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ChainCraft, a Dutch scale-up active in circular chemical production, has closed a €11 million funding round led by Convent Capital, and secured the upcoming equity funding for its full-scale flagship plant.
ChainCraft produces circular chemicals from food waste through innovative fermentation technology, replacing fossil and palm oil based chemicals.
Existing investors Shift Invest, Horizon 3 and PDENH also participated in the round with the funds set to be used to lay the groundwork for an industrial scale plant and to accelerate its growth plans for its existing Amsterdam demo plant.
Commercially, the Amsterdam based scale-up is gaining speed. Recently,
Ark has launched a new fund operations platform which builds on an already widely adopted portal technology connecting LP investors with GP managers, to enhance fund operations and investor reporting automation.
Fund administrators and GP manager teams are able to streamline and launch processes in just a few clicks.
The new Ark platform includes: branded client portals (unlimited users & SPVs); capital call and distribution automation; portfolio management with dynamic schedule of investments; investor allocations with capital account statement automation; general ledger integration; and multi-manager platform administration
Ark’s new platform provides partnership accounting capabilities that can plug right
Thoma Bravo is expanding its presence internationally with the opening of an office in London. The new office will complement the firm’s existing offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Miami, each of which have recently experienced significant growth.
As part of this expansion, Irina Hemmers will join Thoma Bravo as a Partner to lead and grow the London office and help deepen the firm’s presence across Europe. The London office will serve as the firm’s hub for UK and European deals and will allow Thoma Bravo to further access the region’s rich ecosystem of innovative and fast-growing software and technology
Baring Private Equity Asia Ltd (BEPA) has gathered secured capital commitments totalling around $11 billion for its latest and biggest fund to date, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites unnamed sources as confirming that the Hong Kong-based investment manager raised about 70% more than a previous $6.5 billion Asia-focused fund. The final closing of the new fund, which is expected to continue BEPA’s strategy of investing in mid- to large-sized firms in Asia, may be announced as early as the end of this month. Around 15 per cent of the capital raised has already been invested
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Private equity firm NorthEdge has completed its investment into Friend MTS, a leading global provider of video content security services.
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in Birmingham with offices in Europe and the US, Friend MTS provides content owners, broadcasters and operators with advanced security and platform protection solutions, including network threat intelligence, forensic watermarking and global media discovery optimised with automated content recognition.
The investment was run out of NorthEdge’s Birmingham office, and funded from NorthEdge Fund III alongside co-investors. It was led by Jon Pickering, Andrew Skinner, Michael Joseph, Maninder Minhas, Mike Craven and Simone Masterson. Skinner
Inflexion has promoted Sergio Ferrarini to Head of Technology succeeding Irina Hemmers who is joining Thoma Bravo to head up the international software investor’s new London office.
Since joining Inflexion from Hg Capital in 2019, Ferrarini has been instrumental in developing Inflexion’s Technology sector strategy, capability and credentials. This has included leading roles in Inflexion’s investments in Infront, Curinos and WithWise.
Inflexion has also promoted Edd Lynch to Partner. Lynch joined Inflexion in 2015 and has been a core part of the Technology sector team for several years. He has played a leading role in a number of investments,
The Adista Group, a France-based alternative B2B cloud and telecoms operator backed by Keensight Capital, has acquired Cyberprotect, a universal cybersecurity operator and specialist in continuous monitoring and prevention services.
Cyberprotect’s cybersecurity operations centre – the CyberproVerse SOC – as well as its other services will add to the Adista Group’s range of solutions, strengthening its positioning with a subsidiary dedicated to cybersecurity and specialised in SME and mid-cap clients. Cyberprotect’s solutions will be marketed directly by Adista and Waycom and indirectly by unyc.
The acquisition of Cyberprotect is an integral part of Adista Group’s growth strategy. As companies accelerate
Oakley Capital’s (Oakley) Oakley Capital Fund V (Fund V) is investing in Facile.it (Facile), one of Italy’s largest online price comparison platform. Following the sale of Oakley Capital Fund III’s (Fund III) investment in Facile, Fund V will acquire a minority stake in the business alongside Silver Lake.
Investment manager Downing LLP is supporting growth at surgical augmented intelligence company Cydar Medical with a £1.3 million investment through its healthcare ventures team.
The company, based in Barrington, Cambridgeshire, uses leading-edge computer vision and machine learning software to revolutionise every stage of image-guided minimally invasive surgery (MIS).
The investment, through Downing Healthcare Ventures EIS fund into ordinary shares in the business, will support the growth of Cydar’s international customer base, as well as the ongoing development of Cydar EV Maps. A future release of the technology will provide predictive procedure planning, where the artificial intelligence capabilities of the product
Jera Capital, a Copenhagen-based investment management firm focused on the private equity secondary market, has successfully achieved the first closing of its new Luxembourg private equity fund, Jera Direct Access Private Equity (Jera DAPE) which is structured as a RAIF, and is well on track to reach EUR100 million within its first year of operation.
The fund aims to invest its clients’ capital in a responsible way by integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in line with the UN SDG themes.
The fund acquires assets in the secondary market and exclusively focuses on companies with strong value creation potential
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