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Elwood Technologies (Elwood), a platform providing institutional-grade access to digital asset markets and liquidity venues, has closed a $70 million Series A funding round co-led by one of Europe’s largest B2B investor Dawn Capital and global investment bank, Goldman Sachs.
There was additional participation from prominent investors in both the traditional finance and digital asset industries, including Barclays, BlockFi Ventures, Chimera Ventures, CommerzVentures, Digital Currency Group, Flow Traders and Galaxy Digital Ventures.
Elwood will deploy the funds to meet the needs of its rising number of institutional clients by expanding both the company’s breadth of product offerings and its global
Atlantic Street Capital (ASC), a private equity firm that invests in lower middle market companies to unlock equity value through an operationally intensive investment approach, is to sell Advancing Eyecare, North America’s leading provider of ophthalmic instruments, to Cornell Capital.
Advancing Eyecare was formed in 2019 when ASC combined its 2016 portfolio company investment in Lombart Instrument, the leading US distributor of ophthalmic instruments to ophthalmologists and optometrists, with Marco Ophthalmic Inc, a market leading, high-tech instrumentation supplier.
The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2022.
USEReady, a New York headquartered strategic data and analytics partner, has secured growth capital from Boston based Abry Partners.
Since its founding in 1989, Abry has focused on media, communications, business, and information services to become one of the most experienced private equity firms investing in North America and Europe.
Henley-in-Arden based wealth management specialist, MPA Financial Management, has teamed up with Hymans Robertson Investment Services (HRIS), a discretionary fund manager (DFM), to offer a range of new investment portfolios to its clients.
The new investments are tailored to MPA and the Chartered firm will become one of only a select number of UK wealth management companies to partner with HRIS.
Global investment firm Carlyle has created an integrated platform which brings together the firm’s substantial resources, scale and capabilities to further invest behind the energy transition and capture significant opportunities around the world.
In addition, Carlyle has made several leadership changes to enhance this platform, which will operate within the firm’s Global Infrastructure business.
Avik Dey will join Carlyle as co-head of Carlyle International Energy Partners (CIEP), the firm’s strategy targeting global energy investment opportunities outside of North America.
Bob Maguire, who assumes the role of co-head of CIEP, and together they will be responsible for the activities of the
Whoz, a SaaS solution delivering smart staffing and talent and project portfolio management, has raised €25 million in funding led by PSG Equity (PSG), a growth equity firm.
Macfarlanes has advised software focused growth equity investor FPE Capital on its latest fund, FPE Fund III, which has successfully closed at a raised hard cap of £185 million.
The latest fund will continue to build on the firm’s track record of being the first institutional investor into founder and entrepreneur led businesses.
The fund received commitments from existing investors with a 100% institutional re-up rate from Fund II and a group of new investors including pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, financial investors and family offices.
Colmore, the service and technology provider for private market Limited Partners (LPs) and allocators, has appointed Christine Campney as relationship management director.
Campney, who joined from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), will sit on Colmore’s Executive Committee and be responsible for client relationship management, bringing over 25 years of industry experience.
Campney joins Colmore following her previous role as Director, Real Assets and Private Equity Operations, with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments).
FPE Capital LLP (FPE), the software & services focused lower mid-market growth investor, has successfully closed its third fund (FPE Fund III), with investor commitments of £185 million ($235 million).
The Fund hard cap was raised during a compressed fundraising process to accommodate excess demand and the final fund size is a material increase on FPE’s prior Fund II of £101 million.
Leading international investors have chosen to continue to invest in FPE for Fund III, with a 100% institutional re-up rate from Fund II and a group of new investors joining for Fund III. Fund III is comprised of
Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for the global alternative asset management industry, has hired David Lourie as Vice President and Senior Counsel, Regulatory Affairs.
Prior to joining MFA, Lourie served as Associate General Counsel at General Atlantic.
Lourie brings a decade of experience in the alternative investment industry. Prior to joining MFA, he was Associate General Counsel and Vice President at General Atlantic where he worked closely on issues relating to ESG.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Southern California.
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