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Nova Founders Capital has secured an investment of USD50 million from Pacific Century Group (PCG), an Asian investment group.
Nova Founders Capital is a global internet investment firm, and will leverage the investment to build and develop financial technology businesses in high-growth markets. The investment will enable Nova to further invest in existing companies, build new companies from scratch, and invest in and acquire additional companies for the firm’s portfolio.
Using a rigorous, data-centric approach, the firm analyses global and local consumer trends to build or grow a company that will anticipate change, disrupt established business models and capture
Sentrix, formerly Foresight-Air, has opened its first US office in Boston after securing more than USD6 million in funding from Magma Venture Partners, Cedar Fund, Israel’s Chief Scientist programme (OCS) and board members.
Sentrix is using the funds to redefine website security in order to better protect organisations against a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
Sentrix’ cloud-based, context-aware website security solutions protect websites against data breaches, as well as known and unknown cyber attacks including: DDoS, OWASP Top 10, Defacement, Zero Day and more. Web protection and DDoS attacks are two of the three major security concerns that enterprises have
GE Antares is serving as administrative agent on a USD80 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of OneTouchPoint by ICV Partners.
GE Capital Markets served as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner on the facility.
Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, OneTouchPoint provides customers in a wide range of industries with outsourced document and data management services, including document collateral management, data-driven digital print services, packaging, customised fulfilment, digital media and e-business solutions. OneTouchPoint serves its customers from seven US locations.
“GE Antares’ expertise, reliability and hands-on approach makes them an ideal financing partner,” says Jermaine
Emergence Capital Partners has promoted Santi Subotovsky to partner.
The firm has also promoted Joe Floyd to principal and is hiring three new team members: Jake Saper as senior associate, John Chen as associate and Julia Mailander as marketing manager.
"Emergence Capital is investing in the future of the firm, and we are thrilled to promote both Santi and Joe. They have both been with the firm for a number of years and have helped identify and build fantastic cloud companies," says Gordon Ritter, co-founder and general partner at Emergence Capital Partners. "We are also excited to welcome three new
Special purpose acquisition vehicle HF2 Financial Management is to acquire a majority equity interest in ZAIS Group Parent (ZGP).
ZGP is the sole member of ZAIS Group, an investment management firm focused on specialised credit investments with approximately USD5.0 billion of assets under management as of 30 June 2014.
The transaction will facilitate the public flotation of ZAIS and provide the company with significant equity capital to accelerate its strategic growth initiatives and capitalise on current and future market dislocations. The investment is designed to align the interests of the company's current owners, management team and key employees with HF2's
Octopus Investments has launched a GBP50 million joint fundraising by the five Octopus Titan Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs).
The latest fundraising, which offers the opportunity to invest into all five Titan VCTs, provides investors with exposure to a portfolio of early stage high growth businesses, helping to meet the demand for access to the new generation of successful entrepreneurial businesses in the UK.
Octopus is offering a two per cent discount on initial management fees for those who invest in the Titan VCTs before 11 November.
The Octopus Titan VCTs invest in early stage companies that have the
KKR has signed a term sheet to provide INR10 billion (USD164.2 million) of structured long-term financing, with co-investors, to Indian infrastructure development company GMR Holdings.
The transaction is subject to customary transaction documentation. Further terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
GMR Group is a growing infrastructure enterprise with interests in the airport, energy, highway and urban infrastructure sectors. GMR Holdings will infuse funds in GMR Infrastructure in the form of equity capital which will help GIL to further strengthen its balance sheet, support the funding requirement for projects and meet its financing obligations.
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Guernsey’s financial services regulator approved 42 new investment funds during the second quarter of this year, bringing the total number of additions in the 12 months to the end of June to 131.
Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) show that 33 new funds were approved during the third quarter of 2013 and 30 during the fourth, along with 26 during the first quarter of 2014 and 42 during the second quarter.
The GFSC approved two open-ended funds, 17 closed-ended funds and 23 non-Guernsey open-ended schemes between the start of April and the end of June. Taking
Ridgemont Equity Partners has closed a majority equity investment in The Cook & Boardman Group, a distributor of commercial metal and wood doors, door frames, door hardware and related products.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Cook & Boardman is headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and operates 20 locations across eight states. The company serves the non-residential construction market, including the education, municipal, healthcare, commercial, office, multi-family, and hospitality sectors.
“Our partnership has spent a number of years carefully evaluating investment opportunities in the building products industry, and we believe that Cook & Boardman represents
Private equity firm HIG Capital’s Brazilian affiliate has completed investments in Grupo NZN and Click Jogos, two players in the digital media space in Brazil.
As part of the transaction, NZN and Click Jogos will merge.
Founded in 2000, NZN is among the top 10 most accessed web properties in Brazil, with nearly 30 million monthly unique visitors. The company is a digital content leader in technology, software guides, game reviews, general curiosities and TV show news. Its portfolio of websites includes Baixaki, Superdownloads, TecMundo, Mega Curioso, Baixaki Jogos, Minha Série and Em Resumo.
Founded in 2004, Click
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