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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
Norfolk-based business Beattie Passive has secured a £3 million investment from independent asset manager BOOST&Co, which will provide the growth capital to support its extensive pipeline of new opportunities.
The funding will also help to create more jobs within the company as the firm begins new projects.
One such project is Beattie Passive’s contribution to the Mayor of London’s “Retrofit Revolution”. This £10 billion programme is part of the Mayor’s drive to net zero by 2030 and will create low-carbon homes and around 150,000 jobs over the next decade.
Founded in 2009 by Ron and Rosemary Beattie, Beattie Passive
Trivest Partners (Trivest) has closed Trivest Fund VII (Fund VII) and Trivest Discovery Fund II (Discovery II) with approximately $950 million and $600 million of total capital commitments (including Trivest commitments), respectively.
Both funds were oversubscribed and the fundraise for each fund was substantially completed in a single closing. Raised concurrently, Fund VII and Discovery II represent Trivest’s tenth and eleventh institutional private equity funds and bring Trivest assets under management to more than $4.0 billion.
Trivest provides “Private Equity for Founders” across the US and Canada.
Crowd Data Systems (CDS), a B2B SaaS platform providing data-driven decision support to corporate treasury, has secured €1 million in a seed funding round led by Triple Point Ventures, alongside Portfolio Ventures and a number of angel investors.
The investment will enable the business to build out sales, marketing and customer success in order to meet its next phase of growth.
CDS was co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Kelly Scammell and Steve Whalley, both of whom have successfully founded and exited businesses in the treasury management space.
Synthesis Capital (Synthesis), a global food technology and alternative protein investor, has launched Synthesis Capital Fund I with over $300 million in assets under management.
The oversubscribed Fund is anchored by private equity pioneer Jeremy Coller, through CPT Capital, with a cornerstone investment from Société Familiale d’Investissements.
The Fund also received significant commitments from Nuveen (a TIAA company), Credit Suisse Climate Innovation Fund, Sir Ronald Cohen through Dynamic Loop Capital, DisruptAD (ADQ’s venture platform), The Nest, Heyi Holdings, trusts associated with the Sainsbury family, Interogo Holding (advised by IH International Advisors), WTT Investment Ltd (Tsai Family Office), and CIFF, amongst
Altan Insights, an alternative asset intelligence platform, has launched its investor-facing application having raised $4 million in a seed round led by Slow Ventures.
Additional existing investors, Courtside VC and Operator Partners also participated in the round, along with new investors including Alexis Ohanian and Good Friends.
On the platform, investors can discover new assets, research category performance, and track their entire portfolio across fractional alternative asset marketplaces. Until now, investors struggled with disparate reporting from individual marketplaces or otherwise endured time-consuming, manual consolidation efforts.
As part of the effort to empower more informed alternative asset allocations, Altan Insights is
SaaS ELT Rivery has raised $30 million in a series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management alongside existing investors State Of Mind Ventures and Entrée Capital.
This financing follows last year’s A round, and brings the total venture capital raised to date to $48 million.
Rivery provides a single end-to-end ELT solution which covers key processes to create the optimal data stack: Ingestion, Transformation, Orchestration and Reverse ETL.
Ridge Ventures, a seed and early-stage, enterprise-focused venture capital firm whose investments include Bolt, Braze, and Discord, has appointed Akriti Dokania as a partner.
Dokania will contribute to the firm’s enterprise investments by drawing on her experience as a product leader and technologist, as well as years of experience as a venture investor.
Dokania spent the last four years at Octopus Ventures, investing in early-stage B2B and Deep tech startups such as LifeScore (backed by Warner Music Group), vHive, ThoughtRiver, and more. She also helped exit companies like UltraSoC (acquired by Siemens) and BehavioSec (acquired by LexisNexis).
Quilvest Capital Partners (Quilvest) together with IK Partners (IK) have entered into an exclusivity agreement to sell their respective stakes in Groupe EDH (GEDH) to Five Arrows Principal Investments (FAPI), alongside the current members of existing management team who will be reinvesting.
A potential reinvestment from both Quilvest and IK is under review and being considered.
Quilvest first partnered with GEDH in November 2017 with IK joining in February 2020, having acquired a minority stake from Quilvest and Amin Khiari, Chairman and CEO of the Group.
A new £20 million fund, the ‘GMC Life Sciences Fund by Praetura’ has launched with the aim of bolstering Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington’s flourishing life sciences sector.
The fund, raised by partners including Bruntwood SciTech, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), will be deployed by Manchester-based Praetura Ventures.
The fund is aiming to support innovation and growing the region’s knowledge economy, creating more skilled jobs and helping businesses to expand internationally.
GMCA has committed £10 million to the fund, whilst Cheshire and Warrington LEP and Bruntwood SciTech have both committed £5
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