Deals
Palo Alto-based Social Capital, a tech holding company founded by Chamath Palihapitiya that supports innovative companies in healthcare, artificial intelligence, climate change and space has acquired Hustle, a peer-to-peer text messaging platform.
Chief executive officer Steven Pease and the Hustle management team will continue in their roles following the deal.
Founded in 2014, Hustle offers peer-to-peer text communication tools that create human connections between organisations and their contacts. Hustle’s TCPA compliant platform enables two-way conversations that develop connections over text messaging, eliminating barriers and igniting support for advocacy groups, fundraising, admissions and recruiting.
Organisations using Hustle already include the American
EQT Infrastructure’s EQT Infrastructure IV fund has agreed to acquire EdgeConneX from an investor group led by Providence Equity Partners (Providence).EdgeConneX builds and operates data centres for cloud, content, network and other service providers requiring both larger purpose-built facilities as well as edge facilities located closer to consumer and enterprise users to support latency-sensitive applications cost effectively. The Company’s broad footprint and relentless customer-focused business strategy have proven ideally suited to support these sophisticated customers’ strategic data centre demands, from the Hyperscale to the Edge. As customers rapidly expand their critical infrastructure around the globe, they look to EdgeConneX as
DayDayCook, a China and Hong Kong-based lifestyle cooking platform, has raised USD20 million in funding to step up its expansion. The round was led by London-based venture capital firm Talis Capital with participation from Hong Kong-based VC Ironfire Ventures. Founded in 2012 in Hong Kong by Norma Chu, DayDayCook is China’s leading cooking multimedia platform, providing a wide variety of quality recipes and methods for traditional and modern Chinese dishes to its users. The platform has over 475 million views per month from its website, mobile app, and multiple online streaming and video channels such as YouTube, China-based iQiyi, TikTok and
Panta Capital has launched its Private Equity Co-Investment Service and its seed investment of EUR500,000 in fertiliser startup Rembuyung. Headquartered in Jakarta, with EUR23.3 million AUM, the firm will focus on raising private equity investment from Europe to co-invest in high growth companies and projects in Indonesia, combining in-country knowledge with Germanic rigour and investment procedures, while giving practical support to promote growth in investee enterprises. Panta will act as lead investor, providing investment research, due diligence and advisory services to its private equity co-investor clients.
Panta Capital’s founder and CEO is German-educated entrepreneur Daniel Tjoa, who started investing while
Cyware, a provider of cyber fusion solutions, has raised a USD10 million Series A round to enhance its threat intelligence automation, threat response, and security orchestration solutions. This round was led by the Prelude Fund (the venture practice at Mercato Partners), and Tanium, a provider of unified endpoint management and security. Cyware’s seed investors, Emerald Development Managers and Great Road Holdings, also participated in the round.
“This latest financing round is an important milestone in Cyware’s journey. It strengthens our ability to continue our growth and become a more innovative, customer-centric company,” says Anuj Goel, CEO and co-founder of Cyware. “As
Foresight Group (Foresight) has completed the acquisition of Pensions Infrastructure Platform Limited (PiP) which was previously announced in July 2020.Paula Burgess, CEO of PiP, becomes a Partner of Foresight and the PiP team, including CIO Ed Wilson and Head of Asset Management Andy Clapp, have joined Foresight’s infrastructure team of investment and asset management professionals.
The PiP platform and portfolio will continue as a discrete entity within Foresight, and the PiP team will continue to manage PiP’s assets and relationships with its LPs, building on this base for further diversification.
The acquisition sees Foresight’s assets under management grow by 38
Payment orchestration platform, Bridge, has received an additional GBP2.5 million from Gloag Investment Group to scale up its growing presence in the UK eCommerce and ePayments space and continue advancement of its technology innovation.
Evotec SE and Novo Nordisk have formed a strategic allaince to focus on the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics for patients with chronic kidney disease.
O’Melveny has advised The Friedkin Group on its acquisition of the controlling stake in the professional Italian Serie A football club AS Roma. The deal was first announced on 5 August, 2020 and closed on 17 August, 2020.
Romulus and Remus Investments LLC—a company designated by The Friedkin Group for the purpose of the acquisition—has acquired 100 per cent of the assets directly and indirectly owned by AS Roma SPV LLC, which includes approximately 86.6 per cent of the share capital of AS Roma SpA.
Headquartered in Houston, TX, The Friedkin Group is a privately held consortium of businesses and investments
Global private equity investors Advent International (Advent) has completed its offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Forescout Technologies’ common stock for USD29.00 per share, without interest and subject to any applicable withholding taxes, net to the seller in cash. Advent intends to complete the acquisition of Forescout imminently through a second-step merger.
Advent has partnered with Crosspoint Capital Partners (Crosspoint Capital), a private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries, on this transaction. Together they will provide Forescout with resources and expertise to help drive continued innovation and scale in Enterprise of Things security, delivering
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