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Tim Davies has been appointed Head of Financial Design at Blackstar Capital, a specialist structured finance and working capital solutions provider with expertise in origination, structuring, placement, and management of transactions globally.Davies has more than 25 years of experience in the global capital markets, having spent the previous five years focussing on generating financing options for FinTech origination in the trade receivables and payables space. In this newly created role at Blackstar Capital, he will be responsible for the design and execution of programmatic financial structures to back receivable and payable platforms. This capability aligns perfectly with the global drive
Private equity firm Trilantic North America has closed a substantial minority investment in Rarebreed Veterinary Partners, a technology-enabled veterinary services platform.
Founded in 2018 in Portland, Maine, Rarebreed is focused on taking care of the people who take care of animals, with the goal of becoming the employer of choice for those dedicating their professional lives to veterinary care. Today, Rarebreed employs more than 450 people across its footprint of 17 veterinary practices in the Northeast, including the recent acquisition of Greenwich Village Animal Hospital, its first location in New York.
“We were drawn to the opportunity to invest
Bailey Southwell & Co (Bailey Southwell), a Nashville-based healthcare and tech-enabled services merchant bank, has appointed a new managing partner to lead BSC Capital Partners (BSCCP), the firm’s affiliated principal investment fund that makes minority investments in growth and late-stage healthcare and tech-enabled services companies.
New managing partner Tim Scallen has over a decade of experience in portfolio management, fundraising, and deal execution – complemented by his focus across the healthcare technology and information analytics sectors.
Most recently a principal at TripleTree’s TT Capital Partners, Scallen has a broad set of M&A experiences ranging from growth-equity investing, late stage buyouts, and
Global digital consultancy Appnovation has received GBP6.8 million in follow-on equity financing from a partnership between UK-based BGF, the Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF) and Export Development Canada (EDC).
With 15 offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Appnovation will use the proceeds from this investment to continue its global expansion and growth strategy. This includes scaling teams in strategic global markets, particularly in the UK and across Europe, as well as potential acquisitions.
Both CBGF and BGF made initial investments in Appnovation in July 2019 totalling GBP8.8 million. Since then, Appnovation has scaled up its EMEA operations, which
Aurelius Wachstumskapital SE & Co KG, an investment company with a long-term horizon that acquires stakes in successful small and medium-sized enterprises in high-growth sectors, has raised EUR120 million in fresh capital to invest in SMEs.
As part of the Aurelius Group, a pan-European asset manager, Aurelius Growth Investments focuses on investments in sustainably successful small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The principal activities of Aurelius Growth Investments, which is managed by Nico Vitense and Claudius Graf von Plettenberg, both responsible for transactions, and Eric Blumenthal, responsible for operations, involve owner buyouts and (early) succession solutions, as
A new study published today by Foresight Group (Foresight) into the resilience of infrastructure to global pandemics reveals that renewable energy, telecoms and primary care have proved to be the most pandemic resilient.
The analysis, which examines 23 infrastructure sub-sectors spanning economic and social infrastructure, shows that while infrastructure as an asset-class has proved to be highly pandemic resilient, with many sub-sectors largely immune to the impact, there are substantial differences in the performance of various infrastructure sub-sectors.
Foresight’s white paper “Infrastructure Pandemic Resilience: a true test of infrastructure’s defensive characteristics”, xonsiders the resilience of infrastructure to global pandemics through
QuadPay, the US-based payment instalment platform, has secured a senior secured a revolving line of credit of up to USD200 million from Goldman Sachs, with mezzanine financing provided by Oaktree Capital.
QuadPay secured the facility through Finitive’s direct lending platform.
QuadPay will use the credit facility to expand its buy now, pay later (BNPL) business to new merchants throughout the US. QuadPay partners with merchants to allow their customers to pay via instalments for merchandise purchased online or in-store. QuadPay recently merged with Zip Co Ltd (ASX: Z1P) to create a USD2 billion global payments business. The combined entity
YourParkingSpace, a UK on-demand parking platform and provider of intelligent parking solutions, has secured a GBP5 million investment from Pelican Capital to support the next phase of its growth strategy.
The funds will be used to further develop YourParkingSpace’s proprietary technology which already markets over 80,000 bays in the UK from private individuals through to operators including Tesco, Morrisons and Premier Inn. By using YourParkingSpace, space owners can monetise this underutilised resource whilst commercial clients across hospitality, retail and property can drive footfall and improve customer experience.
The investment will support the next phase of growth for the company.
Crowdcube, an equity crowdfunding platform, is partnering with Episode 1, backers of Zoopla, Shazam and carwow, to invest in the next generation of infrastructure and deep tech startups in the digital sector.
This partnership will see the GBP100 million fund, which has invested in the likes of Ori, Webiny and CloudNC, back businesses from this space alongside retail investors on Crowdcube.
Selected businesses will have their pitch reviewed by Episode 1 and be considered for investment, ahead of a funding round on Crowdcube. To qualify for initial consideration, the businesses will need to be registered in the UK and looking
Aspire Technology, the developer of the Aspire digital asset creation platform, has closed both a USD1.175 million equity round, and a USD1.23 million private token presale for a total of more than USD2.4 million of new capital, according to Aspire technology chairman, Michael Terpin,
Terpin led the company’s pre-seed USD260,000 equity funding round in 2017 through his bCommerce Labs incubator fund.
The equity round in Aspire Technology was led by German blockchain fund Foeckersperger Ventures, and individual accredited investors. The private token presale, which excluded US persons, was conducted in Bermuda and was led by Cayman Islands registered digital currency
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