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Crestbridge’s UK funds team has provided a comprehensive suite of administration services to support the recent successful first close of Shard Credit Partners’ inaugural technology-focused venture debt fund.
The new ‘Venture Debt Fund I’ secured £16.5 million in commitments from the UK and European institutional investors, alongside UK technology industry entrepreneurs, on its first close, and will make investments in senior secured loans with equity warrants to venture capital backed businesses in the B2B ‘Service as a Software’ (SaaS) and Fintech sectors across the UK.
The fund has completed two investments with total commitments of £6.5m ahead of the
Charles has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce Ventures to become Europe’s leading conversational commerce as a service platform. Accel and HV Capital, who led the company’s seed round in 2021, also participated.
Charles is an all-in-one, conversational-first operating system that is bringing everything associated with ecommerce into WhatsApp and other chat apps. The company enables businesses to sell products, send newsletters and support customers with ongoing personalisation and deep system integration via chat. With the new funding round, Charles is further expanding its operations from Germany into key European markets and targeting larger enterprise
Boeing has made a $50 million investment in AEI HorizonX, a partnership the company established with private equity firm AE Industrial Partners to invest in transformative aerospace technologies.
The new funding will anchor AEI HorizonX’s second venture fund (Fund II), which plans to raise $250 million to support promising start-ups in future mobility, space, sustainability, digital enterprise applications, networks and security.
Since its inception in 2021, the AEI HorizonX portfolio has achieved five IPOs (initial public offerings) and exits. The venture capital group’s current portfolio features 51 global investments, including companies that are driving innovations in artificial intelligence and machine
Following its recent Annual General Meeting (8 July), the Jersey Funds Association (JFA) has elected a new-look committee as it continues to champion Jersey’s ecosystem for alternative funds.
Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to acquire Green Street, a provider of commercial real estate intelligence and analytics. Green Street’s current majority owner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the technology and healthcare industries, will retain a minority position in the business.
Green Street Chief Executive Officer Jeffry Stuek, Jr, along with the senior leadership team, will continue leading the company.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022 pending customary regulatory approval, have not been disclosed.
Veremark, a pre-employment screening and verified career credentials firm, has raised a further $8.5 million in an equity funding round led by new US venture capital investor Stage 2 Capital, just nine months after its initial $2.8 million seed round.
Samaipata, a Pan-European venture capital firm also joined the round as a new investor, and several existing investors Triple Point Ventures, ACF Investors, Vulpes, and SOV provided follow-on investments, bringing the company’s total funding to $12.3 million.
Veremark aims to simplify the process of checking the claims and credentials of prospective employees based around the world through its digital platform.
RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird), along with private markets investment firm StepStone Group, is to acquire a majority stake in Talent Systems, a casting software and talent marketplace for the entertainment industry.
Talent Systems was formed by Co-CEOs Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin and in 2021 managed over 50,000 projects and more than two million auditions, facilitating the effective discovery, auditioning and hiring of talent across film, television, commercials, theatre and digital productions.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
With the deepest pool of professional talent and project roles, Talent Systems delivers valuable solutions to all constituents
Petershill Parthjers has reported aggregate partner-firm AuM of $266 billion and aggregate fee-paying partner-firm AuM of $184 billion as at 30 June 2022. Both amounts are unchanged from the levels reported at 31 March 2022.
Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has made four new senior hires across its offices.
Anders Svenningsen joins as managing director and head of business development for the Nordics in Copenhagen, where he will be responsible for Pemberton’s Nordic Franchise and investors. Svenningsen brings over 25 years’ experience in finance. Prior to joining Pemberton, he was Head of Nordic & Dutch Markets at Citigroup, responsible for the client franchise in the region across all markets business and products.
Christoph Polomsky will be based in the Frankfurt office and will serve as managing director in the Business Development Team for the
OMERS Private Equity is to acquire Bionic (Bionic), a provider of essential energy, insurance, finance and connectivity services to UK small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) from ECI Partners and its founders.
OMERS Private Equity will take a majority stake in the Company, with the management team, led by Paul Galligan, CEO of Bionic, and ECI Partners and the founders investing alongside OMERS. OMERS Private Equity will provide resources and expertise to help drive the Company’s organic growth as well as further accelerate its strategic expansion through M&A.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close by Q3, subject to customary
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