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Sage Midstream has partnered with investment funds affiliated with Riverstone, an energy and power-focused private equity firm, and Kaiser Midstream, an oil and gas midstream services company owned by George B. Kaiser, to form a new company with up to USD500m of equity commitments.
Sage will pursue natural gas liquids (NGL) related midstream opportunities in North America’s liquids-rich production plays.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Sage is led by president Greg Bowles and vice president of business development John Steen. Bowles was previously executive vice president of Lone Star NGL, a joint venture between Energy Transfer Partners and Regency Energy Partners,
Mobile data optimisation company Snappli has received a significant injection of capital from its founding team of entrepreneurs.
In addition, Snappli has now secured a further USD1m investment from Greylock Partners, Index Ventures and Klaus Hommels, the early investor in Skype, Facebook and Spotify.
The Snappli app compresses, optimises and secures mobile internet data. Snappli reduces data use by up to 85 per cent and accelerates mobile browsing by up to two times. It is also the first app on the market that offers video compression, a major mobile data drain.
“We see a very large global opportunity in mobile
The lines between institutional asset managers and alternative investors are becoming increasingly blurred due to investment strategies, priorities and goals becoming aligned, according to Martin Boyd, president of SunGard’s asset management business.
“The relocation of assets to either alternative or traditional strategies puts greater pressure on funds to perform,” he says. “Therefore, fund managers are looking to technology solutions that help reduce platform complexity, increase risk management and maintain compliance to ultimately assist in the generation of alpha.”
SunGard has identified ten trends shaping the asset management industry. They are:
1. Business continuity plans are becoming more important to hedge funds
SIGFOX, the first operator of a cellular network fully dedicated to machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things communications, has closed a funding round.
This EUR10m series B funding led by Intel Capital, together with SIGFOX’s existing investors Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures International and IXO Private Equity, is in line with and supports the company’s international growth strategy.
"This new funding round will enable the company to quickly deploy a very low throughput network covering the whole of France and several foreign countries, and follows our announcement on the opening of the SIGFOX network in early June," says Ludovic le
Palatine Private Equity’s portfolio company, MoneyPlus Group (MPG), has completed the acquisition of debt management company Debt Free Me for an undisclosed sum.
Debt Free Me, based in Blackburn, UK, provides a range of debt management solutions to consumers and employs 30 people.
The business will continue to trade under the Debt Free Me brand as part of MoneyPlus Group. The acquisition adds over 6,000 consumers to the MPG customer base.
This is the fifth acquisition completed by MPG since Palatine backed a management buyout in June 2011. MPG now employs more than 190 people and is due
Medical device company NeuWave Medical has raised USD14m in Series B financing, led by new investor HIG BioVentures with participation from existing shareholders, including Venture Investors, WARF and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.
The financing will be used to further the commercial success of the company’s Certus 140 thermal ablation system and to continue the company’s development of novel interventional and surgical tools.
Concurrent with the financing, H.I.G. BioVentures managing director Michael Wasserman will join the NeuWave board of directors.
During the initial 18 months of commercial availability, the Certus 140 microwave ablation system has been used by surgical
Yellow Wood Partners has acquired Parfums de Coeur, the largest provider of mass-market fragrances in the US.
PDC markets and distributes its products under three category-leading national brands – Body Fantasies, Designer Imposters, and BOD Man – through long-standing relationships with the largest food, drug and mass merchandise retailers in the US. In addition, the company’s brands are sold in a growing number of international markets.
Yellow Wood is acquiring PDC in partnership with the company’s management team, who are also investing equity into the business.
“We are pleased and excited to invest in PDC to support its continued domestic
Huron Capital Partners has recapitalised Ronnoco Holdings in a transaction marking the 60th investment overall for Huron.
Founded in 1904 and based in St Louis, Missouri, Ronnoco manufactures and distributes premium quality coffee, tea and related products sold to convenience stores, foodservice outlets and offices throughout the central US.
Huron, in partnership with Ronnoco’s management team, made the investment with a plan to continue growing the business through geographic expansion, new product offerings and acquisitions.
The Ronnoco transaction builds on Huron’s prior experience and success investing in consumer product and food businesses.
This latest investment was made through The Huron
Future Capital Partners, the GBP6bn alternative investment boutique, has appointed James Pargeter to its business development team as it gears up for a product push in the fourth quarter.
Pargeter has responsibility for corporate financial planning on behalf of FCP’s clients. His remit includes a focus on working with and developing FCP’s network of accountants and corporate tax planners, through whom FCP’s range of investments are marketed.
He will work within FCP’s 10-strong business development team, headed up by Piers Denne (pictured), head of sales.
The appointment is the second in recent months to FCP’s business development team, as
Almaz Capital Partners’ managing partner and co-founder Peter Loukianoff has sold his managing interest in the firm.
Loukianoff (pictured), who is leaving to pursue new opportunities, has retained a passive minority interest in the firm.
Loukianoff and Alexander Galitsky established Almaz Capital in 2007.
Loukianoff will continue to participate in the investment committee and serve on the board of Almaz portfolio company nScaled.
Almaz Capital Partners, whose investors include Cisco and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), was the first technology-oriented venture capital firm to focus on Russia.
"Our success has allowed me the flexibility to consider new
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