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Spanish biotech VC firm Ysios Capital has held a first close of its third fund, Ysios BioFund III, at EUR155 million.
The fund has a final target size of EUR200 million. Ysios Capital is the largest venture capital firm in Spain specialised in biotechnology with EUR346 million under management through three funds; Ysios BioFund I, Ysios BioFund II Innvierte and Ysios BioFund III. The firm expects to close four new investments shortly.
“For this third fund, we have a pipeline of very promising projects at advanced stage, both in Spain and in the rest of Europe, and we aim to
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EQT Ventures has added deal partner Rania Belkahia to its team in the firm’s new Paris office.
With the opening of the new office in France, EQT Ventures now has teams on the ground in Paris, San Francisco, Berlin, Stockholm, London and Amsterdam. The firm’s current French portfolio companies include Tinyclues and Calldesk.
“The EQT Ventures team is delighted to have Rania on board to lead our search for exceptional founders in France and drive our ‘locals with locals’ approach from the new Paris office,” said Alastair Mitchell, partner and investment advisor at EQT Ventures.
Belkahia will be leading all
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BlackRock Private Equity Partners, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Neuberger Berman, Investment Corporation of Dubai and RSIC are becoming minority shareholders in Nordic Capital-owned Trustly, an online account-to-account payments provider.
Nordic Capital remains the majority shareholder in Trustly, which it acquired in 2018. The deal will bring in additional long-term capital to support the company as it continues to invest in its products, infrastructure and expand globally, according to Nordic Capital.
Citigroup Global Markets Limited acted as financial advisor in connection with the transaction. Oscar Berglund, CEO of Trustly, said he welcomes BlackRock and the other investors as minority shareholders in
INTERVIEW
As anti-racism protests are spreading with force across the US and Europe, the business world has begun responding. Private Equity Wire sat down with Anand Prasanna, managing partner of Indian VC firm Iron Pillar, which recently partnered with Nitya Capital to invest in large outcome tech companies from India, to discuss if tech can have an effect on politics, the role of impact investing, and why VCs have been slower than the big private equity groups in adopting ESG policies…
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Some of the most active professionals in the private equity industry shared their views on current market conditions, the deal making climate, and the operational challenges and possibilities brought on by the Covid-19 crisis, during the recent Private Equity Wire digital summit, PEWlive North America, which took place from 2-4 June. Here we share some of the findings from the live polls that were held throughout the three-day event…
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SURVEY
Adapting to change is challenging at the best of times, but when the pace of change accelerates, it can disorient even the savviest investors. Long accustomed to gauging opportunities in the context of cycles, real estate investors now face a series of bewildering structural changes that will fundamentally transform how they operate in the future.
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FPE Capital’s portfolio company TNP, a UK Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central service provider, has acquired UK NAV focused assets from the administration of K3 Business Technology Groups’ Microsoft Dynamics business unit.
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Triple Point has launched an initiative to help new start-ups, in recognition of the role innovation and technology will play in the UK’s economic recovery.
Triple Point’s investment initiative, called Kick Start, is designed to target the very early stage businesses that have yet to raise funding. It will be led by the firm’s VC funds team and invest ticket sizes of between GBP100-GBP150,000 in companies with pre-money valuations of between GBP1 million-GBP1.5 million, usually as the first external money into the startup.
The money is meant to be allocated to the UK’s most innovative start-ups. “High growth companies will
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BNP Paribas, China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Eurazeo have held a first close of their France-China Cooperation Fund on EUR400 million.
The fund, which will be managed by Eurazeo, manifests plans set out last year, including a letter of intent signed in the presence of China’s and France’s presidents Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron. It will be seeking investment opportunities alongside Eurazeo’s middle market buyout strategies; Eurazeo Capital and Eurazeo PME.
The fund, which is underwritten entirely by the BNP Paribas Group, CIC and Eurazeo, will invest in French and continental European companies that are aiming to grow in China.
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How PE can gain from shifts in the payments sector
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How PE can gain from shifts in the payments sector