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Foresight completes sale of Accrosoft

Foresight Group (Foresight), a leading UK listed infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has sold Accrosoft Limited, a recruitment and employee onboarding software company, to Acendre Technologies Inc, a global HR software business headquartered in the US. Based in Loughborough, Accrosoft was founded in 2008 by Alex Khakbiz

9fin raises GBP8m in Series A round

9fin, a provider of data, news and predictive analytics for debt capital markets, has raised GBP8 million Series A round to fuel its expansion into the US. 

Warburg Pincus invests in Tiptree’s Fortegra

Tiptree has secured a USD200 million strategic investment in its insurance subsidiary, The Fortegra Group (Fortegra) from Warburg Pincus. The investment will give Warburg Pincus an approximate 24 per cent ownership in Fortegra on a fully diluted basis and is expected to close in the first quarter 2022. This transaction

Two Sigma Impact acquires Eclipse Advantage

Two Sigma Impact, the impact investing business of Two Sigma, has acquired Eclipse Advantage (Eclipse), a provider of outsourced supply chain workforce solutions specialising in servicing warehouses and distribution centres across the US and Canada.  Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Founded in 2003, Eclipse employs

Arete leads GBP1.6m investment deal in social media-led travel business

North west-based multi-family investment office Arete, has announced it has led a GBP1.6 million investment into Travel Seen, an early stage business co-founded by award-winning entrepreneur and travel professional, Jen Atkinson. The new venture, Travel Seen, is a ‘mass luxury’ travel agency that matches holidaymakers to destinations through social media

TA Associates to acquire a significant stake in Partners Group-owned Foncia

Partners Group, global private markets firm, is expanding the shareholder base of Foncia, a provider of residential property management services in Europe. Incoming shareholder TA Associates has agreed to acquire a 25 per cent stake in the business, while Partners Group will continue to hold a majority stake in the

UMB Fund Services launches automated OCR subscription and tender processing for registered closed-end funds

UMB Fund Services (UMBFS), a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation UMBF), has launched an automated optical character recognition (OCR) processing programme.  The technology enables faster, more accurate processing of handwritten subscription and tender documents by replacing manual reviews with OCR software and bot technology, turning what previously amounted to hundreds

Alter Way to join forces with Smile with the support of Keensight Capital

After six successful years of growth within the Econocom Group, Alter Way, an French player in open source computing specialising in consulting, managed services and the hosting of digital platforms in the cloud, is merging with Smile, a European specialist in digital and open source technologies. By selling 100 per

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