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Rockaway Capital, a VC firm focused on investing and building Internet companies in emerging markets, has entered the US market with the opening of its first office in San Francisco's SOMA district.
The firm has invested USD28 million in seed stage, high growth, transformational start-ups across e-commerce, B2B SaaS, Fintech, and travel/transportation and has additional access to USD225 million in funding. Initial offices were in Prague and Sao Paolo.
Rockaway Capital has already brought over its first group of globally viable entrepreneurs and start-ups to introduce them to the US venture community and bring their products to market here. Rockaway
Electranova Capital, the energy cleantech venture capital fund managed by Idinvest Partners and strategically backed by the EDF group, along with BPI and Allianz, has invested in North American Startup FirstFuel to accelerate its European growth.
FirstFuel's Software as a Service (SaaS) platform applies advanced analytics to utility meter and business data, enabling energy providers to deliver highly personalised insights to all their business customers. The services such as energy efficiency, demand management and on-site generation at scale.
FirstFuel has established itself as the leading platform for customer intelligence in the transforming energy sector. Since its commercial launch in late
Idea CCR, a platform managed by IDeA Capital Funds developed with support and funding from the anchor investor Bayside Capital (HIG Bayside), an affiliate of HIG Capital, is to invest in Italian mid-sized enterprises in distressed situations.
The aim is to help them restructure and turnaround, and consequently to help banks maximise the recovery of their original loans.
Idea CCR is currently in discussions with a number of leading Italian banks which are expected to contribute to Idea CCR a portfolio of medium and long term corporate loans. Currently, such portfolio is expected to have a nominal value of
Stockholm-based Arctos Corporate Finance (Arctos) is becoming part of Livingstone, an international mid-market M&A and Debt Advisory firm with offices in North America, Asia and Europe.
Arctos becomes part of Livingstone with immediate effect. The newly-named Livingstone Stockholm is a fully integrated part of the firm’s international infrastructure and joins established teams in Beijing, Chicago, Düsseldorf, London and Madrid. The marriage of the two firms creates a 100-strong organisation completing over 50 mid-market transactions each year.
Livingstone has worked closely on transactions with Partners Thomas Karlsson, Kenneth Westlund and Anders Jacobson, and co-founder Bertil Karlsson, for over 10 years.
Evercore has acquired Kuna & Co, the Frankfurt-based investment banking advisory boutique, and appointed Walter Kuna as Senior Managing Director of Evercore's German advisory business.
Kuna founded Kuna & Co in 2004 and has built it into a leading independent advisory business with a focus on real estate in Germany. Prior to forming Kuna & Co, he was Managing Director of Lazard Germany, having been a founding partner of Lazard's German M&A advisory business in 1989.
Kuna & Co is an independent advisory firm with a team of ten professionals based in Frankfurt. Over its 11 year history, it has
Private equity firm Swander Pace Capital has sold its minority investment in natural and organic meat company Applegate to Hormel Foods Corp.
Swander Pace, along with Applegate founder Stephen McDonnell, have transferred ownership to Hormel in a transaction valued at USD775 million.
“We have enjoyed working with Stephen and the rest of his team to grow Applegate into the leader in the natural and organic meat industry,” says Andrew Richards, a Managing Director at Swander Pace. “Over nearly three decades, Applegate has been changing the food industry and providing quality products to meet the changing preferences of consumers who highly
Partech Ventures has co-led a new EUR10 million financing round in Kantox, a specialist in foreign exchange services for SMEs and mid-cap companies.
“With our 2nd significant investment in 18 months, Partech Ventures reaffirms its full commitment to Kantox,” says Philippe Collombel, Managing Partner at Partech Ventures and Kantox board member.
“Kantox is a fast growing company, with a clear business model led by a strong, visionary and ambitious management team”, adds Philippe Collombel, who also added “with its disruptive model, Kantox can soon become the worldwide leader in foreign exchange services for SMEs and mid-cap companies.”
“We are very
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., a market leader in enterprise security solutions, today announced the completion of its previously reported acquisition by
Funds advised by Bain Capital have acquired enterprise security solutions specialist Blue Coat Systems from Thoma Bravo, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD2.4 billion.
Blue Coat offers an integrated portfolio of security products to combat today’s advanced threats with solutions that have become the de facto standard for much of the Fortune Global 500. Backing the strength of its solutions, Blue Coat also has the largest, most robust global cloud security infrastructure, which integrates with its
Investment strategies for listed funds have widened in scope in the past 12 to 18 months, according to Tom Attenborough, Head of Large Caps, Primary Markets at the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Attenborough, who was speaking as part of a panel of experts at the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015 in London earlier this month, said he agreed with the event’s keynote speaker Guy Hands, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited, that investors were once again far more willing to take risk. Attenborough said it had resulted in a diverse issuance calendar with trends emerging in
Latest figures released on Jersey’s finance industry show a steady performance including a small increase in banking deposits and signs that a change to fund regulation will support certain types of new funds business.
Banking deposits have reached their highest level since last summer and while there was a small fall in the value of funds, this has followed a period of consistent growth each quarter, so overall the economic picture is very stable. The statistics, collated and prepared by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), are for the three month period ending 31st March 2015. Headline figures include:
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