Last week London-based Balderton Capital, which is now actively deploying over USD1 billion in some of Europe’s most prolific breakout companies, announced the launch of a new tech growth fund – their largest in Europe to date. PEW caught up with partner Rana Yared who will manage the fund together
CAPZA Growth Tech is to acquire a minority stake in Advens, a cybersecurity and SOC-as-a-Service specialist in France. Founder Alexandre Fayeulle and the current management team remain majority shareholders. As a result of the transaction, which values Advens at more than EUR100 million, the shareholding will be extended to one
Akur8, an insurtech automating insurance pricing with its proprietary Transparent AI, has closed a Series B funding round of USD30 million, bringing its total funding to USD42 million. The investment round closed less than two years after the P&C and health insurance pricing SaaS solution provider first commercialised its platform,
Inflexion has completed the acquisition of Infront ASA, a European provider of financial market data and software solutions currently listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The founders of Infront, CEO Kristian Nesbak and CIO Morten Lindeman, are reinvesting a portion of their proceeds alongside Inflexion. The investment is being made
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, has launched an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) and specialised depositary services in Ireland. The launch of an AIFM management company follows approval by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) for the acquisition of Beechbrook Capital’s Irish AIFM,
EQT Private Equity (EQT) has acquired a stake in Parcel2Go, a UK largest parcel delivery marketplace and e-commerce shipping platform, from Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), management and certain selling shareholders.
Templum, a provider of next-generation capital markets infrastructure for alternatives and private securities, has closed a strategic financing round led by WestCap. The partnership enables Templum to expand on marketplace services for its growing list of global clientele and enhance liquidity for institutional and retail investors across the ecosystem. Templum
GP Bullhound has made a new investment in Lingokids, an educational platform for children, as part of a Series C funding round of USD40 million led by an undisclosed investor, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, and Ravensburger among others. Launched in 2016, Lingokids is the playlearning app for
Car buying comparison specialist, carwow has acquired used car buying platform, Wizzle. carwow, which investment backers include Vitruvian Partners, Balderton Capital, Accel, Episode 1 and Daimler, connects more online car buyers with more dealers and OEMs than any other online marketplace and is the brand of choice for more than
Private capital investments in Spain reached a record volume in 2020, totalling EUR6.27 billion, a growth of 33 per cent of the volume reached in 2019. However, in this booming sector, diversity does not move at the same pace: while many of the jobs that are not directly related to
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