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The UK’s first discovery subscription platform, Wonderush.com, has reached its crowdfunding target amount of GBP200,000 on Seedrs.
The tech start-up will be using the money to invest and test new technology that will help scale the business globally.
London-based Wonderush.com launched the crowdfunding round on Seedrs on 24 August. It raised three quarters of its target within a few hours of launching.
Wonderush.com has previously received funding from investment fund Fuel.Ventures, joined by tennis player Andy Murray and fund founder MyVoucherCodes’ Mark Pearson, alongside private investors.
This is the first time the start-up has opened investment to the
Lending Works, a peer-to-peer lending platform which has insurance protecting lenders against certain borrower default risks, is now fully authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
As with all platforms in existence prior to April 2014 which held consumer credit licenses under the Office of Fair Trading, Lending Works had until now been operating under interim permission from the FCA, having submitted its application for full authorisation in October 2015.
The announcement brings to an end a review process lasting just under a year, during which all areas of the business have undergone stringent evaluation and scrutiny.
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ComplyAdvantage, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help firms manage compliance obligations and reduce costs, has completed a USD8.2 million series A funding round led by Balderton Capital.
The funding will allow the RegTech firm to realise its growth strategy and increase product penetration across Europe and North America, with the New York office officially opening this week.
ComplyAdvantage aims to provide proprietary, dynamic risk data with more efficient screening and monitoring technology. Some 200 clients globally rely on the company’s technology to reduce financial crime risk and take the pain out of regulatory compliance.
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Former NVCA chairman Dixon Doll has teamed up with Eric Ball and Jack Crawford to launch a venture capital firm named Impact Venture Capital, with investment offices in Burlingame and Sacramento, California.
Impact Venture Capital will host a large-scale global venture summit event this year in California at the new Golden 1 Center, widely recognised as the most high-tech arena in the world.
The firm will make investments alongside corporate venture groups in early stage information technology start-ups, with a focus on software and data analytics, and a commitment to serving one of four global challenges: security and government;
AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets has acquired a 958 hectare forest known as “Domaine de Saint Augustin” in the Allier and Cher departments, France, for EUR21.5 million from a private vendor.
The transaction has been undertaken on behalf of an AXA Insurance Company and brings AXA IM – Real Assets’ total forestry assets under management to circa EUR130 million, comprising circa 21,000 hectares.
The forest is located adjacent to the forest of Tronçais, which is renowned for producing some of the highest quality oak wood for planks and barrels, is well connected by roads and is in close
Monroe Capital has held the final close of Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund II with USD800 million of limited partner commitments, eclipsing the fund’s target of USD600 million.
When combined with target fund leverage, the fund will have approximately USD1.5 billion of total investable capital or buying power, the largest fund raised in Monroe Capital’s 12-year firm history.
The fund invests in private credit transactions originated and underwritten by Monroe Capital.
The investment strategy is focused primarily on senior secured loans and unitranche loans to private equity sponsored and non-sponsored middle market companies located throughout the US and
Investec Corporate & Acquisition Finance, KBC and Rabobank have jointly provided debt finance facilities to support Waterland’s acquisition of a stake in energy supplier Scholt.
The acquisition is being made alongside the original founder, Jan Scholt, and Scholt’s management.
The deal marks Investec’s eighth recent financing transaction in the Benelux region.
Crestline Investors, a credit-focused institutional alternative asset manager, has created a private equity credit and fund restructuring team to actively pursue niche financing opportunities in the private equity markets.
The group will focus on providing bespoke capital solutions, including preferred equity and flexible debt structures, to mature private equity funds approaching the end of their structural lives.
Amit Mahajan, formerly a managing director at Macquarie Asset Management, will co-lead the team along with David Philipp, who joined Crestline in 2013.
The new division is an expansion of the firm's Crestline-Kirchner initiative, which was formed in 2013 to acquire,
East African-focused private equity firm Catalyst Principal Partners has acquired a controlling stake in Zenufa Laboratories in Tanzania.
Zenufa is a pharmaceutical manufacturers with its factory recognised by the Tanzania Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) as being fully compliant with Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) conforming with international guidelines and systems that ensure high standards in design, monitoring and control of manufacturing processes and facilities.
Zenufa manufactures a wide range of over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medicines for the Tanzanian market, with leading brands including Zenadol, Zenkof, Zn-vital and Dr Cold.
Martha Osier, Catalyst investment manager, says: “The acquisition of
Adams Street Partners has appointed Jeff Akers, who joined the firm in 2006, as head of secondary investments.
In this role, Akers will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the secondary business, including strategy, investments, fundraising and portfolio construction.
Akers will succeed Jason Gull, who recently announced that he will be retiring from both Adams Street and the secondary industry, effective at the end of 2016, to spend more time with his family and on service opportunities.
“We would like to thank Jason for his contributions to Adams Street and wish him well,” says Jeff Diehl, managing partner
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