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The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has launched a new loan fund to promote the production and distribution of energy derived from renewable resources in the region.
The GBP15 million Greater Manchester Low Carbon Fund has been allocated from the 2014-2020 European Regional Development Fund and has a lifespan of 15 years.
Managed by GVA, the fund is aimed at property developers and infrastructure providers to encourage the use of renewable energy in development schemes. It will be used to fund projects that would not attract traditionally commercial finance due to the relatively new technology involved, or projects that would
Astorg has completed the acquisition of Cathay Capital’s and OrbiMed’s respective stakes in Echosens, a specialised diagnosis company focused on non-invasive products and associated services dedicated to the assessment of chronic liver diseases, which affect more than 700 million people worldwide.
Astorg becomes a shareholder in the Company alongside Chinese Pharmaceutical company Inner Mongolia FuRui, which remains the reference shareholder.
Founded in 2001 by Laurent Sandrin and headquartered in Paris, Echosens has revolutionised routine clinical practice in hepatology by enabling the diagnosis of hepatic injuries due to chronic liver diseases via the quantification of liver fibrosis through a non-invasive,
Business information provider IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) today announced that Partners Group, a EUR62 billion global private markets investment manager, has selected IHS Markit’s thinkFolio as its cross-asset order management and portfolio modelling system.
The platform will be delivered as a managed service with IHS Markit hosting the thinkFolio software in the cloud, managing upgrades and real-time feeds, and executing overnight data loads and start-of-day processes.
Partners Group is also migrating to WSOWeb, the fully-managed syndicated loan portfolio administration and accounting service from IHS Markit. Together, thinkFolio and WSO will deliver a comprehensive loan and credit investment management platform
e-days Absence Management, a provider of employee leave tracking and absentee management software, has secured a seven-figure funding line from Yorkshire Bank to invest in the future growth of the business.
The latest round of bank funding follows a seven-figure investment from Palatine Impact in November 2017. The private equity firm backed the business from its GBP100 million fund, which targets investments up to GBP10 million in businesses with a positive social and/or environmental impact alongside industry-standard returns.
The Nottingham-based company offers its customers employee absence management tools designed to improve operational efficiencies and reduce absenteeism. The tool manages,
Three experienced figures in the alternative investment industry have partnered to form a new licensed fiduciary services company in the Cayman Islands.
Analysis by data and analytics company GlobalData of the investment activity of the top 10 global venture capital (VC) companies in 2017, reveals that collectively they invested more money on fewer deals when compared to the average numbers for 2013-2016.
Naveen Kalluri, Financial Deals Analyst at GloblalData says: “The drop in investment volumes and increase in investment values suggests that these investors are placing bigger bets on fewer companies that are maturing.”
Of the top 10 global venture capital investors analysed by GlobalData, eight companies increased their proportionate investment value, with all but one of these companies reducing the
Independent investment manager Albion Capital has added three new recruits to its technology team as part of its strategic expansion in the sector.
Catriona McDonald and Nadine Torbey have joined the firm to help with tech investments from Albion’s VCT portfolios. Tanel Ozdemir has also joined the investment team at Albion Capital as an analyst on the UCL Technology Fund.
The hires support the evolution of Albion’s investment strategy towards a greater focus on growth and innovation, and will enable it to seek more opportunities in its specialisms, including data analytics, cybersecurity, digital health, automation and martech.
McDonald,
ecobee has closed on a USD61 million (CAD80 million) Series C funding round led by Energy Impact Partners, followed by eight institutional investors including Thomvest, Relay Ventures, and the Amazon Alexa Fund.
This funding will allow ecobee to build upon its suite of smart home technologies connected by whole-home-voice control, sensor technology and artificial intelligence. It brings ecobee’s total funding to approximately USD146 million to date.
“Our goal is to build a home that learns and anticipates your needs, making your home an intelligent space that simplifies your life rather than complicates it,” says Stuart Lombard, President and CEO of
Eisvogel Group AG (Eisvogel), a specialist industrials investor based in Zurich, has acquired a majority stake in Prisma Group (Prisma), an Italian designer and manufacturer of industrial automation solutions.
The deal value has not been disclosed.
This is the third investment that Eisvogel has made since the firm was formed in May 2015 and is typical of its focused approach to backing future industrial champions that are at the forefront of Industry 4.0. It backed a third-generation family-owned precision engineering business, Haas Prazisionstechnik, which is based in Germany in May 2016; and a UK based manufacturer of Computer Numerical Control
Ardian-backed Italmatch Chemicals, a specialist in the production and marketing of performance additives for water & process treatment, oil & gas, industrial lubricants and plastics, has acquired the Chinese Jiayou Chemical from Ecolab Inc.
The deal includes the acquisition of the entire antiscalant business and assets relating to phosphonate production and sales carried out by Jiayou Chemical Co (formerly part of Jianghai), located in the Changzhou area (China).
This transaction allows Italmatch Chemicals to strengthen its presence in the Asia Pacific Region with a new plant specialized in production of phosphonates antiscalant. The new site complements the other dedicated plants
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