AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 14, 2025 — Backflip, a leading real estate FinTech platform transforming how investors access and deploy capital, today announced its strategic evolution into a tech-enabled asset manager. The vertically-integrated platform provides technology and capital solutions to residential real estate investors through its captive loan originator and servicer. Backflip’s newly-formed subsidiary (Backflip Asset Management, LLC) has approximately $175 million in assets under management.

In support of this strategy, the company raised $10 million in corporate equity this year from existing investors including FirstMark Capital, LiveOak Venture Partners, and Vertical Venture Partners. Concurrently, Backflip announced a new leadership structure, with Jake Rome promoted to Chief Executive Officer, which became effective in July 2025. Jake Co-founded the company in 2020 with Josh Ernst, and had previously served as Backflip’s Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operating Officer.

“This evolution represents a pivotal next step in Backflip’s journey,” said Jake, CEO. “We are responding to the significant demand from institutional private credit investors. By aligning our technology and capital, we are creating a new, more efficient model to deploy capital into single family investment strategies, which are notoriously difficult to access at scale. I am excited to lead our talented team as we build a best-in-class platform designed to deliver durable returns to our capital partners.”

This evolution builds on a period of growth. Backflip’s origination subsidiary has funded approximately $700 million in residential transition loans (RTL), and its servicing arm manages a portfolio of over 1,200 loans. The company recently launched a rental loan product (DSCR), and is piloting other capital solutions for investors including HELOCs and Home Equity Agreements (HEA).

As part of its platform expansion, Backflip also announced the promotion of Richard Porteous to Chief Investment Officer. Richard was previously the firm’s VP of Capital Markets and Portfolio Manager.

“Richard’s leadership will be integral as we expand our asset-backed investment strategies and grow assets under management,” continued Jake.” The launch of our rental loan product is a prime example of this strategy in action, allowing us to quickly scale a high-demand product.”

The equity raise positions Backflip for continued growth, and facilitates technology investments to scale the origination, servicing, and asset management functions.

About Backflip

Founded in 2020, Backflip is a real estate financial technology company that supports entrepreneurs to invest in single family housing, thereby reinvigorating the housing supply and their local communities. The company offers purpose-built technology and capital products to source, analyze and finance residential investments. Backflip is an all-in-one platform providing entrepreneurs with the technology, data, and financing strategies to scale their businesses. Visit www.backflip.com or download the app at the iOS App Store or Google Play Store to learn more. Backflip originates and services loans through its subsidiary, Double Backflip, LLC. NMLS ID # 2482717 – nmlsconsumeraccess.org. Equal Housing Lender.

About Backflip Asset Management, LLC

Backflip Asset Management, LLC is an institutional investment manager with approximately $175 million in assets under management. The company manages several investment vehicles with committed capital, and actively trades loans with counterparties to provide institutional partners streamlined access to single-family-residential-backed assets.

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ElectronX’s power derivatives market is backed by an elite consortium of global energy, quantitative trading, and technology venture capital firms

CHICAGO, Nov. 14, 2025 — ElectronX, the energy exchange built to enable precision risk management in U.S. electricity markets, today announced it has closed a $30 million Series A led by seed round investor DCVC, and joined by leading quantitative trading firms and energy venture funds XTX Markets, Five Rings, NGP, GTS, and JACS Capital.

Returning ElectronX investors Innovation Endeavors, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, and Shell Ventures also participated in the round.

With its Series A funding, ElectronX has raised more than $55 million to develop and operate the first U.S.-regulated, direct-access power derivatives market, scheduled to launch next month.

“ElectronX’s Series A captures the rising momentum from all industry angles for financial infrastructure innovations in U.S. power markets,” said Sam Tegel, CEO of ElectronX. “We are pleased to have DCVC lead this pivotal raise and welcome premier global trading firms XTX Markets, Five Rings and GTS to our investor ranks, alongside the energy venture experts at NGP and JACS Capital. As national demand for electricity continues to strain the grid, we look forward to providing the critically necessary intraday hedging tools for today’s volatile short-term power market very soon.”

