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AUA Private Equity Partners (AUA), a lower-middle market investment firm focused on family owned, and Hispanic and/or multi-cultural oriented companies within the consumer products and consumer services sectors, has partnered with outsourced Chief Financial Officer, Bridge Alternative Investment Solutions.
The new tie-up will allow AUA to leverage Bridge Alternatives’ expertise in finance, accounting, and technology to maximize performance and reporting.
Bridge Alternatives will serve as AUA’s full back office, including Controller and CFO functions and allow AUA to leverage Bridge Alternatives’ expertise in finance, accounting, and technology to maximise performance and reporting.
Alantra and Enagás, through its affiliate Enagás Emprende, have held the final close of their oversubscribed Energy Transition Fund, Klima Energy Transition Fund (Klima), with €210 million in commitments, above the fund’s initial target of €150 million.
The European Investment Fund, which is a part of the European Investment Bank Group, committed €30 million. Other commitments to the Fund include institutional investors, energy-related companies, public and European institutions, and family offices.
Alantra and its shareholders, Enagás, and the investment team have made a significant joint commitment of approximately €50 million to the fund.
Klima takes minority stakes in companies with
Adams Street Partners has appointed Alicia Pando, a partner and the firm’s chief technology officer (CTO) to the firm’s Executive Committee.
C Capital is planning to raise $500 million for investments in blockchain assets as well as the credit and private equity spaces on the assumption that the prices of both digital assets and private companies are bottoming out, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Preqin, a provider of alternative investment data and insight, has appointed Vatsan Sudersan as its Head of Data Management. Vatsan will lead the data management team that operationalises Preqin’s automated data collection, including through machine learning and AI technologies.
RKVST, an integrity, transparency and trust platform for digital supply chain operations, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Ridgeline, Acadia Woods, Cyber Mentor Fund and Long Run Capital.
Blackstone has agreed a £300 million deal to sell Butlins back to one of the previous owners it bought the UK resort operator from last year, according to a report by Private Equity Insights.
The Harris family, one of three that founded former Butlins owner Bourne Leisure in 1964, has established a new company to acquire the business.
The families sold Bourne Leisure, which also operates the Haven and Warner Leisure businesses, to Blackstone last year in a deal worth around £3 billion last year while retaining a minority stake.
Butlins operates family holiday resorts in Skegness, Minehead and Bognor Regis.
Union Capital Associates, a lower middle-market private investment firm, has closed its newest fund, Union Capital Equity Partners III, oversubscribed at its hard cap of $309 million.
As with its predecessor, Fund III will invest in US founder-owned businesses where Union Capital is typically the first institutional investor. Union Capital has a long history of successfully partnering with business owners, entrepreneurs and management teams. The firm’s Managing Partners have worked together for more than 15 years and are supported by several of the firm’s former portfolio company CEOs, who provide operations expertise to assist management teams as well as provide
Swiss techbio company Hedera Dx, founded in 2021 by veteran healthcare entrepreneurs and executives, has raised€14 million a seed finding round led by Adam Ghobarah, founder of Top Harvest Capital and former longtime executive at Google and Google Ventures.
Inventure, Air Street Capital, Amino Collective and GRIDS Capital also participated in the round with the funds set to be used to launch a new blood-based testing solution to profile cancer DNA circulating in the blood, helping patients access better treatments.
In addition to launching commercially, the company will use the funding to implement the first phase of a large oncology
Tenzing is to take a minority stake in Altum Group, a provider of fund, corporate, and family office solutions.
Founded in 2000, Altum Group has a solid track record of delivering double-digit organic growth and is the sixth investment within Tenzing’s £400 million Fund II, which started investing in 2021, and is one of twelve high-growth businesses within the Tenzing portfolio.
The strategic partnership will support Altum’s continued focus on high-quality client service and outstanding value add to their existing and future clients while investing to extend its jurisdictional and product offering.
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