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SecZetta secures USD20.5m in Series B funding

SecZetta, a provider of third-party identity risk solutions, today announced an oversubscribed USD20.5 million Series B fundraising round.  The round was led by SYN Ventures, along with new investor MassMutual Ventures. The round also included participation from existing investors ClearSky and Rally Ventures, which strengthened their investments in SecZetta.  

BlackRock launches new tool to help advisers allocate to private markets

BlackRock has launched the Expected Return Analyzer, an portfolio analysis tool, to help advisers allocate to private markets.  Powered by BlackRock’s Aladdin technology, the Expected Return Analyzer draws on the BlackRock Investment Institute’s proprietary Capital Market Assumptions to show advisers how adding private markets or other asset class exposures to

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

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

Prometheus alts raises USD5m in seed funding

Prometheus Alternative Investments has raised USD5 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The round was led by 8VC/Joe Lonsdale with participation from a diverse set of prominent investors including Kyle Bass (Hayman Capital), Gaingels, John Quinn (Quinn Emanuel), Gil Weisblum (family office of Barry Diller), Jared Rothman (family office of

Apex Group launches Apex Profilir following acquisition

Apex Group has launched a new digital marketing platform, Apex Profilir (Profilir), which offers clients a modern approach to investor relations, incorporating a digital marketing platform designed to connect LPs and GPs and support the capital raising process. Following the acquisition of SaaS platform Senasen, Apex Group has rebranded the

BlueVoyant acquires Concanon

Cybersecurity specialist BlueVoyant has acquired global professional services and big data solutions consultancy, Concanon, to provide the services and solutions to further empower Splunk customers worldwide and to maximise their investments in Splunk Cloud Platform. With this acquisition, Concanon becomes a standalone but wholly-owned subsidiary of BlueVoyant. Concanon will coordinate

L Squared recapitalises Heggerty

L Squared Capital Partners (L Squared) is leading the recapitalisation of Literacy Resources, d/b/a Heggerty, an early childhood literacy solutions provider offering a suite of phonemic and phonological awareness solutions. Heggerty’s product offering is anchored by its daily systematic phonemic and phonological awareness curriculum delivered in print and digital modalities

Inflexion acquires Detectortesters

Inflexion has made a majority investment in Detectortesters, a global manufacturer of fire detector testing equipment. The investment is being made by Inflexion Buyout Fund V. Founded in 1965, Detectortesters designs and produces solutions that enable testing of smoke, heat and carbon monoxide fire detectors. With a worldwide customer base,

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