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Prodealcenter has completed a EUR1m fundraising round with Omnes Capital.
The investment will allow the company to boost its development by pursuing commercial and marketing efforts and expand its catalogue.
Created in 2010, Prodealcenter is a specialist in agricultural spare parts e-commerce and has recently experienced a strong growth of both its turnover and its customer base.
This first financing round will allow the company to support and accelerate its development, extend its range of products for customers in France and abroad.
The company now has the ability to pursue the recruitment of key talents in
Private equity firm Egis Capital Partners has appointed Bill Polk as a managing partner.
Polk, who joins from CapitalOne Bank, has more than 25 years of debt and equity investment experience and has been involved in more than USD6bn of middle-market security financing transactions. He will be responsible for origination and fundraising at Egis.
Robert Chefitz, managing partner of Egis, says: "Bill is a rare individual who has significant capabilities in business strategy and M&A and a deep understanding of the security industry. His breadth of skills, experience and insight will be extremely valuable in helping our firm
The Carlyle Group has agreed to buy Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management, a manager of real estate funds of funds with more than USD2.6bn in capital commitments.
Equity for the transaction will come from Carlyle’s balance sheet. Financial terms were not released. The transaction, subject to Metropolitan’s investors’ consent, is expected to close in November 2013.
Jacques Chappuis (pictured), Carlyle managing director and head of the solutions group, says: “Metropolitan is a proven multi-manager in global real estate. This adds an important capability to our growing Solutions business, strengthens our intellectual capital in global real estate, and immediately
Gautam Batra, Chief Investment Officer, Signia Wealth, comments on the UK’s Q2 GDP figures…
The upward trajectory of growth for 2013 received further validation today as second quarter growth has settled at 0.7%, which clearly supports increasing confidence in the UK economy. Growth figures have benefitted from surprisingly positive Government spending in the quarter in conjunction with a higher contribution from net exports and resilient consumer spending.
But as we look ahead, investors should question whether this level of growth is sustainable. Whilst economic momentum has carried over into the third quarter, we expect to see a weaker contribution
Private equity firm Brynwood Partners has completed the first and final close of its latest fund, Brynwood Partners VII, with USD400m of committed capital.
"We are both pleased and proud to announce the first and final close of Brynwood VII with USD400m of committed capital, the largest fund in our 29 year history," says Hendrik J Hartong III, senior managing partner. "We are fortunate to have been able to reach our hard cap target with one close. The high level of interest in our Fund from the investment community validates our belief that returns in the lower middle market
The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (GMLF), managed by Maven Capital Partners, has made an investment in ethernet connectivity and cloud services business Vaioni.
The deal represents the first investment made by the GMLF since it was established by the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) in August 2013. Baker Tilly Corporate Finance acted as lead advisor to Vaioni on the investment.
AGMA, which comprises of the 10 local authorities in the Greater Manchester area, says access to finance continues to be one of the key challenges facing SMEs in pursuing their business plans and maximising growth potential. With
OR Productivity (ORP) has closed the first GBP1m of a GBP2.5m round of funding for the roll-out of its FreeHand surgeon-controlled camera holder.
The GBP1m was raised mainly from existing shareholders, including GBP350,000 from the AngelCoFund, following its original GBP500,000 investment in 2012.
ORP is in discussion with other individuals and funds with a view to closing, over the next few months, the remaining GBP1.5m it is looking for to complete its commercial roll-out. The Angel CoFund will also participate in that part of the round, increasing its total investment in ORP to GBP1m.
The FreeHand makes
Mid-market private equity specialist Graphite Capital has closed its eighth fund, Graphite Capital Partners VIII, with commitments of GBP475m.
Further commitments are likely to come in over the next few weeks bringing the total to over GBP500m.
Existing investors provided over 85 per cent of the fund, many of whom increased the size of their investment substantially. The new fund has over 20 investors with 40 per cent of commitments coming from the UK, 25 per cent from continental Europe and 35 per cent from the US and Japan.
CPVIII is the largest fund investing solely in
Wermuth Asset Management, adviser to the Green Gateway Fund, has made an investment of EUR6.5m in Aquarius Water Group (AWG).
AWG is a provider of advanced water systems, solutions and technologies to the oil and gas industry and other heavy industries.
Green Gateway Fund senior partner Casper Heijsteeg says: “We see AWG as an extremely attractive investment – this is a high-quality company with very strong growth prospects, led by a management team with a clear vision. Our investment in AWG goes beyond just a financial commitment. For us, this is a strategic partnership, and we look forward
Practice Fusion has completed a USD70m series D financing round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and institutional investors OrbiMed Advisors, Deerfield Management Company and Industry Ventures.
Previous venture capital investors including Artis Ventures also participated bringing the company’s total capital raise to USD134m.
The investment will accelerate Practice Fusion’s continued leadership in the electronic medical record (EMR) market, expand its offerings to patients and power new clinical data research and development.
"In our mission to drive better health and save lives, Practice Fusion has successfully connected more doctors, patients, labs, pharmacies and imaging centres than
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