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Nexus Investments, a division of Harry Hyman’s Nexus Group, has launched its first EIS Scale-Up Fund which it believes to be the first of its kind since the June announcement of the UK Government’s GBP2.5 billion British Patient Capital programme.
The Fund aims to address a large gap in the market by providing UK investors with access to exciting but curated UK entrepreneur-led private companies that have successfully passed the start-up stage and are ready to scale up on a global basis.
It will focus on four of the most exciting areas of change in the world today where
MPEP Management Luxembourg has secured a double-digit million Euro commitment from an alternative investment fund managed by Degroof Petercam, one of Belgium’s leading independent investment services institutions.
With its history dating back to 1871, Degroof Petercam today manages more than EUR54 billion for wealthy families, business owners and investment professionals. MPEP Management Luxembourg S.à r.l. and its sister company Munich Private Equity Partners GmbH (together “MPEP”) offer private equity programmes, managed accounts and further investment services for institutional clients out of their offices in Oberhaching (Greater Munich Area) and Luxembourg.
“Private equity plays an important role in the investment
BlackRock’s European Private Debt team has successfully closed its EUR1.1 billion first-time European Middle Market Private Debt Fund alongside several separate accounts, bringing the total AIM of the strategy to EUR1.8 billion.
The capital raise was a result of the team’s strong experience in middle market investing, their differentiated sourcing approach through local originators, and a global effort across the BlackRock platform.
The Fund’s final close exceeded the initial target of EUR750 million. The strategy saw strong demand from a diverse client base of around 50 investors globally, including insurers, public pension plans, foundations, endowments and family offices.
Fortino Capital is investing EUR2.2 million in Dobco Medical Systems, a Belgian software company specialising in online solutions for medical imaging.
Fortino Capital will help Dobco Medical Systems’ management with the further development of their platform and their international expansion.
Dobco Medical Systems was founded in 2011. Its PACSonWEB platform, is used in nine out of 10 Flemish hospitals. PACSonWEB is a secure cloud platform that provides an efficient way to exchange medical images and reports between all involved parties. Dobco is able to simplify complex processes within medical imaging and provide doctors and patients with medical information faster,
Eurazeo PME, Eurazeo’s division specialising in medium-sized companies, is to sell its stake in the Odealim Group, a French insurance brokerage firm for real estate professionals, to private equity firm TA Associates.
Eurazeo PME purchased AssurCopro in July 2016, working with founders Olivier Scemama and Vincent Mancel and the company’s management team. The transaction should be finalised in October 2018, once the preliminary operations have been completed. Eurazeo PME’s proceeds from the sale should be twice its initial investment.
With Eurazeo PME as its majority shareholder, Odealim has consolidated its leading position with five acquisitions, including InterAssurances, Jacques Boulard
Funds advised by private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe have agreed to sell a majority stake in Caseking, a European supplier of PC gaming, eSports and tech products, to funds advised by Gilde Buy Out Partners.
Equistone acquired Caseking in March 2014 and has subsequently supported the company’s growth strategy. Caseking’s founders and management will retain a stake in the business. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed and completion of the sale is subject to the approval of the relevant competition authorities.
Headquartered in Berlin, Caseking was founded in 2003 by Kay Kostadinov and Toni Sonn as
Crosslink Capital has closed its eighth venture capital fund, Crosslink Ventures VIII. The new fund, which includes support from both new and existing investors, was over-subscribed, and closed with USD275 million of capital commitments.
Over more than twenty five years, the Crosslink partners have backed hundreds of emerging growth companies, including industry innovators, such as Coupa Software, ServiceMax, Bleacher Report, Casper, DataStax, Descartes Labs, Pandora, Postmates, Reltio and Molekule. The new fund enables Crosslink to continue to allocate intelligent capital behind ambitious entrepreneurs and collaborate with seed funds to identify, invest in and deliver a portfolio basket of winners.
“We
Aurelius Equity Opportunities, a pan-European mid-market investor, has made changes to its Executive Board.
From 1 August 2018, Donatus Albrecht will look after the group-wide M&A strategy of all business areas of the Aurelius Group and will step down from the Executive Board of the listed Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA. Matthias Täubl, who has already been with Aurelius since 2008, will join the Executive Board with responsibility for operations at the same time.
These personnel changes are in response to the significant increase in the size of the Aurelius Group in recent years, which now has
AP Ventures has launched as an independent venture capital fund to invest in applications for Platinum Group Metals (PGMs). Anglo American Platinum and South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation (PIC), as cornerstone investors, have each committed USD100 million to the fund.
The newly created AP Ventures is the first fund of its kind investing in pioneering technologies and businesses harnessing the unique high performance characteristics of PGMs.
Anglo American Platinum is the world’s leading primary producer of PGMs and is expected to continue to provide AP Ventures with the benefit of industry expertise, market knowledge and access to international networks.
Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs is incorporating automation into its offering with the launch of a new product, AutoInvest.
Until now, investments on equity crowdfunding platforms have been entirely on a self-directed basis, with investors hand picking every campaign to invest in individually. With AutoInvest, investors select the amount they would like to invest per-campaign and the product then automatically invests based on criteria they have chosen.
Seedrs says AutoInvest opens up early-stage private equity to investors who have long been interested in the asset class, but not able to dedicate the time, allowing them to build a diverse portfolio
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