With the backing of the European Investment Fund (EIF) and other institutional investors, Aurora, Axon’s a Fund-of-VC-Fund for Europe will invest across the Pan-European region, allowing more than 5...
Potential exits featured strongly in a couple of Africa's private capital deal stories last week. And there was talk of a merger of the operations of two telcos as a first step toward an outright acqu...
Agribusiness and Tech led the way in Africa's private capital deal world last week. EXEO Capital, the partnership established by Agri-Vie and Sanlam, is investing in the Marginpar Flower Group in tand...
Deal types and sizes related to Africa's private capital markets varied widely last week. At the high end, a couple of IPO-related items hogged the limelight. Towards the lower end, venture investment...
While it was quiet week generally, deal-wise, in Africa last week, we did see one of the largest private equity-related exits in a long while. At the tail end of the week it was announced that Vitol a...
El Clúster Edutech organizó, junto a la aceleradora SEKLab y la red Madrid Business Angels Network (MADBan), el pimer Foro de Inversión en Startups de Educación con el objetivo de fomentar en Espa...
Este nuevo fondo de inversión finalizará el próximo 30 de junio para cerrar un proceso de financiación inicial con el que aspira a cerrar un fondo de 20 millones de euros, aunque está previsto qu...
The larger private capital-related deals involved portfolio companies last week, and ones backed by some of the more high-profile private capital firms. The smaller, direct investments, tended to the ...
Two adjectives to describe this week's wrap of private capital investment activity in Africa would be short and sweet. As you will see from below, we only report on three deals, all of them at the sma...
Africa's education sector saw two deals last week - one in Egypt and the other in South Africa - while the healthcare, agribusiness and ICT sectors each saw one. DPI's fundraising efforts for their th...
Durante el primer trimestre de 2018, la inversión de venture capital y private equity ascendió a 918,2 millones de euros, un 9,7% más que en el mismo periodo del año anterior, en un total de 167 i...
Last week in brief... We start this week with news of a close for a first-time mezzanine fund. Ashburton Investments has raised R507.5 million, or approximately $40 million, for its inaugural mezzanin...