Firms and Funds

British Smaller Companies VCT, a listed vehicle dedicated to investing in UK small and medium enterprises, is to raise up to £15.375m in a new placing.

August Equity sells Securistyle Holdings

HBOS sells Town Centre Restaurants

Start-up Mansbridge Capital Management has set out to round up $100 million for a debut fund of funds earmarked for smaller buyout partnerships of no more than $1 billion in size. It has secured $30 million so far. “History has shown that the smaller buyouts have consistently outperformed the larger buyouts,” said Lance Mansbridge, one […]

I wrote here yesterday that a seed-stage fund called MentorTech Ventures just closed its inaugural fund. This was done in the context of today’s jaunt down to Philly (I should leave soon, since my plane does), because MentorTech focuses primarily on IT and medical device companies that originate within the University of Pennsylvania. But it also […]

Buyer: Advent International Target: Mr. Clean Platform: Atmosfera Headquarters: Brazil Price: $23 million Advent International is trying to clean up in the laundry business. One of its portfolio companies in Brazil, Atmosfera, just vastly expanded its textile cleaning business by acquiring Mr. Clean—not the famous American detergent emblazoned with the bald-headed cleaning genie, but Brazil’s […]

Mid-market firm raises €52m

UK firms sell ASP to mobile phone giant