“DCVC is excited to double down on ElectronX and lead their Series A round as they head into launch phase after earning CFTC approvals,” said Ali Tamaseb, a General Partner at DCVC. “ElectronX will fill a critical gap and play a much needed role in the electricity markets. It will directly support the electrification of the American industrial base and the transition to renewables, and it will help companies respond to the massive change in power requirements resulting from increasing data center demand. Like other DCVC portfolio companies in the energy space, ElectronX is working to fill a huge need with a novel deep tech solution.”

Based in Chicago, ElectronX was granted status as both a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Designated Clearing Organization (DCO) by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in late August. Its regulated exchange and clearinghouse will offer small-sized, fully collateralized, and centrally cleared financial instruments linked to specific geographies and times of day on a direct-access platform.

ElectronX’s first products include hourly bounded futures and binary options in 1 MWh sizes for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market, enabling immediate access to intraday hedging strategies for both long- and short-volatility seekers of all types and sizes. Day-of and day-ahead contract suites mirror current physical power trading and battery asset risk management strategies, and are designed to limit losses and maximize profits in regularly observed times of price stress.

Contract suites for PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM), California Independent System Operator (CAISO), and other regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs) are planned for launch in 2026.

About ElectronX
ElectronX (EXI) is the U.S.-regulated energy exchange created to address volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. With locations in Chicago and New York City, ElectronX is helping to expand the nation’s power grid by building the financial infrastructure and risk management tools necessary to support increased investment in energy generation, renewable resources, and battery storage technology. For more information, please visit electronx.com.

About DCVC
DCVC is deep tech venture capital. Over more than a dozen years, the firm has backed brilliant entre­pre­neurs using compu­ta­tional approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world across a broad set of industries, especially those that haven’t seen material progress in decades. With billions of dollars of assets under management, DCVC builds long-term rela­tion­ships with the founders it backs. The firm has been with many of its companies from their very start—and through to their recognition by the public markets as category-defining businesses. For more information, please visit www.dcvc.com, or follow us on LinkedIn or X @DCVC.

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New fund will continue Medicxi’s successful asset-centric company creation and investment strategy.

LONDON, Nov. 14, 2025 — Medicxi, a leading European life sciences venture capital firm, today announced the closing of Medicxi V, a €500 million fund dedicated to building and backing innovative biotechnology companies with clear product visions to transform patient care. The oversubscribed fund closed with strong support from existing limited partners and a select group of new institutional investors. The Fund will focus on Medicxi’s pioneering asset-centric investment model.

Medicxi has created 16 new companies, delivered over 20 positive clinical data readouts and has realised over $1 billion across its portfolio since its last fundraise, including from investments in Vaxcyte, Merus and Abivax, and the acquisitions of ViceBio (Sanofi), Versanis Bio (Eli Lilly) and ProfoundBio (Genmab).

Medicxi V will continue the firm’s focus on supporting drug hunters and entrepreneurs in creating asset-focused biotechnology companies to deliver transformative therapies for patients. The Fund will also invest in existing companies at all stages of development that align with Medicxi’s asset-centric value creation strategy.

“Medicxi’s longstanding success has been founded on its unique ties to leading global pharmaceutical companies and its world-class team of drug hunters and clinicians,” said Francesco De Rubertis, Co-founder and Partner at Medicxi. “The new €500 million fund will enable Medicxi to provide the critical capital, expertise and experience to deliver transformative therapies for patients.”

“Medicxi’s differentiated, capital-efficient investment strategy is rapidly scaling and we have now raised six funds in the last 10 years, totalling over €2.0 billion,” said Giovanni Mariggi, Co-founder and Partner at Medicxi. “We are extremely grateful for the support that we have received from our existing and new limited partners, and we are excited to continue investing in cutting-edge science and accelerating the discovery of life-changing medicines for patients.”

Medicxi also announced that Shyam Masrani has been promoted to Partner. Masrani led Medicxi’s investments in Merus and ProfoundBio, and currently serves on the boards of Acera Therapeutics, T-CypherBio and Petalion Therapeutics. The investing partners in Fund V are Francesco De Rubertis, Giovanni Mariggi, Nick Williams and Shyam Masrani.

