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Intel Capital has created a USD300 million Ultrabook Fund to help help drive innovation in this new category of devices. As announced at Computex earlier this year, Ultrabook systems will marry the performance and capabilities of today’s laptops with tablet-like features.
Ultrabook devices will deliver a highly responsive and secure experience in a thin, light and elegant design at mainstream prices.
To help realise that vision, the Intel Capital Ultrabook Fund aims to invest in companies building hardware and software technologies focused on enhancing how people interact with Ultrabooks, achieving all-day usage through longer battery life, enabling innovative physical
Ares Management LLC has acquired the investment platform of Wrightwood Capital, a highly respected provider of debt capital to the US commercial real estate sector. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"This transaction represents a unique opportunity to further build out the Ares Private Debt Group by adding specific industry expertise from a talented group of professionals and expanding our reach into commercial real estate lending–an area we see having attractive long-term growth opportunities," says Tony Ressler, Senior Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Ares Management. "This asset class will be supported by our experienced pool of
The quarter ending 31 March, 2011, was the eighth in a row to yield positive returns for private equity and venture capital funds, according to Cambridge Associates LLC. Private equity continued to outperform venture capital over the five- and 10-year periods ending 31 March, while the situation remained reversed for the 15- and 20-year periods ending on the same date, with venture capital far out-distancing private equity.
Both fund types underperformed the public markets during the first quarter but continued to generate significantly greater returns than the public markets over the longest time horizons measured by the benchmarks.
The private
Vulcan Capital, the private investment group of Paul G Allen, and a group of investors led by LKCM Capital Group, LLC (LKCM), the alternative investment vehicle for Luther King Capital Management, have launched Ascentium Capital, a lender focused on the important but underserved market for small-balance commercial loans and leases in the United States.
Ascentium Capital will acquire a USD150 million portfolio of commercial loans and leases from Main Street Bank (Main Street), as well as a state of the art small business origination and servicing platform. Separately, Main Street has reached an agreement to sell its branches and deposits
Structured finance and derivatives lawyer Jeffrey H Chen has joined Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s Hong Kong office as partner. Chen, formerly with Mayer Brown JSM in Hong Kong, will be a part of the Capital Markets team.
"Jeff is a highly regarded capital markets lawyer. He brings to Cadwalader extensive knowledge of and experience with complex structured finance products," says Christopher White, Chairman of Cadwalader. "With great talent like Jeff, we continue to develop our full suite of debt, equity and hybrid capital markets services to clients throughout Asia. We look forward to his contributions to the Firm and to
Innovative and creative digital businesses based in East London’s ‘Tech City’ are taking up the opportunity today (10 August 2011) to pitch for funding from leading venture capitalists, business angels and other potential investors.
The day long investor workshop, organised by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board as part of their Tech City Launchpad competition, will give forty digital and creative businesses the chance to pitch and network with the cream of London’s investment community.
Eighteen of the companies have already been offered up to GBP100,000 funding for their ideas for new digital products from the Technology Strategy Board
Irving Place Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, has appointed Michelle Pearlman as Senior Advisor. Pearlman has more than 20 years of experience in senior operational and management consulting roles for leading retail and consumer companies.
Prior to joining Irving Place Capital, Pearlman was with Sears Holding Corporation, where she was a Senior Vice President and President of the jewelry business unit. Previously, Pearlman was an Executive Vice President with Ann Taylor, Inc. At Ann Taylor, Pearlman was responsible for the company’s e-commerce and direct marketing businesses. Prior to Ann Taylor, she was an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company.
MK Capital announces it has led a USD7M Series B Round in MOVIECLIPS.com, which has the largest library of licensed movie clips on the web. MOVIECLIPS offers more than 20,000 clips from six major Hollywood studios, as well as curated lists of clips, games, and a discovery engine to guide viewers to new clips.
“We are especially pumped to have a new funding partner in MK Capital. MK has great experience and knowledge in building a premium video experience on YouTube,” says Zach James, Co-Founder of MOVIECLIPS.com.
MK Capital, which has offices in Santa Monica and Chicago, is also the
International law firm Stephenson Harwood has appointed James Tinworth as a corporate partner to the firm’s funds practice in London. Tinworth joins from Simmons & Simmons LLP in a further boost to the corporate funds practice, following the appointment of Patrick Mousset in Paris from Mayer Brown in July.
He joins a team of five partners with specialist skills in investment trusts, property funds, open-ended investment companies (OEICs), hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, renewable energy funds and other investment vehicles in the UK and offshore jurisdictions.
Tinworth specialises in investment management and investment funds work, with a
Halyard Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, has made a growth investment in Practice Insight, a leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) based revenue cycle management solutions to healthcare providers.
The company’s solutions automate every stage of a physician practice’s reimbursement workflow, providing a high ROI by helping practices reduce bad debt, shorten the collection cycle and reduce the administrative staff needed to manage the reimbursement process. Practice Insight’s solutions are sold to physician practices nationwide through a network of reseller relationships.
Practice Insight was founded in 2003 and is led by Michael Reeves, Houston Johnson, David Reeves, Denise Perry
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