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Target Partners has appointed Wolfram Drescher as Venture Partner. The successful founder and CEO has over 20 years of experience in establishing and managing deep-tech companies in Silicon Saxony.
“Since my very first start-up experience, I’ve enjoyed partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs who are willing to disrupt industries with radically new technologies that impact our daily lives. I’m excited about the prospect of supporting and enabling founders to realise their visions,” says Drescher.
Drescher co-founded and led Dresden-based Airrays and previously co-founded Systemonic which was acquired by Philips, as well as Blue Wonder Communications which was acquired by Infineon and later
Kyash, creator of the Kyash wallet app and payment platform Kyash Direct, has raised JPY1.5 billion, or approximately USD14 million in Series B funding round led by Goodwater Capital, a global consumer technology firm whose principals’ previous investing experience includes Facebook, Twitter, Kakao, Spotify and Monzo, as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co.
Additional investors include leading Tokyo-based firms and companies such as Toppan Printing Co, JAFCO Co, Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited and SMBC Venture Capital Co. The round brings Kyash’s total funding to nearly USD26 million or JPY 2.8 billion.
Funding for Kyash comes as Japan attempts to move
Monarch Private Capital (MPC), an investment firm that develops, finances, and manages a diversified portfolio of projects that generate federal and state tax credits, has promoted Ian Chomat to Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Chomat moves into the role after serving as the Controller.
“One of Monarch’s key attributes is our talent. Ian’s arrival was part of a concerted effort to bring in top talent with experience to grow and expand our position in the industry,” says MPC Co-CEO and Managing Director of Tax Credit Investments George Strobel. “The structure and discipline that Ian has brought to MPC’s financing and accounting
Latin American investment bank Banco BTG Pactual, together with Dubai-based asset manager Dalma Capital, are to utilise the Tezos blockchain for security token offerings (STOs), including the ongoing REITBZ STO.
By utilising the new platform for digital securities transactions, the financial institutions address a deal pipeline in excess of USD1 billion for existing and prospective token issuances – with an outlook to utilise Tezos to tokenise a wide variety of traditional and alternative investments.
As governments worldwide and in the Middle East take measures to introduce digitalisation initiatives across industries, blockchain spending globally is to reach USD2.9 billion this year, and USD307
Private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R has acquired a majority equity interest in IT solutions integrator Sirius Computer Solutions (Sirius) from Kelso & Company.
Since 1980, Sirius has grown to become one of the largest solutions integrators in the US, with approximately $3.5 billion in annual gross sales. Sirius provides world-class solutions from proven technologies to help clients transform their business by managing their operations, optimising their IT, and securing it all. As part of its ongoing growth initiative, Sirius has acquired seven companies since 2014, including: Avnet, Inc.’s digital solution services; Brightlight Consulting; Continuum Security Solutions;
CEPRES presents the world’s largest ever analysis of LP Co-Investments based on 4,659 Co-Investments, as an update to the 2018 report. Read all of the findings here.
In this week’s newsletter, Paul Bryant reports on some of the reasons behind a drop in Europe’s IPO market, which has seen deal values fall from EUR26 billion in 2015 to EUR8 billion in 2018.
A new report by eVestment finds that real assets under administration have grown 20 per cent year-on-year as more GPs appoint third party administrators, while in other news, research by MJ Hudson suggests that the 8 per cent hurdle rate is no longer sacrosanct. The law firm notes that 23 per cent of GPs have chosen, at least initially, to drop it completely.
On the
The ability to predict and shape the long term success of global takeovers is often seen as the ‘holy grail’ for CEOs, investors and their advisors, and a new report from chartered accountancy body ICAEW and Drooms reveals that some key decision making may soon be taken away from humans and guided instead by the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in many stages of a deal process.
The report, AI in Corporate Advisory, is the first in the world to specifically address the application of AI to corporate deals – which in 2018 involved transactions worth USD4 trillion globally.
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RoundTable Healthcare Partners (RoundTable), an operating-oriented private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has closed its fifth equity fund at USD700 million in capital commitments.
RoundTable closed its first equity fund of USD400 million in March 2002, its second equity fund of USD500 million in March 2005, its third equity fund of USD600 million in July 2010, and its fourth equity fund of USD650 million (Fund IV) in August 2015.
RoundTable’s long-standing strategy has been to utilise the firm’s extensive healthcare operating and transaction expertise to improve the growth and profitability of its portfolio companies to enhance their
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Connect Managed Services (Connect) after securing a deal that merges the contact centre technology and services group with G3 Comms (G3).
The transaction creates one of the UK’s largest customer experience and unified communications specialists and a group with combined revenues in excess of GBP55million.
LDC first backed the multi-million-pound management buyout of Connect in 2014 (formerly Connect Communications) to accelerate its expansion at home and overseas through technology investment and acquisitions.
With LDC’s support, Connect has since made a series of acquisitions that have provided significant scale
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