We’re still waiting for the long-anticipated PE exit recovery, but deal advisers tell me GPs are busy cooking up plans to offload their fully baked assets as pressure mounts to return capital to LPs. Market chatter at the start of the year indicated the pipeline of exits was filling up, there were more assets up […]
Cinven steigt bei Fressnapf ein. Umgekehrt übernimmt der Heimtierbedarf-Spezialist von dem PE-Haus dessen Anteile am italienischen Händler Arcaplanet. Ihr Ziel: den europäischen Markt aufmischen.
An affiliate of HIG Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $64bn of capital under management, is to acquire CGH Group, a manufacturer of large, engineered storage tanks and tank accessories in EMEA.
Two major private equity firms, KKR and CVC, have submitted bids exceeding €3bn for B&B Hotels, a French budget hotel chain that was founded in Brest, Brittany in 1990, and has since expanded to 17 European countries, according to a report by the Times.
Das Berliner GreenTech-Startup alcemy hat 10 Millionen US-Dollar eingesammelt. Die Finanzierungsrunde wird angeführt von Norrsken VC, dem größten europäischen Early Stage Impact Fonds aus Stockholm; weitere Investoren sind Galvanize Climate Solutions, BitStone Capital und AENU. alcemy arbeitet seit 2018 daran, die Herstellung von Beton und Zement nachhaltiger zu gestalten – angetrieben von der Vision, mithilfe […]
Private-Equity-Anbieter gewinnen Privatinvestoren als neue Kundengruppe. KKR-Managerin Alisa Wood nennt exklusiv bei The Market ein Ziel für das Jahr 2029 von 30 bis 50% Privatanlegeranteil am Fundraising. Rivale PGIM strebt 30% für 2032 an. Die Nachfrage aus der Schweiz ist stark.
Decarbonized steel startup H2 Green Steel announced today an investment from European venture capital investor Demeter, with proceeds supporting the construction of the company’s flagship green steel plant in Boden, Sweden, capable of producing steel with 95% lower emissions than traditional blast furnace technology. Steelmaking is one of the biggest emitters of CO2 globally, and […]
Nature and biodiversity intelligence company Natural Capital Research (Natcap) announced today it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round, with proceeds to be used to scale its technology aimed at helping companies to quantify and embed nature-related risks and opportunities into business strategy. Spun out of Oxford University, Natcap was founded in […]
Nach dem Krisenjahr 2023 scheint eine Bodenbildung bei der Start-up-Finanzierung erreicht – auch dank des AI-Hypes. Eine schnelle Erholung ist indes angesichts des weiterhin zu hohen Zins- und Inflationsniveau, einer wackeligen Konjunktur und geopolitischen Unwägbarkeiten fraglich. Mehr noch: Auch Venture-Capital-Fonds tun sich zunehmend schwer, ihre Fonds zu closen. Für Startup dürfte der Wettbewerb um frisches […]
From our ‘Impact Investing and the Just Transition’ report: There was a lull in private equity impact fund raising in 2023 following a banner 2022. But there are now signs that normality is returning to the market.
Blackstone Group, the world’s largest buyout firm, has emerged as a major player in the acquisition of bank loans critical to the private equity industry, despite exposing itself to risks generated by its own operations in the process, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Biomaterials company UNCAGED Innovations announced that it has raised $5.6 million in a Seed investment round, with proceeds aimed at supporting the company’s commercial launch of its grain-based sustainable leather and allow it to expand its team, including its manufacturing team. Founded in New York in 2020 by CEO Stephanie Downs and CTO Dr. Xiaokun […]
Nuveen, which manages $1.2 trillion of assets, has completed the first close of its second global climate inclusion private equity strategy. The firm raised around $200 million from a mix of global investors, including Danish pension fund Velliv. Nuveen’s climate inclusion strategy focuses on climate change and inequality globally. Part of the strategy focuses on […]
Paramount Global is in exclusive negotiations to sell its Black Entertainment Television (BET) network to an investor group led by BET CEO Scott Mills and Chinh Chu, head of the New York-based private equity firm CC Capital, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Climate tech startup Aether Fuels announced that it has raised $34 million in a Series A financing round, with procceds aimed at accelerating the scale-up of the company’s sustainable fuel technology for the aviation and ocean shipping industries. Established in 2022 as a spin-out of Temasek’s deep-tech early stage investment platform Xora Innovation, Aether provides […]
