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True Ventures has closed its sixth early stage fund True Ventures VI with USD350 million in capital commitments and its third Select Fund True Ventures Select III at USD285 million.
The firm will use Fund VI to continue investing in dynamic, category-leading founders building companies across a range of industries. Fund VI investments will include enterprise software, hardware devices, consumer products, cryptocurrencies and innovation in digital biology.
“Our goal is to support the whole founder – personally, professionally, financially and interpersonally – so they have the emotional safety needed in order to be fearlessly creative,” says Jon Callaghan, co-founder
The State Street Global Exchange Private Equity Index (GXPEI) posted its second highest quarterly return of the past two years at 3.99 per cent in the second quarter of 2018.
The venture capital category held its lead for the second quarter in a row with a 4.64 per cent gain, followed closely by buyout funds with a 4.18 per cent return; but private debt lagged behind with a 1.90 per cent return for the quarter.
The PEI is based on directly-sourced limited partnership data and represents more than USD2.8 trillion in private equity investments, with more than 2,900 unique
Noerr has advised funds managed by Bregal Unternehmerkapital on its acquisition of trendtours Touristik as part of a succession arrangement. The shares were sold by the company’s founder and by the Managing Director and other shareholders.
trendtours is one of the leading tour operators in Germany and offers a broad portfolio of individual packaged tours. Together with the employees of trendtours, Bregal intends to continue ongoing initiatives while also focussing on new growth paths. Bregal Unternehmerkapital is part of the private equity business of a family-owned business that has been built up over generations.
The transaction has already been
Naxicap Partners, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has acquired a majority stake in Let’s Go Fitness following the exit of Afinum.
Working in partnership with the company’s existing management, led by Jean-Pierre Sacco, François Victor and Steve Porchet, Naxicap Partners will launch a new phase of growth for the company.
Let’s Go Fitness is the largest operator of fitness centres in French-speaking Switzerland, focussing on the upper middle-class pricing segment. It has been controlled by Afinum since 2014. The group currently operates 52 fitness centres, mostly in the Lake Geneva region. Since its foundation in 2002, the group has
Ipsos has acquired Synthesio in a deal worth over USD50 million in cash. Founded in 2006, Synthesio is a Social Media Intelligence specialist with presence in New York, Paris, London, Singapore, and Brussels, backed by its historical shareholders: Entrepreneur Venture, Idinvest Partners and Bpifrance.
Synthesio employs 130 personnel worldwide including a large team of engineers and data scientists. It provides clients with listening solutions and audience insights to measure the impact of social and mainstream media conversations.
Beyond product innovation, Synthesio plans to grow its international presence and services beyond its existing five offices. Synthesio will be a standalone business unit at Ipsos, maintaining
Inflexion Private Equity has invested in PMC Treasury (PMC), an independent provider of treasury and risk management solutions.
The transaction sees Inflexion take a substantial minority stake in the business, with management re-investing as part of the deal. The investment is being made by Inflexion Enterprise Fund IV, Inflexion’s dedicated lower mid-market fund.
Founded in 1989, PMC provides operational treasury and risk management solutions globally to corporate clients, private equity and infrastructure funds and their portfolio companies from its main offices in London, New York and Singapore. The business employs 30 people and additionally draws on 45 independent consultants
HIG Capital (HIG) has closed the HIG Advantage Buyout Fund with aggregate capital commitments of USD3 billion, well in excess of its target. The Fund makes control equity investments in more stable, higher quality companies with EBITDA between USD25 million and USD100 million.
The fund will capitalise on HIG’s established expertise in middle market private equity.
Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, Co-CEOs of HIG, say: “We are pleased with the strong demand for the HIG Advantage Buyout Fund. The positive response from our investors to this offering reflects their confidence in the capability of our team and our differentiated
Fenox Venture Capital and Sega Sammy Holdings have jointly announced a USD20 million venture capital fund to invest in advanced technologies globally.
Fenox Venture Capital is an international venture capital firm with headquarters in Silicon Valley. Sega Sammy Holdings INC, is a Japanese general entertainment company group engaged in a range of businesses, including digital games, amusement machines, toys, animation production and resort facility development.
The purpose of the fund, for which Fenox Venture Capital acts as General Partner, is to contribute to Sega Sammy’s innovation and growth by investing in startups with the potential for strategic synergy with
Nottingham-headquartered ENSEK, a software supplier to UK energy providers, has delivered a period of exceptional growth after securing a minority investment from mid-market private equity firm LDC in October 2017.
ENSEK’s revenues have more than doubled in the financial year to March 2018 to GBP6.2million, up from GBP2.7million in the previous year, which has included significant increases in contracted recurring software revenue. Headcount has also increased substantially from 65 people to more than 120 in the first year of ENSEK’s partnership with LDC.
ENSEK uses its market-leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to provide existing and new entrant energy providers with
Borden, a heritage American brand and US dairy processor and distributor, has appointed Eduardo Martinez as Vice President of Direct Store Delivery (DSD), effective immediately.
“DSD is a key advantage for Borden in providing best-in-class service,” says Borden CEO Tony Sarsam. “The DSD team plays a critical role as they are best equipped to proactively identify and respond to retailers’ needs. Eduardo brings invaluable experience and is a proven leader across a variety of functions in the beverage industry. We are very excited about the impact he will make as we look to grow our foodservice and convenience store business.”
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