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EFG Fund Services has been appointed full service provider to Index Ventures’ latest fund, Index Ventures Growth III, a Jersey domiciled growth capital fund which has raisedEUR 650m in commitments from international investors to make equity and equity-related investments in growth companies in the technology field.
EFG Fund Services’ has a fifteen year relationship with Index Ventures and this appointment is the eighth Index fund to which EFG Fund Services has been appointed.
Index Ventures Growth III is a Jersey Expert Fund which closed earlier this year and is now commencing its investment activity. The Fund was oversubscribed, evidencing
European private equity firm Cinven is to acquire Kurt Geiger (‘the Group’), the footwear and accessories company and the largest retailer of luxury footwear in Europe, from Sycamore Partners for an undisclosed sum.
Established in 1963 on London’s Bond Street, Kurt Geiger has a portfolio of attractive brands (including Kurt Geiger London, KG, Miss KG and Carvela) and operates over 80 stores globally and 240 concessions within some of the world’s most prestigious department stores including Harrods, Selfridges, House of Fraser and Debenhams and partners with leading international brands. It has a proven omni-channel business model, operating third party concessions,
AnaCap Financial Partners has promoted Michael Edwards and Amber Hilkene, to Partner in their roles as Chief Operating Officer and Head of Investor Relations and Communications, respectively.
Hilkene joined AnaCap in 2006 as the fifth member shortly before the final closing of its EUR300m maiden fund and drives the firm’s investor relations, fundraising and public relations activities. She has led the development of relationships with global institutional investors, building AnaCap’s assets under management to EUR2.9 billion including blind pools and co-invest.
Hilkene says: “I am delighted to have received the promotion to Partner at AnaCap. It has been a
Activa Capital has made an investment in Alliance Etiquettes, the first investment in its new fund Activa Capital Fund III. Alliance Etiquettes is a buy-and-build platform consisting of three initial investments including Imprimerie Laulan.
Created in 1964 near Bordeaux, Imprimerie Laulan is a third-generation family business producing premium labels for the wine and premium food industries. Managed by Olivier Laulan, the company employs 50 professionals. By relying on two production facilities based in the South-West of France, Imprimerie Laulan covers a large variety of printing solutions for its long-standing customer base.
Alliance Etiquettes has purchased Groupe Enes and is in
Ireland’s Minister for Finance Michael Noonan, TD has signed the European Union (European long-term investment funds) Regulations 2015 into effect to facilitate the establishment of ELTIFs in the country.
ELTIF application forms are available from the Central Bank of Ireland and it has confirmed that it is ready to accept ELTIF applications.
Pat Lardner, Chief Executive of Irish Funds, says: “ELTIFs represent a key component of the European Commission’s initiative on Capital Markets Union (CMU) and aim to promote cross-border long-term investment in projects such as infrastructure, sustainable energy and new technologies. As a leading centre for cross-border Alternative
TriLinc Global Impact Fund has recently approved USD17.0 million in term loan and trade finance transactions to companies in South Africa, Kenya, Argentina, and Brazil.
TriLinc is an impact investing fund that provides growth-stage loans and trade finance to established small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies where access to affordable capital is significantly limited. Impact Investing is defined as investing with the specific objective of achieving a competitive financial return as well as creating positive, measurable impact in communities across the globe.
On 3 November and 16 November, 2015, TriLinc funded two separate transactions totalling USD1,519,560 as
Presence Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) startups, has launched a USD10 million fund.
The firm’s aim is to create a healthy pipeline of startups to fuel innovation, creativity and forward movement within the emerging VR and AR markets.
“We’ve seen time and time again from our previous endeavors that anytime there’s a platform shift, multi-billion dollar companies are created,” says Amitt Mahajan, managing partner at Presence Capital. “Our goal is to be early to support and empower exceptional entrepreneurs that share our vision and enthusiasm about VR and AR
Edmée van Dijk is joining Bluebee company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). VanDijk jopins the company from shareholder Delft University of Technology, where she was responsible for the investment portfolio of the university.
In this role, Edmée was a member of the board of directors of numerous spin-outs, including Bluebee. Prior to that she worked in Venture Capital firm TIIN Capital and she currently also advises the Dutch government in matters of early stage financing.
Van Dijk holds a degree in biotechnology, combined with a MSc in Management from Nyenrode and a Postdoc in Business Valuation at the Rotterdam
IK Investment Partners’ IK VII Fund is to acquire CID Lines, a provider of innovative hygiene solutions, from Gilde Buy Out Partners (Gilde). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Established in 1988 and headquartered in Belgium, CID Lines is a leading supplier of innovative hygiene solutions for the agricultural, food, vehicle care and institutional industries. With a network of over 750 distributors and importers, the Company exports its solutions to more than 90 countries. CID Lines offers its customers a complete product range of branded, effective and high quality solutions. Over the past years, CID Lines has
Next year will see the emergence of at least five Bitcoin and Blockchain businesses with a valuation of more than USD1 billion, and they will all be able to justify their valuations.
That’s one of the findings of Magister Advisors’ survey of the views of the World’s leading Bitcoin and Blockchain businesses, which was carried out in Q4 2015.
Jeremy Millar, partner at Magister Advisors, M&A advisors to the technology industry, who led the research says: “Globally, financial services companies spend close to half a trillion dollars on IT. This is the territory of thoroughbreds and workhorses, not Unicorns.
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