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NewAlpha Asset Management, a Paris-based global emerging manager acceleration specialist and Private Equity firm, has appointed Adrien Auric as Chief Operating Officer.
In addition to operational due diligence, Adrien Auric is now also responsible for coordinating the Legal, Internal Control & Compliance, Operations and Information Systems functions with NewAlpha’s service providers.
The company intends to adapt its organisation and strengthen its operational efficiency to cope with the growth and diversification of its investment and advisory activities.
Prior to joining NewAlpha in June 2017, Adrien Auric was in charge of Investment Due Diligence at Reinhold & Partners, a
Pathway Capital Management, has closed Pathway Private Equity Fund CV-B (PPEF CV-B), a USD602 million private equity co-investment fund formed in partnership with a US-based institutional investor.
PPEF CV-B will focus on identifying and investing in co-investment opportunities globally alongside high-quality private equity managers across a variety of strategies.
PPEF CV-B represents a continuation of Pathway’s successful 27-year track record of investing in private equity, which includes more than USD1.2 billion invested in private equity co-investments.
Since the inception of the firm in 1991, Pathway has participated in the development of more than 85 private market portfolios, committing
Chelverton Asset Management Limited (‘Chelverton’), a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and unquoted SMEs, has completed its third transaction of 2018 on behalf of Members of its Investor Club service, with a GBP1 million growth capital investment in Reading-based iDefigo.
iDefigo initially developed its Internet of Things (IoT) surveillance platform in New Zealand before relocating to the UK in 2013. The company’s offering, combines power management, mobile network optimisation, and intelligent cloud image capture and processing which it says provides organisations with a viable solution for protecting remote assets. The iDefigo camera can be self-installed, without the need
Puppet has secured USD42 million in funding led by Cisco Investments along with EDBI, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, and VMware.
The DevOps and automation company recently closed its second acquisition, adding multiple products to its portfolio in the process, and opened new global offices.
“Our rapid growth and international expansion is a testament to the rising demand for DevOps transformation, software automation and the pressing need for enterprises to navigate the new world of software delivery. That’s why we’ve been so focused on expanding our product portfolio—to empower customers to discover, deliver and operate software across their cloud and
Jared Jensen has joined Sidley Austin as a partner in the firm’s global Private Equity practice. Jensen, who will be based in the San Francisco office, was formerly a partner with Goodwin Procter LLP.
Jensen has extensive experience advising private equity and venture capital firms, their sponsored companies, and other clients on public and private M&A, tender and exchange offers, recapitalisations, management buyouts, going-private transactions, carve-out transactions and minority growth investments. He represents clients in a wide array of industries, including software, information technology, financial services, life sciences, consumer products, education and business services. Jensen also provides guidance on public
Signal Media, an AI-powered reputation management and decision support platform, has raised USD16 million (GBP12 million) in a Series B round led and priced by GMG Ventures LP, the independent VC fund whose limited partner is The Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian news organisation.
MMC Ventures was the largest investor in the round, which included a debt facility from Kreos Capital. Other investors include Frontline, Hearst Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures and LocalGlobe.
Signal tackles the information overload facing executives as they seek information they need to help shape their decisions. Signal applies a layer of machine learning to
Harmonic Fund Services has gone live with Finastra’s Fusion Loan IQ solution. The independent fund administration and alternative asset fund servicing firm will use the platform – traditionally employed by banks and service providers to service their bilateral, specialised and syndicated loan portfolios – to provide a new loan administration and agency service to its diverse alternative investment funds client base.
“Our customers have sophisticated needs, and when it comes to loan admin servicing that is no exception,” says John Wolfe, Director, Harmonic Fund Services. “With Fusion Loan IQ, we will be able to expand our services to meet the
OakNorth has completed a GBP4.2 million transaction for Dartmouth Partners Ltd, the award-winning recruitment consultancy, with Literacy Capital plc taking a significant minority position.
Founded in 2012 by Logan Naidu, Dartmouth has built itself a reputation in the financial and legal sectors by adopting a unique ‘classroom to boardroom’ approach which has seen it place thousands of candidates from graduate level, all the way up to the C-suite. With a presence in both the UK (London) and Germany (Frankfurt), Dartmouth is the chosen advisor to over 300 firms and has more than 200,000 candidates on its database. Its key clients
Omnes Capital and Ilmatar Windpower have launched a joint wind platform Ilmatar Energy which will target further acquisitions of Finnish and other Nordic development stage and construction ready assets.
In the next five years Ilmatar Energy aims to construct and operate up to 1000 MW of wind power and has already acquired its first project from Metsähallitus, a state-owned enterprise responsible for the management of one third of Finland’s surface area. The project encompasses 50 turbines with a combined nominal capacity of over 200 MW. The project is aimed to be built without any subsidies but is also well-positioned to
IQ Capital, has held the first close of its GBP125 million third fund, IQ Capital Fund III, at GBP92 million.
The fund will invest at Seed and Series A stages into UK deeptech companies with transformational deep-tech, AI or disruptive algorithms at their core and led by visionary founders.
IQCF III builds on the successes of IQ’s existing funds, which included a ‘double dragon’ exit in May to Oracle (a deal that returned an entire fund twice over), enabling the first fund, IQCF1, to deliver a healthy 3.5x net return to its LPs. IQ Capital’s second fund has invested
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