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Portage looking to raise up to $1 billion for a new structured equity fund that will focus on financing late-stage startups in the financial technology sector.
The global fintech investor’s new Portage Capital Solutions (PCS) Fund, which will be led by Co-Heads Daniel Ballen and Devon Kirk, will focus on structured opportunities in fintech and financial services companies globally and targeting investments over $50 million.
Kirk has nearly two decades of experience in private equity and structured solutions with a focus on financials. Devon spent over ten years at CPP Investments, based in Toronto. She was most recently Managing Director
BuiltAI, an AI platform for the commercial real estate market, has closed a £2 million seed round led by former Apple/DataTiger executives Philipp Mohr and Puli Liyanagama and supported by MMC Ventures, Plug and Play and an InnovateUK Smart Grant.
The new funds will fuel BuiltAI’s R&D and product growth – including furthering its AI geospatial analytics platform and extending its customer acquisition in the UK and Europe.
The deeptech company is developing AI inference technology that delivers radical transparency to the commercial real estate market in order to inform better, quicker investment decisions by players in the market.
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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
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