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Buyout fund Oakley Capital V-B1 has received a commitment of up to $35 million from the Ohio State Teachers pension fund, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
The report cites an email from the $91.6 billion pension fund’s spokesman Nick Treneff as the source of the info, with the allocation marking Ohio State Teachers’ first commitment to the European middle-market private equity manager, Treneff said.
Ohio State Teachers currently has a private equity allocation of 12.1% way in excess of its target allocation of 7%.
Leading venture capital firm Menlo Ventures has appointed Silicon Valley veteran Aunkur Arya as a Venture partner in the firm’s investment team.
As an investor at Menlo, Aunkur will draw on deep domain expertise to identify and grow the next breakout fintech companies.
Through leadership roles at Braintree, Paypal, and Google, Aunkur developed an understanding of fintech customers and the problems they face. As an executive at PayPal and Braintree, he led the company’s growth and market launch of new products across both merchant and peer-to-peer payments, including PayPal One Touch, a reincarnation of Venmo’s merchant checkout product. At
Mayfair Capital Partners, a division of Oxford Financial Group, has expanded its team with the addition of Chase Bunnell as an Associate in the firm’s Minneapolis, Minnesota office.
Prior to joining the firm, Chase was an Investment Banking Associate in the Consumer Group at Harris Williams where he was responsible for financial analysis and process execution across a number of deals.
Mayar Capital, a responsible value investing specialist, has made three new hires, including one key hire in the investment team and two investor relations roles.
Mayar has increased resource within its research department, as Felix Kruse has been appointed to the role of Analyst. Prior to joining Mayar, Felix worked across consulting, private equity and international trade roles. Felix earned a BSc (Hons) in Business, Economics & Social Sciences from the WU Wien and passed the MSc Finance & Economics at the LSE with distinction.
Alongside an expanded research team, Isobel Digby joins as an Investor Relations Specialist having spent
Björn Lundén, a Swedish accounting and financial administration software provider, has acquired Dutch accounting, financial administration and ERP software provider KING Software in a deal backed by European software investor Main Capital Partners (Main).
IK Partners’ (IK) IK IX Fund has signed an agreement to acquire MÜPRO Group (MÜPRO), a solutions provider and supplier for applications in pipe fixing technology.
Greyparrot, an AI startup using computer vision technology to monitor, analyse and sort tonnes of waste at scale, has closed a $11 million Series A funding round led by Una Terra.
Closed Loop Partners, Unreasonable Collective and Speedinvest also participated in the round.
The funding will be used to enable Greyparrot to grow its global footprint, expand to new waste types to include some of the world’s heaviest polluting industries, and double down on its research and development.
Moove, a subsidiary of Brazilian business group Cosan and a producer and distributor of lubricants and base oils, has acquired PetroChoice Lubrication Solutions (PetroChoice) from Golden Gate Capital for $479 million.
PetroChoice is one of the largest distributors and manufacturers of value-added lubricant solutions in the United States, delivering approximately 62 million gallons annually to the industrial, commercial, and passenger vehicle customer segments. PetroChoice has an extensive and high-quality product offering including Mobil lubricants, as well as several licensed proprietary brands including Medallion Plus, Dyna-Plex 21C and Eco Ultra. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, PetroChoice operates more than 50
Evercore has appointed Herb Yeh as a senior managing director in the Technology practice in the firm’s Investment Banking business.
Cathay Capital has launched Cathay Health, a new €500 million global fund dedicated to investing at the convergence of healthcare, life sciences and technology.
Building on the success of the firm’s investment track record and platform, the new fund will focus on venture to growth-stage companies across Europe, North America and Asia.
Cathay Health represents the latest expansion of Cathay Capital, which has invested nearly €500 million in the healthcare sector to date across 34 companies on three continents from its private equity and venture funds. C
Cathay Health is backed by leading institutional and corporate investors such as French
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