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Blufolio, a Swiss blockchain investment firm and manager of the Luxembourg-registered blufolio venture capital fund, has made its first investment in YAPEAL, a Zurich-based digital banking start-up founded by an experienced team of finance and technology professionals.
YAPEAL is initially addressing a specific section of the Swiss consumer market, with strong potential for mid-term growth via a B2B proposition.
“We are delighted to support the growth of YAPEAL, which targets a clear gap in the Swiss banking market. We see great opportunities for YAPEAL’s world-class management team to scale the company’s offering via partnerships in the Swiss and broader European
Swiss fintech company Stableton Financial has launched an alternative investments platform designed to cater to financial intermediaries who wish to make the benefits of alternative investments accessible to their clients.
Institutional-grade portfolios, tailored to a client’s specific requirements, start at portfolio sizes from CHF500,000. Single products are available at a minimum investment starting as low as CHF100.
The platform brings together investors, financial intermediaries, investment managers, service providers, and startups. Stableton’s launch partners have been predominantly Swiss-based. The Zug and Zurich based startup, however, has set its sights on growing within Europe, and ultimately becoming the leading marketplace for alternative
China Ping An Insurance Overseas (Holdings) Limited, together with its subsidiaries (PAOH), the main overseas investment and asset management platform of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, has closed the Ping An Global Infrastructure Funds with USD758 million in capital commitments.
“The Funds were partially seeded by Ping An with fund investments and co-investments. The Funds’ investments will focus on telecommunication, transportation, midstream, power, utilities and other infrastructure assets. They provide third party investors the opportunity to invest alongside Ping An in primarily OECD countries. The Funds’ investment strategy builds on Ping An’s over 10 years of successful infrastructure
Independent investment consultancy bfinance has appointed Philip Coté, CFA, FRM as Director, Client Consulting in the firm’s Canada team.
Joining the client consulting team at bfinance’s Montréal office, Coté brings over sixteen years’ experience in financial services, investment consulting, manager research and product development globally.
Philip’s appointment marks a significant step in the development of the North American divisions of the London-headquartered consultancy. He will work closely with Senior Director Les Marton and the team to so support major institutional investors in Canada including public and private pension funds, insurers, family offices, foundations and endowments.
Prior to joining
TandemLaunch, a company creator and seed fund focused on creating, incubating and accelerating early-stage technology start-ups, has held the first close of its latest fund, TandemLaunch Ventures III (TLVIII) with initial proceeds of approximately USD23 million.
The final close is expected to occur before the start of the summer of 2019.
Lead investor BDC Capital contributed $5 million to TLVIII which is dedicated to supporting the creation of innovative Quebec-based start-ups with the potential for global commercialisation. Other investors include the Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative (“VCCI”), Chicago-based Harbor Street Ventures and over 30 successful entrepreneurs and angel investors.
“TandemLaunch is
Electronics For Imaging (EFI), a specialist in in customer focused digital printing, is to be acquired by an affiliate of Siris Capital Group (Siris) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD1.7 billion.
Siris is a leading private equity firm focused on investing and driving value creation in technology companies that provide mission-critical solutions and are facing technology transitions.
Under the terms of the Agreement, which has been unanimously approved by EFI’s Board of Directors, an affiliate of Siris will acquire all the outstanding common stock of EFI for USD37.00 per share in cash. The purchase price represents an approximately
TA Services, the third-party logistics (3PL) and brokerage division of private equity firm One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company PS Logistics (PS Logistics), has completed the acquisition of Celadon Logistics Services (rom Celadon Group.
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Celadon Logistics is a leading 3PL provider of managed transportation, supply chain and warehousing services across North America. Celadon Logistics has over 500 employees who operate four offices and 11 warehouse facilities across seven states, supported by more than 15,000 carriers that ship FTL (full truckload) and LTL (less than truckload) deliveries.
“The addition of Celadon Logistics’ dry-van brokerage expertise and complementary customer
Monk’s Hill Ventures (MHV), a Southeast-Asia early-stage tech venture capital firm, has appointed Michele Daoud and Justin Nguyen as Partners, effective immediately.
“Michele and Justin bring unparalleled operating experience in the tech and venture capital as former entrepreneurs and operators themselves. They join us as Partners during a transformative time in Southeast Asia tech where we are seeing a boom of inspiring entrepreneurs who are tackling real problems and transforming millions of lives,” says Kuo-Yi Lim, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures.
As the first female Partner at the firm, Daoud has built a successful track record of
The Midlands Engine investment fund, through Maven Capital Partners, has provided Aurelius Environmental (Aurelius”), an environmental management and materials recycling business, with a GBP1.5 million debt funding package.
The funding will be used by Aurelius to purchase new machinery to improve efficiencies, reduce the company’s carbon footprint and help to support its sustainable development strategy and strong social and economic ethos.
Black Country-based Aurelius recycles lead acid batteries using an energy positive process that deals with the hazardous chemicals in lead acid batteries to produce enhanced products for re-use in the battery manufacturing industry. Working in partnership with Cambridge
Glennmont Partners has completed the divestment of a portfolio of five car park canopy solar PV projects in northern France. With a total operating capacity of 55MWp, the solar projects have been sold to the global solar independent power producer (IPP), Sonnedix.
The five solar PV car park canopy projects; Batilly (10.4MWp), Douai (11.9MWp), Flins (10.6MWp), Maubeuge (11.8MWp), and Sandouville (10.4MWp), commenced operations between December 2011 and January 2012.
The sale continues to demonstrate the successful divestment of Glennmont’s Clean Energy Fund Europe I (“Fund”), which was fully invested in 14 onshore wind, solar PV and bioenergy assets across
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