief Technology Officer, will continue in their current roles and maintain a significant ownership interest in partnership with BV.
Pixel is a digital commerce services firm dedicated to helping brands launch, manage, and grow their ecommerce business on the Salesforce platform.
Pixel’s certified global team covers
Blue Point Capital Partners (Blue Point) has announced three promotions across its investment team: Jonathan Pressnell to Partner, Evan Cottington to Vice President and Bobby Grebenc to Senior Associate.
As members of Blue Point’s investment team, all three play an integral role in the Firm’s investment sourcing, diligence, monitoring and value creation efforts.
Pressnell, who has been promoted to Partner, has twelve years of investing experience, nine of which have been at Blue Point. During this time, he has been instrumental in deal sourcing, execution and driving value creation at several of the Firm’s portfolio companies. He has also played
Blue Horizon Ventures, a sustainable food system focused venture capital fund, has held the final close of its first flagship fund Blue Horizon Ventures I, well beyond its initial target size at EUR183 million.
The fund has attracted Limited Partners (LPs) around the world, ranging from private investors (numerous large single and multi-family offices) to corporates and institutional investors. Renowned investors include among others the European Investment Fund EIF, Wire Group’s Private Markets Funds, Givaudan, Group Bimbo, Sigma, B8Ventures, Korys/Colruyt Group. In total, more than 100 different investors from around 20 nationalities subscribed to the fund.
The mission of
BEX Capital, a private equity secondaries specialist, has opened a new office in New York headed by Stéphane Chevrier who joins the BEX team as Partner, Head of Origination and Member of the Investment Committee.
BEX Capital, founded in France in 2010, is the first secondary firm dedicated to the acquisition of positions in global private equity fund-of-funds, secondary funds and co-investment funds (as opposed to positions in direct funds). It has over USD500 million of capital under management.
Chevrier joins from Invesco Private Capital, formerly OppenheimerFunds, where he was responsible for private equity in New York. Prior to
Accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO has strengthened its private equity and tax expertise with the appointment of a new partner.
Jennifer Wall joins BDO’s partnerships team and will focus on working with private equity funds, providing specialist tax advice and reporting services. She joins BDO from KPMG.
Wall says: “I am looking forward to working with a number of teams across BDO to deepen relationships with new and existing private equity clients in what is an exciting time for the market.
“One of my favourite parts of my role is working collaboratively across the firm, giving me
New York-based Grafine Partners, established by former Riverstone Holdings’ executive Elizabeth Weymouth, is hoping to fill what it regards as a key gap in the market, by providing institutional investors with a dedicated direct investment platform; one that places emphasis on patient, creative and sophisticated capital and a way for large investors to look beyond the usual ‘2 & 20’ fee model charged by traditional commingled funds.
Weymouth, who founded Grafine Partners and acts as Managing Partner and Chair of the Investment Committee, has been in the investment world for 25 years, building up two substantial investment platforms; one at
Claret Capital Partners Limited (Claret) (formerly Harbert European Growth Capital), has held the first closing of its third fund, Fund III, which will continue to invest in innovative growth stage tech and life science businesses throughout Europe primarily to support organic growth and M&A.
Claret Capital Partners was formed through the MBO of Harbert European Growth Capital in 2020. Over the past seven years, the team behind Claret Capital has become one of the preeminent providers of growth debt to SMEs in Europe, investing in excess of half a billion euro.
The previous funds have backed over 120 European SMEs
BlackCurve, a pricing optimisation company, has closed a GBP1 million funding round, led by Chairman, Martin Fincham, with participation from Nauta Capital, The Cambridge Angels Network and other prominent Angels, members of the ScaleUp Group and then bolstered by a matching contribution from the UK Government’s Future Fund.
Founded in 2016, BlackCurve’s pricing optimisation platform helps retailers manage and optimise the price of every item they sell to achieve their business goals. This SaaS platform, powered by Artificial Intelligence, ingests data sources ranging from sales history and web shop transactions, through to competitor pricing and stock levels, enabling every retailer
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