Notes to Editors

About Medicxi

Medicxi is a healthcare-focused investment firm with the mission to create and invest in companies across the full drug development continuum. Leveraging deep expertise in drug development and company creation spanning over two decades, Medicxi invests in early and late-stage therapeutics with a product vision that can fulfil a clear unmet medical need. For more information, please visit: www.medicxi.com.

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MIAMI, Nov. 13, 2025 — Loosid, the leading clean and sober lifestyle brand, today announced that it has secured a second round of funding from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support the launch of its Sobriety and Addiction Mentor (SAM™ AI) for enterprise organizations. To secure this funding, Loosid partnered with Innovative Solutions, a Premier Tier AWS Partner with Generative AI Competency that delivers advanced cloud services to growing businesses. Through this collaboration, Innovative Solutions facilitated two rounds of AWS funding to help Loosid scale SAM™ AI using AWS’s world-class infrastructure and support for emerging technologies.

SAM™ AI’s growth at the enterprise level marks Loosid’s transition from a consumer-facing sobriety platform that serves more than 400,000 members to a scalable enterprise solution designed for Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), treatment centers, and corporate wellness providers. The enterprise version of SAM™ AI enables companies to provide empathetic 24/7 support, predictive relapse prevention, and aggregate pattern analysis to promote workforce wellness and early intervention.

“Addiction remains the number one workplace challenge, contributing to 232 million missed workdays each year, yet it is the one thing that most employees feel unsafe disclosing to their employer,” said MJ Gottlieb, co-founder and CEO of Loosid. Through our partnership with Innovative Solutions and support from AWS, SAM™ AI can now bring meaningful, stigma-free recovery support directly to the workplace.”

The collaboration marks a pivotal moment for Loosid as it scales SAM™ AI beyond its core consumer base and into the enterprise market. Leveraging AWS’s robust infrastructure and Innovative Solutions’ AI and cloud expertise, Loosid is now delivering a secure, scalable platform capable of serving global organizations seeking data-driven approaches to addiction prevention and workforce wellness.

The National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence has estimated that alcohol and drug misuse cost United States businesses over $81 billion annually in lost productivity and has caused employers to incur a 300 percent increase in medical costs and benefits.

“The decision by AWS to provide funding for the growth of SAM™ AI reflects a commitment to supporting technologies that make a meaningful difference in people’s lives,” said Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative Solutions. “In combining Loosid’s mission-driven innovation, Innovative Solutions’ cloud expertise, and AWS’s world-class infrastructure, we’re advancing a platform that not only scales globally but also addresses one of the most critical health challenges facing today’s workforce.”

The enterprise version of SAM™ AI is now available to companies and organizations of all sizes from across the globe. To learn more about integrating SAM™ AI into a corporate or wellness program, visit here.

About Loosid
Loosid app, named one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company in 2020, ranking #5 in the Social Media category is a comprehensive lifestyle brand redefining what it means to be sober. More than just an app, Loosid is dedicated to helping people embrace a proud, fulfilling life, free from drugs and alcohol.

Loosid, which has grown to now over 400,000 members and 21 million user sessions to date, was created to offer a safe and supportive space for people who choose to live a sober life.

Launched initially as a B2C consumer technology, and its large early notoriety in the press as the leader in Sober Dating space, Loosid has now expanded to seven verticals, including its technology, SAM-Sobriety & Addiction Mentor™, a B2B solution for treatment centers to manage their post care and alumni tracking & Loosid for Employers & EAP’s.

Through technology and community, Loosid empowers people to connect, express themselves, and live joyfully on the journey of sobriety.

To contact Loosid directly and discuss SAM™ for your workplace, please email [email protected].

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Eagle Private Capital joins 424 Capital in supporting AGP’s next phase of growth for the nonprofit sector

FARGO, N.D., Nov. 13, 2025 — Allegiance Group + Pursuant (AGP), a leading fundraising, marketing, and technology partner for nonprofits, today announced a new strategic investment from Eagle Private Capital, joining 424 Capital as co-investors in the firm. The additional capital and partnership will accelerate AGP’s growth strategy – fueling continued innovation, client impact, and sector-wide advancement in nonprofit fundraising and donor engagement.

