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Unigrains, an agri-food and agro-industry specialised investor, has appointed Sébastien Essioux as Deputy CEO.Jean-François Laurain, CEO of Unigrains, says: “I am delighted to welcome Sébastien Essioux to our Group and our Executive Committee. His vast experience in strategy consulting and in the operational management of companies operating across the agri-food value chain, will allow him to quickly grasp the challenges of our essential role: to support the development of our partner companies as best as possible and strengthen the links between all stakeholders, from farmers to consumers.”
Essioux has more than 30 years of experience in strategy and organisation
O’Melveny represented WeWork in the sale of its subsidiary, Meetup, one of the world’s first social media platforms and the only one dedicated to groups that meet in-person or online during times of crisis.Meetup is being acquired by a consortium of investors led by Kevin Ryan’s AlleyCorp and includes mission-driven private funds and accomplished technology executives. The company will continue to service its growing 49 million members and over 230,000 organisers, who collectively produce an average of 15,000 in-person events daily.
The Silicon Valley-based O’Melveny deal team was led by counsel Melissa Wright and Emerging Technologies Group chair David Makarechian.
Global fund administration, trust and corporate services provider Vistra has expanded its private equity capabilities with the addition of four new executive leaders. The new team members bolster Vistra’s already impressive expertise and set of services for private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
Vistra is a specialist in fund formation and administration, with over USD300 billion of alternative assets under administration. It counts over 10 of the top 15 private equity managers among its clients.
Scott Kraemer, Vistra’s Managing Director of Alternative Investments in North America, says he is delighted to be in a position to add executive leadership during
DealCloud, a provider of deal, relationship, and firm management technology solutions, has integrated financial market data from FactSet into its DataCortex product.“In order to be competitive in today’s modern deal-making landscape, capital markets professionals are orienting their key decision-making activity around a combination of both proprietary and third-party data,” says Ben Harrison, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of DealCloud. “We have developed this integration in response to our clients’ growing reliance on FactSet’s market-leading data, and we’re excited about the increased utility our private equity, investment banking, asset management, and other clients will realise from the platform as a result.”
Diverse-owned private equity firms continue to outperform their benchmarks, according to Examining the Returns 2019: The Financial Returns of Diverse Private Equity Firms, a new study released by the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC).Despite delivering consistent returns, diverse- and women-owned firms collectively manage only 1.3 per cent of the investment industry’s $69 trillion in assets under management.
Authored by Meredith Jones, Partner, Head of Emerging Manager Research for Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting, a leading global professional services firm, and compiled with assistance from KPMG to ensure objectivity and the confidentiality of all individual firm data, the report’s findings are
Air Doctor, a technology platform providing a global medical outpatient network that connects travellers with local doctors, has raised a Series A funding round of USD7.8 million from Kamet Ventures – an AXA-backed venture builder – and The Phoenix Insurance Company.Founded in 2016, Air Doctor puts travellers in control of their health by connecting people who are sick abroad with local private physicians who are skilled at treating non-emergency conditions. The platform, currently available across 42 countries in five continents, allows patients to tap into a network of leading doctors that fit their location, language, specialty, and cost needs in
Palm Beach Capital Fund III, through one of its investment entities, has made an investment in Allen Brothers Wholesale Distributors (Allen Brothers), one of the nation’s largest full-line wholesale distributors to the convenience and grocery store industry. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
In addition, Palm Beach Capital announced the creation of National Convenience Distributors, LLC (“NCD”) to service customers in the convenience and grocery industries. Allen Brothers, along with J Polep Distribution Services and Harold Levinson Associates, will each become operating divisions of NCD. With annual revenues of USD3 billion, National Convenience Distributors becomes the fifth largest wholesale distributor in
Rewired, a robotics focused venture studio that invests in growth-stage technology ventures, is looking to add new artificial intelligence and robotics investments to its portfolio. The portfolio currently encompasses innovations in machine learning, robotics, bionics, smart sensors, mapping and localisation in the UK and USA.
Backed by investors who believe that analysts are underestimating the prospects of AI, Rewired seeks to make investments of between USD5 million and USD30 million. Its status as a venture studio means that Rewired uniquely seeks to attain a substantial or majority position as an investor, and to then provide long term funding and expertise. The
BGF has invested GBP 8 million in British ceramics brand Emma Bridgewater, to support the brand’s UK growth and international expansion.
Danish venture capital firm Promentum Equity Partners has sold Grazper Technologies to Yokogawa Electric Corporation, a listed Japanese conglomerate.
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