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Greycroft, a seed-to-growth venture capital firm, has raised more than $1 billion of capital commitments across two new flagship funds – Greycroft Partners VII and Greycroft Growth IV – which will look to invest in early and growth-stage enterprise and consumer businesses.
The capital commitments, which bring the total raised by the company since inception to $3 billion since the company’s inception, represent a significant increase from the firm’s previous venture and growth funds. Greycroft says this demonstrates continued support from LPs for its model of investing in startups across the entire venture lifecycle from seed to exit.
Greycroft’s previous
Vista Equity Partners, a private investment firm focused on investment in enterprise software, data and technology-enabled organisations, has sold its majority stake in Fusion Risk Management, a provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management software and services, to growth-oriented private equity firm Great Hill Parters.
Financial terms of the deal, which will see Vista retain a significant minority investment along with Catalyst Investors and Level Equity Management, have not been disclosed.
Fusion says the new majority investment will allow it to enhance its product innovation capabilities, while continuing to accelerate several attractive organic and inorganic growth opportunities.
Global private investment firm Carlyle Group has appointed Sharda Cherwoo, a retired Ernst & Young senior partner, as an independent director of its Board of Directors and a member of the Audit Committee of the Board, effective 1 June, 2023.
With Cherwoo’s appointment, Carlyle’s Board of Directors will now comprise 13 members.
Cherwoo spent her entire, nearly 40-year career at Ernst & Young (EY), with a specialised industry focus on private equity, financial services, health care, and emerging disruptive technologies, across diverse industries. Most recently, she served as EY’s Americas intelligent automation leader and partner, a role in which she
After launching its fundraising process in December, RoundShield Partners recently held a first close – believed to be around $750m – for its latest fund, Fund V, which will focus on European asset-backed special situations and distressed opportunities.
With the first close achieving a reported re-up rate in the region of 80% and an increased amount of interest from European institutions, RoundShield plans to hold a further close for remaining capacity within the coming months.
RoundShield’s latest fund will aim to deliver returns through opportunistic investment in special situations and distressed assets, at a time when there is an increasing
The value of global mergers and acquisitions in the renewable energy sector reached a record £118.7 billion in 2022 – a rise of 57% on the previous year, according to new research by business advisory firm Dow Schofield Watts.
The figures show that the number of deals completed during the year increased by 63% to 1,036, as the high price of fossil fuels due to the war in Ukraine and pressure to meet net zero targets continued to drive investment and global M&A activity.
The two biggest deals during the year were both acquisitions by BP, which paid over
BPEA EQT is to acquire IMG Academy, an education institution supporting over 100,000 student-athletes across its suite of sports education services, from Endeavor Group Holdings in a deal valued at $1.25bn.
Private equity major the Carlyle Group has closed its latest Asia-focused buyout fund – Carlyle Asia Growth Partners VII, which launched in April 2021 – with $950 million in capital commitments, according to a report by DealStreetAsia.
The report cites board documents from one of the fund’s limited partners as revealing that the new vehicle will focus on growth equity investments in fast-growing businesses primarily operating in the technology, business services, health care, consumer, media and retail industries.
The fund reportedly had an original target $1 billion in total, and according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing, attracted
The value of venture capital investment into UK businesses continued to slump in the opening quarter of 2023 falling to £2.9 billion ($3.6bn) continuing the significant slowdown seen at the end of 2022, according to KPMG’s latest Venture Pulse report.
Benchmark Gensuite, a software platform that helps companies unify and digitally transform their EHS, Sustainability, and ESG Reporting programs, has secured a minority growth investment from enterprise software private investment specialist Vista Equity Partners.
Clearview Capital Fund IV, and its affiliates and Clearview Capital Fund V, and its affiliates have made a new platform investment in Capitol Services, a tech-enabled provider of outsourced legal and compliance services, in partnership with the company’s founders and management.
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