This new investment underscores confidence in AGP’s market position as the most comprehensive, technology-enabled fundraising and marketing partner serving nonprofits. With the backing of both Eagle Private Capital and 424 Capital, AGP will expand its product innovation, data intelligence, and go-to-market initiatives to deliver even greater value to its nonprofit clients.

“This investment signals strength and stability for our clients,” said Trent Ricker, CEO of AGP. “It allows us to deepen our commitment to helping nonprofits grow more efficiently and engage their supporters more meaningfully. With Eagle and 424’s support, we can accelerate the development of data-driven solutions that empower organizations to maximize their mission impact.”

Eagle Private Capital, known for supplying growth capital to middle-market companies, brings deep expertise in long-term capital, strategic partnering, and scalable growth. Their partnership reflects a shared belief in the importance of sustainable innovation in the nonprofit sector.

“We’re thrilled to partner with AGP at such a transformative time in the company’s journey,” said Scott Fesler, Managing Director at Eagle Private Capital. “AGP’s integrated approach to marketing and technology is driving measurable impact across the nonprofit community, and we’re excited to help accelerate that mission.”

The partnership emphasizes AGP’s continued focus on innovation, client success, and mission-driven growth as it prepares for the next phase of expansion in 2026 and beyond. Backed by Eagle Private Capital and 424 Capital, AGP is well-positioned to lead the evolution of nonprofit donor engagement to help mission-driven organizations secure greater impact.

About Allegiance Group + Pursuant (AGP)

Allegiance Group + Pursuant (AGP) is a full-service fundraising, marketing, and technology firm with over 40 years of experience helping nonprofits inspire action, deepen engagement, and drive meaningful impact. Through a data-driven, omni-channel approach, AGP empowers mission-driven organizations to maximize their reach and results. To learn more, visit teamallegiance.com. 

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PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 13, 2025 — Sensetics, a next generation haptics and touch data company advancing the digital capture and transmission of realistic touch experiences and bridging the machine and physical worlds by bringing touch to AI, today announced it has raised $1.75mm in pre-seed funding to accelerate product development efforts for its breakthrough hardware and software platform. The majority of the round was funded in the Spring, co-led by MetaVC Partners and Fitz Gate Ventures, with participation from Blue Sky Capital and AIC Ventures.

Sensetics’ platform, featuring its Touch Signature^™ programmable fabrics and AI-powered touch capture and editing tools, enable users to record, edit, and replay touch experiences with high fidelity—similar to how we record and reproduce sight and sound. Originating from research at UC Berkeley and Virginia Tech, the technology replicates key mechanoreceptor functions in human fingertips. This allows real-time recording and transmission of tactile data from devices such as robotic arms, surgical tools, wearables, and remote sensors, at human fingertip-level resolution. Durable and low latency, Sensetics supports touch data streaming in a broad array of structured and unstructured environments, creating a new class of physical data for automation and AI control.

Sensetics is pursuing a market opportunity exceeding $10 billion, across sectors where accurate force sensing and haptic feedback are critical. Target industries include transportation and logistics, manufacturing, medical robotics, and VR/AR touch controllers for professional training and simulation. Digitizing touch – a sense as fundamental as sight and sound – will launch an entirely new market for Sensetics, comparable to the digital transformation of video and audio.

The founding team combines top entrepreneurial and academic expertise:

• Adam B. Hopkins, CEO – a veteran in high-tech startups and financial services; previously CEO and founder of Uniformity Labs; recognized inventor and scientific author.
• Rayne Zheng, CTO – Professor at UC Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Sensors & Actuators Center; published author in Nature and Science on materials, robotics, and AI.

“We see a pivotal moment at the intersection of human-machine interaction and touch technology,” said Hopkins. “Demand for haptic controllers and high resolution tactile sensors is surging in healthcare, industrial, aerospace, defense and robotics applications. Our mission is to make touch the next digital sense and to build a data platform for physical AI comparable in scale and importance to computer vision.”

