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IntelliShop AG, a software and solution provider for B2B eCommerce, will be supported by a new lead investor.
An investor consortium advised by IMCap has acquired the majority IntelliShop AG, a software and solution provider for B2B eCommerce.
The transaction will also make additional growth capital available to the Karlsruhe-based software company. The successful management team led by CEO Thomas Mondelli will remain on board. The parties involved have agreed to not disclose any information on the purchase price or further terms of the transaction.
The company will keep its focus on development and marketing of the IntelliShop
Alternative investment manager FS Investments is to create a joint venture with EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG), a global alternative investment firm focused on energy and energy-related infrastructure.
The joint venture is expected to create a platform with the scale, flexibility and energy industry expertise to offer energy and infrastructure companies flexible financing solutions across the capital structure. As a result, following the formation of the venture, the FS Investments/EIG team expects to generate enhanced deal flow – particularly directly originated deals – that positions the portfolio to create long term value for FS Energy and Power Fund (FSEP) investors.
Spartan Capital Securities has appointed Andrew M Heath as Chief Compliance Officer.
Heath has more than 35 years of comprehensive professional experience in the financial services industry. His expertise spans virtually all core industry management functions, with particular emphasis on compliance, capital markets and operations. He has served as Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel at leading firms in the financial services industry such as UBS, National Securities Corporation and Buckman, Buckman & Reid.
Spartan Capital Securities’ Founder and CEO, John Lowry, says: “We are very pleased that Andrew Heath has joined the Spartan team. Andrew’s extensive knowledge, strong
Senseye Limited has raised GBP3.5 million at the close of a Series A funding round led by MMC Ventures, a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high growth companies. The round was also supported by existing investors Breed Reply, IQ Capital and Momenta Partners.
Named NMI Emerging Tech Company of the Year 2016, and highly commended for ‘Tech Business of the Year’ in the 2016 startups.co.uk awards, the company will use the capital to meet fast-growing customer demand for its Senseye automated condition monitoring diagnostics and prognostics product – the leading-edge software solution that enables industrial companies to easily predict the failure of machines months in advance.
Senseye’s cloud-based
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has exited its investment in SPS (EU) Holdings Limited (SPS), delivering a 3x return on funds invested in 2014.
This transaction is the second profitable exit for Maven investors in as many months, following the sale of Crawford Scientific for 4.7x the initial investment in October.
SPS is the UK’s largest provider of promotional merchandise, supplying over 2,000 independent distributors in the UK and Europe. The Company operates out of a 90,000ft 2 site in Blackpool with manufacturing, branding and storage facilities, with two additional sites in Oxfordshire and Derbyshire. SPS
HIG Growth Partners (HIG), a dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has completed a strategic investment in Carlton One Engagement (Carlton), a global technology company specialising in the development of SaaS based solutions for global engagement, sales incentive, loyalty and reward management.
The Company’s two business segments include Power2Motivate (P2M), a SaaS enterprise engagement software for motivating, measuring, and rewarding desired behaviour, and Global Reward Solutions (GRS), a global reward platform with over 600 suppliers across more than 180 countries and territories.
“We are very excited to partner with HIG, whose domain expertise, extensive global resource base
Institutional investors are increasingly turning to alternative assets to diversify portfolios as they navigate an environment characterised by low yields, geopolitical concerns and a growing set of investment risks, finds Allianz Global Investors, one of the world’s leading active investment managers, in its annual RiskMonitor survey.
Consisting of 755 institutional investors, representing USD34.2 trillion in AUM across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, the RiskMonitor survey found that seven out of 10 respondents said they now invest in alternative asset classes. Diversification is the No1 reason for these allocations, cited by nearly one-third (31 per cent) of investors – the most
Richard “Dickie” Hodges, Manager of the Nomura Global Dynamic Bond Fund, provides his view of the fixed income market environment over the coming months…
As we approach year end, we have increased hedging of our risk assets and interest rate exposures. Exposures remain to Financials, some of the holdings deeply subordinated and (in our view) protected by the necessity for the ECB to step in once more if there is further instability in the European financial system.
We still hold substantial allocations to both Portuguese bonds and Indian “masala” bonds, and we are concerned over the economic situation in Australia
Jean-Philippe Desmartin, Head of Responsible Investment at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, on what to expect from Emmanuel Macron at this week’s climate change summit in Paris…
The COP23 has set the tone. At the climate change summit in Paris on 12 December , Emmanuel Macon will want to make his voice heard even if Europe is currently showing no clear leadership. Last month in Bonn, the French President said the situation was so urgent that not dealing with it would mean facing up to serious financial challenges. One particularly alarming sign is that carbon emissions have started to rise
Fulcrum Asset Management (Fulcrum) has appointed Matthew Roberts as a Partner. He will be responsible for the creation of a new Alternatives Group that will invest in real assets and credit.
Matthew joins from Willis Towers Watson where he was a portfolio manager for the Towers Watson Partners Fund and related strategies amounting to USD10 billion. Prior to this he ran its multi-asset and multi-strategy hedge fund research teams.
Commenting on the appointment, Andrew Stevens, Fulcrum’s Chief Executive said: “Given our macro focus, clients are increasingly asking us for help with their real asset and credit allocations. These asset classes
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