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Carlyle raises more than $3 billion to invest in European tech
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Carlyle Group is displayed at the company's office in Tokyo, Japan October 17, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
By Emma-Victoria Farr
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. buyout firm Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) has raised more than three billion euros ($3.12 billion) for a pan-European technology fund that is taking advantage of "pockets of life" in the economy, the co-heads of Carlyle Europe Technology Partners told Reuters.
Focused on lower mid-market and growth technology companies across Europe, the fund, called CETP V, has exceeded its 2.5 billion euro target in less than a year of fundraising, more than doubling the size of the previous fund CETP IV.
With an average investment horizon of five years, it is targeting areas such as cybersecurity, digital transformation and cleantech, as well as software applications for financial services, healthcare and infrastructure, Michael Wand and Vladimir Lasocki said.
Lasocki said there were opportunities in less impacted private markets, despite the plunge in tech valuations and a broad tech selloff in public markets following the pandemic and crisis caused by the Ukraine war.
Carlyle aims to invest in approximately 20-30 companies through the new fund and in most cases will buy a majority stake.
It will, however, reserve about 15% of the fund for growth equity transactions, Wand and Lasocki said.
The fund will write equity cheques of up to 250 million euros, resulting in deals from between 100 million euros and 500 million euros in enterprise value, they said.
Targeting B2B technology businesses in Europe, Carlyle will support portfolio firms with plans to become more international, for example breaking into the U.S. market.
It will also work with the companies to upgrade management teams and accelerate growth via M&A transactions, the co-heads said.
The fund already has two investments - Euro Techno Com Group (ETC) a value-added distributor of telecoms equipment which it sold to Cinven in June, rolling on a minority stake into its new fund, and digital marketing agency Incubeta, which it acquired earlier this month.
(This story has been refiled to remove the repeated word in the final paragraph)
($1 = 0.9625 euros)
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