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Platform Continues Growth Trajectory into Southern New England with its 6th Acquisition.
FSI’s founders Charles and Cheryl Barrett and Gary Lanowy will maintain a minority stake in the Company.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Altus has partnered with key industry executives, including Board Chair Kelly Romano, an AEI Operating Partner with deep sector experience in fire & security and commercial building industries including over 30 years at United Technologies Corporation (UTC), and Board Member Ed Cettina, a senior construction management executive previously working with AECOM and Tishman Construction.
Muzinich & Co (Muzinich) has launched the Muzinich Dynamic Credit Income Fund (DCI), which is designed for investors seeking outperformance in rising credit markets without taking excessive risks.
DCI targets a high level of portfolio income throughout the credit cycle while searching for opportunities presented by dislocated markets. The DCI portfolio has a flexible approach, with allocations dynamically changing depending on the stage of the credit cycle. This flexibility will allow the fund to pursue its higher income objective and to be fully invested across the credit segments, even during volatile markets.
Michael McEachern is the Fund’s Lead Portfolio Manager.
Tribe Capital has led a $50 million Series B funding round in LinearB, the developer of an engineering efficiency platform, according to a report by CTech.
New investor Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors Battery Ventures and 83North, also participated in the round.
This lates round brings total funding for LinearB to $71 million.
Shore Capital Partners (Shore) has formed a growth partnership with OC Flavors (OC), a custom flavour developer and manufacturer based in Chino, California.
OC Flavors was founded in 2007 by Leah McCuen and Monica Ahuero to offer a full range of natural and organic flavours and flavouring solutions across a variety of food, beverage and supplement product applications.
Shore Capital is partnering with the Company’s management team, which has led OC Flavors through tremendous growth over the past 15 years.
OC and Shore plan to invest in several key initiatives to drive growth, including added support in key areas such
Despite stringent lockdowns and pandemic-related challenges, Australia’s private capital industry continued to grow last year, according to research by Preqin.
Australia-focused private capital assets under management (AUM) stood at a record high of AUD90 billion as of June 2021, up 11% on December 2020’s AUD81 billion.
Private debt was by far the fastest-growing asset class, expanding 144% from December 2020 to an AUM of AUD1.4 billion in June 2021, albeit from a low base of just 2% of private capital AUM. Private equity remains the dominant asset class with AUD42 billion in AUM – a third of the total –
Access and identity control SaaS- and hardware start-up Nine Engineering is raising €1.1 million to increase access security, site safety and privacy compliancy.
Nine Engineering offers easy-to-use solutions that increase access security, site safety and privacy compliancy. The start-up’s offerings include both a privacy-compliant SaaS platform for documentation that centralises user identification, certificates, and training courses – which makes documents easily available for audits, and the hardware devices needed for access management on site, which work with QR codes, smartphone scans or facial recognition.
Nine Engineering has the support of investors including Pitchdrive and Noël Keysers, loans from BNP Paribas
Mirabaud Asset Management has closed its Mirabaud Grand Paris strategy at €150 million. Assets were raised from large institutional and family office clients across Europe.
Mirabaud Grand Paris is a unique private equity strategy investing with tier one real estate developers in France to capture opportunities from the current largest transport and urban development project in Europe: the ‘Grand Paris’ project.
By combining private equity with real estate, the strategy represents a unique opportunity for investors, allowing them to provide equity financing to real estate projects directly alongside developers. It offers investors privileged access to financing projects, as well as
Masa Finance, a hybrid credit protocol, has come out of stealth and completed a pre-seed funding round of $3.5 million led by Unshackled Ventures, executives from GoldenTree Asset Management (a $46 billion credit-focused fund), Flori Ventures (Celo-focused fund), GSR, Decentranet, Intersect VC, Lateral Capital, Peer VC, Alves Ventures, and several angel investors in the fintech/blockchain space including Louis Beryl (founder of Earnest), Gustavo Menezes (24hr of Le Mans Driver for Peugeot Sport), and Jacob Riglin – a high-profile NFT artist who will be launching future NFT-collateralised loan products.
Masa has developed critical infrastructure for Web3 that enables on-chain credit scoring
JB Capital, an alternative credit manager investing in areas of the market underserved by traditional banks, has launched the Real Estate Lending Income Fund.
The fund, the next iteration in JB Capital’s commitment to providing credit solutions to underserved markets, will provide solutions-oriented capital to professional owners, operators and developers of multi-family and industrial real estate assets ignored and underserved by traditional funding sources in key markets across the US.
The equity gap required for most investors and developers is increasing. It forces even the most successful and experienced industry professionals to look outside traditional sources of capital to close
Golding Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading independent asset managers for alternative investments, has analysed the magnitude and repeatability of alpha returns from private equity investments compared with the stock market.
The study carried out in association with Professor Oliver Gottschalg from HEC School of Management Paris shows that the excess return from private equity is persistent over the period 2000-2021.
The average alpha compared with similar stock market investments is 9.9 per cent, rising to as much as 35 per cent during periods of crisis.
The study indicates that the driver for recurrence of attractive alpha is not the
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