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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.
Grandhi Kiran Kumar,
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
Indus Valley Partners (IVP) has extended its Managed Services offering to include regulatory filings for hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative asset managers.
IVP RAPTOR is a regulatory technology solution supporting over USD375bn in regulatory assets under management. IVP Managed Services will use this technology for supporting the regulatory filings of its clients.
Coverage will include all major regulatory filings, including Form PF, 13F/D/G, CPO-PQR, CTA PR, Form ADV, Form 3, 4, 5, the upcoming AIFMD for Europe, EMIR, European Short Sale Reporting and TIC-B reporting.
IVP Managed Services uses IVP’s technology solutions as the backbone
Gousto, the recipe box delivery company, has closed a GBP5m (USD8.3m) Series A round, led by Unilever Ventures with existing investor MMC Ventures.
Each week Gusto’s customers select three of ten chef-developed recipes. Gousto then delivers a box to the customer’s door with all the ingredients needed to cook the meals from scratch.
Gousto will now be able to increase investment in innovation and product development.
Jan Harley, director at Unilever Ventures, brings to the board his experience as a founding member of the venture arm of Unilever. He will join existing board members Jon Coker of MMC
HIG Growth Partners has sold a majority of its affiliate’s investment in SpotXchange to RTL Group.
SpotXchange is a video advertising platform offering premium publishers holistic yield management in order to maximise revenue for desktop, mobile and connected TV inventory while driving down operational costs.
The company was first to market with its real-time bidding solution for video advertising and has continued to enhance its programmatic publisher solutions to ensure transparency, brand safety and real-time control for its partners.
“HIG has been an exceptional partner to SpotXchange as we have grown and expanded our market offerings,” says Mike
Altium has appointed Simon Chambers and Richard Clark as managing directors of its new UK debt advisory practice.
Chambers and Clark, both previously at DC Advisory, join their former DC Advisory colleagues Johannes Schmittat, Norbert Schmitz, Gerd Bieding and Thorsten Weber, who have been leading Altium’s debt advisory practice in Frankfurt since 2012.
Prior to joining Altium, Clark spent 13 years at Close Brothers, Houlihan Lokey and latterly DC Advisory. He has advised both private equity and corporate clients on a range of transactions including acquisition financings, refinancings, dividend recapitalisations, staple debt financing, and restructurings across a variety of
Delta Partners Capital’s Delta Partners Emerging Markets TMT Growth Fund II is to invest up to EUR10 million in Virgin Mobile Central and Eastern Europe (VMCEE).
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and CEE Mobile Capital (spearheaded by Dick Kiphart of KGC Capital) are also participating in the funding round.
VMCEE is an early-stage Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) providing broadband mobile services to the youth.
Delta Partners Capital, based in Dubai, is the investment arm of Delta Partners Group (DPG), an emerging markets-focused telecoms, media, and digital
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