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The management team of Vistage Worldwide, a CEO coaching and peer advisory organisation for small and midsize businesses (SMB), has partnered with Gridiron Capital (Gridiron), an investment firm focused on partnering with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams, to acquire the Company from Providence Equity Partners (Providence).
The Venture Capital Trust Association (VCTA) has submitted its response to the Treasury Select Committee inquiry into the UK’s Venture Capital industry, which addresses the effectiveness of tax incentives, the ability of firms to source financing to scale up, regulatory efficiency, and how the industry can support the UK economy post-Covid.
With £6.3 billion currently invested in VCTs, the VCTA represents 90% of the VCT industry.
According to new data released by the VCTA, VCTs invested £668.6m in new and follow-on investments in UK-based small private businesses and Alternative Investment Market companies in 2021. Throughout the pandemic, £1.2 billion
Outdoor Living Supply (OLS), a distribution platform for outdoor living products with a focus on hardscapes backed by Trilantic North America, has acquired The Rock Garden (TRG), an independent distributor of natural stone, hardscapes, and architectural elements such as mantles and hand-hewn stone furniture.
The acquisition extends the OLS platform into California and strengthens its regional presence in the Lake Tahoe market.
Based in Truckee, California, The Rock Garden was founded in 1998 and is a division of Marsh Ventures, Inc.
Wealth management and professional services group Tilney Smith & Williams, which is to rebrand as Evelyn Partners, has appointed Stephen Woodhouse as a partner with a remit to build and develop its private equity tax offering.
Woodhouse joins the firm’s professional services business from EY where he was an Associate Partner who led the Manchester Private Equity Transaction Tax Team and was part of the wider national Mid-Market group. He is a specialist in this field and has over 15 years of experience supporting mid-market private equity clients and their management teams on the tax implications of all aspects of
Px3 Partners, a new private equity firm founded by Petter Johnsson, Gianpiero Lenza and Sébastien Mazella di Bosco, as joined Novata’s General Partner (GP) Advisory Committee.
Novata, a public benefit corporation backed by the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane, S&P Global and Omidyar Network, is the leading ESG data management platform built for the private markets.
Novata provides customers with a clear ‘on-ramp’ for selecting ESG metrics, painless data collection into a secure database, and data insights and analytics tools to inform investment decisions.
The Novata GP Advisory Committee, a group of the world’s leading private investment firms committed to ESG,
Perwyn, a pan-European growth oriented private equity investor, is to acquire European Sperm Bank (ESB) from Axcel in a transaction which is expected to close in Q3 2022.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, ESB has helped thousands of women and couples in more than 90 countries across the world make their dream of a family come true, as a leading provider of donor sperm and related fertility services.
Perwyn will invest behind the ESB management team and employees to further expand ESB’s donor bank, its geographic coverage and its broader range of fertility services as well as extending ESB’s industry-leading
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
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