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 $34 million in a Series A financing round, with procceds aimed at accelerating the scale-up of the company’s sustainable fuel technology for the aviation and ocean shipping industries. Established in 2022 as a spin-out of Temasek’s deep-tech early stage investment platform Xora Innovation, Aether provides […]
Spanish VC firm Seaya announced today that it has raised €300 million (USD$ 321 million) at the close of Andromeda climate tech fund at €300 million (USD$321 million), aimed at investing in impact-driven growth companies specializing in energy transition, decarbonization, sustainable food value chain, and circular economy. Seaya is one of few female-founded venture capital […]
Das Bieterrennen um DB Schenker hat einen Kandidaten verloren: Maersk hat kein Interesse mehr an der Bahn-Tochter. Übrig bleiben drei ausländische Investoren. Einer tut sich bereits als Favorit hervor.
Weltweit ist die Zahl an Millionären sowie ihr Vermögen in 2023 auf ein Rekordniveau geklettert. Wie aus dem jüngsten World Wealth Report des Capgemini Research Institutes hervorgeht, zeigen die HNWI dabei eine zunehmende Risikobereitschaft.
New York-headquartered alternative investment firm New Mountain Capital has held the final close of its seventh control-oriented fund, New Mountain Partners VII, with $15.4bn in capital commitments.
BlackRock has agreed to acquire Preqin, a UK-based independent provider of private markets data for £2.55bn ($3.2bn) in cash, combining Preqin’s data and research tools with Aladdin’s workflow functions into a single platform.
Die lange Ära der leichten Gewinne im Private-Equity-Geschäft ist vorbei, und Goldman Sachs gräbt sich tiefer für die härtere Arbeit ein.
Zum 1. Januar 2021 hat der deutsche Gesetzgeber in Umsetzung der europäischen Richtlinie über Restrukturierung und Insolvenz mit dem Gesetz über den Stabilisierungs- und Restrukturierungsrahmen für Unternehmen (StaRUG) ein finanzwirtschaftliches Sanierungsinstrument geschaffen. Das StaRUG soll es in der Krise befindlichen Unternehmen ermöglichen, eine drohende Zahlungsunfähigkeit außerhalb der Insolvenz und unter Rückgriff auf geeignete Kapitalmaßnahmen abzuwenden. […]