“We’re excited to back Sensetics as it pioneers the next frontier of human-machine interaction,” said Chris Alliegro, Managing Partner at MetaVC Partners. “Digitizing touch is an extraordinarily complex challenge—one that Sensetics is solving through an elegant application of mechanical metamaterials. By unlocking high-fidelity tactile sensing and feedback, Sensetics is laying the foundation for a new generation of intelligent machines capable of perceiving and responding to the physical world with superhuman sensitivity and precision.”

“Sensetics squarely fits our investment thesis, because it is a deep tech company utilizing proprietary IP to create an entirely new industrial category that targets a massive market opportunity, and it has an outstanding founding team,” said Mark Poag, GP of Fitz Gate Ventures.

About MetaVC Partners
MetaVC Partners is an early-stage venture fund investing in new startup companies using metamaterials for applications in communications, high-performance computing, and imaging and sensing. More information can be found on MetaVC Partners’ website.

About Fitz Gate Ventures
Fitz Gate is an early-stage network-driven venture capital firm with a sub-focus on deep tech/hard tech and is currently investing out of its third fund. Fitz Gate is a generalist fund investing anywhere in the United States and will lead, co-invest with other VCs or invest alone. For more information visit www.fitzgate.com.

About Blue Sky Capital
Blue Sky Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in component technology and hardware, with a focus on electronics, photonics, post-silicon materials, and related manufacturing technologies. We have deep ties to Samtec Electronics, a global manufacturer of electronic interconnects, that gives us a strategic advantage – the ability to leverage partnerships and industry expertise, move quickly, and invest with conviction. For more information, visit blueskycapital.vc.

About AIC Ventures
AIC Ventures is an early-stage investor targeting deep tech applications grounded in academic research. AIC Ventures works closely with Academic Innovation Catalyst (AIC), a philanthropic platform that seeks to unlock innovation for positive impact by providing grant funding and commercialization support to academic innovators and research initiatives. For more information, visit aicventures.org.

About Sensetics
Sensetics is taking human and machine touch interaction into the digital age, providing the hardware and software that enable us to record, edit, and transmit touch in the same way that we do sight and sound. Sensetics Touch Signature^™ programmable fabrics, backed by AI-powered touch capture and editing software, grant a user, human or machine, the ability to experience in real time what a remotely operated vehicle, surgical tool, robot, or other user is touching, at the same resolution as the nerve endings in our fingertips. For more information, please visit https://www.senseticscorp.com/ .

Media Contact: 
Tim Turpin
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– Horizon Capital gana el premio a la innovación en transacciones de 2025 de la Asociación Global de Capital Privado por la transacción Datagroup-Vilia-Lifecell

KIEV, Ucrania, 13 de noviembre de 2025 — Horizon Capital, firma líder de capital privado con sede en Ucrania, se enorgullece de haber recibido el Premio a la Innovación en Transacciones 2025 de la Asociación Global de Capital Privado (GPCA). Este premio reconoce el liderazgo e innovación de Horizon Capital en la estructuración y ejecución de la adquisición de Datagroup-Vilia-Lifecell (DVL Telecom), una de las mayores operaciones de fusiones y adquisiciones en Ucrania en las últimas décadas, por parte de un consorcio liderado por NJJ Holding, del empresario global de telecomunicaciones y tecnología Xavier Niel. La GPCA es una asociación internacional líder que representa a más de 300 fondos de capital privado e inversores institucionales de más de 60 países.

La organización elogió la visión y la profesionalidad de Horizon Capital en la transformación de Datagroup, impulsando un crecimiento de ingresos de 3,8 veces y un crecimiento del EBITDA de 4,8 veces en cinco años, a la vez que generaba valor inclusivo y sostenible. El premio reconoce además el enfoque innovador de Horizon Capital en materia de alianzas y estructuración de capital. Para acelerar la entrada de NJJ al mercado ucraniano, su fondo Horizon Capital Growth Fund II, L.P. se asoció con NJJ, invirtiendo un 10 % junto con NJJ en DVL Telecom y obteniendo 435 millones de dólares en financiación de deuda de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (IFC) y el Banco Europeo de Reconstrucción y Desarrollo (BERD) para concluir esta transacción. Esta transacción representa una inversión de 1.500 millones de dólares para Ucrania, en precio de adquisición y gastos de capital garantizados, a pesar del conflicto armado en curso, lo que subraya la confianza de los inversores internacionales en la resiliencia y la seguridad futura de Ucrania.

