Darktrace has completed a USD22.5 million Series B with Summit Partners, a global growth equity investor. The round completes an exceptional growth year for Darktrace, with Talis Capital extending the Series A they led in March 2015, with a further USD1.8m prior to the Series B round. Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune
Backstop Solutions Group – a provider of cloud-based solutions designed to help the institutional investment industry save time, increase productivity and make better investment decisions – has partnered with Preqin Ltd. With this partnership, Backstop users can now seamlessly integrate Preqin investor data into their Backstop CRM platform. “Many of
Union Group has continued its expansion in the growing Peru hydropower sector with the acquisition of Empresa de Generación Eléctrica Canchayllo SAC (EGECSAC), a subsidiary of Rurelec PLC, for a total consideration of USD14.3 million. The deal includes a 5.26MW run-of-river hydro power plant in Junin, Peru, which adds to
Investors and fund managers alike frequently benchmark private equity returns against public markets in order to gauge the relative performance of their investments. For investors, it is an important exercise to undertake to inform portfolio construction decisions and to evaluate the performance of one asset class against another. For fund
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) inaugural European Conference, the Global Summit 2015, will be held on 27 October in London. The conference aims to broaden awareness of the important role alternative investments play in the European Union and help fund managers navigate evolving US and EU regulatory frameworks. “As
The number of high value buy-out deals in Wales doubled last year, as MBO activity has rebounded to pre-credit crunch levels, according to an analysis by Hugh James solicitors and PwC. According to Hugh James and PwC, there were six buy-out deals with an enterprise value of more than GBP3million
BrightBytes has secured a USD33 million Series C financing led by New York-based private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Rethink Education and Learn Capital also participating. The capital will be used to expand BrightBytes' Clarity platform for K-12 leaders, continue globalisation of its
Audible founder and CEO Donald Katz (pictured), Prudential Financial Vice Chairman Mark Grier and other leaders announced the formation of Newark Venture Partners at an event attended by Senator Cory Booker, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Acting Governor of New Jersey Kim Guadagno, former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, former Nebraska
This article investigates the future plans of institutional investors in infrastructure, featuring the latest data from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Infrastructure, Q2 2015. When investing in the infrastructure space, the majority of investors will target domestic opportunities in the next year (Fig 1). However, a large proportion of investors also
This extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Debt, Q2 2015 offers insight into the annualised contributions and distributions of direct lending and mezzanine funds, as well as examining the current record levels of dry powder in the asset class. Fig 1 shows the relationship of annualised contributions and distributions,
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