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Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has provided Sleaford Building Services Limited (SBS) with a GBP750,000 funding package.
Greater-Lincolnshire based SBS provide clients with a range of services including design and build MEP Services, alongside installation and coordination services for pre-designed projects. The firm will use the loan to support its growth plans, helping deliver a number of upcoming contracts, while also creating 15 new jobs.
SBS is led by Managing Director, Barry Exton and his management team. Founded in Exton’s back garden in 2003, the firm has successfully grown into one
Venture capital firm BIP Capital has closed BIP Capital Venture Fund IV, with USD101 million in capital commitments, surpassing its target of USD100 million.
Venture Fund IV will provide Series A and Series B financing for market-disrupting B2B SaaS and tech-enabled services companies focused on Enterprise SaaS, Healthcare IT, Digital Media, Dev Tools, and MarTech.
The firm will continue to focus on companies in the southeastern United States’ startup ecosystem, while also expanding into the Midwest where it has already begun making investments. BIP Capital currently has more than 30 companies in its investment portfolio.
In August, BIP Capital
Victory Park Capital (VPC) has appointed Olibia Stamatoglou as chief financial officer (CFO). Based in Chicago, Stamatoglou will oversee the finance and accounting functions of the firm and assist in compliance and other business and fund operations.
Stamatoglou assumes the role from Jeff Schneider, who joined the firm as chief financial officer in 2010. In January 2018, Schneider was promoted to chief operating officer, continuing to serve in his role as chief financial officer, until the firm could find a replacement. Stamatoglou will take over the role of chief financial officer, effective October 28, and Schneider will continue to act
The Citco Group of Companies (Citco) has expanded partnership with Solovis, a multi-asset class portfolio management, analytics and reporting platform for asset owners and allocators.
The strategic partnership with Solovis spans business, technology and services and includes an equity investment in Solovis. This relationship enhances the performance reporting and analytics services currently provided by Citco Institutional Services, the firm’s investment record-keeping and reporting team for institutional investors.
The expanded relationship builds upon the two firms’ existing partnership, in place for over a year, and extends the capabilities of the Citco Institutional Services business line, which was launched in June
Backstop Solutions Group, a cloud-based productivity suite for institutional and alternative investors, has launched IntellX, the newest offering in the group’s suite of data products and services.
Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Backstop IntellX ultimately aims to automate inbound data collection, classification, and management, enabling the operations teams inside large asset owners to boost productivity and spend more of their time on the activities that create the most value for their investment teams.
“For every email that comes through with an attachment, be it an investor letter, capital accounts statement, or what have you, our team was spending
Future Industrial Services (FIS), a provider of specialist environmental and industrial services, has announced a 22 per cent increase in turnover following its acquisition of Colt Industrial Services (Colt) and further investment in its management team and fleet.
Headquartered in Kirkby, Merseyside, FIS works with clients including government, major utility and multi-national companies to provide a range of cost-effective solutions to waste management and decontamination requirements, including specialist recovery facilities for oils and heavy metals.
The company, which was backed by private equity firm NorthEdge Capital in April 2017 in a deal that valued the company at GBP16 million,
PGIM Investments has made senior-level hires across its marketing and technology functions, as well as expanding the roles of two senior executives.
PGIM Investments is the global manufacturer and fund distributor of PGIM Inc, the USD1.3 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial.
Coupled with attractive investment results, PGIM Investments has grown its mutual fund assets under management from USD28 billion to USD115 billion over the past ten years. To continue building its global capabilities, PGIM Investments has added experienced leadership in its marketing and technology functions.
With more than 25 years of investment management marketing experience,
AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital, has appointed Jessica Bartos as an investment manager.
Bartos joins AlbionVC from Rothschild & Co where she advised technology, media and telecom (TMT) firms on mergers and acquisitions. Working in Rothschild’s New York and London offices, Bartos has developed tech specialisms in insuretech and fintech, enterprise communications including cloud computing and software-defined networking, digital advertising, the space industry, and enterprise software (in particular ERP and accounting software).
Bartos began her career as a Presidential Management Fellow with the US Government, where she financed infrastructure projects in emerging markets in support of
JP Morgan Asset Management has held the final closing of its Lynstone Special Situations Fund (Lynstone), with USD1.06 billion in capital raised from a broad set of global investors comprising of pension funds, insurance companies, banks, foundations, endowments and family offices across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
More than half of investors are first-time investors in a JP Morgan Alternatives fund.
Lynstone will invest in stressed, distressed and event driven situations across North American and European private and public credit markets, where underlying assets are discounted due to illiquidity or market disruption and where an event
SPOKE, a direct to consumer menswear brand, has raised GBP8.5m of new equity capital in a Series B round led by BGF and supported by existing shareholders Forward Partners, Oxford Capital, and 24 Haymarket.
The new funds will be used to accelerate growth in four core areas: technology, product innovation, brand building and international expansion.
An early adopter of the direct to consumer model, Spoke has applied machine learning tools and an agile approach to inventory to create and sell ‘legendary legwear’.
“We believe that fit matters most” explains founder and CEO, Ben Farren. “Mr. Average doesn’t exist
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