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Independently owned global placement agent and advisory firm Atlantic-Pacific Capital has appointed Brian Wade as partner.
Wade will continue to work closely with institutional investors in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast US, including public and corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, financial institutions, fund-of-funds and family offices.
Wade has over 15 years of experience in limited partner, general partner and third-party distribution roles during his alternative investment career. Prior to joining Atlantic-Pacific, he was a managing director in Credit Suisse Asset Management’s institutional distribution group. Before Credit Suisse, he was the director of investor relations at JLL Partners, a middle-market private equity
Silicon Valley Bank, financial partner to the technology, life science, cleantech, private equity and venture capital industries, has joined HSBC as a joint senior lender to Vero Software, a computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) development company.
The newly acquired funds from Silicon Valley Bank have been used to support the company’s acquisition of Sescoi International, an international supplier of CAD/CAM software solutions, and the purchase of assets from Surfcam, a major CAM software company.
Vero Software is a portfolio company of Battery Ventures, a technology investor.
Headquartered in Cheltenham, Vero Software has a global presence
Split Rock Partners, a venture capital firm focused on software, internet services, and healthcare has promoted David Allison to principal in its Menlo Park office.
Allison (pictured) has been with the firm since 2009 and has focused on investments in the healthcare sector.
In the past three years, Allison’s role within the firm has grown to include sourcing direct and secondary investments, co-sponsoring portfolio investments and portfolio management.
He is currently a board member at EBR Systems, and actively supports Split Rock portfolio companies, including Histogenics, Holaira, DFine, Transcend Medical, Twelve and RF Surgical.
"David has been a key member
Prolog Ventures, a life science venture capital firm, has named John Steuart as a managing director.
He will join managing directors Brian Clevinger, Greg Johnson and Ilya Nykin, who co-founded Prolog in 2000.
Steuart (pictured) has more than 25 years of experience managing healthcare and technology companies and venture capital funds. He began his investing career at the pioneering venture capital firm Alafi Capital, where for a time he worked closely alongside Clevinger. The two later also collaborated on the leadership team of Megan Health, a spinout of Washington University in St. Louis. Steuart went on to serve as the
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has raised USD308m for Carlyle Peru Fund, and its parallel vehicles, extending the South America investment presence the firm established five years ago.
The fund will be invested by Carlyle in consultation with Credicorp, Peru’s largest bank, across industries including healthcare, retail and consumer, services to mining, construction and infrastructure businesses, and education.
Carlyle opened its Lima office last year and now has four full-time investment advisory professionals based there.
Juan Carlos Felix (pictured), Carlyle managing director and co-head of the South America buyout team, says: “We see many long-term investment opportunities for our
The developer of a unique disposable tourniquet, ASep Healthcare, has secured a GBP120,000 investment from The North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact.
ASep Healthcare, currently based in South Kensington, London, but due to move to Liverpool Science Park, developed an award winning disposable tourniquet designed to prevent cross infection between patients.
The company was previously backed by Imperial Innovations, which builds and invests in promising technology and healthcare companies.
The North West Fund for Biomedical is part of the wider GBP155m North West Fund, financed jointly by the European Regional Development Fund and the European Investment Bank.
IntraLinks has launched a cloud-based investor communication platform, IntraLinks Investor Portals, designed to allow hedge funds, private equity and real estate managers to better differentiate their brands, meet the transparency demands of institutional investors and compete effectively for assets.
Scalable, secure, and easy to use, the Investor Portals platform will be premiered at two alternative investment trade shows, SuperReturn International 2013 in Berlin on 26 February and at the iGlobal Real Estate Private Equity Summit on 6 March.
"As institutional investors continue to allocate to alternative investments, the rules of engagement – marketing, reporting and client service- are changing quickly,"
Activity in venture capital fundraising in Québec reached a 10-year peak in 2012 at CAD924m, representing to 52 per cent of the activity in the entire Canadian market.
Activity in venture capital fundraising in Québec reached a 10-year peak in 2012 at CAD924m, representing to 52 per cent of the activity in the entire Canadian market.
Moreover, a new trend appears to be emerging: the great majority of companies financed last year – 58 per cent of the total – were involved in VC transactions for the first time, drawing in CAD214m, or more than half the dollars invested.
These
Options, the provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud services platform for the exchange, banking, trading and investment communities, is to open an office in Chicago next month.
Scheduled to open on 1 March, Options’ Chicago office will enable the firm to better serve the growing number of regional clients, as well as to communicate with proprietary trade firms in the area.
Options has had a presence in the Chicago area since 2007 when it began offering co-location services at the Cermak datacenter facility.
The Chicago office will expand Options’ presence in major global financial markets which include New
Genstar Capital, a middle market private equity firm that focuses on investments in the insurance and financial services, software, life sciences, healthcare, and industrial technology industries, has promoted Eli P Weiss to principal and David J Golde to vice president.
Weiss (pictured) joined Genstar in 2008 and was named a vice president in 2011. Prior to joining Genstar, he was an associate at Hellman & Friedman. Previously, Weiss worked for Greenhill & Co in New York as an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and principal investing groups. Weiss serves on the boards of directors of Evolution1, Innovative Aftermarket
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