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The amount of data is growing exponentially. According to IDC, there were 16.3 zettabytes of information generated in 2017 alone. In simple terms, if every piece of data were a penny, it would cover the earth’s surface five times over.
Against this growing tsunami of data, investment managers and service providers alike are looking for ways to ingest and make sense of it all. To find information that they can translate into insights and turn into knowledge, that if done correctly, could lead to improved business performance and enriched customer relationships.
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Private equity firm M/C Partners has appointed communications infrastructure and services specialist, Travis Keller as a Partner in the firm.
Keller joins M/C from Altman, Vilandrie & Co (AV&Co) a technology, media and telecom focused strategy consulting and investment advisory firm where he served as a Director. While at AV&Co, Travis led hundreds of engagements with investors to develop investment theses, identify acquisition targets, perform investment due diligence, integrate acquisitions and improve portfolio companies’ performance. Recent diligence targets included commercial fibre operators, retail and wholesale colocation providers, managed cyber security companies and UCaaS platforms. In addition, Travis worked directly with management
Gide has advised Idia Capital Investissement, a subsidiary of group Crédit Agricole, on its investment in the share capital of Maison Chapoutier, a wine producer and merchant in the Rhone valley and whose vineyards cover 450 hectares in France and abroad (Australia, Spain and Portugal).
This transaction is part of a more global reorganisation of Maison Chapoutier’s shareholding, alongside the Chapoutier family and its longstanding partner Sofina.
This investment will boost the development of the family-owned vineyard’s activities, in particular as regards biodynamic growing methods and wine tourism.
In continuing its investment strategy in the wine sector, Idia thus
Hatteras Venture Partners has held the first closing of Hatteras Venture Partners VI, LP (HVP VI),says with USD94 million in deployable capital toward an ultimate target fund size of USD200 million.
“The pace and quality of our deal flow has grown tremendously during the past several years,” said Clay Thorp, Co-founder and General Partner of Hatteras. “With HVP VI, we will continue to partner with innovative, driven entrepreneurs to launch and build world-class health care companies, many of which will be based upon leading-edge research stemming from the renowned academic centres in the southeastern U.S. In addition, we will continue
Touch Biometrix, a fingerprint technology company, has received a GBP2 million investment from Deepbridge Capital.
The Series A funding through the Deepbridge Technology Growth Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund follows initial seed funding of GBP150,000 last year.
North Wales based Touch Biometrix is developing a new class of fingerprint sensor for application to consumer electronics such as smartphones and laptops.
Based on proprietary sensor designs and algorithms, the Touch Biometrix platform will enable fingerprint sensors of any shape or size that can be integrated easily into a wide range of consumer electronics and smart objects.
The user
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a significant minority investment in Indira IVF, an India-based infertility treatment provider. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2014 by Dr Ajay Murdia, Dr Kshitiz Murdia, Nitiz Murdia, Ashish Lodha and Manish Khatri, Indira IVF is one of India’s largest network of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centres. The company offers a wide variety of infertility treatments, including advanced IVF technology. Indira IVF currently operates 59 centres across 16 states in India and has completed nearly 27,000 IVF cycles in the last 12 months. Indira IVF has a staff of
Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity investor, has acquired Munch’s Supply (Munch’s) alongside the Company’s existing management team, led by CEO Bob Munch.
Munch’s is a wholesale distributor of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, parts and supplies. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Munch’s was founded in 1956 and supplies HVAC equipment to residential and commercial customers in the Midwest, Great Plains and Mountain states through 27 branch locations. Munch’s Supply distributes products from more than 100 leading HVAC equipment, parts and supplies manufacturers, including Trane, American Standard, Rheem and Mitsubishi.
“Specialty distribution
Quilam Capital, which provides both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has secured a multi-million-pound leverage facility from Natwest, which will be used to fund new and existing balance sheet investments.
Quilam was founded by Kieran McSweeney and Marc Sefton in late 2017 and the duo has developed a unique advisory approach which capitalises on the team’s wealth of industry experience and insight to help businesses develop and grow over the medium to long-term. The firm will support management teams on all aspects of their business, from operations and risk through to strategic direction, funding and development.
Green Arrow Capital SGR Private Equity Team has finalised its eighth acquisition, acquiring a majority holding in Labware, a specialist provider of integrated point of sales systems in the foodservice and retail business.
The company, which started out as a hardware producer, has, over the years, developed an integrated system of hardware and software, including all the devices needed for point of sales (cash register, handheld terminals, printers) to support management applications for point of sale management. Labware also offers a series of customisable APPs for monitoring the point of sale, and the retention and analysis of customer data (data
As political uncertainty continues, fears that fundraising opportunities will worsen in the Private Equity industry have increased, according to the latest annual industry report from IQ-EQ, a global investor services provider.
The research, based on a survey of over 120 fund professionals globally, shows that despite the industry remaining resilient overall, fund managers will need to prepare for an increasingly competitive environment.
Last year half of all money raised was directed to the 50 largest funds in the industry, suggesting that competition to attract capital will be fierce, particularly for the smaller players. This is reflected in concerns from
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