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Peach Finance (Peach), a modern SaaS-based loan servicing platform, has raised USD20 million in a Series A funding round led by Canapi Ventures with participation from existing and new investors, SciFi VC, Caffeinated Capital, Nyca Partners and Moore Specialty Credit.  The funding will support Peach’s continued expansion within the growing loan management and servicing market, including through new credit product launches, customer growth initiatives and increased hiring. Peach is the first all-in-one SaaS platform addressing the full range of evolving needs of fintech companies and established financial institutions like banks and credit unions through its loan management, servicing and Compliance
European healthcare platform accuRx has closed a GBP27.5 million Series B funding round to transform communication across healthcare systems worldwide.  The financing round was led by Lakestar with participation from British Patient Capital, Latitude VS (sister fund to London-based seed investor LocalGlobe), Atomico, Trusted Insight and Encore Capital. The newly raised funds will facilitate the growth of the accuRx team, enhancing its offering to GP practices and building products that will enable expansion into secondary care.   Communications amongst those involved in a patient’s care is often fragmented and felt by patients in almost every health system across the globe.
Tilla Systems, a new start-up founded by company builder Flagship Founders, has developed a smart platform for the automated planning and execution of cargo ship crew changes.  The company has already secured Hamburg’s time-honoured shipping company Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG as one of their first customers. The platform’s official launch is scheduled for this year’s fourth quarter.  Some five million crew changes take place on cargo ships every year. Planning entails gathering data from multiple sources and coordinating multiple parties who need to be kept up-to-date at all times.  Circumstances can change without warning, due to new travel restrictions for example,
PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, has made a strategic investment in Sign In App, a provider of workplace risk management software solutions.  PSG Senior Advisor Jeff Gordon will join the Board of Directors as Executive Chairman. In this active role, he will help execute PSG’s strategy in visitor management and lead expansion in the U.S. for Sign In App’s operations. PSG’s Matt Stone, Managing Director, Namrita Rai, Vice President, and Katherine Nimmo, Senior Associate, will also join Sign In App’s Board of Directors. Financial terms were not disclosed.   “Through this new
Kartesia, the European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, is pleased to announce that it has provided a Unitranche financing facility to support Maguar Capital Partners’ and Oliver Krizek’s investment in Navax Consulting (Navax). Founded by Krizek in 1995 and based in Vienna, Austria, NAVAX is a leading Software and IT Services Provider that supports customers across the DACH region in optimising and digitalising their processes through solutions from the Microsoft Dynamics software suite and individual software solutions, including HENRI, a proprietary software targeted at the Financial Services and leasing industries. Maguar Capital Partners (Maguar), based
Inspirit Capital is to acquire Landmark Solutions, the managed geospatial data services division of Landmark Information Group Ltd, which is a subsidiary of DMGT Plc.  Headquartered in Exeter, UK, Landmark Solutions provides bespoke geospatial, data-focused cloud hosting projects, along with consultancy and support services to a range of public and private sector clients. The business has expanded its capabilities and augmented its offering over time through the development of innovative Software-as-a-Service and Data-as-a-Service solutions built from its expertise in leveraging rich geospatial datasets.  Underpinned by a highly specialised workforce possessing extensive knowledge of geospatial data, IT and address matching solutions,
Private investment firm GI Partners has acquired a controlling interest in LightEdge, a provider of colocation, cloud and managed service solutions.   GI Partners’ investment will support and accelerate the growth of LightEdge. GI Partners has invested extensively in infrastructure companies and properties underpinning the digital economy for 20 years. The firm is acquiring LightEdge through its GI Data Infrastructure Fund which was launched last year and manages over USD1.8 billion of capital commitments.   “I am very proud of what we accomplished together with our owners, The Anschutz Corporation, over the years. We never took our eye off the
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, has made a USD60 million commitment under its African Private Credit Fund Strategy, which aims to address a significant credit market dislocation and mid-market financing gap, a situation intensified by the Covid-19 crisis. CDC’s latest commitment covers two investments: a USD30 million investment in Vantage Mezzanine Fund IV which is managed by Vantage Capital, an established pan-African fund manager; and a USD30 million cornerstone investment in BluePeak Private Capital Fund I, BluePeak’s maiden fund. These commitments will enable the fund managers to increase credit supply to mid-market African companies
Belfast-based livestock monitoring technology company, CattleEye, has secured USD2.5 million in seed investment. 
Victory Capital Holdings’ wholly owned operating subsidiary Victory Capital Management Inc is to acquire 100 per cent of New Energy Capital Partners (NEC). NEC will become Victory Capital’s 11th Investment Franchise and represents the Company’s first Franchise focusing exclusively on alternative investments. Founded in 2004 and based in Hanover, New Hampshire, NEC is a leading alternative asset management firm focused on debt and equity investments in clean energy infrastructure projects and companies. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2021 and be immediately accretive to Victory Capital’s earnings. David Brown, Chairman and CEO of Victory Capital,

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