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Origami Capital Partners (Origami), a private equity firm focused on opportunistic special situations, has held the final closing of Origami Opportunities Fund IV (Fund IV) with USD520 million in capital commitments. Metric Point Capital (Metric Point) acted as the exclusive placement agent for the fundraise.
Origami offers flexible and creative capital solutions for illiquid assets trapped in complex structures. Origami solves challenges for its deal partners across industries, asset classes and throughout capital structures.
The firm’s experience navigating complicated situations and its collaborative, problem-solving approach delivers innovative and flexible solutions for Origami’s counterparties, including: alternative investment managers, limited partners and operating
Kenyan health tech startup Afya Rekod is about to launch an AI and blockchain consumer-driven, health data platform in support of global efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
The platform will provide a portal for people across the world to store their health data in real time, with a special focus on Covid 19.
The system, which is built to help users store their own health data, access health information and connect to health service providers was initially set to launch at the end of July 2020.
“Afya Rekod is a medical data storage platform that allows patients to store
The latest RisCura-SAVCA South African Private Equity Performance Report reveals that the country’s private equity industry again outperformed listed equity over the short- and medium-term, as of September 2019.The 2019 third quarter report, which tracks a representative basket of private equity funds in South Africa, shows outperformance across all three listed benchmarks over the three-year and five-year periods. Over the 10-year period, private equity underperformed across all three listed benchmarks.
The direct alpha earned by private equity relative to the ALSI TRI, FINDI TRI and the SWIX TRI is 2.9 per cent, 4.0 per cent and 5.4 per cent,
Integral Venture Partners (Integral) has held the first close of its first private equity and growth capital fund, Evolving Europe Principal Investments I (EEPI I). The fund, which has a hard cap of EUR150 million, is backed by leading institutional investors including the European Investment Fund (EIF) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and prominent regional and international entrepreneurs.
Integral is focused on investing in central and south-eastern Europe, a region covering 25 per cent of Europe’s territory with population of 120 million. The fund will be seeking equity investments of up to EUR25 million in targets with
Northlane Capital Partners (NCP) has made an investment in VMG Health (VMG), a full-service valuation and transaction advisory firm exclusively focused on the healthcare industry. NCP invested in partnership with VMG’s existing management team and key employees, led by Founder and CEO Greg Koonsman.
Founded in 1995, VMG Health provides compliance related transaction services including: business, real estate, and asset valuation, physician compensation plan design and valuation, buy side and sell side quality of earnings, litigation and dispute services, and reimbursement consulting.
“I am thrilled that we have entered into a partnership with Northlane Capital Partners to continue our firm’s legacy
Guy & O’Neill, a portfolio company of Centre Partners, and a developer and manufacturer of wipes and liquid-fill products in the household cleaning and personal care categories, has acquired Boomerang Laboratories (Boomerang), a Minnesota-based manufacturer of a diverse array of liquid-fill personal care and light-duty household cleaning products. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The acquisition enhances Guy & O’Neill’s product breadth and capabilities in several attractive categories, provides meaningful additional liquid-fill capacity and creates a larger, more diversified and multi-site partner for customers. Founded in 1999 and based in Spring Park, Minnesota, Boomerang’s breadth of product capabilities
Venture Capital firm Mayfield has closed on USD750 million in new capital across two venture capital funds, the USD475 million Mayfield XVI and the USD275 million Mayfield Select II, bringing the firm’s current assets under management to over USD2.5 billion.Mayfield XVI will continue the firm’s early-stage focus, primarily investing in companies at the ideation or early product stage. Mayfield Select II follows the strategy of Mayfield Select I, to invest in later-stage rounds of Mayfield breakout portfolio companies. The firm is expanding the charter of Mayfield Select II to invest in companies outside its portfolio which are at early-growth stages
A consortium led by former CEO of Addison Lee Group, Liam Griffin, and Cheyne Capital’s Strategic Value Credit (SVC) business, has completed the buy-out of London’s largest taxi operator. Griffin and Cheyne SVC’s combined holdings give them a majority stake in the business, in a deal that sees at least GBP41 million of new investment flow into the firm.
The consortium was attracted by Addison Lee’s strong core revenues, which have remained resilient over the last five years, and by the firm’s enduring, pre-eminent position as London’s most trusted car service.
Griffin returns to his former role as CEO,
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners is to acquire MCL Computer & Zubehör, a provider of IT consulting services and hardware & software reseller.
ESG engagement by European firms is “strong” while their North American counterparts are “lagging behind”, according to a new survey by Aberdeen Standard Investments.
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