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Global private investments firm Northleaf Capital Partners (Northleaf) has appointed Michael Hyatt as a Senior Advisor supporting its venture capital and growth equity investment programme.
Hyatt will work alongside the Northleaf private equity and venture capital team to source and evaluate investment opportunities.
Hyatt is the co-founder of BlueCat (in which Northleaf was an early investor and which was acquired by a private equity firm in 2017) and previously co-founded Dyadem (a software company that was sold to IHS in 2011). He currently serves as a Director of BlueCat.
Vespa Capital has invested in Digital Technology Advisory Group Ltd (DTAG), a group providing marketing strategy consulting, data-driven market research insights and tech-enabled communications solutions.
Vespa Capital has invested in DTAG alongside the highly experienced incumbent management team led by Mark Scott as CEO, Finance Director, Alison Drake, and Tim Blandford, Paul Gaskell and Barney Hosey, CEOs of 2CV, TVE and Signal.
DTAG consists of group companies: 2CV – a data-led consumer research agency; The Value Engineers (TVE) – a brand and marketing strategy agency; & Signal – a communications strategy and implementation agency. All three businesses have excellent reputations
Tuum, a ‘next-generation core banking platform’ has secured EUR15 million in a Series A funding round led by Portage Ventures.
Existing investors Blackfin Capital Partners and Karma Ventures also participated in the round, which will enable Tuum – formerly known as Modularbank – to continue investing in product innovation and support global growth, focusing initially on strengthening its EU and UK presence.
The funding will initially be used to expand operations in the UK, offering on-the-ground support to customers in its biggest market. It will also fund essential R&D efforts to continue enhancing and expanding the Tuum product portfolio. In
LoneTree, a New York-based growth capital firm backed by top-tier research universities, has made a significant growth investment in OneReach.ai, a specialist in conversational AI and machine learning through its flexible low-code/no-code development platform.
This is LoneTree’s first investment in this market.
OneReach.ai began as a research project by award-winning UX (user experience) pioneers that launched its first product in 2013, introducing a highly flexible, no-code platform for sequencing complex conversational AI and automation solutions.
Leading LoneTree’s growth investment in OneReach.ai were
Matt Koven, Jesse Zhou, and Stephen Miller led LoneTree’s growth investment in OneReach.ai.
BlackRock Real Assets’ BlackRock Infrastructure Solutions (BIS), the firm’s dedicated infrastructure multi-manager investment team, has successfully achieved a EUR1.4 billion final close for its latest private infrastructure equity fund, Global Infrastructure Solutions 4 (GIS 4), exceeding its initial target.
Co-living company DoveVivo ha secured a strategic investment of EUR50 million from controlled affiliates of Starwood Capital Group, a global private investment firm focused on real estate and energy investments.
Bonaccord Capital Partners (Bonaccord), a private equity platform dedicated to acquiring non-control equity interests in leading mid-sized private market sponsors, has acquired a passive minority equity interest in Trivest Partners (Trivest), a private equity firm focused exclusively on founder and family-owned businesses.
Bonaccord, a subsidiary of P10, Inc.
The transaction will provide capital to allow Trivest to continue to invest in its employees and growth initiatives while having no impact on the day-to-day management of the firm. As the equity interest is non-voting, the firm’s investment and decision-making processes will remain unchanged. Additional terms of the investment have not been
Softline is to acquire a majority stake in SoftClub (SCGroup Investments Limited), a fintech developer of integrated solutions for banks, e-commerce, and stock exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe.
The company – considered by industry experts to be amongst the top-100 software firms in the world – has one of the most qualified software engineering teams in Eastern Europe with over 20 years of industry experience and with more than 950 staff, a tenured management team and deep knowledge of the sector.
SoftClub’s suite of products cover 85 per cent of the modern bank application landscape.
Nexeon Limited (Nexeon) – a specialist in the supply of advanced silicon anode materials for next generation lithium-ion batteries – has secured a USD80 million investment from a consortium including SKC Co Ltd (SKC), SJL Partners LLC (SJL), BNW Investment Co Ltd, (BNW) and Kiwoom Private Equity Inc Ltd (Kiwoom).
The deal sees Nixon partner with SKC, a major global battery and semiconductor materials company, for volume manufacturing of its silicon anode materials.
The fundraising and formation of a manufacturing partnership are part of Nexeon’s manufacturing strategy to accelerate the supply of its groundbreaking silicon anode materials at volume
MFM Holding Ltd (Moneyfarm), a digital wealth manager, has raised GBP44.1 million in a funding round led by M&G plc (M&G) and included Poste Italiane SpA (Poste), who has been a minority shareholder in the business since 2019.
Moneyfarm has now raised GBP139 million since launching in 2021.
The new funding round will be used in three key areas, to support future development, expanding its product proposition and building out its new B2B2C proposition through strategic partnerships.
The private placement will be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory approvals and will see
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