Deals
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, has exceeded its 2020 commitment to invest GBP2 billion in Africa over the last two years.
Kidd & Company (KCO), a family office investment firm focused on the middle market, has acquired BRH Garver Construction, LP (BRH Garver).
In conjunction with the acquisition, BRH Garver expanded its management team with the appointment of industry veterans Gene Kemp as CEO and Leslie Hess as CFO.
President of BRH Garver, Alan Pate, David Ellett and Todd Hendricks made significant co-investments alongside KCO in the transaction, while Community Bank of Texas provided additional financing.
APT Healthcare, an outpatient physical therapy (PT) platform, has secured a strategic growth investment from York Capital Management’s private equity group (York Private Equity).
Maple Finance has acquired Avari, an undercollateralised lending protocol, which will allow Maple to launch on the Solana blockchain quickly, becoming the first corporate credit marketplace to do so.
The acquihire of Avari and its team, will increase Maple’s total addressable market (TAM) and grow the potential total value locked (TVL) of the protocol, making Maple the largest undercollateralised lending product by TVL in decentralised finance (DeFi) and building the strongest engineering team on Solana.
Undercollateralized lending in crypto is still comparatively small, representing less than 1 per cent of the outstanding debt market. This indicates there is a lot
Garnett Station Partners (Garnett Station), a New York-based principal investment firm founded in 2013 by Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane, has made a growth investment into VIVE Collision (VIVE), a collision repair multi-site operator (MSO).
BlockFills, a digital asset trading and financial technology company, has closed a USD37 million Series A funding round led by institutional investors, including Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, CME Ventures, Simplex Ventures, C6E, Nexo Inc, and several other institutional investors and funds.
This is the second multimillion-dollar funding round since the company’s founding in 2018. BlockFills has raised a total of USD44 million to date from institutional investors.
The Series A funding round will allow BlockFills to expand and evolve its technology platforms to provide more advanced solutions for the hedge fund and asset management community, a sector in which the
Personetics, a global provider of financial-data-driven personalisation and customer engagement solutions for banks and financial services providers, has raised USD85 million in growth funding from Thoma Bravo.
Personetics has secured total funding of over USD160 million in 2021. Personetics is backed by Viola Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Nyca Partners and Warburg Pincus.
Personetics’ AI-powered technology is focused on proactive engagement: analysing financial data in real-time, understanding individuals’ financial behaviours, anticipating their needs and acting on their behalf.
SUSI Partners, through its Energy Transition Fund (SETF), has launched a renewables platform in Poland together with Polish energy-as-a-service company Luneos.
LGE, which was set up in late 2021, aims to build a sizeable, diversified portfolio of onshore wind and solar PV assets to support the transition of the Polish power market away from its heavy reliance on coal-based generation, benefitting from comparatively low costs of renewables in times of rising carbon prices.
Leveraging on a pre-existing long-term partnership, SUSI will work closely with Luneos’ management team in leading the execution of LGE’s business plan and its day-to-day operations, ensuring
Big Health, a digital therapeutics company dedicated to helping millions back to good mental health, has raised USD75 million in a Series C funding round, led by new investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
ArrowMark Partners and existing investors Octopus Ventures, Gilde Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente Ventures (KPV), and Morningside Ventures, also participated.
Pixis (formerly known as Pyxis One), a provider of contextual codeless AI infrastructure for complete marketing optimisation, has secured US USD100 million in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank Vision 2.
Pixis will leverage the fresh funds to help the company rapidly scale its AI platforms and plugins, as well as accelerate expansions across North America, Europe, and APAC.
The Series C round included participation from new investor General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, plus existing investors Celesta Capital, Premji Invest, Chiratae Ventures, and Crimsonox Ventures. With the close of its USD17 million Series B round
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