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Goldman Sachs’ Urban Investment Group has committed USD23m to a new fund sponsored by Jonathan Rose Companies’ investment practice.
The fund, Rose New Jersey Green Affordable Housing Preservation Fund, will acquire existing, CRA-eligible affordable housing in mass-transit accessible locations throughout New Jersey, with a focus on Hudson and Essex Counties.
The fund will improve assets through a “green” capital improvement and operations programme, seeking to replicate the success of 107-145 West 135th Street in Harlem, New York, a portfolio asset of the Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund which has become a model for the greening and preservation of affordable housing.
Crosslink Capital, a venture capital and growth equity firm, has appointed Eric Chin as partner.
Chin was most recently a general partner at Bay Partners.
At Crosslink, Chin will focus on internet, software and technology startups, investing in early stage and later stage companies.
Chin began his venture capital career in 1993 at Highland Capital Partners. He then co-founded internet server software company WebSpective in 1996 (acquired by Inktomi), and TelASIC in 2002, a Raytheon spinout which was acquired by Microelectronics Technology.
"We are most pleased to have Eric join Crosslink," says Michael Stark, founder and partner at Crosslink Capital.
Intel Capital has provided additional funding for Mall.cz, operated by one of its portfolio companies in the Central Eastern European region.
Intel Capital and MCI, a Polish investor, have each made a EUR5m investment into Mall.cz’s holding company, Netretail Holding.
Ondra Tomek also invested EUR1m in the company in a separate investment.
Mall.cz is located in the Czech Republic with Netretail Holding also having operations in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Germany. The group currently runs localised ecommerce shops in the region with 600 product categories, from consumer electronics to sporting equipment. Mall.cz has more than 1,000,000 registered customers and a
Morgan Stanley Private Equity will make a majority equity investment in the group of Trinity companies, including Trinity Pipeline and Trinity CO2 Supply, through a newly formed company called Trinity CO2 Investments.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Trinity transports and supplies CO2 to oil fields undergoing enhanced oil recovery operations in the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The company currently owns and operates over 200 miles of pipeline on its Llano and West Texas systems.
Trinity was founded in 2000 by president and chief executive officer Barry F. Petty. Robert Kincaid is joining the
Latin America focused New York law firm Schwartz has hired M&A and corporate deal lawyer Zachary S. Klughaupt as counsel, bolstering its Latin American capital markets practice.
Klughaupt, who is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, will divide his time between São Paulo and New York.
Kenneth Schwartz, Schwartz founder and managing partner, says: “Zach is highly regarded by our peers, and his strong background in M&A, finance and securities law reinforces our core strengths.”
Klughaupt began his legal career in the New York office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, where he advised private equity firms, investment banks and other
Mountain Real Estate Capital has closed a joint venture with Davidson Communities, a real estate company in California.
The joint venture purchased The Sentinels at Del Sur subdivision located in San Diego, California from Bank of America.
The project consists of 17 substantially finished lots and four fully completed and furnished model homes that have been upgraded with a number of options.
The Del Sur community is an 1,800-acre master plan community that will eventually comprise approximately 3,000 single-family and multifamily residences and community amenities.
“We view this transaction as a great opportunity for our group to partner with one
InstaMed, a healthcare payments network, has raised USD6m in growth capital.
This round of funding included both debt and equity capital and came from existing InstaMed investors who with this round have invested USD22m to date.
InstaMed investors include Osage Partners, Ashby Point Capital, NJTC Venture Fund, US Bank, and a private equity group in Newport Beach, California.
The private equity group in Newport Beach, California, which includes eight high-net worth families from Southern California, contributed the largest amount of capital, both as a part of this funding and since InstaMed’s inception.
Osage Partners contributed USD1.3m in this funding.
“We
Bertram Capital, a private equity firm headquartered in San Mateo, California, has closed Bertram Growth Capital II with USD500m in limited partner commitments.
Founded in 2006, Bertram Capital’s mission is to help profitable companies realise their potential through a strategy of buy and build and internally generated growth initiatives.
Bertram now has over USD850m in capital under management and targets investments in lower middle market companies.
"We recognise the significant trust our existing and new limited partners have demonstrated with their swift commitment to Bertram Capital’s second fund," says Jeff Drazan, managing director. "During a challenging economic environment, Bertram was
Prime Technology Ventures, a pan-European venture capital firm, has led a USD13m round of new funding in Cint, the company behind the SaaS-based marketplace for market research sample Cint Panel Exchange.
Existing owners such as Nordic venture capital firm Creandum also participated in the funding.
Cint is headquartered in Stockholm and provides market researchers with fully automated access to panels of four million profiled individuals across 40 countries. In 2008 Cint opened offices in US, Canada, Spain, Denmark and Russia. During 2009 and 2010 additional offices were opened in UK, Germany and the Netherlands.
Funds will be used to expand
DN Capital, a media and technology early stage and growth capital investor, has led an investment in windeln.de, a baby care specialty website which will launch in September 2010.
German venture capital firm High-Tech Gründerfonds also took part in the investment, and the financing round was complemented by business angels and members of the management team.
Users of windeln.de will be able to buy diapering products as well as baby food and formula, bath and skin care products and a large product range around feeding and nursing. The site will also offer many products needed during pregnancy and breast
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