China-focused venture capital firm Northern Light Venture Capital has invested in Chinese cloud security solutions developer Anquanbao.com’s Series B investment round. Existing investor Innovation Works, a Chinese early stage investor, also participated in the round. The investment amount was not disclosed, but is reportedly valued at approximately US$10 million. Read More
Fidelity Growth Partners India, the India-focused private equity arm of Fidelity Worldwide Investment, has led an investment of INR4 billion (approximately US$75 million) in Indian wholesale medical device distributor and service provider Trivitron Healthcare. Trivitron plans to use the funding to grow both organically and through the acquisition of… Read More
Ukraine-based private equity fund manager Horizon Capital has invested US$40 million in Tinkoff Credit Systems Bank (TCS Bank), a Russian credit card company and online bank. Horizon made the investment through its US$370 million Emerging Europe Growth Fund II, which was raised in 2008. Horizon is the fourth external… Read More
Indian private equity firm Aditya Birla Private Equity has reportedly invested approximately US$15 million in Indian restaurant chain Olive Bar & Kitchen. The investment was made through Aditya Birla Private Equity’s INR3 billion (approximately US$56 million) Sunrise Fund. Olive Bar & Kitchen operates its flagship Olive restaurant chain and… Read More
Global asset manager PineBridge Investments has sold its stake in Indian aerospace and automotive components manufacturer Maini Precision Products to an undisclosed investor. The transaction is valued at INR830 million (approximately US$15.3 million). PineBridge originally invested approximately US$6.2 million in Maini in 2005. Read More
The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, will invest US$4 million in Vox Capital Impact Investing Fund I, a Brazil-focused venture capital fund managed by Vox Capital. The fund seeks to make investments in up to 10 small and medium-sized enterprises and up… Read More
Asia-focused private equity firm Olympus Capital Holdings Asia and Hong Kong-based enterprise Anoi have purchased a 40 percent stake in Chinese water treatment company Grant Achieve Global (GAG) from Chinese private equity firm China Renaissance Capital Investment (CRCI) and GAG’s management. Olympus has also acquired a warrant to purchase… Read More
The Carlyle Group has invested approximately US$100 million in Indonesian cellular tower operator Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP) for a 25 percent stake. STP operates 1,322 towers in Indonesia, mostly in and around Jakarta. Carlyle is reportedly raising a US$3.5 billion Asia-focused fund, its fourth for the region. Read More
L Capital Asia, the Asia-focused private equity fund sponsored by French company LVMH Group, has invested INR750 million (approximately US$14 million) in Genesis Luxury Fashion, the marketing and distribution arm of Indian fashion group Genesis Colors. This is the US$635 million L Capital Asia Fund’s second investment in the… Read More
Poland-based private equity firm Abris Capital Partners has purchased Romanian courier company Cargus from German courier company Deutsche Post DHL. Abris is raising its second private equity fund, targeted at EUR450 million (approximately US$587 million), to invest in Poland, Ukraine and Romania. Financial details of the transaction… Read More
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