Apollo Global Management is raising $500m for a fund to invest in special purpose acquisition companies, the buyout firm’s latest move to capitalize on the investment trend. Apollo’s fund, one of the first of its kind, will buy stakes in the initial public...
Trive Capital, the Dallas-based private equity firm, has formed Thriving Brands LLC, in partnership with industry executives Craig Cappozzo and Rolando Collado. Concurrently, Thriving Brands has completed its first acquisition with the purchase of Right Guard and Dry...
Investment firm Sequoia Capital and hedge fund Coatue led a $220m funding round in Grafana Labs, valuing the enterprise software maker for data visualization at around $3bn. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital and Singapore sovereign...
Workspace Property Trust, one of the largest privately-held suburban office and industrial companies founded by Thomas A. Rizk and Roger W. Thomas announced that Oak Hill Advisors, a leading alternative investment firm with more than $50bn in assets, has led a $326.5m...
Private equity firm Parallel49 Equity today announced the successful closing of the sale of Indianapolis-based Kinetrex Energy to Kinder Morgan for $310m. Kinetrex is the leading supplier of liquefied natural gas in the Midwest and a rapidly growing player in...