“Nos sentimos profundamente honrados de recibir este reconocimiento de GPCA, que refleja el compromiso de Horizon Capital de movilizar capital significativo para empresas ucranianas, ampliar el tamaño y la escala de las oportunidades de inversión en el país y acelerar la entrada de inversores globales de primer nivel a Ucrania ahora, sin esperar a que termine la guerra“, declaró Lenna Koszarny, socia fundadora y consejera delegada de Horizon Capital. “Compartimos este premio con nuestro socio Xavier Niel y el equipo de NJJ, con Mykhailo Shelemba y el equipo de Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell, y con la increíble comunidad empresarial ucraniana que ha demostrado una resiliencia, una fortaleza y una determinación extraordinarias para superar circunstancias difíciles“, añadió.

El distinguido jurado de GPCA señaló que la transacción Datagroup-Volia-lifecell demostró “confianza no solo en la resiliencia de Ucrania, sino también en la capacidad de Horizon Capital para ejecutar acuerdos históricos bajo un riesgo geopolítico significativo”.

“El éxito del acuerdo Datagroup–Volia–lifecell demuestra cómo la inversión selectiva y de valor añadido puede generar un impacto extraordinario incluso en tiempos difíciles. Esto se alinea con nuestra estrategia principal para nuestro futuro Fondo Catalyst, que se centra en asociarse con inversores estratégicos y financieros globales para acelerar su entrada en el mercado ucraniano y proporcionar capital esencial para la reconstrucción del país, en particular en sectores vitales como la energía, la infraestructura digital y los materiales y servicios de construcción“, añadió Dmytro Boroday, socio de Horizon Capital.

Horizon Capital se dedica a asociarse con fundadores y empresas visionarias que transforman Ucrania, impulsando el crecimiento, la innovación y el valor a largo plazo para estas empresas y el país.

Acerca de la Asociación Global de Capital Privado (GPCA): La Asociación Global de Capital Privado (GPCA) es una organización internacional que representa a inversores de capital privado que gestionan más de 2 billones de dólares en activos en Asia, Latinoamérica, África, Europa Central y Oriental y Oriente Medio. La GPCA conecta a inversores y otras partes interesadas, promueve las mejores prácticas del sector y destaca el papel fundamental del capital privado en el impulso del crecimiento económico y la innovación a nivel mundial.

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KYIV, Ukraine, 13 novembre 2025 — Horizon Capital, une société de capital-investissement de premier plan basée en Ukraine, est fière de recevoir le prix 2025 Deal Innovation Award décerné par la Global Private Capital Association (GPCA). Ce prix récompense le leadership et l’innovation d’Horizon Capital dans la structuration et l’exécution de l’acquisition de Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell (DVL Telecom) – l’une des plus importantes opérations de fusion-acquisition en Ukraine depuis des décennies – par un consortium dirigé par NJJ Holding de Xavier Niel, entrepreneur mondial dans le domaine des télécommunications et de la technologie. GPCA est une association internationale de premier plan qui représente plus de 300 fonds de capital privé et investisseurs institutionnels de plus de 60 pays.

