Funds affiliated with Lightyear Capital (Lightyear), a New York-based private equity firm focused on financial services, have led a recapitalisation of PracticeTek, a provider of vertical software and payments solutions to the retail healthcare market. Lightyear joins Greater Sum Ventures (GSV), an entrepreneurial family office, in the investment. Terms of
Lightrock and affiliates of DH Capital have co-led a USD100 million Series C funding round in software company Liqid, a specialist in composable software and solutions aimed at providing cloud-like speed, flexibility, and higher efficiency from data centre. Current investors Panorama Point Partners and Iron Gate Capital also participated.
JPIN Venture Catalysts Ltd (JPIN) has made a strategic investment in The Social Loan Company (TSLC), an AI-driven FinTech, providing bespoke financial products and services. JPIN is working alongside Rothschild & Co in a recently launched Series B funding round of USD200 million-plus for TSLC, which is seeing significant interest
JMI Equity (JMI), a growth equity firm focused on investing in software companies has led a USD85 million growth investment in ServiceTrade, a provider of software as a service (SaaS) applications for commercial service contractors. Existing investors Frontier Growth and Bull City Venture Partners also participated in the funding. With
Industrial Opportunity Partners (IOP), an operations-focused private equity firm, has completed the sale of portfolio company Union Corrugating Company Holdings to Cornerstone Building Brands, a manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America. Terms of the transaction, which is IOP’s eighth investment realisation from
Inflexion has completed the sale of its investment in Halo Technology Group, an independent provider of compatible optics, to Amphenol Corporation, a provider of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems. The transaction generated a 6x money multiple and 53 per cent IRR for investors in Inflexion funds
Eurazeo, Speedinvest, and Frst, as well as the co-founders of social app Zenly and game-studio Voodoo, have invested USD10.8 million in a seed funding round in activist investment platform, Tulipshare, which aims to empower individuals to make a positive change within some of the biggest household name companies in the
Davies, a specialist professional services and technology business, serving insurance and highly regulated markets, has acquired Sionic, an international consulting and technology firm serving the insurance, banking, and wider highly regulated markets. In March 2021 Davies announced that BC Partners had signed a definitive deal to take a majority stake
Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate services firm, HAS finalised a strategic investment of USD500 million in Greystone, a national commercial real estate finance company, acquiring a 40 per cent stake in Greystone’s Agency, FHA and Servicing businesses. Greystone, a multi-family lender, intends to use the capital to create
ClearCourse Partnership, a group of innovative technology companies providing market-leading software, services and integrated payments solutions, is to acquire Eworks Manager , a provider of job management software. Financial terms of the acquisition, which sees the Company strengthen the Group’s Business Services division, have not been disclosed.
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