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General Catalyst Partners (GC) has launched the GC Stripe Platform Fund, a programme in which GC plans to invest USD10 million in venture capital for businesses and applications built on the Stripe Connect platform.
Stripe Connect enables businesses to connect their Stripe account (and their Stripe data) with other services: with a single click, a company can start selling on Twitter, integrate with their web analytics, or access their Stripe data on a mobile device.
“We have watched this ecosystem develop with great interest,” says Hemant Taneja, managing partner at General Catalyst. “It’s not often that we see the
Galena Asset Management has held the final close of its first Private Equity Resources Fund with USD400 million of total committed and invested assets.
The fund invests in both the equity and debt of small-to medium-sized metals and mining companies, particularly those that are in a development or expansion phase.
The fund will benefit from the trading and technical expertise of parent company Trafigura.
The investment team joined Galena in 2012 with a successful track record of investing in the mining resources space exclusively for Trafigura since 2005.
Duncan Letchford, Galena’s chief executive, says: “Another positive step
Venture capital (VC) firms are seeing three times more investment opportunities than private equity (PE) firms, but despite this PE firms are twice as likely to invest as VCs, according to research by qodeo.
Early stage VCs see, on average, 900 business plans per year, and deal flow is at an historic high, given the weight of capital raised since 2012.
However, ‘Time to Exit’ has extended and the UK is more risk averse than the US, at early stage investment. Less than 10 per cent of UK VC & PE firms hold pre-revenue companies in their portfolios compared
Private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners has completed the sale of portfolio company Sequoia Golf Holdings to ClubCorp for approximately USD265 million.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Sequoia owns or operates 50 private clubs, semi-private and resort golf facilities located across the US.
Its portfolio includes the world-class 63-hole Woodlands Country Club located in the master-planned community of The Woodlands, Texas, a collection of four Atlanta-based premium high-end Sequoia clubs, 25 private Canongate clubs and a select group of golf properties managed for institutional owners, corporations, private investors and equity memberships.
The company began operations in 2003 with the
EFG Hermes’ private equity arm has signed a USD208 million transaction to acquire a 49 per cent equity shareholding and outstanding shareholders loans in EDPR France.
EDPR France has a portfolio of 33 operational wind farms with a combined gross capacity of 334 MW. The company is a subsidiary of EDP Renewables (EDPR), one of the top four global renewable energy companies that develops, constructs and operates renewable energy assets with over 8.6 GW of installed capacity across three continents.
“Our first investment beyond the borders of the Middle East and Africa is a natural outgrowth of our emphasis
Ashurst has advised Inflexion Private Equity on the simultaneous first and final closings of two new private equity funds.
Inflexion Buyout Fund IV and Inflexion Partnership Capital Fund I were raised in a parallel process over just five months, securing commitments of GBP650m and GBP400m respectively.
Both funds were over-subscribed and closed at their hard caps after receiving strong support from existing investors as well as attracting new investors from the US, Asia and Middle East.
Over 35 blue chip investors have committed to the two funds, including state and corporate pension plans, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds.
Nomura has made two new hires into its prime finance business, which encompasses equity financing, prime services and Delta 1.
Massimo Labella has joined as head of directional Delta One sales. He previously spent 12 years at JP Morgan, focusing on flow equity derivatives and Delta 1 products.
Babita Ittoo has joined as a vice president, and will focus on client origination in EMEA. She previously spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs, focusing on the prime brokerage hedge fund client base.
Both will be based in London, and will report to Phil Morgan, head of prime finance sales,
Montagu Private Equity is to sell its entire holding in Euromedic International to Waypoint.
Waypoint is already the majority investor in Euromedic through Ares Life Sciences and will now assume full ownership.
Headquartered in Budapest, Euromedic is a provider of Advanced Diagnostics Imaging (ADI) and cancer care (CC) services in Europe. It owns and operates 144 centres across 14 countries. Euromedic’s ADI business mainly comprises magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) whilst also including other modalities such as ultrasound and mammography. The CC business comprises radiotherapy including linear accelerators, Gamma Knife and Brachytherapy and diagnosis via Positron
Abacus Group has launched the Abacus Client Portal to give its hedge fund and private equity fund clients greater control and transparency into AbacusFLEX services.
The new service allows clients to quickly access informative data for resources being used for each subscribed service, customise monitoring and alerts, and easily communicate with Abacus Group.
Developed based on customer feedback, the Abacus Client Portal is specifically designed to help investment firms gain full visibility into Abacus private cloud environments. The authorised users from each client can drill down into multiple aspects of their Abacus private cloud to view individual user accounts,
Crowdfunding platform OurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk Robotics has completed its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq.
The company issued 3,450,000 million shares and expects to receive total estimated net proceeds from this offering of approximately USD36.3 million after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.
OurCrowd members had previously invested USD3.3 million in ReWalk in two separate funding rounds over the past year. OurCrowd had invested alongside leading VCs, such as Pontifax, Israel Health Care Ventures, SCP Vitalife and the Japanese Robotics giant YASKAWA.
OurCrowd's chief executive Jon Medved says: "OurCrowd is proud of
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