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Apera Asset Management (Apera), a pan-European mid-market private debt investor, has completed fundraising for the Apera Private Debt Fund II (Fund II) and associated vehicles, with total investible capital of €1.27 billion.
Apera’s Private Debt strategy focuses on senior secured unitranche financings across Europe.
The raised capital exceeds the initial target of €800 million and reflects the quality of Apera’s investment platform and performance in the provision of private credit across its core European geographies.
The efficient execution of Apera’s strategy has been well-received, with strong support from existing and new investors, including pension funds, insurers and endowments from Europe
Motility Software, a specialist in end-to-end dealer management software for specialty dealerships and backed by Serent Capital, announced today it has been acquired by The Reynolds and Reynolds Company, a leading provider of automobile dealership software and services. The two companies are joining forces to drive operational excellence at specialty dealerships across the country.
In 2018, Motility entered a partnership with Serent Capital, a growth-focused private equity firm. Motility has experienced record-breaking growth during this time with the addition of over 125 dealers. That growth was bolstered by the acquisition of location-based inventory management solution, Lot Metrix in 2021. In
VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a private investment firm investing in healthcare, business services and education, has appointed W Preston Hutchings as Senior Advisor.
123Dentist, Altima Dental, and Lapointe Group have entered into a merger agreement to create one of the largest dental support organisations in Canada, with nearly 350 supported dental practices.
The transaction is being financed through equity capital provided by 123Dentist’s existing financial partner, Peloton Capital Management; new investors KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Heartland Dental, a KKR portfolio company and a leading dental support organisation in the US; and Sentinel Capital Partners, Altima Dental’s existing financial partner.
123Dentist will continue its dentist-first, patient-focused growth strategy and pursue attractive opportunities with dentists looking for long-term partnership solutions that provide
APDS, a public-benefit corporation whose advanced career readiness platform helps incarcerated individuals attain a living wage after release, has raised $7 million in a Series C funding round.
ETS Strategic Capital, a division of ETS focused on equity investments, growth partnerships and mergers and acquisitions, co-lead the Series C round, while existing investors Converge Venture Partners, ECMC Group’s Education Impact Fund, Juvo Ventures, the Partnership Fund for New York City, Rethink Education, and Strada Education Network, also participated.
The capital will allow the company to further scale its innovative services across correctional facilities nationwide while enhancing its proprietary learning platform,
Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the world’s first fully regulated digital asset exchange and Central Securities Depository (CSD), in partnership with F10, a global FinTech and InsurTech Innovation Ecosystem and Aequitec, a digital share register and cap table company, ahas completed the first-ever tokenisation of equity shares in a fully regulated CSD based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).
Aaro Capital, a cryptoassets and DLT investment specialist, has appointed three senior alternative investments professionals – Dr Mattia Rattaggi, Tushar Patel and Eric Bissonnier – to its Advisory Board.
Drawing on its members’ significant industry expertise, the Advisory Board will support Aaro Capital’s founders and senior management team in opening up the exciting and rapidly evolving cryptoasset and DLT space for institutional and other sophisticated investors as the market matures and becomes increasingly active. Their work will have a particular focus on investment and strategic matters.
Rattaggi is the founder and managing partner of METI Advisory AG, a Swiss consultancy
European venture capital investor Seventure Partners has led a €5 million Series A funding round in Sentryc GmbH, a technology company founded in 2019.
Sentryc offers companies and brands a digital solution as a brand protection specialist with its proprietary brand protection software to detect and curb product piracy and brand abuse on online marketplaces.
With the substantial multi-million financing round, the digital focus and the strong partner network of the new investor, the team around CEO Nicole Jasmin Hofmann and CPO Hendrik Schüler gains effective support for the planned further development of the SaaS solution, growth and further expansion into
wefox, a Berlin-based insurtech, has closed a Series D funding round of $400 million – comprising equity and debt – and increasing its post-money valuation to $4.5 billion in the process.
Mubadala Investment Company led the equity raise with participation from Eurazeo, LGT, Horizons Ventures, OMERS Ventures and Target Global.
The round sees wefox increase its valuation from $3 billion to $4.5 billion in 12 months, bucking the trend currently experienced in the insurtech market and more broadly across the tech sector.
wefox intends to use the funding for product development and expand across Europe and thereafter Asia and the US.
BGF has exited its investment in Fife-headquartered housebuilder Campion Homes.
Having initially invested a multimillion sum in 2016, BGF’s exit follows a strong period for Campion Homes, with it trebling in size taking turnover from £14.6 million to over £45 million. The company is utilising its profit growth and strong cash generation over BGF’s hold period to buy out BGF’s position in full.
Campion Homes is an award-winning family-owned business that has been constructing quality homes across East Central Scotland for over 30 years. The business has completed 2,300 homes across Fife, the Lothians, Clackmannanshire and, Perth & Kinross
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