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Dundee Venture Capital, an Omaha-based seed-stage investment firm, has raised USD20 million for its Fund III, which will back start-ups in the broader Midwest US.
The capital will be deployed into seed and early-stage investments targeting e-commerce, B2B SaaS and consumer-network focused start-ups. Dundee Venture Capital has made over 30 investments in start-ups to date, with a goal of actively transforming the business landscape of the Midwest through entrepreneurship.
With a target capital raise of USD30 million, Fund III will be 65 per cent larger than Dundee’s previous fund. The current fund focuses on consumer and B2B investments and
21 Centrale Partners has promoted Fabrice Voituron and Antoine Vigneron to partner.
Gérard Pluvinet, founding managing partner of 21 Centrale Partners, says: “We are eager to offer fulfilling careers, allowing the best of our teams to fully express their talent. Fabrice and Antoine have gained much experience at
Voituron joined 21 in 2012 as principal. He is involved in following 21’s participations in Skill&You, DGF and Impact.
Prior to joining 21, he spent 11 years at Omnes Capital as a principal in LBO and development covering investments and exits, fundraising and transversal topics for the management company.
MUFG Investor Services has appointed Kate Stallard as executive director, business development – EMEA.
She will be responsible for driving forward MUFG Investor Services’ asset servicing solutions by developing strategic relationships with private equity, real estate and infrastructure firms.
Stallard will support new and existing clients with a series of solutions including fund administration, asset financing, custody, depositary, trustee, FX, banking and jurisdictional regulatory services.
Formerly the founder of financial services consultancy IRIS Partners, Stallard brings 20 years of senior investment services experience to her new role.
Prior to founding IRIS Partners, she was head of private
NewAlpha Asset Management, a specialist in management company incubation and private equity, has appointed Vladimir de Maack (pictured) as international investor relationship manager based in Paris.
De Maack has 13 years of experience in asset management, acquired within the Societe Generale Group.
As head of sales development at Lyxor AM in Luxembourg and Belgium since 2011, de Maack developed the Lyxor AM offer regarding alternative management and solutions dedicated to institutional clients. He implemented several solutions to optimise own accounts within the regulatory frameworks of Basel III and Solvency II.
De Maack started his career in 2003 and
Inflexion Private Equity has acquired a majority shareholding in Group IMD from funds managed by Vitruvian Partners.
Headquartered in London, Group IMD is a global technology business automating the distribution workflow of video advertisements from advertising agencies and production companies to broadcasters and the online video industry. The company connects over 2,500 clients and 14,000 digital and linear media channels in more than 100 countries.
Group IMD’s IMD Cloud is the only global, fully-automated, entirely cloud-native platform for broadcast-grade, video advertising distribution workflow. As mission-critical technology, IMD Cloud is relied upon to distribute a significant proportion of video advertising
UBS Asset Management’s infrastructure and private equity business has held the final close of its inaugural infrastructure debt fund, Archmore Infrastructure Debt Platform (Archmore IDP), which has raised EUR570 million (USD640 million).
The capital has been raised from 17 institutional investors comprising a mix of insurance companies, pension funds and family offices spread across eight European countries and Japan.
This strong level of interest reflects the ongoing trend in the current low-yield and interest rate environment of investors seeking alternative investments, such as infrastructure debt, which offer low risk but higher yielding options relative to traditional fixed income
Tikehau IM has arranged a term loan financing for ELIX Polymers, a specialty chemicals manufacturer owned by an affiliate of Sun European Partners.
Headquartered in Tarragona, Spain, ELIX is a manufacturer of high quality pre-coloured Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) resins and derivatives as well as tailor-made specialities used for automotive, healthcare, consumer, appliances and electronics applications.
ELIX was acquired by Sun European Partners in 2012 from INEOS, as part of the remedy process imposed by the European Commission for the formation of the joint venture between the ABS businesses INEOS and BASF.
After a successful transformation, ELIX has become an
Bill Fickling has been named portfolio manager for TCA’s Opportunities Fund I, a small-cap, private equity fund that invests in underserved growth stage companies.
In this role, his focus will be on overseeing portfolio investments and securing returns from equity positions where TCA has capital invested.
“Bill has been a trusted advisor and one of our operating partners for several years,” says TCA founding partner and CEO Bob Press. “When the decision was made to extend our business model and start a private equity fund, we knew his instincts and expertise made him the perfect choice to manage the
Seyfarth Shaw has added partners John D Shire and William B Eck to the firm’s corporate department in Washington, DC.
Shire arrives from the Washington, DC office of Fox Rothschild, while Eck joins from the Washington, DC office of Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC, a prominent California-based health law boutique firm.
“John and Bill are exceptional corporate lawyers. 2016 has been a year of growth for our transactional and regulatory practices, especially in the healthcare, M&A and energy areas,” says Paul Mattingly, chair of Seyfarth’s corporate department.
“They are both strong gifted team members who augment our existing
Denver-based private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners has expanded its team with two new operating partners – Steve Geringer, chairman of AmSurg Corp, and Greg Steil, founder of ATI Physical Therapy.
Geringer and Steil will also join the board of directors of Fast Pace Urgent Care, Revelstoke’s newest portfolio company.
“I’ve worked closely with Steve and Greg for many years. Their combined knowledge in clinic-based healthcare operations and healthcare services is unmatched,” says Simon Bachleda, managing partner and co-founder of Revelstoke, and chairman of the board of Fast Pace. “Both are successful entrepreneurs, experienced CEOs and invaluable board members.
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