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Catalysed by new government policies favouring solar energy and multiple demand-driven opportunities for water-related companies, private equity and venture capital firms are focusing on these cleantech sectors, a report from Venture Intelligence shows.
The private equity and venture capital firms surveyed recently by Venture Intelligence chose water and wastewater engineering, energy efficiency, waste management and recycling, energy infrastructure, pollution control and cleantech in manufacturing/industrial environments as their favourite sectors within the industry.
Articles by private equity and venture capital investors and advisory firms in the report point to rising investor interest in solar energy.
Citing how the accelerated depreciation incentive
During the past 24 months Castle Private Equity’s geographical exposure to Asia has increased to 13.8 per cent.
Hans Markvoort, head of private equity investment solutions at LGT Capital Partners and lead manager of Castle Private Equity, says the Asian private equity landscape is a widely diverging geography with numerous opportunities.
China continues to be the key market for the fund, in particular for growth capital investments in private companies and small sized buyouts of state owned enterprises undergoing privatisation.
India is another area of interest, although the competitive intensity of this market and higher valuations must be taken into account.
Venture capital firm Cross Atlantic Capital Partners has invested USD4m in a USD6.1m series B financing for Health Market Science, a data and analytics provider for the healthcare industry.
Cross Atlantic led the round with follow-on investments from other institutional investors, including Edison Venture Fund.
Health Market Science is a source for healthcare provider data, software and regulatory compliance solutions in the US.
The investment will enable the company to accelerate development of its technology platform and compliance solutions.
“We believe the company’s data products and services help solve complex business challenges at the core of all healthcare company operations,”
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Steven Asciutto as a partner in its corporate advisory group.
Based in New York, Asciutto will focus on providing strategic and financial advice to investment managers and alternative asset managers.
Asciutto has nearly 15 years of investment banking experience. He was most recently a managing director in the financial institutions group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focusing on investment managers and alternative asset management firms.
Prior to that, Asciutto spent ten years at Morgan Stanley in its financial institutions group, where he served as head of the investment management advisory group.
Peter Weinberg, a
Payfone has closed its series B financing, with Opus Capital and BlackBerry Partners Fund joining founding series A investor RRE Ventures in a USD11m round.
Bob Borchers (pictured) of Opus Capital and Kevin Talbot of BlackBerry Partners Fund will join Payfone’s board of directors in connection with this financing.
Payfone has built the first mobile payments platform that leverages the capabilities of existing inter-operator networks. It connects application stores and content brands to mobile operators via existing network infrastructure.
"Mobile payments today are plagued by fraud and failure," says Rodger Desai, Payfone’s chief executive. "Payfone was built from the ground
RoundTable Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has established a platform business in the ophthalmology market.
The new platform company, Beaver-Visitec International, consists of ophthalmology products and assets recently acquired from BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) and Medtronic.
Beaver-Visitec brings together the brands of Beaver blades, Visitec cannulas and instruments, Merocel and Weck-Cel ophthalmic fluid management products, and Wet-Field Eraser electrosurgery products.
Beaver-Visitec is the fifth platform company from RoundTable’s Fund II and the tenth in its current portfolio, joining five other medical device and four pharmaceutical entities.
"RoundTable’s platform investment in ophthalmology represents
The Capital Network, a Boston-based non-profit organisation providing entrepreneurs with education and community on the early-stage funding process, has promoted Michelle Hipwood to executive director and added Yumin Choi to the board of directors.
Hipwood joined TCN 18 months ago during a rebuilding and rebranding process that has seen the organisation grow from ten programmes per year to 40-plus programmes per year spread across six programme lines.
"Michelle will play the key role in leading our success and expanding TCN’s footprint in the New England market as the premier place early stage entrepreneurs should go before trying to raise early
Amati Global Investors, the newly formed investment manager, has appointed James Ferguson as chairman.
Ferguson is currently chairman of Value and Income Trust, Monks Investment Trust, The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust and Northern 3 VCT.
He also serves as a director of The Independent Investment Trust and Audax Properties and a trustee of Lloyds TSB Foundation.
He is the former chairman of Stewart Ivory and former deputy chairman of the Association of Investment Trust Companies.
Amati recently won the investment mandate for Victory VCT and completed a round of fundraising for the Amati VCT (formerly Noble AIM VCT), the
Hans Markvoort, head of private equity investment solutions, LGT Capital Partners and lead manager of Castle Private Equity (Castle PE), highlights the growing range
The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association and Cambridge Associates have entered into a partnership to provide independent Australian private equity and venture capital data to industry participants.
Under the agreement, Avcal will give its members access to aggregate Australian private equity and venture capital benchmark data and statistics.
Cambridge Associates, a provider of independent research and investment advice, has been advising institutional and private clients on alternative assets since the 1970s. The firm derives its various private equity and venture capital benchmarks from the financial information in its database of institutional quality private equity and venture capital funds.
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