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RM Secured Direct Lending (RMDL), an investment trust specialising in providing tailored debt solutions, has deployed all cash available for investment so far during April.
Future Loan commitments are expected to be funded from a variety of sources including any repayments under existing Loans, divestments of existing Loans, additional capital raises and the utilisation of its GBP10m Revolving Credit Facility (RCF).
Two loans totalling GBP6.25 million have been prepaid in accordance with the terms of the respective Loan agreements. In addition, the Investment Manager has agreed to sell equity warrants issued to RMDL by one of the Borrowers in
Octopus has raised GBP83 million from investors, including BP Investment Management, for its Zenith III fund.
The Fund, which is managed by Octopus Ventures, focuses on providing high growth European technology businesses with the capital and expertise they need to fuel their next phase of growth.
Octopus is one of Europe’s largest technology investors, with 20 investment professionals managing over GBP1 billion in assets. Across its funds, Octopus’ Ventures team has invested into over 100 companies over the last decade.
Zenith III follows on from the success of both Zenith I and Zenith II which provide institutions with
Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has invested GBP6 million in preferred equity in Mirada Medical, a medical imaging software company.
The investment will support Mirada’s development of artificial intelligence (AI) based software for increasing the speed and accuracy of cancer treatment planning applications, while delivering a more personalised level of care to patients. Apposite has invested alongside Mirada’s founding investor, AlbionVC, and other private investors.
Mirada’s state of the art software algorithms and imaging applications help clinicians to simplify technically complex image processing tasks, thus helping them use medical images more effectively
Simudyne, a simulation technology company, has closed a USD6 million Series A fundraise, led by Barclays alongside a distinguished set of institutions.
The new funding round includes Graphene Ventures, an early investor in Snap and Lyft, and Gauss Ventures, whose team were early investors in Revolut and Tandem, bringing total capital raised since Simudyne was formed to USD10 million.
With a 600 per cent year on year increase in revenue in 2018 following the addition of new global banking clients, Simudyne has grown to 30 staff members including six PhDs with expertise across fields such as market simulation, fraud
Amberjack, a UK specialist in designing and delivering Early Careers and large scale recruitment programmes for blue chip organisations, has secured a GBP17.6million investment from mid-market private equity investor LDC.
Based in Berkshire, Amberjack provides its specialist services and software products to many of the UK’s largest employers, with a particular focus on Early Careers candidates – specifically graduates, school leavers and apprenticeship programmes. It uses proprietary cloud-based software tools to automate processes, manage application volumes and provide data driven insights to help assess and select candidates and also provide a professional experience to candidates. Its clients include major organisations
After more than 23 years as Managing Director, and then Managing Partner of Albion Capital, Patrick Reeve has become Chairman of the business in a newly created role, with Will Fraser-Allen moving to Managing Partner, and Andrew Elder becoming Deputy Managing Partner.
From April, Patrick Reeve will chair the Albion and OLIM boards and continue to be involved in directing the strategy of the business, whilst maintaining key relationships across the Albion Capital VCT range, Albion Community Power and the UCL Technology Fund. Patrick joined Close Brothers in 1989, established Close Ventures in 1996 and led a management buyout in
Intermediate Capital Group’s Europe VII Fund has, in partnership with Mérieux Equity Partners and DOC Generici’s management team, agreed to invest in Doc Generici, one of Italy’s largest independent generic pharmaceutical companies – subject to antitrust approval.
DOC Generici provides drugs for the treatment of common medical conditions with a broad product portfolio and a strong presence in areas including cardiovascular, gastrointestinal/metabolism and neurological treatments. The Company operates an asset- light model and benefits from a consolidated network of suppliers.
This is the seventh deal for the Europe VII fund, which provides long term financing for growing private companies
Private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire a majority equity interest in IT solutions integrator Sirius.
With USD3.5 billion in annual gross sales, Sirius provides world-class solutions from proven technologies helping clients transform their business by managing their operations, optimising their IT, and securing it all. Sirius’ current majority owners, funds affiliated with Kelso & Company, will exit their investment at the close of the transaction.
“At Sirius, we are focused on how we can best deliver business outcomes for our clients, which is why we continue to invest in the best technical skills, the
BlackFin has taken a stake in Consultim Group, an independent distribution platform of managed properties for retail investors in France, which was founded by founded Benjamin Nicaise in 1995.
Having distributed more than 57,000 real-estate properties since inception, Consultim saw activity volume of EUR605 million in 2018.
Consultim covers the full investment scope, from referencing to distribution through its commercial brands Cerenicimo, LB2S and VP2. The Group’s offers also include brokerage and financing (Credifinn), accounting (Expertim) and property management (Propertimo). Recently, the company started distributing a new real-estate investment vehicle (OPCI) as part of a partnership with La Française
Capzanine continues to develop its presence across Europe by opening an office in Italy manned by three expert investors. Led by Philippe Minard and based in Milan, this team composed of Riccardo Dore and Tommaso Galletta will be responsible for Capzanine’s investments in Italian SMEs.
The team will also support the transalpine development projects of Capzanine’s French, Spanish and German portfolio companies.
This new stage in Capzanine’s development as an independent European asset management company demonstrates the success of its model dedicated to private investment in midcaps. Capzanine’s ability to offer debt, quasi-equity, minority or majority equity instruments makes
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