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The New York State Common Retirement Fund has become Growth Curve Capital’ latest Limited Partner (LP).
VTS, a commercial real estate technology platform, has secured $125 million in a Series E funding round led by existing VTS customer and investor CBRE Group, Inc, which is providing $100 million of capital and will join VTS’ Board of Directors.
Other investors include BentallGreenOak, AmTrust, Brookfield Ventures, and Insight Venture Partners, among others.
The latest funding round comes as VTS also recently secured $150 million in debt financing from Canadian-based CIBC Innovation Banking, totalling $275 million in new funding. The capital will ensure that VTS continues to accelerate its product innovations, continues to source strategic acquisitions, and attract
New figures published by the Office of National Statistics have revealed a fall in inward, outward and domestic deal volumes in Q2 2022. Inward deal volumes fell to 117 in Q2 2022 from 173 in Q1; outward deal volumes fell to 58 in Q2 from 80 in the previous quarter; and domestic deal volumes were down to 158 in Q2 from 196 in Q1.
Despite fewer deals being completed, foreign companies were still attracted to buying UK businesses as inward M&A values increased to £16.1 billion in Q2, from £15.6 billion the previous quarter. UK businesses were also on the acquisition
Linedata (Euronext Paris: LIN), a global provider of asset management and credit technology, data and services, has launched an optimised version of its Linedata Navquest fund monitoring solution.
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,
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