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Trainor, a provider of electrical safety training, digital solutions and consultancy services to the global energy, renewables, power and grid, and maritime industries, has secured new investment from EV Private Equity to support its ambitious international expansion plans. The investment will see EV Private Equity become the majority shareholder, alongside Trainor management and employees.
This investment will fund the business´ expansion across the Nordics. The existing high-calibre management team will be strengthened and augmented in the sales and financials functions. EV Private Equity’s Senior Partners Per Arne Jensen and Rune Jensen, and Investment Director, Tomas Hvamb, will join the Board
New digital deal platform dubbed Maksab has officially launched with the aim of helping corporate advisers and consultants serve and assist SMEs with streamlined deal-making through exclusive emerging transactions and efficient management features. Maksab connects advisors and private professional investors with SMEs that are seeking growth capital in a virtual environment. The platform is developed for corporate finance consultants and transaction agents known as (advisers), SME business owners (sell-side) and private investors (buy-side).
The Maksab Platform leverages the Ethereum blockchain to allow confidential, secure, streamlined, efficient and reliable transactions between platform users by deploying Ethereum-based ERC-20 smart contract. The smart contract
Fund+, an investment firm focused on European Life Sciences companies, has led a EUR38 million Series B financing in new portfolio company, Indigo Diabetes (Indigo). Indigo is developing a novel ‘invisible’ continuous glucose monitoring device for diabetics. Jan Van den Bossche, Partner at Fund+, will join the Board.
Indigo has developed a small chip using nano-photonics that is designed to measure glucose and ketones in people with diabetes. The product is ‘invisible’ as it is inserted subcutaneously in the patient’s skin and cannot be seen. It has the potential to continuously monitor glucose levels for up to two years enabling
Sportstech specialist Sportside has secured backing to the value of GBP15million from impact investor Fortunis Capital Group.The ‘connect and play’ social app, scheduled to be launched in autumn, is a one-stop platform that lets people find their perfect sporting match, by age, ability or geography – and gives clubs and coaches the resource to manage their business and attract new clients. Driven by free sign-ups, Sportside aims to build an engaged community of millions of players, coaches and clubs which, in turn, will open up commercial opportunities for advertisers, partners and sponsors.
Bob Frost, Director of London-based Fortunis, confirmed
The increasing need for transparency and efficiency across the private equity industry has led to higher investments into modern IT platforms on a large scale within manager firms. This development will help GPs reach their goals of generating better quality data, responding to investor requests and keeping up to date with regulatory norms.
Private equity managers are being driven along the curve of technology adoption by greater institutional investor interest in the asset class. Managers are having to re-fashion their approach to data to ensure they can meet their clients’ demands with ease and simplicity in a scalable manner.
As terrible as the Covid-19 crisis has been, it has forced private equity players to accelerate their adoption of technology to replace previous practices. This will likely be the impetus needed for full implementation across the industry.
“As an example, in June 2020, the US Department of Labor issued guidance effectively opening the door for plan sponsors to add private equity funds to their 401(k) funds. While there are many viewpoints on the risks and rewards, the democratisation of private equity to the ‘Main Street’ investor will force industry participants to leverage digital platforms to accelerate data access and investment
Providing investors with a compelling digital experience is becoming a key component to the service private equity managers offer their clients. When looking to implement such service, managers need to be aware of specific dimensions which can help support their efforts to deploy this successfully for their benefit and that of their investors.
PE has moved at a different pace to the rest of the asset management world when it comes to adopting technology solutions in the client-facing part of its business. As it requires more of a white-glove approach, it has not been as easily transferable to a digital
As private equity managers become more comfortable adopting technology, a measure of which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis, their needs are also developing further. The increased adoption of public cloud services is leading to more data-warehousing which in turn results in more in-depth analysis of that data. However, as these firms progress along the technology adoption timeline, they must ensure their cybersecurity is air-tight.
George Ralph, Managing Director at RFA discusses the changing needs and demands of PE firms: “There is going to be a huge ramp up in the use of public cloud solutions within private equity.
The secondary market is on an upward trajectory. More institutional investors are looking to streamline their holdings and take an active approach to portfolio management. This, in conjunction with travel restrictions resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic, has led to investors becoming more comfortable with the concept of trusting an online platform.
Julien Gervaz is the CEO at Palico, an online platform that facilitates secondary transactions. He gives more detail on the outlook for growth in this market: “Everybody knows that the current hot spot in PE is in the secondaries market. LPs are getting more familiar with it and last
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