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Edtech platform Your Favourite Teacher (YFT) is raising capital to expand its operations through private equity investment firm Growthdeck, as Covid-19 sees more schools build online learning into their standard curriculum.Your Favourite Teacher (YFT) is a virtual classroom for GCSE students, which augments and supports the existing Key Stage 4 curriculum with rich video content, automated marking and pupil performance tracking.
Growthdeck says that Covid-19 has sharply accelerated the adoption of remote learning formats, which were already becoming more common in schools prior to the pandemic. A significant number of schools that had not previously embraced online learning are
Silverfleet Capital (Silverfleet), a pan-European private equity firm, has appointed Dr Christian Süss as a Partner in its Munich office, further strengthening its investment team in the DACH region. Süss, an Austrian national, joins Silverfleet from Towerbrook, where he was a Senior Principal, working across the company’s buyout and structured minority funds. He previously spent eight years at EQT Partners and prior to that, he was a Consultant at Bain & Company.
Süss has an MBA from INSEAD, and graduated with a PhD in technical physics from TU Graz, Austria. He was also awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Linköping University,
An affiliate of middle-market private investment firm Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock)has sold Hasa to GHK Capital Partners (GHK). Founded in 1964, Hasa is a leading producer and distributor of high-quality water treatment products used to sanitise and maintain water systems. Hasa serves the recreational, industrial, and municipal end markets through a network of eight facilities in California, Arizona, Washington, Nevada and Texas.
An affiliate of Peak Rock acquired Hasa in 2017 from the family of the founding shareholders. During Peak Rock’s ownership, Hasa successfully completed a series of transformational growth and operational initiatives, including significant investments in the Company’s
Investindustrial VII (Fund VII) has entered into one of the first European ESG-linked subscription credit facilities.
Investec Bank plc is the Arranger and Sustainability Coordinator of the EUR600 million facility, which is backed by a strong syndicate including State Street Corporation and Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. The facility has been structured with interest payments directly linked to ESG factors in areas such as environment, gender diversity and governance, and will be reduced as long as a number of those parameters are met.
In order to create a positive feedback loop, Investindustrial will ring-fence any interest cost savings made through
Jersey Finance has welcomed a new amendment to the island’s legislation that will make it significantly easier for managers to migrate limited partnership fund structures to the jurisdiction.The changes to the Limited Partnership (Jersey) Law 1994, which were approved by Jersey’s government this week to come into force today (17 July), introduce a new statutory basis for limited partnerships, which are frequently used for alternative fund structuring, to be migrated from other jurisdictions, providing greater legal certainty for managers and investors.
Whilst migrating a limited partnership to Jersey has been technically possible in the past, the move brings Jersey in
Ropes & Gray has advised Partners Group – a global private markets investment manager – on its acquisition of a major equity stake in Rovensa, a Portuguese-headquartered provider of specialty crop nutrition, biocontrol and protection products, from Bridgepoint. The transaction values Rovensa at an enterprise value of around EUR1 billion.
Rovensa’s portfolio of agricultural solutions and technologies helps farmers to enhance crop yields and provide food security. Founded in 1926, Rovensa has three divisions: BioNutrition, which provides agricultural crops with nutrients for growth and healthy development; Crop Protection, which eliminates or prevents biological threats in crops; and BioControl, which offers
Private equity and venture capital investment into UK businesses reached GBP22.33 billion in 2019, an increase of GBP1.6 billion on the previous year, new research from the BVCA shows.Published today, the BVCA’s annual Report on Investment Activity shows the full breadth of the impact of private equity and venture capital on the UK economy. A total of 1,530 companies across the country received backing in 2019, an increase of 15 per cent on the 2018 figures.
Venture capital investment increased by 67 per cent year-on-year to GBP1.65 billion with 821 companies backed, an 18 per cent increase.
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CommerzVentures has made a USD6 million investment into Concirrus, a speciality analytics insurtech company.
This latest investment by CommerzVentures follows a recent announcement which saw London-based VC firm AlbionVC lead on a USD 20 million series B funding round, which included participation from current investors IQ Capital and EOS Venture Partners, as well as several angel investors.
Royal Park Partners acted as exclusive financial advisors to Concirrus and its board of directors on the deal.
With many new clients added to its customer portfolio in the last quarter, Concirrus continues to demonstrate and reinforce its strong credentials with some of
NeueCapital, Math Capital, TTCER Partners, Kathaka, the Rupert family office, and Coparion have invested USD42 million in a series C round in customer intelligence platform Zeotap.
Half of the capital was secured this year; the remainder was raised last year from existing investors. Eric Roza, former leader of Datalogix and Oracle Data Cloud, has joined Zeotap’s board of directors as part of the deal. Existing investors that participated include New Science Ventures, Capnamic Ventures, Iris Capital, HERE, Innov8 (Singte), and IONIQ.
The round also attracted business angels including Eric Roza, Taylor Barada, former VP of corporate development, strategy and strategic
ABRT VC has committed USD10 million to support startups providing solutions to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and has backed the Limpid platform in the fight against Covid-19.Limpid (limpid.vc) is a global startup sourcing and pipeline management platform that streamlines fundraising for both venture capital investors and startup companies. Limpid is designed to unify decision making for VC investors and shorten the time for startups to get funded.
“We see an emerging opportunity in supporting startups that address challenges brought about by COVID-19. That’s why we’ve backed Limpid to source the best COVID-related startups and co-invest in these companies
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