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The Finance Durham Fund, established by Durham County Council and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has helped raise GBP850,000 for insurance technology start-up, Honcho Markets Ltd.
The Finance Durham Fund provided GBP150,000 of the total investment with CrowdCube investors providing the remaining GBP700,000. Funds raised will be used to complete the final build of the software and launch the product later in 2018, creating three new jobs based in Durham.
honcho’s software is an alternative to price comparison websites (PCWs), and aims to disrupt the market by providing consumers with a new way to buy insurance products reducing
New York-based private equity firm Delos Capital has acquired Sage Metals Limited, a manufacturer of specialty metal products serving the North American electrical, power utility, industrial, and drainage end markets.
Sage Metals was founded over 30 years ago and is based in Delhi, India.
Delos acquired Sage from its founders, Vinod K Agarwal and SP Agarwal, and partnered with one of the owners, R Krishnan, and a new US based management team in the transaction. Delos raised acquisition financing from Olympus Capital Asia Credit and SSG Capital Management.
“Delos is excited to partner with the Sage management team
Cybersecurity specialist company eSentire, which is backed by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has appointed Chris Gesell as chief strategy and marketing officer, and Brett Davis as executive vice president, global sales, effective immediately.
Gesell will be responsible for driving eSentire’s business and brand strategies, while Davis will lead the company’s global sales strategy, execution, and growth.
“Chris and Brett will play crucial roles in eSentire’s growth strategy,” says Kerry Bailey, eSentire CEO. “Our customers’ experience, from their first point of contact through to service delivery, is critically important to us. Chris and Brett each have deep experience leading
ARQIS has advised Stuttgart-based BIMwelt Systems on its Series A financing round, led by BitStone Capital and Zech Group.
BIMwelt Systems is a specialist in the field of 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) – a planning method in which all those involved in the planning process can be integrated into the various projects and networked and thus access relevant component information. BIMwelt Systems is currently the only worldwide supplier that can create BIM content automatically, connect BIM software solutions directly, map sales and consulting on a database-based platform, and who already co-operates with well-known component manufacturers.
The ARQIS team,
A partner from private equity firm Livingbridge has joined accountancy and business advisory firm BDO as its new Head of Growth Advisory.
Paul Morris joins BDO’s corporate finance team following 14 years at Livingbridge and having held previous positions at Barclays.
In this newly created role, Morris will be advising ambitious UK businesses on growth opportunities with private equity investment. His experience in guiding mid-sized businesses through every stage of the private equity life cycle spans multiple sectors, in particular services and technology and media.
Paul Eagland, managing partner at BDO, says: “The UK economy is proving resilient
GALA Kerzen, a leading manufacturer of candles backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has acquired a majority stake in the Berlin-based candle manufacturer JuwelKerze (JuwelKerze).
This follows GALA Kerzen’s recent acquisition of a majority stake in Indian manufacturer Ramesh Flowers.
Through these acquisitions, GALA Kerzen is positioning itself widely and developing significant synergies within a global network. The founders of JuwelKerze, Martin Werle and Marius Stolarski, will retain a shareholding in the company as well as receiving a significant interest in the GALA Kerzen group. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed and completion remains subject to the
Noerr has advised the Lendico Group, a specialist in business lending, on the first major takeover of a fintech company by a bank in Germany.
The buyer is ING Deutschland GmbH, the parent company of ING-DiBa AG. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
The Noerr team which advised on this transaction was headed by the Partner Hans Radau and the Senior Associate Armin Bartsch. Both have extensive expertise in advising fintech companies and have, besides Lendico, advised the online lending platforms Zencap and Spotcap and the Chicago fintech company Joinesty on its European market entry.
GAMMA Capital Management’s (GAMMA) inaugural ‘Tourism in Iceland’ report shows that the growing tourism market in Iceland is providing infrastructure investment opportunities for institutional investors.
Tourism, driven mainly by American visitors, is Iceland’s biggest generator of hard currency and export growth. Since 2010, it accounts for the largest share of recent job creation, including 12,000 new jobs from 2010 to 2016. The industry’s expansion represents important diversification for an economy reliant on fish and natural resource exports. In 2017 each month saw double digit year on year tourism growth, while 2018’s projection is expected to approach more sustainable levels according
MPC Capital, an international real assets investment manager, has formed a joint venture with Martifer Renewables, a developer of wind and solar energy projects.
MPC Capital and Martifer Renewables will form a strategic partnership cultivating and supporting distributed generation and utility scale solar PV and wind renewable energy products throughout Colombia.
“We are excited to expand our regional development efforts into the Colombian market and to take advantage of highly attractive, niche investment opportunities,” says Dr Roman Rocke, Management Board Member, MPC Capital. “This partnership illustrates our on-going commitment to expanding our renewables infrastructure investment platform and activities in
By Olivia Munro, Eze Castle Integration – Financial institutions and firms continue to embrace cloud computing technology. While the hybrid cloud is rising in popularity for firms, there are still some common misconceptions about the methodology.
1 Hybrid cloud is a third and new type of cloud
When the hybrid cloud methodology emerged, many were under the impression that this was a third and new type of cloud. However, the Hybrid Cloud is a blend of private and public cloud. This doesn’t necessarily mean that if you have Private and Public Cloud, you are using the hybrid methodology. True Hybrid
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