TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform, TPG Rise, announced today the acquisition of industrial aftermarket emissions reduction solutions provider Miratech, citing opportunities to address the emissions challenge created by growing power demand from increasing data center usage.
Sustainable engineered materials producer 6K announced today that it has raised $82 million at the first close of its Series E funding round, with proceeds aimed at enabling the company to scale up production. 6K said that it expects a second close of the Series E round later this year. Founded in 2014, Massachusetts-based 6K […]
Cleantech software startup Reonic announced today that it has raised €13 million (USD$14.4 million) in a Series A financing round, with proceeds aimed at supporting its offerings to help installers deploy sustainable energy solutions across Europe. Founded in 2021 by Tristan Menzinger, Lars-Manuel Schneider, and Udo Sill, Germany-based Reonic provides solutions aimed at helping SME […]
Cambridge Associates übernimmt Siglo Capital Advisors. Die Investmentfirma will damit auch seine Produktpalette bei den alternativen Asset Klassen erweitern.
Cubera Private Equity has held the final close of its latest Nordic secondaries fund – Cubera X – at its hard cap of €780m, ahead of its target size of €700m. Including GP commitments the total size of the oversubscribed fund is €807m.
Private equity firms HIG and CapVest have joined the competition to acquire AAH Pharmaceuticals, the UK’s largest pharmacy wholesaler, which has been put up for sale just three years after being acquired by German PE firm Aurelius, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Private equity firm Clearlake Capital, the co-owner of Chelsea Football Club, has finalised a deal to acquire a credit investment unit from Natixis, marking its entry into the booming $1.7tn private credit sector, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Sustainability-focused investment manager Mirova announced today that it has raised €211 million (USD$233 million) for Mirova Environment Acceleration Capital (MEAC), the firm’s first impact private equity fund. Mirova launched the pan-European private equity fund in September 2021, aiming to invest in companies providing sustainable innovative solutions and technologies contributing to the environmental transition. The fund […]
Mit der 8-Milliarden-Dollar-Übernahme von Johnson Controls stürzt sich Bosch ins Geschäft mit Klimaanlagen. Logisch, sagt Simone Menne aus dem Board der US-Firma. Angesichts der steigenden Temperaturen auf der Erde ist das ein wachsender Markt.
Micro-nuclear power plant developer Last Energy announced that it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round closed earlier this year, with proceeds to be used to support the deployment of its first microreactor plant. Founded in 2019, Washington, D.C.-based Last Energy develops small, 20 MWe nuclear power plants, aimed at bringing nuclear […]
The Louisiana Teachers’ Retirement System, which has $26.5bn in assets, has approved new commitments totalling $364m to private markets investment vehicles, according to a report by Pensions & Investments Online.
Blackstone Inc is close to finalising a deal to acquire AirTrunk, an Australian data centre operator, for over AUD20bn ($13.5m) including debt, in what would be one of the largest infrastructure transactions of the year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Coller Capital, one of the world’s largest investors dedicated to private market secondaries, and private equity and credit firm Abry Partners, have closed a $1.6bn GP-led transaction to create a continuation vehicle for Abry Advanced Securities Fund III (ASF III).
OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI tool ChatGPT, is in advanced talks to secure several billion dollars in a new funding round led by Thrive Capital with an investment of around $1bn, that could value the startup at over $100bn, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Die Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung investiert stark in alternative Anlageformen. Dabei hat Finanzchef Hannes Banzhaf Wirkung und Diversifikation im Blick – und sieht inzwischen auch für kleinere Stiftungen ausreichend Investitionsmöglichkeiten. Das schlägt sich in der Portfoliostruktur nieder: Alternative Anlagen machen rund ein Drittel des Anlagekapitals aus, wobei der Impact-Aspekt sich hier besonders auf die Blöcke Erneuerbare Energien/Infrastruktur (13 […]