L’organisation a salué la vision et le professionnalisme d’Horizon Capital dans la transformation de Datagroup, qui a permis de multiplier par 3,8 le chiffre d’affaires et par 4,8 l’excédent brut d’exploitation sur cinq ans, tout en assurant une création de valeur inclusive et durable. Ce prix récompense également l’approche innovante d’Horizon Capital en matière de partenariat et de structuration du capital. Pour accélérer l’entrée de NJJ sur le marché ukrainien, son fonds Horizon Capital Growth Fund II, L.P. s’est associé à NJJ, investissant 10 % aux côtés de NJJ dans DVL Telecom, et levant 435 millions de dollars de financement par emprunt auprès de la Société financière internationale (SFI) et de la Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement (BERD) afin de conclure cette transaction. Cette transaction représente un investissement de 1,5 milliard de dollars pour l’Ukraine, en prix d’acquisition et en investissements garantis, malgré la guerre en cours, ce qui souligne la confiance des investisseurs internationaux dans la résilience et la sécurité de l’avenir de l’Ukraine.

« Nous sommes très honorés de recevoir cette reconnaissance de la GPCA, qui reflète l’engagement d’Horizon Capital à mobiliser des capitaux importants pour les entreprises ukrainiennes, à élargir la taille et l’échelle des opportunités bancables dans le pays et à accélérer l’entrée des investisseurs mondiaux de premier plan en Ukraine maintenant, sans attendre la fin de la guerre , » a déclaré Lenna Koszarny, associée fondatrice et PDG d’Horizon Capital. « Ce prix est partagé avec notre partenaire Xavier Niel et l’équipe NJJ, avec Mykhailo Shelemba et l’équipe Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell, et avec l’incroyable communauté d’affaires ukrainienne qui a fait preuve d’une résilience, d’une force et d’une détermination extraordinaires en surmontant des circonstances difficiles », a-t-elle ajouté sur .

Le jury distingué du GPCA a noté que la transaction Datagroup-Volia-lifecell a démontré « la confiance non seulement dans la résilience de l’Ukraine, mais aussi dans la capacité d’Horizon Capital à réaliser des transactions de premier plan en dépit d’un risque géopolitique important ».

« Le succès de l’opération Datagroup-Volia-lifecell démontre que des investissements ciblés et à valeur ajoutée peuvent avoir un impact considérable, même en période difficile. Cette démarche s’inscrit dans la stratégie de base de notre futur fonds Catalyst, qui vise à établir des partenariats avec des investisseurs stratégiques et financiers mondiaux afin d’accélérer leur entrée sur le marché ukrainien et de fournir des capitaux essentiels à la reconstruction du pays, en particulier dans des secteurs vitaux tels que l’énergie, l’infrastructure numérique et les matériaux et services de construction » a ajouté Dmytro Boroday, partenaire d’Horizon Capital.

Horizon Capital se consacre à l’établissement de partenariats avec des fondateurs visionnaires et des entreprises qui transforment l’Ukraine, en stimulant la croissance, l’innovation et la valeur à long terme pour ces entreprises et le pays.

À propos de la Global Private Capital Association (GPCA) : La Global Private Capital Association (GPCA) est une organisation internationale représentant des investisseurs en capital privé qui gèrent plus de 2 000 milliards de dollars d’actifs en Asie, en Amérique latine, en Afrique, en Europe centrale et orientale et au Moyen-Orient. Le GPCA met en relation les investisseurs et les parties prenantes, promeut les meilleures pratiques du secteur et souligne le rôle vital des capitaux privés dans la croissance économique et l’innovation dans le monde entier.

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KYIV, Ukraine, 13. November 2025 — Horizon Capital, ein führendes Private-Equity-Unternehmen mit Sitz in der Ukraine, ist stolz darauf, von der Global Private Capital Association (GPCA) mit dem Deal Innovation Award 2025 ausgezeichnet zu werden. Die Auszeichnung würdigt die Führungsrolle und Innovation von Horizon Capital bei der Strukturierung und Durchführung der Übernahme von Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell (DVL Telecom) – eine der größten M&A-Transaktionen in der Ukraine seit Jahrzehnten – durch ein Konsortium unter Führung der NJJ Holding des globalen Telekommunikations- und Technologieunternehmers Xavier Niel. Die GPCA ist ein führender internationaler Verband, der über 300 private Kapitalfonds und institutionelle Anleger aus über 60 Ländern vertritt.

