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Main Post Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm with deep experience investing in growth companies across the consumer value chain, has held the final closing of its second fund, Main Post Growth Capital II, with USD700 million of capital commitments.
The Fund was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap less than three months after its official launch. Main Post completed its inaugural fundraise in 2016 with USD400 million of limited partner capital commitments, well in excess of its initial target of USD250 million.
“This Fund is an important milestone for our firm and we are very appreciative to have substantial support from our
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital fund, has made a seed investment in WeTrip, a digital platform aiming to simplify group holiday planning and booking.
InMotion’s seed stage funding will support WeTrip in its global ambition to become the go-to digital platform for booking personalised group experience holidays. In August 2017, the company raised USD1m funding to launch WeSki, a platform that allows groups to share responsibility for booking complete, tailor-made ski holidays.
Sebastian Peck, Managing Director, InMotion Ventures, says: “As well as investing in the future of mobility, our fund seeks to back companies that are enabling
Inflexion Private Equity has completed the buyout of MYCOM OSI, a provider of service assurance software to global telecommunication companies. The investment was made by Inflexion Buyout Fund V, the company’s dedicated mid-market buyout fund.
The business is poised for significant future growth as telecommunications companies transform to offer new digital, IoT and 5G services whilst adopting automated solutions to reduce operational costs. MYCOM OSI is well positioned as it leads the industry with its cloud-based automated assurance solution enhanced with AI/Machine Learning.
Simon Turner, Managing Partner of Inflexion, says: “The team at MYCOM OSI have built up
Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business, is enhancing its private debt solution to meet growing demand from SMEs for flexible finance options to fund growth and support business strategy.
The private debt offering, which was launched last year, will now fund financing requirements of GBP3-10million – up to twice its original level of GBP2-5million. This will provide more small and medium-sized businesses with an alternative to bank lending or equity investment which can be tailored to fit their specific needs.
Connection Capital has already completed almost twice as much private debt lending this year as the previous
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP249,000 equity investment into Footfalls and Heartbeats Limited through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).
Based in Nottingham, Footfalls has developed a revolutionary and proprietary process for manufacturing smart fabric, which uses nano-scale interactions within the textile to make the fabric itself the sensor. This technology can be used in medical applications such as bandages or within sports apparel and shoes, monitoring the pressure being exerted on a specific body part and transmitting data in real time, wirelessly to a receiver.
Investment from the MEIF will be used for continued development of product
Fersa Group has acquired 100 per cent of the Austrian company NKE Austria, completing a ‘deal’ that began in 2016, when the Spanish company purchased 49 per cent of NKE shares.
With the acquisition of the remaining 51 per cent, the Austrian company is now wholly owned by Fersa and the business group offers two commercial bearing brands – Fersa for the automotive sector and NKE for the industrial sector. Fersa has not ruled out incorporating new brands into its portfolio in the near future.
The merger strengthens the group’s presence in central Europe – part of the company’s
Manchester-headquartered Eque2, a construction, contracting and housebuilding software specialist, has seen a year of strong growth following a multi-million-pound capital injection by mid-market private equity firm LDC.
Since the investment in November 2017, the company has recorded double digit revenue growth. For the financial year ending April 2018 the business reported revenues of GBP12.9 million, up 13 per cent year-on-year, and is now on track to hit revenues of more than GBP15 million for the current financial year, with its order book up 40 per cent over the same period.
Over the past 12 months, alongside adding over 200
Octopus Investments has reached its half-way milestone (GBP60 million) in under two months for its Octopus Titan VCT. This is the fastest that Titan has raised this sum, with rising numbers of online applications helping to drive this trend.
This year Octopus is targeting another GBP120 million fundraise for its flagship VCT. This follows last year’s record breaking fundraise when Titan raised a total of GBP200 million.
Titan offers investors, comfortable with the risks of smaller company investing, attractive tax incentives that accompany a VCT and access to a well-established and diverse portfolio of more than 65 potential game-changing
ADM Capital, a Hong Kong and London-based private credit investment manager, has held the final close for its Asia Secured Lending Facility II, (ASLF II) with proceeds raised of USD178 million.
ASLF II received USD50 million and USD10 million in commitments, respectively, from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US Government’s development finance institution, and Calvert Impact Capital.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, alongside another investor, provided initial seed capital in 2016 and the Facility – also known as the Somei Lending Platform – has already made seven investments since its first close in
Monroe Capital (Monroe) has held the final close of its 2018 Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund III at USD1.33 billion of limited partner commitments with over 100 investors in eight countries, eclipsing the target of USD800 million.
When combined with target Fund leverage, the Fund will have more than USD2.5 billion of buying power or capital available for investment.
The fund will invest in private credit transactions originated and underwritten by Monroe. The investment strategy is focused primarily on senior secured loans and unitranche loans to private equity sponsored, independent sponsored, and non-sponsored middle market companies located throughout
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