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Komli Media has raised USD39 million, its largest financing to date, led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) with participation from Nexus Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Western Technology Investment
The company has now raised a total of USD62 million. The funds will be used to invest in the company’s core media technology platforms and to expand its presence across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
"We see significant long-term opportunity in bringing an integrated platform solution to the market. This financing will allow us to materially scale our platform and operations by investing in our Real-Time Bidding (RTB), data, analytics,
Middle market private equity firm Centre Partners has acquired Taylor Precision Products from Homedics.
Taylor, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, is the leading North American marketer of a wide range of consumer and foodservice precision measurement products, including kitchen scales, thermometers and timers; bath scales; and outdoor weather measurement products, under a variety of owned and licensed brand names including Taylor, HoMedics and Salter.
Taylor’s heritage dates back over 160 years and the company boasts a reputation for providing accurate and high-quality products to a diverse spectrum of retail customers, ranging from high-end specialty stores to mass merchandisers, hardware stores,
Key Investor Information becomes a reality in twenty days – and this is just the start. Martin Bock (pictured), Senior Manager, Funds Segment Strategy at RBC Dexia, comments…
Fund managers beware. Short and concise documents that explain to investors the investment objectives and risk profile of a product – pioneered through Key Investor Information (KII) documents under UCITS IV – are being taken up by regulators worldwide.
With just twenty days to go until KII becomes mandatory under UCITS IV, regulators are reacting to increasing calls for well-structured short-form documents that provide investors with straightforward information so they can evaluate a
A delegation of funds professionals from Guernsey has helped spread the message in the US that the Island is well equipped to cater for private equity funds business.
Peter Niven, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry, led the team to New York for a series of meetings with US private equity advisers, such as lawyers and accountants, before they headed to Boston for further meetings and to exhibit at the specialist private equity conference, SuperReturn USA.
Niven (pictured) says: “We were very well received by the lawyers and accountants we met in
OMERS Private Equity – the private equity arm of OMERS, one of Canada’s largest pension funds – has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lifeways from August Equity for an undisclosed sum, backing Paul Marriner, CEO in a secondary Management buy-out.
Lifeways is the UK’s market leading provider of supported living services for adults with learning disabilities. Via its national network of 33 offices, Lifeways enables service users to live more independently and take control of how their care and support is planned and delivered, giving them greater empowerment over decisions affecting their lives. Lifeways supports more than 3,400 people,
JTC, a Kuwait-based logistics and equipment rental company, has signed a contract to provide Power Generation to a service company in the oil and gas sector for their operations at Kuwait’s oilfields.
This contract marks the beginning of what will be a long strategic relationship between the two companies. The contract involves a sale and lease-back arrangement under which JTC has acquired Generators from the service company and in turn, leases back including best-in-class maintenance and service support. The approach enables both parties to focus on their core competencies and ensure smooth and effective continuity of operations.
Through effective maintenance
Research from PwC has found a decrease in European financial services M&A activity during the first quarter of 2012. M&A activity fell by 40% to EUR9.7bn in Q1 2012 from EUR16.5bn in Q4 2011. This is also 1% down on the comparable figure of EUR9.8bn recorded in the 1st quarter of 2011.
The figures for this quarter are distorted by the very large deal by Royal Bank of Scotland which sold RBS Aviation Capital to Sumitomo Mitsui for EUR5.8bn. Without this deal, the quarterly deals figure would have been only EUR3.9bn – one of the lowest quarterly deal figures of
ProTip SA, a Strasbourg (France)based emerging medical device company, announces today a USD4.7million (EUR3.8m) Series C financing round.
The round was led by new VC investor Seventure, along with existing investors including Fonds Lorrain des Matériaux (FLM), the Berchet familyoffice, Alsace Amorçage and other private investors.
ProTip will use the funding to complete the company’s first human clinical trial of its ENTegral device, the world’s first permanent implant to replace the larynx in patients who have undergone a total laryngectomy. It will also launch wider trials with the aim of bringing the implant to market. Since inception, ProTip has raised
December, 2011 marked the end of a solid year for US private equity and venture capital investments, according to Cambridge Associates LLC.
Both private asset classes rebounded from negative third quarters to generate positive returns in the final quarter. Both also generated double-digit returns for the 12-month period, placing their performances well ahead of their public equity counterparts in what was a stormy year for the markets and the broader economy.
The Cambridge Associates LLC U.S. Private Equity Index returned 5.3% in the final quarter, beating out the 1.4% showing of the Cambridge Associates LLC U.S. Venture Capital Index(R); both,
Silicon Valley Bank, financial partner to the technology, life science, cleantech, private equity and venture capital industries, has opened a full service commercial banking branch in London to serve both local and international businesses.
The first US bank to open a commercial banking branch in the UK in several years, Silicon Valley Bank is offering a full suite of products and services to innovation businesses in the UK, including current and deposit accounts, loans, cash management services, trade finance and foreign exchange.
Greg Becker, CEO and President of Silicon Valley Bank, says: “The opening of a Silicon Valley Bank
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