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Darby Private Equity (Darby), the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton, has completed an investment in Pharma Consulting Group (Biopas) through the Darby Latin American Private Debt Fund III (DLAPDF III).
Biopas is a specialty pharmaceutical distribution company focussed on in-licensing, selling and marketing innovative prescription pharmaceutical products, cosmetics and medical devices. Transaction details have not been disclosed.
Since Biopas was founded in 2002, it has expanded into 13 Latin American countries. The company’s primary market is Colombia, and it also has a strong presence in Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. Biopas is headquartered in Panama and operates in
Chainalysis, a provider of cryptocurrency compliance and investigation solutions, has secured a USD30 million Series B financing led by Accel.
Benchmark also increased its investment in the company after leading its USD16 million Series A round last April.
Chainalysis will use the funding to support strategic product development of new cryptocurrency usage and open an office in London that will act as a hub for its research and development lab and regional expansion. Accel’s investment was led by Amit Kumar and Philippe Botteri. Botteri will represent Accel on Chainalysis’s board of directors.
Over the past year, the company
Private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has completed a strategic investment in Digital Ware (Digital Ware), an independent software supplier in Colombia.
Headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia, and founded over 25 years ago, Digital Ware specialises in developing and selling ERP software, payroll human capital management (HCM) solutions, as well as hospital information systems and state-of-the-art business process management (BPM) applications for highly complex business environments.
“We are very pleased to partner with Digital Ware and have it be our first investment in Colombia. HIG has been tracking the impressive path the founding shareholders and management have executed. We
Idinvest Partners, a leading investor in SMEs across Europe, has appointed Bao Dinh as Investment Director in the firm’s Venture Capital team.
In this position, Dinh will be involved in sourcing, analysing and executing investments for the Venture Capital team, both in France and in Europe.
Prior to joining Idinvest Partners, Dinh spent four years as Director EMEA at HotelTonight, a leading mobile app for last minute hotel bookings. In this role, Dinh headed up operations in EMEA and managed a multi-national team located in Paris, London and Berlin covering 15+ countries.
Dinh began his career in management,
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and NVM Private Equity (NVM) have completed a GBP3.25 million equity investment in UK fintech start-up Mojo Mortgages (Mojo).
The investment, which has been equally funded by Maven and NVM, is part of a wider GBP7 million funding round, will support Mojo’s ambitious growth plans and help the Company further evolve its unique and intuitive platform to enable a more empowering experience for consumers looking for a new mortgage or associated insurance products such as income protection.
The mortgage market is well established with 1.6 million mortgages sold in 2017, generating GBP1.15 billion of fees.
Sekhmet Ventures has launched a new venture capital fund focussed on beauty and wellness. The fund focuses primarily on companies with science-based products in the beauty and wellness markets.
Sekhmet Ventures provides its portfolio companies with more than just capital. Sekhmet Ventures has assembled a team of experts who support its portfolio companies with expertise and extensive experience in marketing, sales, manufacturing, regulatory compliance and other commercial aspects of a beauty and wellness company. By providing these services, portfolio companies are able to accelerate growth without the additional time, capital and potential dilution that would be required to build the infrastructure required
Overall European private equity deal volume reached an all-time annual record of 2,230 in 2018, according to Preliminary figures released in the Q4 2018 Private Equity Barometer, published by unquote in association with Aberdeen Standard Investments.
Deal value in 2018 reached an 11-year high of EUR199 billion, with Q4 the weakest of the year with 497 transactions, down 12 per cent on Q3. Value also had a slow end to the year at EUR30.5 billion, the lowest since Q3 2016.
In terms of European buyouts, volume declined very slightly on the year, coming in at 981 compared with last
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) data collection and reporting solution for private equity (PE) firms, venture capital (VC) firms, their portfolio companies and investors.
The solution is part of iLEVEL, a sophisticated platform connecting participants in private capital markets.
A recent study by Private Equity International found that 85 per cent of limited partners (LPs) consider ESG factors during due diligence. However, there is no single standard for general partners (GPs) to follow and it can be difficult for LPs to collect the ESG data
BlueBay Asset Management’s (BlueBay) Private Debt Group has closed its Direct Lending Fund III and associated vehicles with investable capital in excess of EUR6 billion.
BlueBay’s Private Debt platform has approximately EUR13 billion of AUM and has successfully completed more than 100 transactions across 11 geographies since inception in 2011.
The new fund aims to provide financing solutions to upper and mid-market European businesses to facilitate M&A transactions, growth financing and re-financings. The fund is BlueBay’s fourth generation of Private Debt vehicles, following the final close of Senior Loan Fund I in 2017, and two previous generations of Direct
Alantra Private Equity fund has acquired a majority stake in the capital of Frías Nutrición (Frías). The management team will continue to be a relevant shareholder in the company, maintaining its involvement in the management and daily operations of the business.
The deal, which is subject to approval by the competition authorities, will be the seventh deal closed by Alantra Private Equity Fund III.
Founded in 1919 and headquartered in Burgos (Spain), Frías is a national leader in production and distribution of vegetable beverages (oats, soybeans, almonds, coconut and rice), broths, creams and other healthy products, mainly for the
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