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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.
CalTier, a fintech crowdfunding platform, has launched a USD5 million Series A funding round following the closing its $1.1 million Seed round.
This Series A round will help CalTier improve its platform, offer additional services, and expand its growing investor community.
As recently reported in Multi Housing News Freddie Mac are projecting in 2022 alone there will be between $385 billion and $400 billion of Multi-Family origination. CBRE also forecast that the US market will need an additional 4.3m multi-family units by 2030.
3i Group (3i) is to invest in Konges Sløjd, a premium international lifestyle brand offering apparel for babies and children.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Konges Sløjd designs, sources and markets high-quality, children’s clothing, accessories, home products and toys through a curated network of (online-) retailers and direct-to-consumer e-commerce in more than 50 countries.
Konges Sløjd has been a forerunner in the premium baby/child segment through its stylish, functional, safe, durable, sustainable and affordable products across all children categories, and is well positioned to accelerate its growth across Europe, Asia and North America.
YFM Equity Partners’ managed funds have sold their shareholding in specialist supplier of rubber-to-metal bonded components and rail suspension systems, Ferrabyrne Holdings Ltd, to Dellner Polymer Solutions, part of Sweden’s Dellner Group which is continuing its expansion in the UK.
Dellner Polymer Solutions provides technologically advanced vibration control, rubber fabrication and bonding solutions for the global market.
The acquisition will add a new dimension to Dellner Group’s global product offering and increase opportunities in wider markets including Asia. Littlehampton-based Ferrabyrne will continue operating from its 3,000 square metre state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, from where it provides a comprehensive range of suspension
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