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Former Dreambox CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson Joins Owl Ventures as Operating Partner

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Owl Ventures, the largest EdTech venture capital firm globally with over $2 billion assets under management, announced the addition of Jessie Woolley-Wilson as Operating Partner. Jessie brings a wealth of experience to Owl Ventures and its portfolio companies as she has worked in the education technology space for over 20 years to support school and district leaders in improving learning and life outcomes for K-12 and higher education students. Jessie is driven by a singular belief that all learners deserve high-quality educational opportunities, regardless of who they are or where they live.

Jessie was most recently the CEO and President of DreamBox Learning, an Owl Ventures portfolio company since 2015 that was acquired by Discovery Education in 2023. In addition to being a former Owl Ventures portfolio company CEO, Jessie currently serves on the boards of Owl Ventures portfolio companies Quizlet and Class Technologies.  In her new role, Jessie will have an integral role in sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities for Owl Ventures, providing strategic guidance and mentorship to Owl’s portfolio companies, and actively participating on their boards. Jessie will be a valuable resource to the investment team and a trusted advisor to Owl portfolio founders/CEOs as they scale their businesses.

“Jessie is one of the great education entrepreneurs and leaders of our generation.  She created enormous enterprise value alongside deep scaled social impact at DreamBox Learning”, said Tory Patterson, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Owl Ventures.  “She is a values-driven mentor to many of us who have been working hard to evangelize and scale the power of technology to drive broad equity and access in education.  She is a hero of mine, and I am deeply honored to now call her a Partner at Owl Ventures.  I am most excited for the next cohort of founders and CEOs who will benefit from her established excellence in leadership and powerful network within the education industry as she works to scale the next wave of great innovation.”

“I was introduced to Owl Ventures in 2015 when Tory Patterson decided to make a bet on DreamBox Learning and me as a CEO”, said Jessie Woolley-Wilson. “As an Owl Ventures portfolio company, we benefited from the partnership and sage counsel of the distinguished team at Owl who offered us capital, K12 sector expertise, as well as invaluable insights on consequential operations, go-to-market, product innovation and financial matters — all while supporting our mission to radically transform the way the world learns. I look forward to beginning this new and exciting chapter as Operating Partner to help identify, fund and scale the next generation of innovative companies that will transform the EdTech landscape in the US and abroad.”

Jessie joined DreamBox Learning® in 2010 as Chair, President, and CEO. She worked closely with board members such as Reed Hastings and Tory Patterson of Owl Ventures.  In 2018, she secured a $130 million investment in DreamBox from The Rise Fund, a global impact investment fund managed by TPG Growth, making DreamBox the most well-funded education startup that year. The company’s pioneering Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ platform has won more than 40 top education and technology industry awards and is used by more than 500,000 teachers and 6 million students across the US and throughout Canada and Mexico. In 2023 DreamBox Learning was acquired by Discovery Education, becoming part of a global learning platform with access to 45 million students and over 4 million educators.

Prior to joining DreamBox, Jessie served as president of Blackboard’s K-12 Group and LeapFrog SchoolHouse, the K-12 division of LeapFrog Enterprises. She also has held leadership positions at collegeboard.com, the interactive division of The College Board, and at Kaplan, the leading test preparation company in the U.S.

Jessie is a two-time recipient of EdTech Digest’s “EdTech Leadership Award” for her work in transformative innovation in education, and she has been named one of 2018’s “Top 100 Influencers in EdTech.” ASU GSV honored her with the “Innovator of Color” and “Power of Women” awards. Forbes honored Jessie as a “50 Over 50” honoree for her innovation in education, and The New York Times featured Jessie in its Corner Office column. She has also been featured in CNBC, NPR, and Business Insider, among other leading news publications. Regionally, Jessie has received multiple accolades for her leadership, including Seattle Business Magazine’s 2015 Executive Excellence Award in the “CEO of the Year” category, GeekWire’s 2019 “Big Tech CEO of the Year” award, the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2012 “Women of Influence” and 2020 “Innovator of the Year” awards, and the Ernst & Young 2019 “Entrepreneur Of The Year®” award in the Pacific Northwest region.

