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Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has provided a GBP2 million asset based lending line to Insite Contracts Ltd, a high-end office fit out and refurbishment company based in Scotland.
Based in the north of Glasgow, Insite has a client portfolio spanning the public, commercial fitout/refurbishment, industrial and retail markets.
Founded in 2004, Insite began its operations providing refurbishment and fit out services primarily within the office and healthcare sectors. Initial success saw the company introduce an additional maintenance/FM service for a number of its key clients, followed recently by the formation of a subsidiary company, Insite Cladding and Roofing Ltd. which also predominantly operates in the refurbishment sector effectively complimenting their existing services. Working
Madrona Venture Group, an early-stage venture capital firm, has made two additions to its team.
Maria Karaivanova is joining Madrona as a principal to focus on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities, and Alice Ryder as director of investor relations and business development.
She will work with Madrona’s investors, as well as continue to develop Madrona’s programme for connecting C-level executives with portfolio companies for partnerships, customer relationships and advisory roles.
Each brings a deep background of business, technology and finance experience to the firm, and has helped rapidly scale very successful businesses like Cloudflare, King Digital and
HIG Capital has appointed Daniel Nader as principal in the HIG Latin America team, as part of a strategy to expand its investment activity into real estate assets in the region.
HIG has been investing in Latin America since 2012 when it established operations in Brazil. The firm subsequently raised a dedicated Latin America Fund in 2016.
HIG’s real estate platform, which has been investing in the US and Europe since 2007, targets opportunistic real estate investments with a focus on adding value, improving performance and achieving attractive risk adjusted returns. With the ability to invest in all parts
Brazilian investment manager Captalys has launched its first offshore fund with the support of Apex Fund Services as administrator.
Captalys has BRL1.5 billion in AUM and invests in Brazilian private credit.
The onshore fund has a six-year track-record (returning 20.2 per cent last year and 19.3 per cent in 2015) and started 2017 positively, gaining 1.7 per cent in January.
The recently launched offshore fund, Captalys Private Credit USD, is registered in the Cayman Islands and will operate a credit vehicle with a partial currency hedge to protect against the Brazilian real.
Running the new fund, which
Gro Solutions, a provider of digital growth solutions for banks and credit unions, has closed a USD4.25 million round of funding led by Atlanta-based TTV Capital with additional investments from BIP Capital, C&B Capital and BLH Venture Partners.
The investment is TTV Capital’s first from its fourth fund in the State of Georgia.
Invest Georgia, a long-term investment programme backed by the State of Georgia, is an investor in TTV Capital’s fourth fund.
“Invest Georgia is thrilled to see TTV Capital’s leadership bringing together multiple Georgia-based institutional investors into a local company that operates in fintech, one of the fastest growing, most innovative
Institutional alternative asset manager Crestline Investors has appointed Chris Golio as a managing director in the firm’s business development and client partnership group based in New York.
He will be focus on the Northeast and Midwest US regions and report to Frank Jordan, head of business development and client partnerships.
Prior to joining Crestline, Golio (pictured) was a partner for Constellation Associates providing private credit third party institutional marketing services primarily to direct lending and opportunistic managers. While there he specialised in direct lending, opportunistic and other illiquid strategies.
Before that, he was a managing director and the COO
Scottish-based business angel syndicate Archangels has appointed Shaolei McKie as its investment executive.
McKie will support Archangels’ executive team in undertaking due diligence, business performance analysis, legal and investor liaison both for Archangels’ existing portfolio of investee companies and for new investment opportunities.
A Chartered Accountant, Shaolei joins Archangels from Edinburgh-based Corran Properties where she has been financial controller since 2012. Her previous career has spanned the financial investment and banking sectors.
McKie says: “I really enjoy assessing and evaluating businesses and this role enables me to provide essential analysis for Archangels that will support their investment strategy
Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance has provided USD12.1 million to support the US expansion of existing client James Grant Group, a management and professional services provider to clients including Ant & Dec, The Script and Davina McCall.
The funding package consists of term loans and acquisition facilities to support James Grant Group’s purchase of US talent management business Deckstar Artist Management.
Investec has been working with James Grant Group since 2014, when it backed the buyout of the business by European private equity firm Metric Capital. This latest transaction includes funding to support further acquisitions.
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Reduxio Systems, a specialist in storage and data management solutions for the enterprise with to-the-second BackDating recovery capability, has secured USD22.5 million of Series C funding in a round anticipated to total up to USD32 million.
The round was led by London-based C5 Capital, an investment manager focused on cyber security, data analytics and cloud computing.
This round more than doubles the amount of capital invested in the company, and will fund continued innovation and global marketing of the company’s software-defined storage platform.
All previous investors, including Jerusalem Venture Partners, Carmel Ventures, Intel Capital and Seagate Technology also
NTR has closed two project debt facilities back-to-back in a matter of weeks with Nord/LB, totalling EUR50 million.
The debt facilities will be used to finance the construction of the Coollegrean wind farm, a 17 MW wind farm based in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, and the Teevurcher wind farm, a 9 MW wind farm, located in County Meath, Republic of Ireland.
NTR’s chief financial officer, Marie Joyce (pictured), says: “NTR has had a longstanding and successful relationship with Nord/LB in financing our wind projects in the US and we are delighted to now transact with Nord in the
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