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Fortunis Capital has awarded femtech Clementine a place in its Top 20 UK Impact Investment Fund – kicking off with a major investment in the app aiming to improve the emotional wellbeing of millions of women all over the world. The London-based impact investor’s GBP1 million funding will accelerate the growth of Clementine, named one of the seven apps every woman should own. Founded by Kim Palmer, it provides world-leading virtual professional hypnotherapy sessions as well as a suite of wellness products to empower women to feel more confident, capable and on top of their game.
Palmer says: “We are
Private investment firm Auxo Investment Partners has acquired GC Dies, a steel rule die manufacturer based in Elmhurst, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The deal marks Auxo’s ninth acquisition in the firm’s inaugural investment fund, Auxo Growth Holdings I LLC, which closed in the fall of 2018. It is Auxo’s fifth acquisition under the Auxo Die Holdings platform, a growing portfolio of industry-leading cutting die manufacturers the investment firm has acquired in recent years.
Founded in 2000, GC Dies is one of the leading steel rule cutting die manufacturers in the country. The company, which has 50 employees and operates
MVF, a UK-based global customer generation platform, has
the acquisition of Dutch Software comparison website AppWiki.
Industry organisation Black Women in Asset Management (BWAM) has written an open letter to the asset management industry calling on investment firms to promote racial equity.
BWAM’s letter encourages senior leaders to set out actions which are aimed at leading to progress and give black women a greater voice in shaping investment decisions, by urging the investment community to go beyond the earlier solidarity statements issued during this year’s global reckoning on racism.
“Continued incidents of police brutality have sparked a global awakening for many of our colleagues in the industry. This summer you saw many firms issuing solidarity statements
Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider, has been appointed to provide fund administration and corporate services to LCP Fund II. Incorporated in 2015, Lorax Capital Partners (LCP) is an Egypt focused private equity firm and over the course of the last five years, LCP has supported the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund (EAEF) in deploying cUSD175 million across five companies.
This announcement follows the news earlier this month, that LCP has secured commitments from five LPs, totalling USD142 million for the first close of LCP Fund II. With a target size of USD250 million, the new fund plans
iCapital Network, which provides financial advisers and their clients with access to private investsment, has added two accomplished leaders with expertise in supporting the global high-net-worth (HNW) investing community to its team.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, has backed the buy-out of Totalmobile, a UK independent Field Service Management software provider.Totalmobile has over 700 customers and 250,000 mobile-workforce users across the public services (government, local authorities, health and emergency services), property, facilities management, transport and infrastructure sectors.
Its technology is used to increase field-based workforce capacity; deliver operational cost savings; enhance compliance assurance; and improve end-customer service quality.
Recent years have seen Totalmobile deliver strong organic growth, transition to a Software-as-a-Service business model and complete four highly successful, complementary product acquisitions. Since 2018, the company’s revenues have increased
According to the research data analysed and published by ComprarAcciones.com, merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity in the pharmaceutical sector rose by 17 per cent in H1 2020, disregarding the economic toll of the global pandemic.It saw a total of 41 deals during the period, but the Q2 2020 deal value total of USD3.3 billion was the lowest quarterly total since Q1 2018.
According to PwC, the pharma sub-sector posted a drop of 56 per cent in deal value from H2 2019 to H1 2020. For the PLS sector as a whole (pharma, biotech and medical devices), the decline in
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group and one of the largest and most active VCs in Europe, has exited its investment in Calastone, the global funds network, after a majority stake in the funds network was acquired by The Carlyle Group. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.
Octopus Ventures first invested in Calastone at seed stage in 2008 backing the business through its early stages of growth through multiple rounds of funding from both institutional and retail investors, including investment from the UK’s largest venture capital trust (VCT) Octopus Titan VCT.
The exit represents an 18x return on Octopus Ventures’
LitCapital makes additional investment into Altechna by acquiring 6O per cent of shares and increasing the ownership up to 100 per cent of share capital. This investment will allow the company to implement ambitious development plans and will allow it to grow even faster. The founder of the company dr. Gintas Šlekys and other shareholders will continue to invest and develop other laser product focused companies which are owned by them.
Altechna is an innovative optical technology company that has been demonstrating sustainable and consistent growth for a long time. We sincerely thank dr. Gintas Šlekis and his brothers Alfredas
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