Angela Sormani
CIVC Partners has acquired KPA Services. KPA provides environmental, health, & safety compliance and human resource management solutions to over 5,000 automotive, truck and equipment dealerships, and service companies.
Heliatek has completed a series C financing. The round was led by AQTON SE with participation from existing investors Bosch, BASF, Innogy Venture Capital, Wellington Partners, eCAPITAL, HTGF and TGFS.
Israeli tech firm Magma Venture Partners has closed Magma Venture Capital IV on $150 million. This fund is the successor of Magma's third fund raised in early 2012.
Gramercy Funds Management has made a $34 million investment in Credivalores-Crediservicios. The business is an independent consumer finance company in Colombia.
The Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association has added two new board members, Carlos Garcia, co-managing partner and chairman of Victoria Capital Partners and Alfredo Castellanos Heuer, senior managing director of Evercore Mexico Capital Partners. Garcia and Castellanos succeed J. Scott Swensen, co-founder of Conduit Capital Partners, and Arturo Saval, managing director of Nexxus Capital, who completed six-year terms on the LAVCA board.
HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited (HVPE) has reported a 7 percent NAV increase during the financial period ended July 31, 2014. During the peirod HVPE committed $316 million to newly-formed HarbourVest funds including international fund-of-funds and a global balanced fund.
UK mid-market private equity house Dunedin has appointed Lorna Eltringham as investor relations manager and Jessica Hardy has been appointed as an analyst. Dunedin’s David Williams will join Ross Marshall as a senior partner of the firm.
This morning read all about why women VC partners are becoming few and far between, Chicago's MEABF recruiting for a CIO and how syndication networks can work for you.
This week there are investment associate, deal partner, director and analyst positions up for grabs at Blackmore Partners, Harman, Mesirow Financial Private Equity and Texas ERS.
Angelo Gordon has set up a middle market direct lending business with the appointment of Chris Williams and Trevor Clark. Williams and Clark co-founded and built the direct lending business at Madison Capital Funding.