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Dutch venture capitalist Aglaia has launched the Aglaia Oncology Fund II, backed by high-net-worth families.
Investors will contribute a total of USD65 million to the fund, which has a final target of USD80 to USD100 million.
The group of investors has been expanded to include several institutional investors, including the European Investment Fund (EIF), which has made a substantial commitment. Aglaia is also one of the funds selected under the Dutch Venture Initiative, an investment fund recently launched by the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Through the new fund, Aglaia will be investing in an estimated 10 to
RCS Capital Corporation has made a significant investment in Docupace Technologies, a provider of electronic processing technology for financial institutions and the wealth management industry.
Following the transaction, RCAP will be a majority shareholder in Docupace.
Michael Pinsker will remain president and chief executive of Docupace and he and the Docupace management team will continue to lead the day-to-day operations of the business.
RCAP’s investment comes on the heels of Docupace’s recent executive management team expansion, reaching an industry milestone of servicing more than 500 financial industry clients and successfully implementing Straight-Through-Processing (STP) with several leading financial institutions.
Unigestion has launched a tool which provides a framework for allocating between private assets on a systematic and quantifiable basis.
As the allocation of institutional investors to private assets increases, more and more of them are diversifying their portfolios to include not only private equity but, for example, infrastructure, private debt, natural resources, timber, agriculture and other “real assets”.
However, for many it remains a challenge to determine the contribution of these asset classes to risk, return, correlation and other characteristics of their portfolios.
Based on academic research, Unigestion’s Private Asset Allocator enables institutional investors to determine their
Praesidian Capital Europe and Connection Capital have invested GBP15 million in debt and equity in Redeem Holdings, a UK-based mobile and electronics recommerce specialist.
Praesidian Capital Europe, which provides senior and subordinated debt and growth capital predominantly to UK companies, has invested GBP7 million in debt capital and GBP1 million in equity. An additional GBP2 million will be available as an acquisition line of financing.
Connection Capital, a private client investment business, has made a GBP5m equity investment in Redeem.
Funds will be applied to support Redeem’s international organic growth and potential acquisitions.
Redeem specialises in ecommerce
Evercore has appointed Denis A Bovin as a senior advisor with a focus on the global technology and aerospace/defence industry sectors.
During his career, Bovin has advised numerous prominent management teams, boards of directors and senior leaders in the US Government on some of the most significant financial and strategic transactions in the government and commercial technology sectors.
Roger Altman, Evercore’s executive chairman, says: “Denis Bovin is one of the most highly regarded senior bankers in the global technology and aerospace defence sectors. His professionalism, knowledge and experience, coupled with his personal character and integrity have proven invaluable to
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
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