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The team behind Swarm Fund, a decentralised capital marketplace that provides cryptocurrency investors with access to institutional style investments, has raised USD5.5 million through its public token sale.
Swarm has appointed serial tech entrepreneur Philipp Pieper as its CEO. The firm has also had what it calls its first ‘liquid democracy’ vote.
During the sale, 8.2 million tokens were sold to members of the Swarm and to discourage so-called ‘pump and dump’ buyers, Swarm Fund’s architecture leverages a ‘drip’ liquidity system to initially lock tokens on the platform, and release them over time for trading.
Immediately following the close of
Sustainable Technology Investors (STIL) has launced the GBP100 million Nobel Sustainability Growth Fund (NSGF) in partnership with the Nobel Sustainability Trust (NST), founded by members of the Nobel Family, and SET3, the global investment group founded by Gordon Power and Stephen Lansdown, co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown.
The Fund is backed by the Nobel Sustainability Fund (NSF) global group of funds which was launched in 2016, with backing from the Constitutional Reserve Fund of Monaco and the family office of Stephen Lansdown.
NSGF will make UK sustainable private equity investments to build technology, manufacturing, services and asset development businesses. The
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund has reached an agreement to sell svt Group (svt), a provider of passive fire protection products and services as well as restoration management services, to Ergon Capital Partners III (Ergon).
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
svt is the leading company in Passive Fire Protection (PFP) and Restoration Management (RM) in Germany with c. 50 years of experience. The PFP business comprises the full value chain from R&D to manufacturing as well as installation services of fire preventing and resistant products that are sold either to OEM
BTL Group (BTL) has closed previously announced brokered and non-brokered private placements raising a gross total of approximately CAD15.3 million.
BTL will use the capital raised to deliver its blockchain platform Interbit in early 2018. The company is targeting enterprises that can license Interbit to either build their own applications or form partnerships. BTL is also aiming to encourage
“We are delighted to have completed this funding round, where we saw significantly increased investor demand given the recent progress and exciting news from the Company,” says Dominic McCann, CEO of BTL. “The capital will be used to rapidly expedite
Graham Bishop, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management comments on the latest downbeat growth forecasts for the UK economy…
Chancellor Hammond’s latest budget was generally unexciting and, arguably aimed at placating Westminster. Importantly, though, the budget marked a step away from austerity and did not deliver the usual ‘bad news’ coming from a newly-elected government. In this respect, the current government has little room for manoeuvre given its razor thin majority.
Over the next five years, the UK economy can expect to see an overall net loosening of GBP25 billion. The biggest fiscal stimulus will come in 2019/2020,
Britbots, an organisation devoted to promoting the fortunes of UK-based robotics companies, has invested the first part of a GBP300,000 funding package for Tethered Drone Systems.
Britbots operates the British Robotics Seed (SEIS) Fund and the equity crowdfunding platform, Britbots CROWD, which both support promising robotics-related businesses performing autonomous tasks on land, air and sea.
Dominic Keen, founder and CEO of Britbots, says: “Much is written about tomorrow’s world of driverless cars, where we are to be seamlessly whisked around by an all-pervasive fleet of unmanned road vehicles. However, the complexity of the road network and the high consequences
China Renaissance has expanded its asset management business with an array of strategies and approaches to investing in companies across high-growth sectors of China’s economy.
The business will offer a range of options for investors who want exposure to “new economy” entrepreneurs, those with progressive business models built around innovations in technology, media, and entertainment (TME) as well as healthcare and life sciences.
China Renaissance has built its asset management business around its longstanding focus on TME companies. Its proprietary investments in China’s most prominent TME firms have formed the basis for developing an independent fund management business that is
Hermes GPE, a specialist investor in global private equity, has appointed two new senior investment professionals, Sanjeev Phakey and Fidel Manolopoulos (pictured), who will both be based in the firm’s London office.
These appointments bring Hermes GPE’s investment team to 20 professionals across three offices in London, New York and Singapore.
Phakey joins Hermes GPE from the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) where he spent six years working across the private markets platform. Phakey joins Hermes GPE to focus on fund and co-investments in the EMEA region, which is led by Simon Moss. Prior to joining USS, he worked at
By George Ralph, RFA – I’ve written before about the ways in which hedge funds can gain much needed competitive edge in order to stand out in this crowded marketplace, and there are a few key areas where firms can excel and nudge ahead of the competition. Developing solutions to automate workflows is a key area for many firms, as bespoke, slick workflows can optimise operations at every stage of a trade.
Anything that improves the investor’s experience is a good thing and it is becoming more important than ever to provide first rate customer service. However, we work with
Quilvest Private Equity, the private equity arm of the Quilvest group, has acquired a majority stake in GEDH from Platina Equity Solutions, together with CEO Amin Khiari. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
GEDH is a French network of higher education schools dedicated to communication, arts management and journalism which operates three well-known brands across six campuses located in France (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Lille), New York and Shanghai. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Paris, GEDH has over 3,000 students and an alumni base of over 20,000. In recent years, the business has undertaken an ambitious
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