Jessie has supported the broader education community by serving on several boards, including Discovery Education, Quizlet, Class.com, and Western Governors University. She is also a board trustee of The Aspen Institute and the Pahara Institute. She has been a featured speaker at many international events, including TEDx Rainier, U.S. News and World Report’s STEM Solutions Conference, SXSWedu, DENT, GeekWire Summit, and the ASU GSV Summit. Jessie holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of Virginia. She is also a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow and moderator for the Aspen Institute.

About Owl Ventures
Owl Ventures is the largest venture capital fund in the world focused on the EdTech market with over $2 billion assets under management. The Silicon Valley and London based firm invests in the world’s leading education technology companies across the education spectrum encompassing PreK-12, higher education, future of work (career mobility/professional learning), and “EdTech+” (intersection of EdTech and other major industries such as FinTech and healthcare). Owl Ventures has deep domain expertise and leverages a global network of Limited Partners, investors, and strategic partners to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category leading companies. Learn more at www.OwlVC.com. Owl’s annual Education Outcomes Report can be viewed at www.OwlVC.com/outcomes.php.

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New Amsterdam Invest N.V. annual reporting 2023

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AMSTERDAM, April 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — New Amsterdam Invest N.V. (the “Company”, or “New Amsterdam Invest”, or “NAI”), a commercial real estate company listed on Euronext Amsterdam, announces a slight delay in reporting its annual results 2023, today. 

Due to circumstances, the preparation and finalization of the audit of the annual report 2023 has been slightly delayed. As we consider delivering a high-quality completion of this process of the utmost importance, we decided to delay publication of the audited annual report 2023 to publication of the AGM agenda on DV. 8 May 2024.

Strategic Highlights 2023

  • On 2 June 2023, all Company’s shareholders approved the proposed Somerset Group Business Combination, changing New Amsterdam Invest from a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (“SPAC”) into a commercial real estate company listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
  • On 2 June 2023 NAI acquired four properties in the UK and one in the USA via different subsidiaries.
  • In line with its strategy NAI acquired another investment property in the UK via one of its subsidiaries, on 26 September 2023.

Outline 2023 results

Net Rental Income for full year 2023 is consistent with outlook as provided at Half Year 2023 and the Net Result from Operations over 2023 is positive in accordance with written expectations. Given accounting requirements, one-off costs (in connection with the transition from SPAC to operational company) and (non-cash) revaluations of investment property were required, resulting in a 2023 net loss.

Outlook 2024

For 2024 NAI expects to be profitable and well on track to realize the financial objectives the Company has set out at listing. More specific NAI reiterates that its current portfolio should enable it to realize a 2024 net rental income of approximately € 6.6 million and a result before tax of € 2.6 million, excluding potential impact of revaluation of investment property and or the acquisition of new investment property.

Annual General Meeting scheduled for 21 June 2024 DV

The agenda for the 21 June 2024 DV AGM will be published on 8 May 2024 DV.

Financial Calendar

  • 8 May 2024, Publication Agenda General Meeting of Shareholders 21 June 2024 and Annual Report 2023
  • 21 June 2024, General Meeting of Shareholders
  • 29 August 2024, half year 2024 results publication

About New Amsterdam Invest

New Amsterdam Invest N.V. is a commercial real estate company listed at Euronext Amsterdam with operating companies in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The main objective of New Amsterdam Invest is running commercial activities including the owning, (re-)developing, acquiring, divesting, maintaining, letting out and/or otherwise operating commercial real estate, all in the broadest possible meaning.

All information about New Amsterdam Invest, including its principles and objectives can be found in the Shareholder Circular dated April 21, 2023, and the prospectus dated June 21, 2021. This and all other relevant documentation can be found on the company website: www.newamsterdaminvest.com

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Elements of this press release contain or may contain information about New Amsterdam Invest N.V. within the meaning of Article 7(1) to (4) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

This press release may include statements, including NAI’s financial and operational medium-term objectives that are, or may be deemed to be, ”forward-looking statements”. These forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms ”believes”, ”estimates”, ”plans”, ”projects”, ”anticipates”, ”expects”, ”intends”, ”may”, ”will” or ”should” or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy, plans, objectives, goals, future events or intentions. Forward-looking statements may and often do differ materially from actual results. Any forward-looking statements reflect NAI’s current view with respect to future events and are subject to risks relating to future events and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to NAI’s business, results of operations, financial position, liquidity, prospects, growth or strategies. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made.

