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US private equity firms Carlye Group and Advent International are to acquire a 10% stake in India’s Yes Bank, according to a report by Reuters.
MJ Hudson has advised Octopus Ventures (OV) on the establishment of its first dedicated pre-seed fund, backing early-stage start-ups across Europe, which held a first closing in May 2022.
OV’s all-female pre-seed team has already made its first wave of investments into 10 businesses across the UK, Germany and Spain. Of those, 40% have a female founder and 30% at least one ethnic minority founder.
OV, part of the Octopus Group, is one of the most active VCs in Europe and its notable investments include Cazoo, Zoopla and Depop (all of which have either gone public or been acquired).
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Ironwood Capital has invested in Pro Disposal USA (Pro Disposal), a vertically integrated waste management service provider permitted to handle waste from initial collection, through its managed transfer station, to final disposal.
The investment will support Pro Disposal’s acquisition of Carolina Containers of Beaufort and Barnwell Resources (“CCB”), a collection and hauling, transfer station and landfill business specialising in C&D waste.
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Ridgeland, South Carolina, Pro Disposal serves the Lowcountry region of South Carolina from Charleston to Hilton Head to Savannah, an area experiencing significant population growth contributing to high levels of demand for solid
BBC Maestro, an online education platform providing access to expert masterclasses with the likes of David Walliams, Marco Pierre White and Mark Ronson, has completed a multi-million-pound funding round to facilitate market growth.
OrBit Markets, an institutional liquidity provider in crypto options and structured products, has raised $4.6 million in an angel funding round led by Matrixport, a digital assets financial services ecosystem, with participation from Brevan Howard Digital, New Form Capital, Maven 11 and Westridge Markets in this oversubscribed round.
As the digital assets market evolves, more investors and DeFi users are exploring advanced options strategies for investment and yield enhancement, but few market makers are able to provide liquidity in these complex products. Even in traditional finance, such capabilities are concentrated in the hands of a few global investment banks. OrBit
Private equity fund managers are turning inwards to draw value from the decades of data held in their portfolios.
Amazon.com has agreed to acquire One Medical, a primary care provider owned by Caryle Group for for $18 a share, in an all-cash deal that values the company at $3.49 billion, according to a report by Private Equity Insights.
Qontigo, a global provider of risk analytics and index solutions, has partnered with CEPRES, a specialist in private market investment technology and data, to develop a suite of private market factor risk models for unique insights into private capital fund risk in multi-asset class portfolios.
The private market factor models will provide broad coverage of the private asset space in Qontigo’s enterprise risk management system, Axioma Risk. Through the combination of CEPRES’s verified private fund cash flow data and Qontigo’s industry-leading Axioma Factor Risk Models, asset managers and asset owners will receive deep insights across both public and private assets
Quasar Finance has raised $6 million from a range of leading investment firms, including Polychain Capital, Blockchain Capital, Figment Capital, Lightshift Capital and Galileo.
Pollen Street as met the target set out in its ESG Report for 2020 and is now carbon neutral. The carbon footprint of Pollen Street Capital reduced in 2021 and residual carbon emissions have been removed through verified offsets.
The firm has also published the results of its second internal DE&I survey in this year’s report, which show that 64% of the firm’s staff are state educated and 17% are from ethnic minorities. Additionally, 26% of PE portfolio ExCo members are now women. The firm is also recognised on an individual and company level at the FTAdviser Diversity in Finance
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