Die Organisation lobte die Vision und Professionalität von Horizon Capital bei der Transformation von Datagroup, die zu einem 3,8-fachen Umsatzwachstum und einem 4,8-fachen EBITDA-Wachstum über fünf Jahre geführt und gleichzeitig eine umfassende, nachhaltige Wertschöpfung ermöglicht hat. Die Auszeichnung würdigt außerdem den innovativen Ansatz von Horizon Capital bei der Partnerschafts- und Kapitalstrukturierung. Um den Markteintritt von NJJ in der Ukraine zu beschleunigen, ging sein Fonds Horizon Capital Growth Fund II, L.P. eine Partnerschaft mit NJJ ein, indem er gemeinsam mit NJJ 10 % in DVL Telecom investierte und 435 Millionen US-Dollar an Fremdkapital von der International Finance Corporation (IFC) und der Europäischen Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung (EBRD) aufnahm, um diese Transaktion abzuschließen. Diese Transaktion stellt für die Ukraine eine Investition in Höhe von 1,5 Mrd. USD dar, die sich aus dem Kaufpreis und den garantierten Investitionskosten zusammensetzt, und dies trotz des anhaltenden Krieges. Dies unterstreicht das Vertrauen der internationalen Investoren in die Widerstandsfähigkeit und die sichere Zukunft der Ukraine.

„Wir fühlen uns zutiefst geehrt, diese Anerkennung von GPCA zu erhalten, die das Engagement von Horizon Capital widerspiegelt, bedeutendes Kapital für ukrainische Unternehmen zu mobilisieren, die Größe und den Umfang bankfähiger Möglichkeiten im Land zu erweitern und den Eintritt erstklassiger globaler Investoren in die Ukraine jetzt zu beschleunigen und nicht auf das Ende des Krieges zu warten , “ sagte Lenna Koszarny, Gründungspartnerin und CEO von Horizon Capital. „Diese Auszeichnung teilen wir mit unserem Partner Xavier Niel und dem NJJ-Team, mit Mykhailo Shelemba und dem Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell-Team sowie mit der unglaublichen ukrainischen Geschäftswelt, die außergewöhnliche Widerstandsfähigkeit, Stärke und Entschlossenheit bei der Überwindung schwieriger Umstände beweist”, fügte sie hinzu .

Die hochkarätige Jury des GPCA stellte fest, dass die Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell-Transaktion „nicht nur das Vertrauen in die Widerstandsfähigkeit der Ukraine, sondern auch in die Fähigkeit von Horizon Capital, wegweisende Transaktionen unter erheblichen geopolitischen Risiken durchzuführen, unter Beweis stellt”.

„Der Erfolg des Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell-Geschäfts zeigt, wie gezielte, wertsteigernde Investitionen auch in schwierigen Zeiten eine überdurchschnittliche Wirkung erzielen können. Dies steht im Einklang mit unserer Kernstrategie für unseren künftigen Catalyst Fund, der sich auf die Zusammenarbeit mit globalen strategischen und Finanzinvestoren konzentriert, um deren Eintritt in den ukrainischen Markt zu beschleunigen und wichtiges Kapital für den Wiederaufbau des Landes bereitzustellen, insbesondere in wichtigen Sektoren wie Energie, digitale Infrastruktur sowie Baumaterialien und -dienstleistungen” fügte Dmytro Boroday, Partner bei Horizon Capital hinzu.

Horizon Capital hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, mit visionären Gründern und Unternehmen zusammenzuarbeiten, die die Ukraine umgestalten, um Wachstum, Innovation und langfristigen Wert für diese Unternehmen und das Land zu schaffen.

Über die Global Private Capital Association (GPCA): Die Global Private Capital Association (GPCA) ist eine internationale Mitgliederorganisation, die private Kapitalanleger vertritt, die in Asien, Lateinamerika, Afrika, Mittel- und Osteuropa sowie im Nahen Osten ein Vermögen von über 2 Billionen US-Dollar verwalten. Die GPCA bringt Investoren und Stakeholder zusammen, fördert bewährte Praktiken der Branche und unterstreicht die wichtige Rolle des Privatkapitals bei der Förderung von Wirtschaftswachstum und Innovation weltweit.

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