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Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Renaissance Capital, Onexim Group, and CITIC Merchant, a merchant banking arm of CITIC Group, are forming a strategic partnership to promote the interests of Russian companies and Chinese investors in high-opportunity projects in Russia, the CIS, the Middle East and Africa.
The current partnership will facilitate access to debt and equity financing from China for Russian businesses in the framework of the One Belt-One Road initiative, aimed at strengthening the integration processes in the Eurasian economic space through the construction of an infrastructure belt along the route of the historic Silk Road from China to
Strategic advisory and consulting firm Berkeley Research Group has appointed Michael Athanason as a managing director. Athanason joins the BRG Capstone group in New York where he will lead the Private Funds Group Valuation Team.
Athanason brings over 25 years of valuation and corporate finance advisory experience and has been involved in the valuation of alternative investment portfolios for the past 10 years. He joins BRG from KPMG, where he was the US national leader of the Alternative Investments Valuation practice, and he was previously the global leader of Duff & Phelps’ Alternative Investment Valuation Services business.
Athanason specialises
Private equity investment firm McCarthy Capital has led a recapitalisation and growth equity investment in Seven10 Storage Software. Massachusetts-based Seven10 is a provider of enterprise software-defined-storage solutions and fully automated file migrations.
“Seven10 epitomises our ideal investment opportunity in a rapidly growing market,” says Bob Emmert, Managing Partner of McCarthy Capital. “Bobby Moulton and the Seven10 team have built a market-leading software platform and a strong industry reputation. In partnering with management, we are excited to continue to grow the company and lead the market in innovation.”
Based in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Seven10 provides enterprise software-defined-storage solutions to customers across
CVC Capital Partners’ (CVC) CVC Growth Fund is to provide an USD80 million growth equity investment to Kount, a provider of online and mobile fraud detection and prevention solutions.
The investment will enable Kount to accelerate product innovation, expand its global footprint, and enhance customer support services.
Based in Boise, ID, Kount provides cloud-based fraud detection solutions that enable merchants to reduce fraudulent transactions made online and via mobile while increasing revenue by accepting more valid orders. Kount eliminates or reduces manual reviews of potentially fraudulent transactions for its customers, reducing credit card chargebacks, improving customer satisfaction, and drastically reducing fraud, in many cases
Taurus Administration Services has acquired Pacific Fund Systems’ PFS-PAXUS integrated share registry/fund accounting platform to support a push into the European market, which it expects to grow as a result of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.
Taurus will target start-up and sub-USD100 million funds often regarded as being too small by the larger fund administrators. Taurus has been appointed administrator to three alternative investment funds and has seen its assets under administration grow over the last two years from USD80 million to USD192 million in 11 funds. It has offices in Madrid, Geneva and the Cayman Islands and is
Thompson Street Capital Partners, a St Louis-based private equity firm focused on investing in middle market founder-led businesses, has closed its latest private equity fund, TSCP IV, with USD640 million in commitments.
The fundraising commenced in September 2015 and closed in December 2015. The fund’s total commitments of USD640 million exceeded the fund’s target of USD500 million and the original hard cap of USD600 million.
Since 2000, Thompson Street Capital Partners has acquired more than 100 companies in the business services, healthcare services and engineered products sectors. The firm has managed more than USD800 million in equity across the
Sophia Genetics has close a new USD15 million Series C financing round led by Omega founder and Belgian billionaire Marc Coucke. The funds will be used to continue Sophia’s rapid market expansion and broaden its range of genomic tests.
Witnessing a 400 per cent growth rate this year alone, Sophia Genetics now supports more than 100 healthcare institutions across 20 countries. Its innovative analytics platform, Sophia DDM, holds unique machine learning based algorithms and hosts the world’s largest clinical genomics community, placing Europe ahead of the US in precision medicine.
Coucke says: “Sophia Genetics stood out among an increasingly
Pamplona Capital Management has appointed Justin Perreault as a partner as it continues to build its US-based private equity presence.
Perreault, who will be based in Boston, has over twenty years of information technology private investing and operating experience, and will be focussing on investing in the technology, media and telecom sectors. He joins the business from Commonwealth Capital Ventures, where he co-managed three growth and early stage technology funds with USD600 million of committed capital. Prior to starting at Commonwealth Capital Ventures in 1999, he also worked at Object Design Software, Inc, Harvard Private Equity Group and McKinsey &
Cisco is making a significant investment of USD17 million in Idinvest Digital Fund II, which is dedicated to financing innovative young companies in the digital and new technologies sector including web services, the internet of things and fintech.
Cisco is now one of the main trade investors in IDF II alongside a pool of renowned European institutionals, bringing the size of this Idinvest Partners-managed fund for European business growth to EUR155 million.
“This partnership follows in the footsteps of our previous collaborations with Lagardère and Groupe Up, and will give an additional boost to Idinvest Partners’ reputation in tech and
USVP has held the closing of USVP XI, a USD300 million early stage venture capital fund that will focus on franchises in cybersecurity, enterprise software, consumer mobile and e-commerce, and healthcare.
USVP has led early-stage investments in 86 companies that have completed initial public offerings. “In closing USVP XI, we are building on an extensive track record of successful early-stage investing in transformative businesses with massive market potential. Box, Imperva, InsideSales, Intersect ENT, and Trunk Club all have become globally-recognised leaders in their markets,” said Steve Krausz, General Partner. “In the past five years, 24 of our companies have had
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