Deals
FF&P Private Equity (FPE), has backed the management buy-out of the human capital management software business, Kallidus Holdings Limited (Kallidus).
FPE has invested alongside the existing management team and will take a majority stake in the business.
Kallidus is an award winning provider of SaaS software solutions that helps organisations to recruit, assess, evaluate and develop employees of mid-cap firms across Europe employing between 500 and 10,000 people. The business operates in a large (over $9Bn) global and fast growing (over 20%) market. As an established and high growth player in the human capital management market, Kallidus offers a
Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) and Natixis have closed the debt financing for Seabras-1, a new subsea fibre optic cable system between the commercial and financial centres of Brazil and the US.
Natixis acted as sole Structuring Bank, Underwriter, and Mandated Lead Arranger for the senior debt facilities. Given the involvement of the French export credit agency Compagnie Française d’Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur (COFACE), Natixis also acted as COFACE Agent for the transaction. Seabras-1 was developed by Seaborn, with equity being provided by Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, as announced in January 2015. Natixis also acted as exclusive
Araxid Prime has closed a USD12.5 million Series A funding round led jointly by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) and Columbia Capital (ColCap).
The funds will be used to extend technology that is currently being used by leaders in healthcare and the public sector, and apply it to other industries such as retail, telecom and financial services.
Araxid offers a next-generation SaaS-based technology for resolving linking, and privatising disparate identities stored in one or more databases – whether customers, partners or employees. It can be implemented as a standalone solution or it can be plugged into existing, on-premises Master Data Management
NXT Capital has held the closing of the NXT Capital Senior Loan Fund III, a leveraged loan fund that will invest in first and second lien loan transactions originated and underwritten by NXT Capital’s Corporate Finance Group.
Transactions include term, delayed draw term, revolving credit, stretch senior, unitranche, first lien term behind revolver, split lien and last-out term loans made primarily to private equity-sponsored middle market companies across a wide range of industries.
The addition of Senior Loan Fund III increases the third-party capital committed to the Corporate Finance Group’s asset management business to over USD4 billion. The fund received
3Scan has closed a Series A fundraising round of USD6.7 million. The financing, led by Lux Capital will support the continued development and deployment of 3Scan’s KESM technology.
"While medical science has made incredible advances in recent years, anatomic pathology has remained relatively stuck in the 19th century – a manual, analog, and highly qualitative discipline," says 3Scan founder and CEO Todd Huffman. "Our technology transforms anatomic pathology into an automated, digitised, and quantitative medical science. In a sense, we’re helping pathologists better diagnose disease and develop new therapies in much the same way that DNA sequencing has advanced the
The shareholders of trial strategy consulting firm DOAR have bought back private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson’s stake in the company.
DOAR provides trial strategy consulting and related services for individuals, law firms and corporations involved in high stakes civil, regulatory and white collar criminal litigation. The initial investment by Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) occurred in 2005 with additional investments used to fund growth through the addition of new lines of business and acquisitions.
"VSS has been a terrific partner over the past 9 years. I appreciate their support and commitment to the company's mission,” says Paul Neale, DOAR's CEO
IFC, with the support of the Government of Canada and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is helping BMR Jamaica Wind build, operate and maintain a 36.3 MW capacity wind farm about 90 km west of Kingston.
This will be the largest renewable energy project developed by the private sector in Jamaica.
“The private sector, with support from long-term lending partners like OPIC, IFC and the government of Canada, is keen to develop Jamaica’s renewable energy potential,” says Bruce Levy, BMR’s Director. “With this initiative we plan to bring cleaner, cost competitive energy to the Jamaican electricity sector.”
The USD62.7
Andreessen Horowitz – the venture capital firm created by Netscape and Opsware founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz – has led a Series C USD58m round in Europe’s leading financial tech start-up TransferWise.
TransferWise’s existing investors, including Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Index Ventures, IA Ventures, and Seedcamp, also participated in the round.
The start-up will use these funds for global expansion. It opens its US office next month and will be opening offices in Germany and in Australia in the next few months. The company plans to open 300 further currency routes in the next year.
Connection Capital has successfully completed a commitment, on behalf of its clients, to the third fund from 17Capital, a London-based specialist investor of preferred equity in private equity funds.
Due to the high level of demand from its clients, Connection Capital exceeded its original allocation to 17Capital Fund 3.
Connection Capital aggregates capital from its clients into a single, managed syndicate and therefore investors are able to participate in Fund 3 alongside well-known institutional investors at a much lower entry level than their institutional counterparts. All Connection Capital investments are available in multiples of GBP25,000.
The Fund closed in December
Excelsior Capital Partners has assumed a majority ownership interest in Via Seating, a manufacturer of cutting-edge and ergonomically designed office chairs and lounge seating, through a balance sheet restructuring.
The transaction enables Via to continue growing through new and innovative product lines.
Based in Reno, Nevada, Via offers an extensive family of chairs to fit its customers’ unique needs for design, form and function, while maintaining an industry-leading quick-ship program that guarantees a 48-hour turnaround. The company’s products are highly customisable and include executive chairs, task chairs, conference room chairs, stackable chairs, and modular lounge seating that can be configured
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