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Accel and Tiger Global are in discussions over the sale of their remaining stake in Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart to US retail giant and majority shareholder Walmart, in a deal valued at around $1.5 billion, according to a report by the Economic Times.
Both companies were early backers of Flipkart with Accel now holding a stake of just over 1% of the business and Tiger Global about 4%.
Walmart acquired a majority stake in Flipkart for about $16 billion in 2018 – its biggest deal ever -–and later that year set a four-year target for taking the company private..
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Vision Ridge Partners, a sustainable real assets investor, has closed the the SAF Annex Fund with $700 million of capital commitments. The fund received significant support from a diverse base of existing Vision Ridge clients as well as new institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, family offices, public pensions and consultants.
NESsT, a global impact investor and venture philanthropist, has launched the NESsT Violet Fund – its first fund focussed on investments in Central and Eastern Europe. The fund is launching in partnership with Dreilinden gGmbH, a Germany-based non-profit dedicated to advancing societal acceptance of gender and sexual diversity.
Capsa Healthcare, a portfolio of middle-market private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, has acquired Tryten Technologies Inc, a provider of lightweight, non-powered carts predominantly focused on enabling telehealth solutions.
Colmore, a service and technology provider for private market limited partners (LPs) and allocators, has launched HELIOS 3.0, an updated version of its real-time portfolio monitoring platform, designed for private market portfolios.
Nippon Life Insurance Company is to make an additional investment commitment of $1 billion in Resolution Life – a global life and annuity insurance consolidation business – following a recently announced strategic partnership between Resolution Life and Blackstone.
Electric car subscription service Onto has raised a new credit funding line of £100 million from global investment group CDPQ and independent asset manager Pollen Street. The asset-backed facility will enable Onto to continue expanding its UK fleet with the latest electric car models.
This new facility builds on the existing relationship between Onto and Pollen Street, which has been a finance partner to the business since July 2021. The facility also represents a new partnership between Pollen Street and CDPQ.
Onto’s monthly subscription model is all-inclusive of insurance, breakdown cover and free public charging. It empowers subscribers with flexibility
Apollo Global Management is weighing up a bid for Millicom International Cellular and has entered into negotiations with the Latin American telecoms company about a takeover that could value the business at around $10 billion, including debt, according to a report by the Financial Times.
An affiliate of global private investment firm Bain Capital Private Equity has sold its stake in diversified maritime logistics player J M Baxi Ports & Logistics to German shipping and container transportation company Hapag-Lloyd.
SLR Capital Partners (SLR), a boutique asset manager focused on direct lending with expertise across a range of financing solutions for US middle market companies, closed on $2.2 billion of equity commitments for its direct cash flow lending and specialty finance strategies (multi-strategy Private Credit) during the second half of 2022.
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