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Capria Network invests USD92.1m in Global South as of 2020

Capria Ventures, a global investor with the largest network of fund managers in emerging markets, termed the Global South, has released its annual impact report. According to the report, Capria and its affiliated network of funds have invested USD92.1 million as of December 2020, impacting 16.5 million lives across regions

ICAS World secures significant investment to drive growth and fund acquisitions

ICAS World, a leading global provider of Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP), crisis management solutions and people development, will use a significant investment from the alternative lender BOOST&Co to drive its future growth and fund further acquisitions, after demand for its services surged in the wake of a growing awareness of

Medical research

Ropes & Gray represents Acceleron in USD11.5bn sale

Ropes & Gray has advised Acceleron in its USD11.5 billion sale to Merck & Co. This is one of Merck’s biggest acquisitions and diversifies the pharmaceutical company’s pipeline by adding Acceleron’s drugs to target rare diseases. The transaction was announced on 30 September.

Bernhard Capital Partners to acquire RailWorks Corp from Wind Point Partners

Bernhard Capital Partners Management, a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm, is to acquire RailWorks Corp (RailWorks), a North American rail infrastructure solutions provider, from Wind Point Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm.  The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021, subject to customary closing

Virtu makes strategic investment in ClearList

Virtu Financial, a provider of trading solutions and liquidity to the global markets, has become a strategic investor in ClearList. Other investors in ClearList include GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments, Tudor Global Trading, founded by legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones, and David “Tiger” Williams, founder

Confidential computing startup Profian secures USD5m in seed round

Profian, a confidential computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, has secured USD5 million in seed funding.  The round was co-led by Project A Ventures and Illuminate  Financial, and included angel investors: Olivier Pomel, Chief Executive Officer of Datadog; Tyler McMullen, Chief Technology Officer of Fastly; Till Schneidereit, Chairman

Kyma Investment Partners holds first closing of fund at EUR100m

Kyma Investment Partners SGR (KYMA), an asset management company with a EUR130 million target size for its first fund dedicated to the digital transformation of Italian SMEs and specific focus on Education and Information Technology, has held its first closing at around EUR100 million.  The funds were raised from primary

No-code software Heyflow raises USD6m

Heyflow, the industry’s first no-code platform for interactive user experiences, has closed a USD6 million seed financing round led by Project A Ventures. Heyflow solves the growing challenge companies face when trying to design high-converting user experiences, fast and cost-efficiently. Heyflow provides companies with a platform to build, design and

finnCap Cavendish advises on sale of Sentenial/Nuapay

finnCap Cavendish (Cavendish), part of financial advisory firm finnCap Group, has advised on the sale of Sentenial Group and its open banking brand Nuapay, an end-to-end payments platform specialised in account-to-account transactions, to EML Payments, an Australian-listed payments technology company for EUR108 million. Through its regulated subsidiary Nuapay, Sentenial operates

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