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Cyprium Investment Partners has closed its fifth fund, with USD445 million of committed capital.
Cyprium received support from its limited partners which include insurance companies, asset managers, pension funds, and family offices, many of which have been with the group for two decades.
For the last 22 years, the Cyprium team has been dedicated to providing subordinated debt, preferred stock, and common equity as a minority investor providing tailored solutions directly to family, founder, and entrepreneur-owned companies. Our 90 past investments totalling USD1.6 billion have supported growth, shareholder dividends and buyouts, ESOPs, and minority recapitalisations.
Over the next several months, Cyprium
Keensight Capital, a private equity manager focused on pan-European growth buyouts, has completed the sale of smartTrade, a multi-asset electronic solutions firm.
Earlier this year, Keensight Capital had announced that it had entered into an agreement to exit smartTrade Technologies.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in France, smartTrade Technologies has developed an automated trading platform which enables fast access to a wide range of liquidity for foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives.
The final completion of this deal, which gathered parties spreading all over Europe, took place in an innovative, highly secured manner, thanks to a fully
With USD46 billion of dry powder available to deploy through year end, secondaries market activity is expected to increase in H2 2020, according to Cebile Capital’s Q1 2020 secondaries buyer report.
New figures also revealed that the private equity market expects a material decrease in sellers in the secondaries market, which will impact higher pricing in H2 2020.
“The record amount of dry powder available for secondary buyers to deploy coupled with innovative transaction structures will allow for robust secondary market activity in the second half of the year,” said Sunaina Sinha, managing partner at private markets advisor Cebile Capital.
EQT Ventures has led a EUR4 million funding round in Helsinki-based mobile games studio Reworks, as well as the official release of its first game Redecor, a home decor game.
Play Ventures and Anton Gauffin, founder and CEO at Huuuge Games also joined the round. The fresh capital will be used to expand and develop Redecor, according to the company.
EQT Ventures partner Lars Jornow joins the board at Reworks, bringing with him experience from King, where he helped create its first Facebook and mobile games including Candy Crush Saga. He also led EQT Ventures’ exit of Small Giant Games
One Utility Bill, a tech firm focused on simplifying utility billing for tenants, landlords and letting agents, has raised GBP1.7 million to further develop its platform and expand its business. The funding round was led by DSW Angels, the venture capital business of the Dow Schofield Watts group, and included existing investors the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Northstar Ventures.
One Utility Bill, which is based in Newcastle, consolidates household bills into one simple monthly payment, which can be split equally between housemates. The company manages energy, water, broadband, media and TV
Ingenious today announces that its Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has led a USD4 million A-series investment round in Shoreline. The Norway-based start-up has built an intelligent field operations and project development platform to help develop profitable wind projects by constructing and operating them efficiently using schedule optimisation and simulation.The investment will allow Shoreline to capitalise on the rapid growth in the renewables market, which it believes has resulted in larger and more expensive projects. Shoreline will also be able to enhance its service to existing wind farms and assets that require service providers, project developers, OEMs, and operators to look
New analysis from the CEPRES Investment Platform has highlighted major sectors that could be winners and losers from the coronavirus crisis. By evaluating current value creation and revenue growth opportunities in PE-backed companies and contrasting with the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) period the CEPRES Platform is able to identify potential outcomes from the COVID 19 crisis.
The results were based on deep analyses of 80,500 deals from across 7,800 funds and encompassing over USD28 trillion worth of PE-backed companies. One part of the analysis looked at growth of revenues and EBITDA before during and after the GFC across different sectors and
LGB Corporate Finance has advised multinational advertising and media company Whalar on the establishment of a secured working capital facility from Praetura Commercial Finance, an alternative debt and equity funding business.Based in London, with offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, Malaga, New York, and Singapore, Whalar is a modern media agency which employs around 100 people across its global structure. The company specialises in technology-driven influencer marketing and branded content, and is the only approved partner to Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat within this space.
Whalar’s tech platform is home to over 5,000 influencers from across the world with a combined follower
IW Capital today announces the completion of a GBP2 million investment in GPDQ, providing a welcome boost to healthcare provision in the UK as demand surges during the Covid-19 pandemic.GPDQ delivers CQC-certified primary healthcare services by mobilising innovative NHS GPs, nurses, pharmacists and other specialists to meet patient demand right across the UK. As the leading multi-channel doctor-on-demand service, The Company has been using its technology platform to connect its extensive network of clinicians with thousands of NHS and private patients through home visits, in-clinic or via video since 2015.
The investment from private equity specialists IW Capital will be
CVC Credit Partners has managed to raise USD657 million for its second US focused direct lending fund, CVC Credit Partners US Direct Lending Fund II. Fund II will follow the same strategy as its predecessor fund, investing in established US middle market businesses. Fund II surpassed its USD500 million target and is also larger than its predecessor fund. Fund II enjoys a diverse investor base of institutional capital, including pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, and private wealth, spread across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
CVC Credit’s US direct lending strategy seeks to provide investors access to a diversified and
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