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British Patient Capital has invested £5 million in CloudNC, a London-based developer of automation software for the manufacturing sector, as part of a £35 million Series B round.
The round was led by US software corporation Autodesk, alongside investment from Lockheed Martin, Atomico and Episode 1.
The investment from British Patient Capital was made through Future Fund: Breakthrough, its £375 million programme where we co-invest with private sector investors in innovative, R&D-intensive UK companies.
CloudNC has developed powerful optimisation software for the precision parts manufacturing market, which makes parts for most day-to-day products – from automotive and aircraft parts to
Growth capital investor BGF has appointed Apex Group to provide ESG Ratings & Advisory Services to over 230 high-growth companies in its portfolio.
BGF is an established, independent investment company, supporting private businesses and smaller listed companies. It joins over 350 GPs in over 45 countries already using Apex’s ESG services, to report on their investments in-line with ESG standards and regulations.
ESG principles are integrated into BGF’s investment approach, as it works, not only to champion sustainable practices within its portfolio, but to also back businesses that are looking to make a real-world impact in their markets and
Almost half of financial services firms (44%) are planning to invest more in RegTech solutions in the next 12 months to cope with the growing pressure on the compliance function in this fast moving and increasingly complicated regulatory and operational landscape.
A further 41% expect to invest the same amount as the previous 12 months.
This investment is driving up the overall cost of compliance with almost all (90%) of financial services firms reporting increased compliance costs over the past five years. One in ten said costs have doubled.
That’s according to compliance technology and data analytics firm
Phoenix Court Group, an early stage European venture capital investor, has $500m to invest across its two existing funds – LocalGlobe, which is focused on the pre-seed and seed stage, and Latitude, which is focused at the breakout and early growth stage – plus two new funds – Solar and Basecamp.
The new funds were previously internally funded and will now begin to be institutionalised. Solar is Phoenix Court Group’s scale-up fund focused on supporting tech businesses on their journey from the private to the public markets, and beyond. Basecamp is a diverse community of 50+ emerging early stage funds,
Steve Moseley, the former head of alternatives at the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp, has been appointed as a managing director at Wafra Inc where he will head up a new new co-investment strategy, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Toronto-based alternative asset manager Sagard Holdings Inc has held the final close of its second private debt fund with commitments of $1.17bn from institutional and strategic investors across the US, Canada and Europe, according to a report by Private Equity Insights.
The Sagard Credit Partners II, which will focused on investing in middle-market companies in the US and Canada owned by a family, entrepreneur or are publicly-listed and, is targeting an internal rate of return of between 10-12% without using leverage.
Re report cites Sagard Chief Investment Officer Adam Vigna has confirming that the fund has already deployed about 11%
Auditing and consulting firm PwC Germany has made an investment in World Fund, one of Europe’s largest dedicated climate tech VC, which is raising €350 million to invest in European climate tech startups that have the potential to save at least 100Mt CO2e per year.
PwC Germany is joining many other business luminaries as a World Fund investor. Launched in 2021, the fund was founded to source and support the next generation of climate tech companies tackling the most pressing issue of our time.
World Fund’s strict criteria for investment aims to back companies using technology to directly reduce emissions
Pennsylvania’s largest public pension fund – the $75 billion Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System – has approved commitments of up to $350 million private infrastructure and growth equity investments, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The pensions scheme’s board has agreed to allocate up to $250 million to a separately managed account with GCM Grosvenor Inc, publicly-traded alternative investments manager with approximately $71 billion under management, along with up to $100 million to a new fund managed by Greenoaks Capital Partners.
The report cites staff members as confirming that the $250 million commitment will support a
Solomon Capital Holdings Ltd (Solomon), a new advice and wealth management group founded by former Quilter Financial Planning CEO Andy Thompson and CFO Darren Sharkey, is to acquire Beaufort Group.
Financial terms of the transaction, which remains subject to FCA approval and is the first stage of a strategy to build a national advice business, serving in excess of 50,000 clients. have not been disclosed.
This initial acquisition will see Solomon take full ownership of Beaufort Financial and YOU Asset Management (YOU), providing both businesses with the resource and support to confidently implement their ambitious growth plans to develop
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Asia Investment Capital and GGV Capital have led a $300 million funding round in MegaRobo Technologies, according to a report by Reuters.
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