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BioGeneration Ventures (BGV), a early stage life sciences venture capital firm, has secured investments from the European Investment Fund (EIF) and other new investors in BGV III, taking the fund’s total capital commitments to EUR66 million.
The Fund is supported by the “InnovFin – EU Finance for Innovators” initiative under Horizon 2020 and the European Fund for Strategic Investments.
The new fund will build on the track record of the first two BGV funds which yielded major successes including Dezima Pharma and Acerta Pharma. BGV was founding investor in both companies which were sold within three years at multi-billion
MUSO has raised GBP2.5 million in Series A funding from Harwell Capital. The investment will be used to expand the company’s current capabilities around sales and marketing, as well as bolster its technology and operations infrastructure and support.
MUSO tracked more than 191 billion global visits to websites hosting unlicensed content in 2016 alone. It is a problem that the entertainment and publishing industries have struggled to solve as traditional solutions have focused on a small proportion of the market. MUSO’s approach is unique as it provides an all-encompassing overview of the entire piracy market, ensuring content protection strategies are
NewAlpha Asset Management (NewAlpha) has closed its first venture capital fund with capital commitments of EUR56 million including an EUR15 million investment by the French Tech Acceleration fund, managed by Bpifrance as part of the French Tech initiative and financed by the Investments for the Future Programme (PIA).
The fund, targeted at French institutional investors (banks, insurers, pension funds), aims to build and develop a diversified portfolio of innovative FinTech and InsurTech startups. Additionally, it allows limited partners to keep a close eye on the technological changes affecting banking, insurance and asset management.
Primarily invested in un-listed French FinTechs,
Muzinich & Co, a corporate credit specialist, has opened a new office in Singapore, its first in Asia.
Muzinich & Co (Singapore) Pt. Limited has obtained a Capital Markets Services License for fund management from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Eric Pictet (pictured), who has held various senior positions in Europe since joining the firm in 2003, will have primary oversight of the Singapore office.
The Singapore opening extends Muzinich’s international footprint to nine offices. The firm, which was founded in 1988 and has its headquarters in New York, now manages over USD30 billion of assets globally in
Consumer product brand JML has acquired health and beauty goods start-up Brand Evangelists in a deal worth GBP2.3 million.
JML, which was founded in 1986, is a UK-based company specialising in retail promotions, TV home shopping and e-commerce. A spokesperson said today that it had acquired a 51 per cent stake in Brand Evangelists, who specialise in health and beauty products aimed at a young demographic.
“This acquisition is complementary to JML in that we share the core principle of products that require demonstrations and have mass appeal. However, the key differentiator is that Brand Evangelists market their products
Satori Capital has made a USD10 million investment in The Lovesac Company.
Satori, a Dallas/Fort Worth multi-strategy investment firm committed to the principles of conscious capitalism, served as the anchor investor in the current bridge round of financing. Mistral Equity Partners, which has provided growth capital to Lovesac since 2010, also invested in this bridge round.
Lovesac is a “new economy” e-commerce furniture retailer and high-end lifestyle brand whose most popular products include modular couches (Sactionals) and durafoam bean bags (Sacs). Lovesac’s Sactionals and Sacs are flexible, durable, washable, and shippable on short notice by FedEx and UPS.
Waymark Tech, a provider of regulatory intelligence software, has launched a new AI-powered tool that automatically identifies regulatory crossovers and conflicts between incoming regulations, such as MiFID II, GDPR, and PRIIPS.
Accessible immediately from within Waymark’s Wayfinder product, the real-time tool identifies which regulations apply to a company and then finds common areas and conflicts across other regulatory packages. This allows compliance officers to streamline implementation procedures, reduce risk and lower costs dramatically.
For example, the tool can flag up that both MiFID II and PRIIPs will require fund managers to give retail investors and professional investment advisors suitable
Private equity secondary firm NewQuest Capital Partners (NewQuest) has opened a new office in Mumbai, its third in Asia.
Darren Massara, Managing Partner of NewQuest says: “We are very pleased to announce the opening of our Mumbai office. India has been a core market for us since inception. Over the past two years, we have invested approximately USD200 million in India and expect our investment pace to increase in the near-term. Having a team on the ground further enhances our network of relationships and brings us closer to our portfolio companies.”
In conjunction with the office opening, NewQuest has
Eze Castle Integration has launched the Eze Hybrid Cloud, a complete multi-cloud solution combining the Eze Private Cloud with Microsoft Cloud services to deliver a secure and flexible, fully managed environment.
The Eze Hybrid Cloud innovation was born of Eze Castle Integration’s years of private cloud experience, deep Microsoft partnership and award-winning service organisation. Eze Hybrid Cloud draws layers of security and resiliency from the Eze Private Cloud, applications from the Microsoft Cloud and 24x7x365 expert support from the Eze global service team.
“Eze Castle Integration recognises that clients across the financial sector have different risk profiles, application requirements
OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with LetsVenture, India’s largest marketplace for startup funding.
As part of this partnership, OurCrowd will offer curated deals to Indian investor syndicates managed by LetsVenture, as well as showcase Indian startups on OurCrowd’s platform, giving selected Indian startups access to accredited investors globally and to business development opportunities.
OurCrowd and LetsVenture will be also be collaborating on an ‘India Fund’ to invest in Israeli, Indian and global startups. The investment into this fund would primarily be from family funds and HNWIs in India and OurCrowd’s global
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