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McNally Capital (McNally) has held the final closing of its inaugural private equity fund, McNally Capital Fund II, with over $150 million in limited partner fund commitments and related co-investments.
The firm has over $500 million in total assets under management (AUM) and now has 15 investment and operating professionals to support its growth.
McNally Capital has already completed the first two investments out of McNally Capital Fund II with the acquisitions of Orbis Operations and Smith & Oby. Through the fund, the firm will continue its differentiated investment strategy of investing in founder-, family-, and management-owned companies in the
The Finance Durham Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, has supported local business, Conduit Construction Network Ltd (CCN), with a £600,000 funding package.
The investment has enabled the business to substantially scale-up its operations and relocate to a new 54,500 sq ft facility in Belmont Industrial Estate, creating 30 new jobs in County Durham.
CCN manufactures high-quality door sets and screens for the commercial, education and healthcare sectors.
The Durham move adds significant capacity and brings operational benefits with a plan to increase production and sales significantly. Alongside relocation,
LeapFrog Investments, a profit with purpose investment firm, has appointed Roger Ferguson as a member of its Global Leadership Council and Julie Wallace as its head of impact. This appointments follow Dominic Barton, former global managing partner of McKinsey, joining as chairman of the Management Board.
Ferguson is the former President and CEO of TIAA, one of the 30 largest asset managers in the world and a pioneering ESG investor, and was previously the first African American to be Vice Chair of the US Federal Reserve. Wallace was Global Head of Sustainability and Community Engagement at Standard Chartered Bank, driving
GreyLion Partners (GreyLion) and Vestar Capital Partners (Vestar) have completed an equity recapitalisation of 360training, a provider of online training and continuing education to regulated industries, to support the Company’s rapid growth and accelerate acquisition activity.
Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
The new investment will help 360training pursue large and small strategic acquisitions within its core markets and in new markets and geographies. 360training helps organisations develop their workforces and remain compliant with labour regulations and industry certification mandates, with a content library offering more than 6,000 courses across five major verticals: Environmental Health & Safety, Food
KitaBeli, a consumer goods (FMCG) social commerce platform for consumers in Indonesia’s second-and third-tier cities, has closed a $20 million funding round led by Glade Brook Capital Partners (Glade Brook), a global growth equity investment firm.
KitaBeli’s existing investors, AC Ventures and GoVentures joined the round, along with new investor InnoVen Capital.
KitaBeli allows users and partners (Mitras) to get discounts and earn money by leveraging their social networks. The app allows consumers to enjoy discounted prices through a gamified and social shopping experience. Unlike some other shopping apps, KitaBeli runs a direct-to-consumer social commerce business model that offers
Future Capital, a learning and opportunity platform that helps new and aspiring investors break into the technology and innovation industry, is teaming up with BDC Capital to launch a second Women in Technology Series in Summer 2022.
The collaboration aims to activate a new pipeline of women angel investors and diversify the ecosystem that supports tech founders. The series will include six cohorts of the Foundations in Startup Investing program, the company’s flagship course designed for underrepresented angel investors. The program includes 8 hours of hands-on coursework, full access to Future Capital’s investor studio, 1-on-1 coaching, culminating in a live,
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has sold e.fundamentals to CommercelQ, realising a 2.5x return.
The sale follows Foresight’s acquisition of the VCT and EIS technology ventures division of Downing. In 2017, Downing was the first institutional investor in e.fundamentals and has continued to support the business over the last five years.
Founded in 2014, e.fundamentals has developed a digital shelf analytics tool that is sold to international consumer brands to allow them to understand how their products are performing when being sold through third party e-commerce platforms, eg Amazon and Tesco.com. The technology provides
Evercore has appointed Jason Fournier as a senior managing director in the firm’s Equity Capital Markets (ECM) practice. Fournier is based in Menlo Park, California and will lead and expand Evercore’s Consumer & Retail ECM business.
Fournier joins from JPMorgan, where he previously led the Consumer & Retail ECM practice, and served in senior roles in Technology ECM, Equity Private Placements and Technology & Disruptive Consumer Commercial Banking. Over his twenty-year career, he has focused on structuring and marketing IPOs, follow-ons, convertibles and private placements, working with emerging high-growth companies as well as well-established incumbents.
Fournier holds a BS in
Eurazeo has exceeded its fundraising target for the Eurazeo PME IV Fund by attracting more than €1 billion, 50% more than its previous fund.
Since 2006, the small-mid buyout strategy’s assets under management have grown from €50 million to more than €1 billion. In 2011, these investments were financed solely by Eurazeo’s balance sheet, but now more than 60% of assets come from institutional and private investors, as opposed to 38% for the predecessor fund.
Partner-investors include top-tier institutional investors – asset managers, sovereign funds and insurance companies – and family offices originating in France (64%), other European countries
B Capital, a global multi-stage investment firm, has closed Ascent Fund II (Ascent II), its first dedicated early-stage fund, with $250 million capital commitments.
Ascent II will invest in pre-seed through series A rounds globally, with an emphasis on the US and Asia.
The Ascent team was founded by Chair and General Partner Howard Morgan, firm Co-Founder and Managing Partner Eduardo Saverin, General Partners Gabe Greenbaum and Karen Page, and Partner Karan Mohla. Leveraging their decades of experience as active partners of early-stage companies, they target founders leading the next wave of innovation across digital healthcare, enterprise software, fintech and
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