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SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has appointed Randy Dearth as Senior Director.
Valloop, which aims to empower employees and management to buy the companies they work for, has emerged from stealth ready to back small business founders wishing to exit. The proposition has so far attracted unsolicited demand from over 250 SME owners totalling GBP1.2 billion in value, with an average individual value of GBP4.7 million. Valloop is targeting a net asset value of GBP900 million in the next five years and 30,000 SME investments over the next 10 years.
An evergreen fund, investors now have the opportunity to back Europe’s 24 million SMEs – one of the most underrated asset classes in
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in GWD Concept (Displate), from the Founders, Credo Ventures and Miton Capital. The transaction was financed by the leading Polish bank, Bank Pekao.
Displate is an online metal prints marketplace that connects more than 40,000 visual creators and more than 30 licensed brands to a customer base of enthusiasts in more than 50 countries. The Company is active in a number of verticals including gaming, movies, anime, music, travel and sport. The platform has over 1.4 million artist-generated designs which
Brickability Group (Brickability), a leading construction materials distributor, has completed the acquisition of McCann Limited (McCann), a UK and European haulage and logistics provider.McCann specialises in transporting building materials from factories in Europe to construction sites in the UK. Distribution of these bricks, roof tiles and other materials is core to Brickability and this acquisition gives the Group control in this critical and growing area. The acquisition will provide Brickability with its own pan-European transport network ensuring security and control of supply lines and reducing exposure to third party freight providers at a critical moment for UK imports and exports.
At GP Bullhound we believe the world is undergoing a generational shift where it is no longer enough to be entertained – but where consumers want to create their own entertainment, shifting from pre-scripted entertainment to user-scripted entertainment. As we respect the complexity of sound as an art form – we also live in a world where art and technology are colliding.
Elias is a team of developers and composers bringing adaptive music and sound to user-scripted events. Through Elias, product developers are provided with a complete software platform that plugs directly into game engines, such as Unity, where they
BrainsGate, the developer of a novel proprietary treatment for Ischemic Stroke, has secured a USD14 million investment at a USD147 million pre-money valuation. The new financing is designed to fund the company through PMA approval and production readiness.
A high proportion of alternative investment assets won’t return to pre-pandemic values before 2022, according to the results of a new survey by Duff & Phelps.The survey, which polled senior officers within the alternative investment industry, found that 80 per cent of respondents believed up to 30 per cent of private market investments won’t return to pre-pandemic levels until 2022 or beyond. hese findings contrast the soaring public markets most investors have seen since the pandemic.
Ryan McNelley, Managing Director, Portfolio Valuation at Duff & Phelps, says:“The fact that private markets aren’t rising as quickly as their public counterparts shouldn’t
By Light Professional IT Services (By Light), a portfolio company of Sagewind Capital (Sagewind), has acquired Raydon Corporation (Raydon), a provider of virtual, adaptable integrated military training technology primarily for the US Department of Defense (DOD).
Vuna Partners, a mid-market private equity firm, has selected Prescient Fund Services (Pty) Ltd (Prescient) as the fund administrator to the Vuna Partners Fund I.The fund’s strategy is to invest in quality medium-sized businesses across a range of sectors with high growth potential, which are strategically positioned to address and benefit from the growth opportunities presented by South Africa’s nuanced economic and developmental needs.
Vuna 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,
ARQIS has advised SkyFive AG on its Pre-Series A financing round, led by a major German investor. This first institutional investor joined the existing investors, who all doubled their initial investment, and were joined additionally by two industry icons: Louis Belanger-Martin, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Global Eagle, and Alain Lejeune, a seasoned executive from the telecommunications industry with strong roots in China.
SkyFive provides high-speed broadband services for the aviation industry, based on its patented Air-To-Ground (A2G) solution that leverages standard mobile network components. A2G is the only technology that can meet the ever-increasing demand for broadband connectivity in
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