CloudSense, a leading Salesforce-native, industry-specific cloud company, has secured a USD77 million growth investment from Vector Capital. The funding will be used to accelerate CloudSense’s rapid global expansion, especially in the North American markets, and to accelerate product innovation and development of enterprise focused vertical solutions. CloudSense enables leading customer-centric enterprises

Alternative Asset manager Ares Management closed approximately USD3.0 billion in investments commitments across 67 transactions during the third quarter of 2017. Accruent/Genstar Capital – Ares served as administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint book runner for a first lien term loan to support Accruent’s acquisition strategy and to refinance the company’s

Amundi Private Equity Funds (Amundi PEF), a key player in private equity, and Entrepreneur Venture, have acquired a minority stake in Greenoffice, a designer of innovative solutions for selective sorting, to support its international development.  Since its creation in 2004, Greenoffice has revolutionised selective sorting by designing innovative solutions that

Dallas-based private equity firm CenterOak Partners has completed a majority investment in FullSpeed Automotive. Based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, FullSpeed Automotive is one of the nation’s largest independent franchisors of automotive quick lube centres. President and Chief Executive Officer John B Adams and the existing management team will continue to

Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, has closed a Series B round of financing led by Sequoia India, which brings the company’s total funding to USD21 million. Smartkarma is disrupting the traditional model of investment research, which has long been dominated by investment banks. It is a model

Certain funds managed by Ellington Management Group, a US-based investment manager, are to become minority shareholders in the Thea Artemis Greek Non-Performing Loans (NPL) servicing platform, subject to regulatory approval. The Ellington Funds have also made an investment alongside DDM to participate in the income generated from the servicing and

Preservation Capital Partners (Preservation Capital), a financial services focused private equity firm, is to acquire a substantial stake in Ascent Underwriting (Ascent), a cyber and specialty lines MGA. Preservation Capital will provide significant growth capital to support Ascent’s growth ambitions through the development of new business lines and complementary products

Dow Schofield Watts’ technology advised on a GBP5.5 million fundraising by Manchester-based Hello Soda, a global text and big data analytics service. NVM Private Equity has invested GBP4 million in the business alongside an additional GBP1.5 million venture debt facility from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank’s Growth Finance team.   David

Recorded Future, the leader in threat intelligence (TI), has raised USD25 million in a Series E round of funding to build on growing momentum and expand its innovative software product and services to solve a wider spectrum of cybersecurity challenges. Led by Insight Venture Partners, the funding will support the