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Bain Capital Ventures has hired marketing veteran Annis Steiner as the firm’s vice president of marketing.
Steiner will be responsible for driving marketing strategy and execution – from branding and messaging to content, events and thought leadership – designed to expand the firm’s network of current and future founders.
Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialise more than 200 companies since its founding in 2000. With USD3.6 billion under management, the firm focuses on a mix of early- and growth-stage investments across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure and data-driven industries.
In the last 12 months the firm
YFM Equity Partners, a private equity fund manager, has backed the MBO of TEV Limited, a UK designer and manufacturer of cooling, heating and refrigeration equipment.
TEV marks the third investment from the YFMEP 2016 Fund which closed at the end of last month.
TEV operates through two widely recognised brands, Marstair and Quartz, both of which offer bespoke products which are unavailable in the mass market. Marstair supplies air conditioning and refrigeration equipment into a variety of end markets, such as retail, leisure, food manufacture and solutions for harsh climates. Quartz focuses on chilled water cooling solutions for commercial,
Transportation has dominated the performance of Quaero’s infrastructure strategy over the past four weeks, with the largest sectoral exposures diversified infrastructure companies (17.3 per cent), toll roads and tunnels (16 per cent) and rail & bus (12.8 per cent).
The best performing sectors in April were satellite (up 9.2 per cent), airports (up 5.8 per cent), and toll roads/tunnels (up 5.3 per cent).
The only two infrastructure sectors which lost ground in April were agriculture (down 1.3 per cent) and electricity transmission and distribution (down 1 per cent). The positive performance was broadly based with 83 per cent
Cairngorm Capital has appointed Neil McGill as Investment Director, strengthening and extending the firm’s capacity to pursue new investments.
McGill joins a team of talented investment professionals and operating partners, whose unique mix of sectoral expertise and investment skills has built a portfolio of successful, high-quality businesses.
A seasoned investment professional with over 16 years of M&A experience, McGill joins from BDO where he was Head of the M&A Advisory practice in Scotland, leading mid-market deals for corporate and private equity clients. Prior to BDO, McGill was a director and shareholder in a boutique advisory rm in Edinburgh and spent
High Road Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of Storage Battery Systems from Supply Chain Equity Partners, marking the seventh platform acquisition for High Road Capital Partners Fund II.
Founded in 1915 and based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Storage Battery Systems (SBS) is a leading assembler and value-added distributor of branded, rechargeable industrial battery solutions and test equipment for motive, stationary and standby power applications.
“SBS is a leading provider of motive power solutions for the material handling and logistics industries and a trusted service partner for manufacturing and distribution companies in the upper Midwest, as well as a
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has appointed three senior hires at its offices in London and Manchester with a new ABL Director and two Regional Sales Directors joining the firm.
Joining IGF Business Credit as ABL Director for London and South East, Jamie Gould has over 35 years’ experience in the alternative finance sector with previous roles at Bibby Financial Services, GE and Smith & Williamson. His primary focus will be to develop the firm’s introducer network in the region, as well as being responsible for wider business development strategies.
Jamie Gould, ABL Director
Parquest Capital has held the first and final closing of its second lower mid-market private equity fund, Parquest Capital 2, with total commitments of EUR310 million.
Parquest Capital 2 received significant interest from both existing and new investors, with demand surpassing the fund’s target cover of EUR250 million and original EUR300 million hard cap. Investors in the fund include a diverse group of funds of funds, pension funds, financial institutions, insurance companies and government agencies.
Like its predecessor fund Parquest Capital 1 (a fund created in April 2014, after ING Parcom Private Equity successfully gained full independence from the
Academic Appointments, a specialist Yorkshire-based education recruiter has secured backing from Leeds based investment fund Solingen.
Academic Appointments was founded by Mo Parkin in 2004 and currently provides services to schools across Yorkshire via offices in Leeds and Doncaster.
The business has grown significantly over the past few years and has diversified to provide a one-stop shop for all school-based requirements on a temporary, contract and permanent basis.
Pete Riley, currently a director of the business, has been promoted to managing director while founder Mo Parkin will now take the role of executive chairperson.
Commenting on the
UBS Asset Management’s UBS International Infrastructure Fund II (the Fund) has signed an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the equity interest in Autovía del Camino, a 72.4 kilometre concession road located in Northern Spain.
The full equity interest is being acquired from RREEF Pan-European Infrastructure Fund LP, an infrastructure fund managed by Deutsche Alternative Asset Management (Global) Limited.
Autovía del Camino comprises a two-lane carriageway in each direction, connecting the northern Spanish cities of Pamplona, the capital of Navarra, and Logroño, the capital of La Rioja.
Due to its strategic location, the road serves as an
New analysis from data science hub Pivigo has revealed businesses with multiple nationalities represented at the leadership level receive significantly more funding than those with directors solely from the UK.
Pivigo’s in-house team analysed open data sets from Companies House and Crunchbase, and found businesses with similar size boards (three-four directors) received almost four times more funding when they had two or more non-UK nationalities on the board (GBP13.8m) as opposed to UK-only directors (GBP3.5m).
The analysis – which looks at companies founded between 2004 and 2014 – highlights that some of the most successful businesses to come out of
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