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Elbow Beach Capital, a decarbonisation, sustainability and social impact investor, has made a £1.5 million investment as part of a £4.1 million seed finding round in graphene technology innovator, Anaphite.
Wealth Club, Blue Wire Capital, Oxford Investment Opportunity Network, Zero Carbon Capital, Silicon Roundabout Ventures and Deeptech Labs, also participated in the round.
Anaphite focuses on the enhancement of lithium-ion batteries for the electric vehicle industry. Roughly 30% of an EV’s costs come from its battery, and Anaphite’s technology can reduce battery manufacturing costs by over 10%. The company’s technology also improves battery capacity and charge rates, potentially reducing
Court Square Capital Partners portfolio company GoEngineer, a provider of 3D design and additive manufacturing solutions, has acquired Computer Aided Technology (CATI), a product development solutions provider specialising in 3D software and 3D printing hardware.
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Chicago, CATI is a leader in the CAD and additive manufacturing solutions space, with over 30 years of experience in product development solutions designed to deliver unique services and innovative technologies to customers.
The acquisition, which is GoEngineer’s eleventh add-on acquisition since 2013 and follows the most recent acquisition of Proto3000 in October 2021, represents the next strategic step
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has expanded the footprint of its Corporate Private Equity business through a new team based in San Francisco – building on the firm’s existing strong presence in its San Francisco office across its other business units.
Sachin Bavishi, a senior managing director, will relocate to San Francisco to lead and establish Blackstone Private Equity’s West Coast presence, along with other existing and new team members.
Bavishi was previously based in New York and has been a member of Blackstone’s Private Equity team since 2013, focusing on investment opportunities in Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). He has played
Bee Partners, a deep tech pre-seed venture capital firm, has appointed Austin Grisham as Head of Platform. Grisham is based in Colorado and will join Kira Noodleman, Partner, in the Denver based office.
Grisham is a two-time founder, initially establishing a boutique agency in 2016 focused on storytelling, content creation and brand strategy. Next, he founded an agricultural startup based in Rwanda working to integrate sustainable agriculture and grow supply chains for larger consumer brands in the US for makeup, food production and other consumables. Additionally, he owned/operated a Whole Foods CPG company from 2019-2020.
Austin joins Bee Partners after
Several big-name private equity firms, including EQT AB and KKR & Co, have been shortlisted to strike a deal to acquire data centre company Global Switch according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites unnamed sources as saying that the list of firms selected to take part in the next round of bidding for the London-based business also includes Gaw Capital Partners, PAG and Stonepeak Partners. Due diligence is expected to begin in the next few weeks before final binding offers are submitted.
Global Switch’s owners, which include Jiangsu Shagang Group Co and Avic Trust Co, are reportedly expecting
Alteria Capital Advisors is looking to raise up to INR35 billion ($438 million) for its third debt fund, according to a report by DailyAlts. The Indian venture debt firm’s latest funding, will reportedly be in the form of a dual structure consisting of a primary debt fund and a secondary pool that will be deployed as working capital finance for startups.
KKR has led a $75 million series B funding round in Digital Diagnostics, a specialist in AI healthcare diagnosis. Investors including Cedar Pine, Kinderhook, 8VC, Optum Ventures, OSF Ventures and the University of Iowa also took part in the round.
The latest funding has almost doubled the company’s total outside capital raised to $130 million.
In January, KKR closed its Health Care Strategic Growth Fund II on $4 billion, almost three-times bigger that it’s previous healthcare fund which closed with $1.45bn in capital commitments.
Cologne-based HR tech startup CATCH has closed a seven-figure financing round. The investment will help the founders, Marco Verhoeven and Justin Bous, to further expand and market their recruiting platform “Catch Talents”.
CATCH sets out to automate recruiting for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany and Europe and thus make it more efficient. In addition to the lead investor TechVision Fund (TVF) NRW.BANK and Christian Greb, business angel and co-founder of the AI company PRECIRE, participated in the financing round.
Catch Talents SaaS recruiting software fully automates candidate search and pre-qualification processes. It finds suitable, actively searching talent by
Sango Capital (Sango) and Tana Africa Capital (Tana) have made a minority investment in Sundry Markets Limited, one of Nigeria’s fastest growing modern grocery retailers.
The transaction marks a partial realisation of the capital invested in the Company by Sango through its Fund I (Sango Fund I), and a new investment by Sango through its Fund III (Sango Fund III) and by Tana Africa Capital through its second Fund (TAC II).
Established in 2015, Sundry Markets operates the Marketsquare brand of supermarkets and convenience stores, providing a superior shopping experience to customers and a one-stop destination for prepared and packaged
Rivonia Road Capital, a global alternative asset manager, focused on credit for high-growth companies, has provided Tandym with $50 million in debt financing, and made an equity investment in Tandym’s most recent fundraise.
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