UK-based Hoxton Ventures led a USD10m investment in Ukranian edtech Preply, with participation from European investors Point Nine Capital, All Iron Ventures, The Family, EduCapital, and Diligent Capital. A number of individual angel investors also participated in the round, including Arthur Kosten (Booking.com), Gary Swart (former CEO of… Read More
Africa-focused VC GreenTec Capital Partners has invested an undisclosed amount in Ivory Coast-based waste recycling startup Coliba. Read more… Read More
STANLIB Asset Management has received authorization to acquire South African grain management business AFGRI Grain Silo Company from AFGRI Agri Services via two of its PE funds, namely Infrastructure Yield Fund and Infrastructure 2 Fund. Read more… Read More
Golden Square Equity Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire a 99.43% stake in gold mining company Casa Mining from London-listed ARC Minerals for USD50m. Golden Square will also assume the company’s debt of approximately USD2.3m. Read more… Read More
The International Private Equity & Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines Board (“the IPEV Board”) has provided special guidance with respect to applying the IPEV Valuation Guidelines when estimating fair value at 31 March 2020. The alternative asset industry is strong and robust. Yet this crisis is different from crises in 2001/2… Read More
Global VCs Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners have invested INR120m (approximately USD1.6m) in India-based smart dialing platform QTalk. Read more… Read More
Central Europe-focused private equity fund manager ARX Equity Partners has sold its interest in Slovenian health care service provider Diagnosticni Center Bled doo (DCB) to a joint venture between two insurance companies, Sava Re and Triglav, for an undisclosed amount. ARX achieved a… Read More
ASA Ventures led a USD8m seed investment for UAE-based mobile e-commerce network ZON. Read more… Read More
The Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) has entered into a partnership with Azur Partners for the launch of the Azur Innovation Fund (AIF), to target innovative high-impact startups in Africa. DGGF provided a EUR7m (approximately USD7.5m) anchor investment in the fund, which… Read More
Revo Capital Management has reached a EUR40m (approximately USD43m) first close for its second fund. EBRD committed EUR12.5m to the vehicle, which is targeting EUR60m to invest in early-stage technology companies in Turkey and Central and South Eastern Europe. Read more… Read More
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