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London based Real-time consumer engagement app OnePulse has closed a USD1.07m seed investment round, led by AngelLab, D5 Capital and the London Co-Investment Fund along with a number of senior brand and technology executives.
With over 300 clients (including businesses like Aviva, CGA Strategy, Coca-Cola, Bartle Bogle Hegarty & LBi Digitas), and a large panel of mobile users in the UK, OnePulse is looking to disrupt the traditional market research sector.
OnePulse is a mobile and web-based platform that provides on-demand insights to brands and businesses at any size or stage. Via OnePulse, companies ask people around the UK questions
HIG WhiteHorse, a credit affiliate of global investment firm HIG Capital, has arranged a EUR35 million holding company PIK loan financing for Suitsupply, a leading men’s clothing retailer.
Founded in 2000 in Amsterdam, Suitsupply operates through its own extensive retail network in Europe, North America and Asia. Suitsupply’s revenues are in excess of EUR150 million, and have been growing at more than 25% per year.
HIG WhiteHorse has provided a flexible financing structure, supporting the company’s management in buying out their minority shareholders and the business for the next stage of its growth and international expansion. The management team
Cato Networks has raised USD20 million in a series A funding round led by Steve Krausz, general partner at US Venture Partners (USVP), and Theresia Gouw, founder of Aspect Ventures.
Cato Networks will use the funding to refine its new Network Security as a Service (NSaaS) platform, which the firm says will change the way network security is delivered, managed, and evolved.
Cato Networks was founded by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz, who had bootstrapped the company until now. Kramer is one of the founding fathers of network security, best known for introducing the first firewall to the market as
Blockade Medical, a privately held company focused on the development of catheter based therapeutic devices for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms and ischemic stroke, has closed a round of equity financing.
Existing investors participated along with new investment from TitanMed Capital and GP Healthcare Capital, venture capital and private equity funds, which are dedicated to healthcare investments. The company also announced the formation of a joint venture for future manufacturing of Blockade Devices for the Chinese marketplace.
The funds will support the continued commercialisation of the Barricade Coil System™ and will also be used for the continued development of novel
New York-based private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners has strengthened its team of Industry & Operations Partners with the addition of Michael Huff, who will work within the firm’s Specialty Industrials Group and is the firm’s 12th Industry & Operations Partner.
Huff’s extensive experience combines working in senior operating positions with large public companies, as well as serving as CEO for a global portfolio company of a mid-market private equity firm. Prior to joining Arsenal, Huff served with Citadel Plastic Holdings, Inc. since 2008, most recently as President and CEO for the past five years. He was with Johns Manville
Stone-Goff Partners (SGP) has held the closing of Stone-Goff Partners Fund II, a private equity fund focused on investments in businesses within the consumer and services verticals.
Fund II will continue its predecessor’s successful lower middle market private equity investment strategy, generally investing between $6 million and $20 million in equity per transaction.
Following the initial closing, SGP is pleased to be in a position to deploy capital in attractive new opportunities, explained co-founder and partner, Hannah Stone Craven.
“We are thrilled to announce another milestone in the evolution of SGP and honoured by the reception we have received from
NexusCrowd has closed Canada's first online investment offering for commercial real estate. The issue was quickly sold out with significant investor demand across the country and internationally.
The project provided accredited investors with the opportunity to participate in the development of a CAD100 million retail mall in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
NexusCrowd is the first investment platform in Canada to provide accredited investors with exclusive access to co-invest alongside institutional investors in deals that have reached at least 50% of their funding target. It also provides private equity institutions with a "frictionless" way to access additional capital.
"We are
Rockaway Capital is to acquire 100 per cent of Central European online retail business Netretail Holding and Heureka, the No1 online price comparison website in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, from Naspers and other minority shareholders.
The EUR200 million-plus acquisition puts revenue from Rockaway Capital's e-commerce holdingson track to exceed EUR1 billion in revenue over the next few years.
Rockaway is an investment firm building the Internet economy in emerging markets, via venture capital, private equity or its own incubation. Rockaway's e-Commerce Holding unit consists of grocery and non-food specialty e-commerce shops, a superstore generalist e-commerce retailer, price comparison engines,
MUFG Fund Services has selected Markit’s private equity services to provide valuations for illiquid debt and unlisted equity positions.
MUFG Fund Services is part of MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing group of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and provides administration services for more than 1,100 alternative funds worldwide.
Blair Henderson, global head, business development & marketing at MUFG Investor Services, says: “Markit’s private equity valuation services will help us provide our clients with a comprehensive outsourced solution to their post-trade reporting requirements. This enables them to focus on sourcing deals and managing existing investments, and also ensures that
The ambition for new infrastructure investment in the UK continues to grow, while significant pressure on public finances persists despite economic recovery. A panel of experts discussed the different funding and financing approaches open to the government at an event hosted by the International Project Finance Association (IPFA), Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) and the National Audit Office (NAO) last week.
Despite a financing surplus from the private sector in the UK infrastructure market, a public-sector funding deficit persists. In fact, public investment in infrastructure in the UK has fallen from 3.3% of GDP in 2009 to 2.8% in
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