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Resolute Capital Partners invests in fellow private equity house Finance Technology Leverage

Resolute Capital Partners has invested in fellow private equity house Finance Technology Leverage to help it back innovators in the energy, life sciences, industrial technology, and aerospace sectors.

AEI Forms New Analytics and AI Platform

AE Industrial Partners (AEI) has acquired a majority interest in NuWave Solutions, a provider of data management, artificial intelligence, and machine learning services. NuWave’s services are used by governments and businesses to glean intelligence from

Coronavirus user surge helps Canva strike $6bn valuation through latest VC investment round

Australian design software company Canva has surged to a $6bn valuation thanks to its latest venture capital-backed investment round.

Venture-backed start-ups help manufacturers reopen factories

Tools, including software, sensors and AI, support assembly lines and supply chains during the pandemic

Innovation and sustainability can help build a better post-Covid-19 world

Private equity investors and portfolio companies are in a unique position to act as change agents to build back better

PE-backed company’s spyware used to target journalist, Amnesty claims

A new investigation by Amnesty International has alleged that investigative journalist Omar Radi was spied on by the Moroccan government after his phone was infected using Novalpina-backed NSO's tools

Calpers has a fix for its massive pension shortfall – borrow more

Near-record low interest rates have lowered the returns on the assets while increasing the present value of liabilities to future retirees or charitable institutions

Trive Takes Seven Aces Private

Trive Capital has agreed to acquire publicly traded Seven Aces, a gaming company and route operator. Seven Aces (TSXV: ACES), through its subsidiary Lucky Bucks, is a coin-operated amusement machine route operator. Lucky Bucks’ machines

Cyprium Invests in Chief

Cyprium Investment Partners, which specializes in non-control investments, has closed a preferred equity and subordinated debt investment in Chief Enterprises. Chief is a value-added distributor of electrical connectors, electro-mechanical components, and assemblies used in automotive,

Fund VI Largest Ever for FTV

FTV has closed its sixth and largest fund to date, FTV VI LP, at its hard cap of $1.2 billion. The firm’s earlier fund closed in September 2016 at its hard cap of $850 million.

Bullpen Capital is eyeing a capital pool of $150m for its sixth venture capital fund

Bullpen Capital is looking to raise $150m in its fifth venture capital fund, which will make it a little larger than its predecessor.

Reputational risk, early secondaries help assuage LP default fears

With the Covid-19 outbreak leading investors to suddenly reassess their exposure to private equity, some GPs have feared that a number of LPs could start defaulting on commitments. But such fears appear somewhat overblown, writes

Fulcrum Buys Consumer Products Packager

Fulcrum Capital Partners has made an investment in Belvika Trade & Packaging, a provider of outsourced packaging services. Belvika provides primary packaging, secondary packaging, and merchandising services primarily to consumer packaged goods companies operating in

GreyLion Spins Out from Perella Weinberg

PWP Growth Equity has completed its spin-out from Perella Weinberg. The new firm – now operating as GreyLion Capital – will continue to manage its two existing private equity funds with total capital commitments of

Sterling Hits Hard Cap

The Sterling Group has held an oversubscribed and hard cap close of its fifth fund, Sterling Group Partners V LP, with $2 billion of capital. The new fund was raised after just four months of

Osceola Closes First Fund

Osceola Capital has held a hard cap and above target close of its inaugural fund with an oversubscribed $125 million of capital. Limited partners in the new fund include public pension plans, financial institutions, a

Ambienta backs Amutec’s bolt-on to expand sustainable bags business

The acquisition of SCAE Europe, an Italian bag-making machinery manufacturer, will help Amutec expand into the British and North American markets

Idinvest completes secondaries deal for growth portfolio

Idinvest has sold a group of 12 growth-stage companies to a newly established fund, Idinvest Growth Secondary SLP, backed by fresh secondary capital and offering liquidity to existing investors.

FS KKR Capital Corp. II Announces Listing on New York Stock Exchange

PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK , June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- FS KKR Capital Corp. II (FSKR), a leading business development company (BDC) focused on providing customized credit solutions to private middle market U.S. companies, announced today that

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