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NGP Capital, the global, growth stage investment firm, today announced the results of its latest research into how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals – including adherence to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – can affect a startup’s ability to attract investment in today’s global investment market and make it as a sustainable and viable business.
The research, which analysed 2,292 startups from across Europe, the USA and Israel, which were founded no earlier than 2015 and had raised at least one equity funding round, reveals that while 4.5% of non-SDG focused startups founded since 2015 have ceased operations, only
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has invested a further £1 million in MirrorWeb. Funded via Maven’s VCTs, the investment brings the total amount invested in the business by Maven clients to £4.5 million.
Manchester based MirrorWeb is a cloud-based SaaS platform that enables organisations to capture, archive and monitor website and social media content for digital oversight and regulatory compliance. Its solution is particularly attractive to businesses who operate in regulated markets where maintaining and preserving their digital footprint is imperative.
Maven first backed the business in 2018 with funding through NPIF Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment
Private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners (LMP) to acquire to acquire a majority stake in London & Capital, an independently owned, London-based, wealth and asset manager with £4.1 billion in assets under management.
Juni has closed a $100 million Series B funding led by Mubadala Capital, whose global fintech footprint includes investments in SpotOn, Brex, C2FO, WeFox, Cardless, and others.
All of Juni’s existing investors – EQT Ventures, Felix Capital, Cherry Ventures and Partners of DST Global – are also participating in the round.
Co-founded by CEO Samir El-Sabini and CTO Anders Orsedal in 2020, Juni is a financial management platform tailor-made for ecommerce that ties together physical and virtual cards, credit cards, accounting, analytics and digital advertising platforms, giving businesses a holistic view of their finances. In less than a year since its
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) and Matter, a Danish fintech specialising in sustainability insights, have launch of ‘SDG Fundamentals’, a new data solution which enables investors to analyse the extent to which company revenues are aligned – or misaligned – with the targets of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Adopted in 2015 at COP 21, the UN SDGs were defined as a universal roadmap for achieving a sustainable and inclusive future by 2030. Since then the asset management industry has made significant progress in developing solutions to help address some of the global challenges articulated by
Ironwood Capital has made an investment in Directional Services (DSI), a utility-scale and specialty energy infrastructure contractor.
This investment will support DSI’s continued focus on expanding its specialised renewable energy services offering, modernising its internal infrastructure, and build upon its superior team of dedicated professionals.
CareAcademy, a care enablement platform for home care and home health organisations, has raised $20 million in a strategic investment round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
MassMutual through the MM Catalyst Fund, Impact America Fund, Rethink Education, Unseen Capital, First Trust Capital Partners, LLC and prior investors also participated in the round.
The investment is part of Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women initiative, a $10 billion commitment to narrow opportunity gaps and impact the lives of Black women over the next decade. The new funding will be used to accelerate product development and data measurement capabilities while furthering
SilverAssist, led by seasoned digital media and technology executive, Greg Mason and financially backed by middle-market private equity firm Growth Catalyst Partners, has acquired AidandAttendance.com, a leading veterans benefits eligibility and web‐based application service.
Aidandattendance.com is the first of its kind to develop software that simplifies the exceedingly complex application process, enabling families to seamlessly apply and secure additional income often months ahead of applying on their own.
Cube Infrastructure Managers (Cube), an independent European mid-market infrastructure investor, is to acquire a 78% stake in French temperature-controlled logistics operator Dispam on behalf of Cube Infrastructure Fund III, in partnership with Pascal Masse, Chairman of the company who has led its successful development over four decades and will retain a 22% stake.
The closing of the transaction remains subject to customary antitrust clearance.
Dispam is a multi-regional logistics provider in France, offering temperature-controlled transport solutions for fresh food produce.
Partnering with Dispam’s founder, Cube will apply its operational and financial expertise, as well as sector knowledge, to support the
Private equity fund managers are prioritising impact funds and ESG above new deals, directing money to ESG commitments.
That’s according to BDO’s Spring 2022 Private Capital Pulse Survey, which reveal that 50% say they will direct the most capital toward setting up impact funds or investing in targets with ESG-focused themes. This comes out well above the 14% who said they would direct the most capital to applying equity relief to portfolio companies and 12% who said they would direct the most capital to new deals.
ESG has evolved into a core strategy for #PrivateEquity according to a recent survey
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