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Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the blockchain technology sector and crypto ecosystem, has closed Blockchain Capital IV, LP a USD150 million fund.
The fund, which is the firm’s largest fund raised to date and brings assets under management to USD250 million, was oversubscribed at its hard cap with institutional limited partners representing fund of funds, foundations, strategic investors and family offices.
Since its inception in 2013, Blockchain Capital has invested in 72 companies, protocols, and tokens, including Coinbase, Ripple, Circle, Ethereum, 0x and Kraken. Blockchain Capital remains committed to working with the world’s best entrepreneurs
Nitesh Shah, director at ETF Securities, comments on the US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates for the sixth time since the financial crisis…
In the first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting with Jerome Powell as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the US Central Bank has raised interest rates. A substantial upgrade in forecasts paves the way for potentially three more hikes (for a total of four this year). Coming into the meeting, the market had only fully priced in three in total for the year.
Median GDP forecasts for this year were increased to 2.7 per
Professor André Spicer, Cass Business School, comments on Cambridge Analytica and questions what the costs will be to big tech firms?
Recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica will put pressure on not just Facebook, but many large tech companies. They will be forced to expand their compliance, privacy and social responsibility functions. Big tech firms are going from being darlings to being devils in the public imagination.
Big tech firms have a Californian mindset: they assume that people will generally do the right thing but this is being challenged. Now, they’re having to stop focusing on the sunny side of human
Averys, a European manufacturer of industrial storage systems, racking and metal furniture, backed by private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe since 2015, has acquired Storax from Ramada Aços Group SA.
Founded over 50 years ago in Porto, Storax is a leading provider of industrial racking and shelving systems and is a well-known and active brand in the materials handling sector. As well as its home market in Portugal, Storax has significant activities in Belgium, France and the UK. The Group generated total revenues of circa EUR80 million in 2017.
The acquisition provides Averys with a complementary industrial base in
The European M&A market remained buoyant throughout 2017 against a backdrop of political uncertainty, including national elections in France, Germany, UK and the Netherlands, according to the tenth edition of the CMS European M&A Study.
The study, which analyses more than 3,650 of its private M&A transactions and compares the CMS deals of 2017 against its deals from 2010-2016, reveals that, driven by solid European economic data, overall deal value climbed in Europe to USD929.3 billion, up 14 per cent compared to 2016. Structural changes arising from President Trump’s “America First” policy and Brexit, along with strong eurozone performance, continue
CoInvestor Connect, CoInvestor’s alternative asset investment platform for sophisticated private investors, has expanded its offering with the addition of private equity funds to the platform.
CoInvestor has continually strengthened its offering since its inception in 2016, transforming the management of alternative assets by digitising this traditionally offline, paper-based asset class.
The addition of private equity funds to CoInvestor’s range of investment products is a response to increasing investor demand for portfolio diversification and further widens the choice for private investors seeking non-market correlated investments.
Altitude Partners, a regionally focused fund supporting talented management teams to grow entrepreneurial companies
Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX: COIN), an investor in early-stage blockchain technology companies, has exercised its option to acquire a further 3.5 per cent of the share capital of Indorse, a Singapore-based company developing a blockchain-powered decentralised social network for professionals, which puts users in charge of their own data.
The Indorse platform uniquely enables its users to monetise their data and verify their profiles through a token-centric reward system. This functionality introduces a disruptive new paradigm into the multi-billion-dollar global social network industry, thus providing greater transparency and data security to an industry increasingly plagued by privacy breaches and data
Asian healthcare company Columbia Asia has raised a new round of investment of USD210 million to help in its aggressive expansion strategy.
Columbia Asia, part of Seattle-based Columbia Pacific Management, has 29 hospitals and two clinics in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Kenya, built with an innovative business model focused on serving Asia’s rapidly growing middle class with modern and efficient multi-specialty hospitals located close to where patients live and work. The company has about 10,000 employees serving more than 2.5 million patients a year, with 2,600 beds across all its facilities.
The company last year opened
Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its ownership stake in Consilio, a specialist in eDiscovery, document review, and legal consulting services to private equity firm, GI Partners.
As part of the transaction, Consilio announced a definitive agreement to combine its operations with eDiscovery and risk management provider, Advanced Discovery, creating one of the largest and most capable legal solutions and services providers in the world. The transaction is expected to close late in the second quarter of 2018, subject to usual and customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The combined company will consist of
Verdane has closed its Verdane Edda with SEK3 billion in capital commitments. The fund will look to invest in fast-growing companies within software, consumer internet and more traditional sectors where digitalisation can be a key driver of success.
“Verdane has significant experience supporting management teams in accelerating and sustaining growth, especially where digitalisation is a key driver. Verdane funds have invested in over 170 companies within software and consumer internet over the last 15 years, and we now look forward to harnessing our extensive expertise with Verdane Edda. The new fund further strengthens our position as the leading pan-Nordic investor
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