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Pickles Auctions Pty Limited (Pickles), an Australian marketplace for vehicles, industrial, and salvage assets, is to sell a majority share of its business to funds advised by global private equity firm Apax Partners (Apax).
Privately owned since 1964, the business is now at an inflection point and the family has decided now is the right time to bring in outside investment, utilising the additional capital to fuel future growth. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year. The Pickles family will retain a minority interest going forward and the current executive leadership team will remain in
IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), the European leader in building superconducting quantum computers, has raised €128 million ($128m) in Series A2 funding led by World Fund.
The funding, which follows a €39m ($39m) Series A1 announcement in 2020 and includes part of a €35m ($35m) venture loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), makes it the largest ever funding round raised by a European quantum computing company.
The round included participation from Bayern Kapital, EIC Fund, OurCrowd, QCI SPV, Tofino and Varma, as well as existing investors Maki.vc, Matadero QED, MIG Fonds, OpenOcean, Salvia GmbH, Santo Venture Capital GmbH, Tencent,
MIG Capital AG, one of Germany’s leading venture capital firms, has closed a Series A2 funding at its portfolio company IQM, a specialist in quantum computing hardware.
MIG Fonds No. 2, 4, 6, 10, 14 as well as 17 participated in this round, which provided a combined €128 million in funding, and was led by World Fund, which is making an initial investment in IQM, plus new investors Varma, OurCrowd, EIC Fund, Bayern Capital, QuIC SPV and Tolfino.
This financing round is the inaugural MIG Fond 17 investment in a portfolio company.
The round included participation from MIG as well
Sienna Investment Managers (Sienna IM), through its newly-created subsidiary dedicated to private equity (Sienna Private Equity), and Eight Advisory, an independent financial and operations consulting firm, has acquired a minority interest in Eight Advisory.
Eight Advisory is a leading independent financial and operations consulting firm specialised in transaction, restructuring, transformation and financial engineering. Since its founding in 2009, Eight Advisory has experienced continuous growth of +21% per annum on average. The quality, seniority and commitment of its teams together with its clients have forged the firm’s solid reputation, which is now indisputable in the European financial advisory market. The company
Plexus Innovation, which is based in Durham, has secured £300,000 investment from the North East Venture Fund (NEVF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia; and £180,000 from the Finance Durham Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham.
Plexus Innovation’s GUARDIAN technology remotely monitors and measures temperature, CO2, humidity and water systems, enabling insight-driven decisions, reduction of energy use and provision of real-time data for use in compliance reporting. The system also provides automated alerts to highlight potential health risks or failing assets that otherwise may be
Asian dealmaker Alex To has been appointed as the CEO of CDH Investments, an alternative investment fund manager with a focus on China, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that To, the former co-head of Bank of America Corp’s Asia Pacific investment banking, is to become a partner at CDH Investments when he takes up his new role in the coming months.
Having begun life back in 2002 as a private equity platform, CDH Investments has since moved into other areas and lists venture and growth capital, real assets, private credit, equities and
According to the first estimates obtained by SPAINCAP Capital for a Sustainable Future through the European platform EDC, investment volume in Spain reached €5.16 billion in the first half of the year with a total of 390 investments, 170% more than in the same period of 2021.
Venture Capital has surpassed all previous records, at €850 million from a total of 298 investments.
In the first half of the year, private equity and venture capital funds contributed more than 88% of the total volume invested in Spanish companies. The number of investments remains at a record high, with 132 transactions.
OWYN (Only What You Need), a provider of plant-based protein beverages and other functional nutrition products, has closed a growth investment round led by Purchase Capital with participation from Hammock Park Capital LLC and existing investor PowerPlant Ventures.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Today’s news follows the acquisition of a majority ownership stake in OWYN last year by United Nutritional Brands, an affiliate of Purchase Capital—an investment firm led by Nicholas J Singer that provides patient capital for private and public companies. Proceeds of this latest funding round will be deployed to drive national expansion, increase distribution
Squire Patton Boggs has hired Tom Durrant, head of Gateley’s national Corporate practice, as a partner in its Birmingham office.
Durrant, a corporate M&A and private equity lawyer, will lead the firm’s Corporate practice in Birmingham and play a key role in the ongoing expansion of the UK and international cross-border corporate and PE transactional work which continues at record levels.
Durrant is an experienced corporate lawyer focused on cross-border acquisitions and disposals, private equity and venture capital transactions. He advises international and UK corporates, financial institutions, management teams and entrepreneurs across a wide variety of industry sectors. His
Slate Asset Management (Slate), a global alternative investment platform targeting real assets, has acquired a majority stake in amperio, a specialist planner and operator of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in Germany.
Since 2012, amperio has been supporting companies, cities, and communities in developing tailored charging concepts, installing charging stations, and providing backend management services for charging stations. To date, amperio has installed over 1,800 intelligent charging points. Amperio maintains, operates, and executes the billing for over 300 of these charging points on behalf of its customers.
As part of the transaction, Slate created Slate Mobility, an entity that will
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