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Ara Partners, a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments, has closed its debut fund, Ara Fund I, with approximately USD400 million in capital commitments. Ara Partners was co-founded by veteran investors Charles Cherington and Troy Thacker.
The Fund will invest in companies in North America and Europe that are poised to accelerate the decarbonisation of the industrial economy. The Fund was backed by a diverse group of institutional investors in North America, Europe and Asia, including public pensions, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and family offices.
“We’re pleased to announce our fund closing, and we look forward
DOB Equity, a Dutch family-backed impact investor in East Africa, has made a further investment in Moringa School (Moringa), a technology learning institute based in Kenya.The investment is to help Moringa accelerate the company’s transition to providing remote on-line learning. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, there has been an increased demand for online learning.
DOB says that equipping students with the right digital skillset to enter the job market is particularly important considering the increased economic uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. As technology companies globally soar because of an increasingly digital world, the demand for software developers and data
Metropolitan Partners Group Management, a direct-lending fund manager that provides senior-secured, short-term capital to small and mid-sized businesses in the US, completed the final closing of its sixth and largest direct lending fund, Metropolitan Partners Fund VI, in the first quarter of 2020, with total fund commitments of USD240 million. Fund VI continues Metropolitan’s strategy of investing in US non-sponsored companies in the lower middle market with revenues under USD100 million that have not yet received institutional investor capital and require additional capital in order to achieve scale in their fundamental growth or emerge from a special situation.
“We are very
A Cheltenham company whose software helps businesses to automate their processes more rapidly has raised GBP2.2 million from the Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Funds, which are managed by Mercia.The investment will allow Enate to further develop its platform and expand its customer base and distributor network across Europe and Asia.
Launched in 2017, Enate now has customers worldwide ranging from smaller services firms to major insurers, banks and professional services firms like EY and Capgemini. The company has been growing revenue by 200 per cent year on year and has seen increased demand since the lockdown, as businesses
Bought By Many, a London-based pet insurance provider, has secured a GBP78.4 million (~USD98 million) growth equity investment led by FTV Capital, a US financial services-focused growth equity investment firm, alongside follow-on from numerous existing investors.The capital raise follows impressive growth for Bought By Many, which launched its market-leading suite of pet insurance policies in 2017 and now insures over 200,000 pets.
Sales of the company’s cat and dog policies increased by more than 150 per cent over the last year. Thousands of pet owners voted Bought By Many the UK’s Most Trusted Pet Insurance Provider in 2019. The company
Gridiron Capital, an investment firm focused on partnering with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams, has appointed Tracy Streckenbach as an Operating Partner.As Gridiron’s newest Operating Partner, Streckenbach will be a resource to Gridiron Portfolio Company teams and to Gridiron’s Centres of Excellence. Her leadership, strategy, operations, supply chain and performance optimisation experience will add capabilities in evaluating new business opportunities and working with management teams to increase value in their companies.
Prior to joining Gridiron Capital, Streckenbach’s roles have included Partner, Investment Committee Member, Board Member, CEO, COO, and CMO across a diverse range of industries. She is widely recognized
RLG Capital & Trinity Private Equity Group has made a USD38 million investment in learning solutions company eLearning Brothers, enabling its simultaneous acquisition of industry innovators Trivantis and Edulence. Co-investors include HCAP Partners and Eagle Marsh Holdings with a senior debt facility provided by KeyBank N.A. This investment launches eLearning Brothers as a unique eLearning platform that combines high-quality courses and related content with Lectora, an industry-leading rapid authoring tool, CenarioVR, a cutting-edge virtual reality course builder, and KnowledgeLink, a nimble learning management system (LMS), creating a complete online ecosystem to better serve learning professionals.
“This investment combines the industry-leading courses
Middle market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has appointed Aron Beach as a Managing Director focused on operations, strategy and portfolio management.Prior to joining Wynnchurch, Beach served as the Chief Financial Officer for Advanced Lighting Technologies.
Chris O’Brien, Managing Partner at Wynnchurch, says: “We are excited to welcome Aron to the Wynnchurch team. Aron brings nearly 20 years of experience as a financial and strategic leader, and has overseen acquisitions and divestitures, restructurings, and financing for businesses ranging in size from USD70 million to USD350 million. He will help us continue our focus on value creation through active operational and
Nordic real estate investor NREP has secured a minority investment from Novo Holdings. NREP, which is controlled by its senior partners, will now be able to invest more into its own funds while accelerating ventures into technology, sustainability and understanding customers.
NREP has developed a series of innovative real estate products within co-living, student housing, care homes and modern logistics. Novo Holdings becomes a non-controlling minority shareholder by injecting capital into NREP, to accelerate the company’s further development of customer-centric, sustainable real estate concepts and support NREP’s ambition to improve the built environment and pioneer the industry.
”Novo Holdings is well-reputed
Fitz Gate Ventures has completed the fundraising for its second venture capital fund. Founded in July 2015 by Jim Cohen and Mark Poag, Fitz Gate Ventures invests a majority of its capital in startups from the Princeton University ecosystem, with a minority of its capital available to be invested more broadly. Fitz Gate has 15 current portfolio company investments (and one exit), and all of the startups that have gone out to raise additional capital following Fitz Gate’s investment have done so successfully at premiums from some of the best known venture capital firms in the world.
For Fund II, Fitz
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