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KKR is to acquire a 49.99 per cent stake in new tower company, SFR TowerCo. The deal is subject to regulatory approvals in France and is expected to close in Q4 2018.
SFR TowerCo will comprise of 10,198 sites across France currently operated by SFR. KKR’s financial and operational support will help drive the continued growth and development of the company’s portfolio, strengthening its position as a leading telecom infrastructure provider in France. The transaction will give SFR TowerCo an enterprise value of EUR3.6 billion.
Under the terms of the deal, KKR and Altice France will partner to develop
ECM Equity Capital Management (ECM), a German private equity firm headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, has held the final closing of its new fund German Equity Partners V (GEP V) in June 2018 at its hard cap of EUR325 million in investor commitments – exceeding its original EUR300 million target.
Formally launched in January 2018, fundraising for GEP V was completed by early May, when the fund was fully allocated based on demand well in excess of the fund cap. This demand was underpinned by a strong existing investor base. GEP V welcomed approximately 20 institutional investors which are
Campbell Lutyens has opened a new office in Singapore, following regulatory approval.
The office will support the continued expansion of the firm’s fund placement and secondary advisory business in Asia-Pacific, and will be the firm’s second in the region, after the opening of a Hong Kong office in 2010.
Campbell Lutyens’ Asia-Pacific team has grown to 15 people and is currently advising on USD7.8 billion of transactions for Asia-Pacific clients. The firm raises capital and advises on secondary transactions for private equity, infrastructure and private debt funds globally.
“We have been expanding our presence in Asia-Pacific over the
AdoRx Therapeutics, a UK based drug discovery company focused on the identification of new cancer therapeutics, has closed an initial USD10 million investment round financed by Epidarex Capital and CRT Pioneer Fund (CPF).
AdoRx was founded in 2017 by leading healthcare investor Epidarex Capital and has assembled a group of highly experienced pharma industry veterans led by Pete Finan, former head of the Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research UK site. The company will focus on the discovery of new modulators of the adenosine pathway for the treatment of cancer.
Commenting, Pete Finan, CEO of AdoRx, says: “High levels of
Matr, an online teaching platform, has closed a GBP4.75 million Series A investment round led by the UCL Technology Fund and Downing Ventures, with follow on investment from Ananda and innovation charity Nesta, and Sherry Coutu joining as an angel investor.
The company has now raised GBP8.25 million in funding.
Following an initial focus on providing online teaching to support children in UK schools, via the company’s Third Space Learning brand, the new investment will be focused on developing the Matr platform to support families at home, catering to a global teaching and student base.
The UCL Technology
SharesPost, a liquidity provider to the private technology growth asset class, has closed a USD15 million Series C round led by LUN Partners and Kenetic Capital.
The funding will be used to build out SharesPost’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) for private company shares and security tokens and to further expand its global reach into Asia.
“Our strategy is to create a single, global marketplace for traditional and digital securities of private growth companies. Connecting US and Asian investors and companies on our ATS is a key objective in realising that vision,” says Greg Brogger, Founder and CEO of SharesPost.
Silexica, developer of the SLX programming tools, has completed a USD18 million Series B round of financing, led by The EQT Ventures Fund (EQT Ventures), plus existing investors Merus Capital, Paua Ventures, Seed Fonds Aachen and DSA Invest.
The complexity of software design is evolving rapidly, with embedded supercomputers required to deliver trillions of actions every second for systems such as autonomous cars. Due to the shift to the computing everywhere era with increased connectivity and rapid data processing, complex new computing architectures are becoming increasingly difficult to program manually.
Silexica has been developing the SLX programming tools since
SmartAsset has raised USD28 million in Series C funding. The new investment, which comes from Focus Financial Partners (backed by Stone Point Capital and KKR), Javelin Venture Partners, TTV Capital, IA Capital and Citi Ventures, among others, increases the company’s total funding to more than USD51 million.
SmartAsset plans to use the funding to further grow its audience, as well as expand its fast growing SmartAdvisor platform, which matches consumers to financial advisors.
The six-year-old Y Combinator company provides personal finance information and tools to more than 45 million people each month. Powered by proprietary Automated Financial Modelling software,
TPG Capital (TPG), the private equity platform of global alternative asset firm TPG, is to make a strategic minority investment in beauty company Anastasia Beverly Hills.
TPG is partnering with Anastasia Beverly Hills to help enhance its operations and growth, with a focus on e-commerce and international expansion. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“It has been incredible to watch Anastasia Beverly Hills evolve,” says Anastasia Soare, Founder and CEO of Anastasia Beverly Hills. “With the help of my daughter, Claudia, what started as a singular brow studio in Beverly Hills has gone on to become one of
BGF has appointed Sophie Birch to its Talent Network team, which helps BGF-backed companies gain unparalleled access to a group of more than 5,000 board-level non-executives, business leaders and sector experts.
Birch’s experience of helping growing companies strengthen their boards, together with her extensive contact book of senior business leaders adds further weight to BGF’s network.
Birch has over 10 years’ experience at Lyceum Capital Partners where she had sole responsibility for developing its talent management function. Prior to this, Sophie was a key member of Lyceum’s investor relations team.
Last year, BGF expanded its Talent Network team,
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