KKR launched Aster Renewable Energy, a Singapore-headquartered renewables platform to develop, build and operate solar, wind and energy storage projects in Taiwan and Vietnam. Read more… Read More
Sun King (formerly Greenlight Planet), a provider of solar energy products for off-grid homes in Africa and Asia, raised a USD260m Series D led by General Atlantic’s BeyondNetZero, M&G Investments and Arch Emerging Markets Partners, facilitating a partial exit for Apis Partners. Read more here and… Read More
TPG reached a USD7.3b final close for its TPG Rise Climate fund targeting investments in climate solutions, including clean energy, enabling solutions, decarbonized transport, greening industrials and agriculture and natural solutions. Read more… Read More
Afriex, a Nigeria-based developer of a blockchain-based payments platform, raised USD10m from Dragonfly Capital, Sequoia Capital and Stellar. Read more… Read More
Connected Capital led a USD40m Series A for Eurora Solutions, an Estonia-based cross-border e-commerce compliance platform, with participation from Change Ventures and Equity United. Read more… Read More
Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund and FMO led a USD6.4m pre-Series A for Ghana-based agtech Farmerline, with participation from Greater Impact Foundation. The company also raised USD6.5m in debt from DEG, Rabobank, Ceniarth, Rippleworks, Mulago Foundation, Whole Planet Foundation, the Netri Foundation and Kiva. Read more… Read More
BluePeak Private Capital agreed to invest up to USD15m in Africure, a pan-African manufacturer and distributor of pharmaceutical goods serving East and West Africa. Read more… Read More
Wa’ed and The Savola Group led a USD18.5m round for Saudi Arabia-based agtech Red Sea Farms, with participation from KAUST Innovation Fund and OlsonUbben. Read more… Read More
CBC Group led an undisclosed Series B for RVAC Medicines, a Singapore-based messenger RNA (mRNA) company, with participation from Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, EDBI and GS Holdings. The new round brings the company’s total funding raised to date to USD140m. Read more… Read More
Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (MSPEA) agreed to acquire a majority stake in APAC Realty, a Singapore-listed real estate services company in Asia, from Northstar Group for SGD129.5m (~USD94.2m). Read more… Read More
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