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Generation Investment Management, a pure-play sustainable investment manager with over $36 billion of assets under management, has launched the $1.7 billion Sustainable Solutions Fund IV.
The new fund continues the firm’s commitment to invest globally in companies and teams driving the sustainable future.
Sustainable Solutions Fund IV is Generation’s fourth and largest Growth Equity fund, enabling Generation to invest $50-$150 million as active minority investors in high-growth companies that are shifting industries toward sustainability and responsible innovation at scale. The firm’s prior Growth Equity funds have deployed over $2 billion since 2008, partnering with companies such as AlayaCare, Asana, Back
Behind the eye-watering valuations and growth projections, a wider spectrum of risk-return strategies is opening up in the digital infrastructure sector…
KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners’ (GIP) acquisition of one of the world’s largest data centre operators, CyrusOne, in March was notable not just for the size of the transaction at USD15 billion but also for how the two buyers used different risk strategies to close the investment.
Data centres have always featured some overlap between corporates, real estate and infrastructure funds but KKR’s use of both infrastructure and real estate equity along with GIP’s infrastructure funds proved how buyers
Kaizan, a Client Intelligence Platform building ‘Siri for Client Success teams’, has closed a $1.2 million pre-seed funding round led by Jigsaw.
This investment will advance Kaizan’s R&D into an innovative intelligent AI for Client Success teams to guide them on how to increase revenue and client happiness.
Early traction with customers, including Bidstack PLC, Fnatic and Scale Digital, and promising advancements in Kaizan’s R&D have led to early-stage VC Jigsaw leading an oversubscribed pre-seed round. With participation from angels from Entrepreneur First, Charlotte St Capital, Founders Factory, Silicon Roundabout Ventures, NICE, Ledger, IPONWEB, MIQ and Gtmhub.
The Maryland State Retirement & Pension System has made a new $1.6 billion allocation to 12 alternative investment managers managers, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
Sagard NewGen has acquired a majority stake in Horizon Software – a speclialist in Market Making and Algo Trading Technology – alongside a management buy-out, to support expansion into new markets and strategic capabilities.
Sagard NewGen will take over Capza’s majority stake. During the past two years with Capza, Horizon has successfully developed a single cross asset platform for market making, agency trading and algo trading, alongside with portable and scalable trading services around pricing, trading, risk, and market connectivity.
With this new investment, Horizon will focus on expanding its Trading-as-a-Service offering – bringing together agency trading and
Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), a dedicated consumer and technology investor with over £1 billion in assets under management, is backing the management buyout of Garolla, a UK-based, end-to-end provider of roller garage doors.
Mayfair will hold a majority stake in the business. Additional deal terms have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2017 by David Wilkinson and Graeme Pogue, Garolla began with a single franchisee supplying roller garage doors in Harrogate, UK. Today, it is the largest and fastest growing roller garage door business in the country.
Mayfair is partnering with Mark McAvoy, Managing Director, and his management team to
Yieldstreet, a digital alternative investment platform, has launched its Art Equity Fund IV, which is now accepting investments.
Praetura Ventures has closed its latest EIS Growth Fund taking the total raise by the firm in the last three years to £100 million.
Following the fund close, the venture capital investor is looking to deploy c£15 million into around 10-15 tech and life sciences businesses in the next six months, predominantly in the North of England.
Of Praetura’s portfolio of 27 businesses, almost two thirds are based in the North, highlighting Praetura’s long-term commitment to funding the region’s economic growth.
Praetura has seen over £1 billion worth of investment opportunities already this year, with businesses across multiple
UK Food and Beverage M&A market activity in T1 2022 (January – April) saw a dip in the volume of deals compared to the prior year period but a c85% dip in the value of deals as big deals were absent in the period.
That’s according to a new report from corporate finance house, Oghma Partners which shows that over two thirds of deals had an estimated value of £10.0 million or less. There was a sharp reduction in deals in the range of between £10-100 million.
Given the long transaction lead times – the impact of food inflationary pressures
Modulr, an embedded payments platform for digital businesses, has raised $108 million (£83 million) in a series C funding round led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm.
The round also included significant participation from existing investors including Blenheim Chalcot, Frog Capital, Highland Europe, and PayPal Ventures.
Modulr’s technology enables businesses to build payments directly into their own platforms without needing to build complicated payment systems, become regulated themselves or manage the complexities of payment network membership.
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