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Private equity fund manager and enterprise investment scheme (EIS) specialist Calculus Capital has made a GBP2.5 million investment in diagnostics company Epistem via its EIS fund and venture capital trust (VCT) investment vehicles.
Calculus is the cornerstone investor in a GBP6.5 million equity fundraising undertaken by Epistem.
Epistem, an AIM-listed molecular diagnostics and biotechnology company, will use the investment to fund its next stage of growth, which includes developing low-cost, rapid and simple to use tests for diagnosing infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV via its Genedrive platform.
Epistem, which will be
Private equity firms Maven Capital Partners and YFM Equity Partners have backed the MBO of Indigo Telecom Group, acquiring the business from parent TTG-Global.
Maven and YFM have invested in partnership to provide a GBP12 million funding package, including additional funds to support a buy and build strategy to scale and diversify the Indigo group.
South Wales based Indigo designs, installs and maintains telecom networks across the UK and Europe, enabling customers such as Vodafone, Sky and BT to deliver fixed line, broadband, mobile and other data services to a wide variety of corporate, enterprise and consumer end users.
PEF Services, a fund administrator for private capital funds, has appointed Hank Boggio as chief revenue officer.
Boggio will oversee global strategy for PEF’s sales, marketing, account management and business development efforts to drive its revenue streams and identify new opportunities for growth.
Boggio will begin his new duties on 18 July and will report to PEF co-founder and CEO Anne Anquillare.
With more than 25 years of experience leading several companies through rapid growth and profitability, Boggio joins PEF from his previous role as managing director, head of business development at Ipreo Private Capital Markets, a provider of
Marlin Equity Partners has held the first and final closing of Marlin Heritage Europe with EUR325 million of total capital commitments.
The Heritage Europe Fund was exclusively offered to existing investors in Marlin's lower middle market focused Heritage Fund platform and closed at its hard cap in just over two months while generating demand well in excess of its initial EUR200 million target.
The Heritage Europe Fund is a natural progression for Marlin following the firm's long history of investing in European businesses since 2006 and the establishment of a local European presence in January 2013, with the opening
The global venture capital investment market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 35.86 per cent between 2016 and 2020, according to a report from Research and Markets.
The report – Global Venture Capital Investment Market 2016-2020 – has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts.
A trend boosting market growth is the advanced and early seed capital/angel funding activities. There has been a continuous increase in the initial capital investment through the use of an angel investor, a crowdsourcing platform, and an early-stage venture capital funding.
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Unity Technologies has closed a USD181 million series C funding round led by DFJ Growth and including China Investment Corporation, FreeS Fund, Thrive Capital and Max Levchin, joining existing investors that include Sequoia Capital and WestSummit Capital.
DFJ’s Barry Schuler will take a seat on Unity’s board of directors.
“Unity’s platform has revolutionised the game industry by allowing any size studio from Indie to Triple-A to create beautiful and compelling games and experiences and monetise them with their advertising and analytics services,” says Schuler. “Now Unity is poised to accelerate the advance of AR/VR with their unique ‘write once/
Following the UK’s referendum result in favour of leaving the EU, Heritage Financial Services says it is in a strong position to navigate the unchartered waters ahead.
With offices in the UK, Guernsey and Malta, Heritage is well positioned to continue to service European and non-European clients and it should be a case of business as usual.
Whilst it is too early to predict how the relationship between the UK and the EU will be redefined, Guernsey’s own relationship with the UK remains unchanged. Guernsey is and will continue to be outside the EU and third country provisions in
BankerBay, an investment banking platform for M&A and private equity deals around the world, has closed a USD2 million convertible funding round.
Participants in the round included investors from prior rounds as well as new high profile family offices and global leaders in the investment banking industry.
The latest financing round will support BankerBay's continued global expansion, solidifying its presence in major financial markets through the build out of sales, marketing and business development teams in London and New York. In a bid to meet current demand from the corporate and banking worlds, through a combination of strategic partnerships
Law firm Goodwin has appointed Stephen E Lee as partner in the firm’s private equity practice based in Los Angeles.
Lee joins AJ Weidhaas, co-chair of the practice, who expanded Goodwin’s private equity platform to Los Angeles when he moved there last year.
“Steve’s arrival is the latest step in our strategy to bring Goodwin’s premier middle market private equity platform – which is already a recognised leader in Northern California, on the East Coast and abroad in London, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Paris – to our Southern California clients,” says Weidhaas. “Steve’s extensive network and significant experience in
The De Agostini Group and Activa Capital are finalising the acquisition by Activa Capital of a majority position in Atlas For Men, alongside the existing management team.
De Agostini is a family-owned private group active worldwide, with activities in several business areas: publishing, media, gaming and communication, as well as the historic activities in multi-channel publishing and selling. In 1999, the group developed a new business in distance selling, Atlas For Men, led by Marc Delamarre.
In recent years, Atlas For Men has become a European multi-channel leader in the distance selling of outdoor clothing for men, with a
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