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Tamara Mellon, the direct-to-consumer women’s luxury footwear brand, announced a $50 million Series C round of financing last week, making it one of the largest to date for a female-founded fashion brand. London-based investment firm Centricus led the latest round, with continued participation from existing investors, including NEA and Quadrille Capital. Dalinc Ariburnu...

Virtualitics, the breakthrough pioneer in next-generation big data visualization and analytics, today announced the close of a $7 million Series B round of equity funding led by Centricus, a global investment platform, and participated by existing investor the Venture Reality Fund (‘The VR Fund’) and other private investors.

Goldman Sachs’ co-head of global fixed income, currency, and commodities sales, Dalinc Ariburnu, recently left the bank. Jim Esposito, who was recently promoted to chief strategy officer of the securities division, has replaced Ariburnu while also continuing in his strategy role.

Centricus Asset Management Ltd. and Triller Inc. are seeking to buy TikTok’s operations in the U.S. and several other countries from ByteDance Ltd. for $20 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

UEFA is in discussions with Centricus Asset Management over a 6 billion-euro ($7.2 billion) financing package to overhaul its flagship soccer tournament and stop plans for a new breakaway Super League.

 

Centricus has been in talks with UEFA for a number of months regarding financing, a person familiar with the matter said. The investment firm had discussed an initial package of about 4.2 billion euros, which was raised to 6 billion euros following the rival Super League proposal, the person said.

 

Centricus, which oversees about $30 billion in assets according to its website, is well connected to large, wealthy institutions in the Middle East and Asia, and helped SoftBank Group Corp. raise $100 billion for its massive Vision Fund.

The firm was started in 2016 by Nizar Al-Bassam, a former investment banker at Deutsche Bank AG, and ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Dalinc Ariburnu. Despite running a small team from London, Centricus has become known for a string of opportunistic deals. It is currently working with Indian commodities tycoon Anil Agarwal on a plan to invest $10 billion in turnaround opportunities in India, and last year made a last-minute pitch to buy TikTok’s operations in several countries for $20 billion. In 2019 it made a foray into the high-end hotel and resorts sector and bought the iconic Capri Palace Hotel & Spa.

 

Within the sports industry, Centricus was also part of a consortium, alongside SoftBank and FIFA, to launch a brace of new soccer tournaments, and has held talks to invest in Swiss club FC Basel.

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