CLSA Capital Partners has closed its maiden private debt fund, Lending Ark Asia Secured Private Debt, at USD226m. The fund targets Asia and is to be managed by a joint venture between Lending Ark Asia’s principals, Messrs Gregory Park and Carol Lee Park, and CLSA Capital. Read… Read More
Asia Partners led a USD30m Series D for Malaysia-based used car marketplace Carsome, with participation from existing investors Burda Principal Investments and Ondine Capital. Read more… Read More
KaszeK Ventures and QED Investors led a USD62m Series B for Mexico-based crypto platform Bitso, with follow-on from Coinbase Ventures and Pantera Capital. Read more… Read More
I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund II, has acquired and merged InfoFabrica and Cloud Kinetics, two Singapore-based cloud migration services companies, as part of a new Asian Digital Infrastructure platform. Read more… Read More
Temasek has invested USD20m in Conductor, a Brazilian payment processing platform and banking as a service company, bringing the company’s latest round of fundraising to USD170m. Viking Global Investors previously led a USD150m investment in Conductor in October 2020. Read more… Read More
Target Global and Palta led a USD5m Series A for Cyprus-based nutrition platform Simple, with participation from S16 Angel Fund and Supernova. Read more… Read More
IDB Invest and Blue Like an Orange have provided USD35m and USD15m, respectively, in mezzanine financing to Panama-based hospitality startup Selina to support the continuity of its expansion plans in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read more… Read More
Mid Europa Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire Sage Poland, a Polish cloud business management solutions company for SMEs, from The Sage Group. The transaction is subject to antitrust approval and is expected to close in early 2021. Read more… Read More
The Carlyle Group has sold its majority stake in India-based publishing firm Newgen Knowledge Works to the company’s founder. This is Carlyle’s second exit from Newgen. Read more… Read More
TPG and Northstar Group have acquired an 80% stake in the Indonesian dairy business of Singapore-based agrifood company Japfa for USD236m. Read more… Read More
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