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Vuna Partners, a mid-market private equity firm, has selected Prescient Fund Services (Pty) Ltd (Prescient) as the fund administrator to the Vuna Partners Fund I.The fund’s strategy is to invest in quality medium-sized businesses across a range of sectors with high growth potential, which are strategically positioned to address and benefit from the growth opportunities presented by South Africa’s nuanced economic and developmental needs.
Vuna Partners has been seeded by Thuso Incubation Partners (Thuso), a South African dedicated black majority-owned private equity incubator. In line with Thuso’s mission statement, the fund has embedded Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) and Environmental,
ARQIS has advised the shareholders of Kroha on the sale of the company to the AR Packaging Group. After approval by the responsible antitrust authorities, the transaction was completed on 30 November 2020.Kroha is a family-run production company for folding box dividers and leaflets based in Germany with production sites in Miesbach and Barleben. With its exclusive focus on pharmaceutical packaging, 250 highly qualified employees and an experienced management team, Kroha stands for the highest quality of its products and efficient processes.
As a portfolio company of the US financial investor CVC Capital Partners, AR Packaging is one of
Threat intelligence, hunting and response technology provider EclecticIQ has raised EUR20 million in Series C financing led by cyber investor Ace Management.
Diligend, a financial data collection and analysis software provider, has laucnhed an ESG and Diversity disclosure module for Limited Partners (LPs), General Partners (GPs), consultants, fund of funds, fund managers and fund administrators. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
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Icelandic airline software vendor Dohop has raised an undisclosed growth equity round from Scottish Equity Partners (SEP).
With this investment, Dohop will be able to accelerate its plans to transform how airlines and other travel providers enable passengers to build complex itineraries as the global travel industry transforms in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dohop’s unique virtual interlining technology allows its airline partners to seamlessly connect with each other, and with other travel providers, without relying on legacy booking systems and complex and inflexible interline agreements. A passenger can find and book an itinerary composed of flight segments from
Dot Investing, a fintech startup, has launched an online investment platform that allows individual investors to invest in top private and alternative asset funds, including private equity, VC and hedge funds.
Pan-Nordic digital savings and investment platform Nordnet has listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, generating a market capitalisation based on the IPO price of SEK96 per share of around SEK24 billion.
The offering attracted interest from Swedish and international institutional investors, as well as the public in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Tom Dinkelspiel, chairman of the board of Nordnet and representing the Öhman Group, commented that this listing on Nasdaq aims to democratise Nordnet’s savings and investments.
Nordic Capital has previously invested in financial services companies including Resurs Bank, Nordax Bank, Bambora, Trustly and Max Matthiessen, which it backed in 2020.
Covid-19 has stalled the emergence of new credit fund investment strategies and has pushed managers to focus on their existing credit platform products, according to a new report from global law firm Ropes & Gray.
The report, “Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Covid-19 Credit Fund Platforms 2020” analyses the responses of 100 senior-level executives at US- and UK-based credit funds. To get a sense for how credit fund managers are shaping their investment strategies in light of the economic upheaval and uncertain market conditions brought about by Covid-19, executives were surveyed twice: prior to the introduction of lockdown restrictions and again
Fireblocks has raised USD30 million in Series B funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to USD46 million. This round was led by Paradigm with participation from existing investors, Cyberstarts, Tenaya Capital, Swisscom, Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), and Cedar Hill Capital. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
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