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Stable, the ‘home of hedging’ for the $5 trillion agricultural commodity industry, has closed a $60 million Series B investment led by Acrew.
FFL Partners (FFL), a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, has held the final closing of FFL Capital Partners V, and related vehicles , with over $900 million in total capital commitments.
FFL closed the oversubscribed Fund V well above its $750 million target, raising the firm’s total AUM to $5.4 billion.
This is the first fund raised since Cas Schneller and Chris Harris were named Managing Partners of the firm.
Similar to FFL’s prior funds, Fund V will continue to make equity investments ranging from $50 million to $200 million in control or significant
Upflex – a global provider of hybrid workspace solutions – has closed a $30 million Series A round led by WeWork with participation from notable strategic investors Newmark and Cushman & Wakefield.
Returning investor Ecosystem Integrity Fund, and top venture funds including GPO Fund, Coelius Capital, Industry Ventures, Inertia Ventures, Perennial Private Investments, and Silicon Valley Bank also participated in the round.
This brings Upflex’s total funds raised to-date to $34.1 million.
Upflex will utilise this capital infusion to further accelerate its core mission of creating a multi-faceted technology standard that connects occupiers, brokerage firms and flex space partners
Real estate private equity firm Madison International Realty has invested in the recapitalisation of Cologix, one of North America’s leading network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data centre companies.
Babel Finance, a wholesale crypto financial services provider, has completed an $80 million Series B financing round at a valuation of $2 billion.
The main investors in this round include Jeneration Capital and 10T Holdings, as well as existing shareholders Dragonfly Capital and BAI Capital. Other investors include Circle Ventures and a number of family offices in the Asia-Pacific region.
Babel Finance is one of the largest service providers to institutions in the crypto financial markets. The company limits its business to BTC, ETH and stablecoins, and serves a select clientele of about 500 customers. At the end of 2021,
Acuity Knowledge Partners’ (Acuity) FolioSure digital platform is transforming portfolio monitoring by enabling the accurate tracking and comparison of portfolio company performance.
FolioSure can be fully integrated into existing tech stacks and processes enabling private equity and venture capital (PE&VC) firms to take full control of their portfolios’ lifecycles.
FolioSure has multiple features, including a built-in cash flow engine to calculate gross and net total value to paid-in capital and the internal rate of return using fund cash flow, industry benchmarking for portfolio companies, foreign currency conversion and completely configurable reporting templates for limited partner reporting.
TARGAN (formerly Applied LifeSciences & Systems (ALSS)) has secured $35 million in a Series C equity funding round co-led by Mountain Group Partners and NovaQuest Capital Management.
Existing investors Merck Animal Health and Oval Park Capital also participated in the round.
TARGAN integrates its proprietary technologies consisting of high-speed imaging, feature recognition, artificial intelligence, robotics, and microfluidics in a system currently developed for the commercial poultry industry.
The Series C investment will allow TARGAN to accelerate the commercialisation of its automated and individualised poultry vaccination and gender identification systems.
Pantheon, a global private markets investor, has appointed Eimear Palmer as partner and global head of ESG.
In this new role, which sits within Pantheon’s investment function, Palmer will oversee and further develop the firm’s established ESG strategy and range of initiatives, reflecting our ongoing commitment to integrating ESG principles throughout our business and enhancing our track record of leadership in private markets on a topic that is of growing importance to investors.
Humi, a Canada-based all-in-one HR platform that provides thousands of Canadian businesses with HR, payroll, insurance, and benefits solutions, has raised CAD31 million in a Series B funding round led by Kensington Capital Partners.
Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity specialist, has made three appointments which further develop its value creation and investment expertise.
Emma Winter and Nick Eichorn have joined Graphite as value creation directors while Matt Hamilton-Allen has joined as an investment director.
Winter previously led the digital transformation practice of a boutique management consulting firm. She is now helping Graphite’s portfolio companies with implementing technology strategies and strengthening their business processes. In addition, she will help assess the technology strategy, capabilities and investment plans of potential transaction targets.
Eichorn brings three years’ experience helping Aurelius Investments’ portfolio companies build
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