KKR has reached a USD1.3b final close for its KKR Global Impact Fund. The vehicle will focus on investment opportunities in companies whose core business models provide commercial solutions to an environmental or social challenge across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Read more… Read More
Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund subsidiary Sanabil Investments, Gulf Investment Corporation (the partial sovereign wealth fund owned equally by the six Gulf Cooperation Council states), and Olayan Financing Company have invested USD35m in UAE-based online marketplace… Read More
Middle East- and Africa-focused private equity fund manager Gulf Capital led a USD40m Series D for healthcare platform Vezeeta, with participation from existing investor Saudi Technology Ventures. Read more»… Read More
Africa-focused energy infrastructure investor Inspired Evolution has invested in US-Israeli developer Gigawatt Global’s solar project in Burundi via its Evolution II Fund. The deal is structured as a combined investment and construction loan giving Inspired Evolution a controlling stake in the project. Read more… Read More
EverSource Capital, a joint venture between private equity firm Everstone Capital and LightSource BP, has acquired Mumbai-based renewable energy company Origin Renewables for an undisclosed amount. Read more… Read More
VC firm DOMO Invest led a BRL6m (approximately USD1.4m) investment in IOUU, a lending marketplace for Brazilian small businesses, with participation from Indicator Capital and Devas Invest. Read more… Read More
Warburg Pincus has made an undisclosed investment in Singapore-based mobile virtual network operator Circles.Life. Existing investors include Sequoia Capital India, EDBI, and Founders Fund. Read more… Read More
Eight Roads Ventures led a USD25m Series C in San Francisco and Bangalore-based customer analytics and engagement platform MoEngage, with participation from Matrix Partners India, F-Prime Capital, and Ventureast. Read more… Read More
I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund II, has acquired an indirect equity interest in OCENSA, the operator of the largest crude oil pipeline in Colombia, from Advent International. This transaction represented an exit for Advent International. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. Read… Read More
Hospital Holdings Limited, an investment consortium led by the IFC, has agreed to acquire a 54% stake in AAR Healthcare Holdings, an operator of hospitals and clinics in Kenya and other East Africa countries,… Read More
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