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TuneIn, a service for listening to the world’s radio, has completed a USD25m round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and General Catalyst Partners.
TuneIn has also surpassed one billion listening hours in the first four months of 2013, with more than 227 million listening sessions in the month of March alone, solidifying the company’s position as the world’s number-one service for listening to live, online radio.
“This investment gives us the capital to accelerate the development of new technologies and support our ongoing expansion,” says John
Mid-market private equity specialist Graphite Capital has sold Aberdeen-based oilfield services company Dominion Gas to Praxair.
Praxair is a US-based Fortune 500 industrial gases group listed on the New York Stock Exchange, which conducts business in over 50 countries.
With facilities in the UK, Norway, Singapore and West Africa, Dominion specialises in the supply of specialist gases, gas cylinders, chemicals, tanks and related services to offshore oil and gas customers in more than 20 countries.
Since the management buyout in May 2007, Dominion has grown its international operations and its product range, both organically and through acquisitions.
New research highlights the extent to which private equity positively influences several key drivers of European economic competitiveness and growth.
The findings, produced by Frontier Economics, show that private equity activity leads to increased foreign investment, improvements in innovation, and enhanced productivity.
The economic impact created by private equity supports the strategic priorities of the EU’s growth plan, Europe 2020, as a result of the following:
Private equity attracts investible funds into Europe providing much needed risk capital for businesses. In the 12 largest private equity markets in Europe, private equity invested almost EUR250bn in more than
Shogo Maeda, Head of Japanese Equities, comments on whether a weaker yen is leading to profits for Japanese companies…
Most Japanese companies have now announced results for the fiscal year 2012. The evidence is now clear that the much-publicised policy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, dubbed ‘Abenomics’, has reaped rewards for not only share prices but for bottom lines too.
The stockmarket has been booming, despite a recent short-term correction, with the TOPIX up nearly 40% year-to-date. Meanwhile, a weakening yen has given previous anaemic GDP numbers a much-needed boost. Economic data released last week showed that Japan’s economy grew
Eric Helenek has joined Cowen’s equity capital markets group as managing director.
Based in New York, Helenek will report to Grant Miller, Cowen’s head of equity capital markets.
“I am very pleased to welcome Eric to our team,” says Miller. “Eric has extensive experience in the origination and execution of capital raising transactions in both equity and debt as well as sector expertise in energy and technology. Our goal has been to deliver the most appropriate financing advice and superior execution services to our clients. His capabilities will be highly complementary to our team and serve our clients
Private equity and venture capital investment in Latin America soared to USD11.6bn in 2012, the second highest level in the past decade and more than double the performance in 2011, according to Venture Equity Latin America, an annual report from Thomson Reuters.
The report describes the deal, fundraising, and exit activity in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2012. It is produced for private equity investors under the WorldTrade Executive (WTE) brand, which is affiliated with Thomson Reuters Checkpoint research platform.
The report notes that private equity activity in the region looked bleak in the first half of 2012,
Middle market investment bank Harris Williams has advised on the sale of Alma Lasers, a developer, manufacturer and provider of laser, light-based, radio-frequency and ultrasound devices for aesthetic and medical applications, to subsidiaries of Fosun International, a Chinese strategic buyer, for an enterprise value of USD220m.
Harris Williams acted as the exclusive advisor to Alma Lasers, a portfolio company of TA Associates. Somerley, with whom Harris Williams has an exclusive relationship, provided support during this transaction.
The transaction closed on 27 May and was led by Thierry Monjauze, Julien Darmon, Francois Morin and Alex Murrill from Harris Williams’
A delegation from Guernsey is heading to the US to showcase Guernsey’s finance industry offering to clients on the other side of the Atlantic.
The team is being led by Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), chief executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry – and is covering Miami, New York City and Boston during the next two weeks.
Le Poidevin says: “The US is a mature and established market and Guernsey has had good links in the past. For example, a major factor behind Guernsey’s rise as a leading centre for private equity
British Columbia Discovery Fund (VCC), a venture capital investment fund managed by Discovery Capital Management Corp (DCMC), has exercised warrants previously issued to it in May 2011 to purchase 1,153,846 common shares of its portfolio company, Vigil Health Solutions.
These shares represent nine per cent of the outstanding common shares of Vigil prior to exercise of the warrants held by the fund or of any other outstanding warrants to acquire common shares of Vigil. The exercise price was USD0.10 per share, so that Vigil receives proceeds of USD115,385 as a result of this transaction.
Following this transaction, as
VIY Management (Venture Investments & Yield Management) has selected SS&C’s private equity software, TNR Solution, to manage its internal operations for its newly formed Luxembourg fund.
London-based VIY Management selected TNR Solution to provide automated management of its financial, performance and regulatory reporting. VIY was impressed with TNR’s portal capabilities and plans to use the web-based solution to set up investor details and CRM requirements.
“Having spent some time analysing the various products in the private equity software market, we chose TNR due to its strong positioning in the general partner market,” says Irina Svinar (pictured), chief financial
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