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Repurchases of shares by EQT AB during week 17, 2024

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STOCKHOLM, April 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Between 23 April 2024 and 26 April 2024 EQT AB (LEI code 213800U7P9GOIRKCTB34) (“EQT”) has repurchased 398,534 own ordinary shares (ISIN: SE0012853455)

The repurchases form part of the repurchase program of a maximum of 2,154,000 own ordinary shares for a total maximum amount of SEK 1,000,000,000 that EQT announced on 22 April 2024. The repurchase program, which runs between 23 April 2024 and 24 May 2024, is being carried out in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2016/1052.

EQT ordinary shares have been repurchased as follows:

Date:

Aggregated daily volume (number of shares):

Weighted average share price per day (SEK):

Total daily transaction value (SEK):     

23 April 2024

100,000

295.9264

29,592,640.00

24 April 2024

98,534

297.3100

29,295,143.54

25 April 2024

100,000

289.3646

28,936,460.00

26 April 2024

100,000

298.6324

29,863,240.00

Total accumulated over week 17/2024 

398,534

295.3010

117,687,483.54

Total accumulated during the repurchase program 

398,534

295.3010

117,687,483.54

All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB on behalf of EQT.

Following the above acquisitions and as of 26 April 2024, the number of shares in EQT, including EQT’s holding of own shares is set out in the table below.

Ordinary shares

Class C shares1

Total                                

Number of issued shares

1,245,048,412

881,555

1,245,929,967

Number of shares owned by EQT AB2 

60,873,363

60,873,363

Number of outstanding shares

1,184,175,049

881,555

1,185,056,604

1) Carry one tenth (1/10) of a vote.
2) EQT AB shares owned by EQT AB are not entitled to dividends or carry votes at shareholders’ meetings.

A full breakdown of the transactions is attached to this announcement.

Contact
Olof Svensson, Head of Shareholder Relations, +46 72 989 09 15 
EQT Press Office, [email protected], +46 8 506 55 334

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Estithmar Holding’s net profit* increases 10% to QAR 112 million in Q1 of 2024

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*Net profit attributable to shareholders

Estithmar Holding Q.P.S.C. discloses its financial results as follows:

  • Total revenue of QAR 796.6 million with a 3.9% increase from Q1 2023
  • Total gross profit of QAR 195.7 million with a 14.9% increase from Q1 2023
  • Net profit including minority rights of QAR 112.5 million with a 9.8% increase from Q1 2023
  • Net profit attributable to shareholders of QAR 111.7 million with a 10.4% increase from Q1 2023

DOHA, Qatar, April 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Estithmar Holding announced its financial results for the first quarter; for the period ended 31 March 2024, with total revenues of QAR 796.6 million marking a 3.9% increase over the same period last year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of QAR 111.7 million marking a 10.4% increase over the same period in 2023.

On this occasion, Eng. Mohammed Bin Bader Al-Sadah, Group CEO of Estithmar Holding commented: “The financial results of the first quarter reflect Estithmar Holding’s ongoing commitment to its overarching plan which emphasizes development and growth, especially that all our four sectors have played a pivotal role in driving revenue growth, with a particular and strong contribution from the healthcare sector.

“We are now reaping the rewards of our investments and endeavors in this promising sector, notably through The View Hospital in collaboration with Cedars Sinai, where this partnership has yielded numerous successes and achievements at both local and regional levels, drawing a significant influx of visitors. Furthermore, our emphasis on enhancing the international visiting doctors’ program, featuring medical experts from prominent countries, has further distinguished us. The View hospital has successfully facilitated and operated several groundbreaking medical procedures, marking a milestone in the region’s healthcare landscape.

“Estithmar Holding continues to expand regionally in this vital and pivotal sector, which is a key pillar for fostering excellence and growth, especially after the success of the company’s model, in securing impactful agreements and through exceptional global partnerships.

Furthermore, we are totally committed to executing our business strategy that emphasizes diversification of our revenue streams while expanding both locally and regionally across all sectors. This approach ensures sustainable growth and enhances value for shareholders.”

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