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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).
Ironshield Capital Management (Ironshield), a European event-driven corporate credit specialist, delivered positive performance of 30 per cent in 2021.
The firm’s AUM stood at USD308 million as at 31 December 2021, across its three funds: L1 Special Situations, L2 Special Situations and Ironshield Credit Fund – UCITS.
Ironshield’s strategy significantly outperformed high yield credit markets throughout the year, beating the Bloomberg Pan-European High Yield Index which returned 4 per cent, and had low beta to both equity and credit markets. The 2021 performance was generated from a broad range of credits with idiosyncratic price catalysts, across a number of
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.
Ten Coves Capital (Ten Coves), a growth equity firm with an exclusive focus on investments in FinTech companies, has held the closing of its third fund, Ten Coves Capital III (Fund III) with total commitments of USD293 million.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap.
Ten Coves Capital was formed in December 2020 in connection with the spinout of the growth equity team from Napier Park Global Capital, and included the assumption and management of the first two growth equity funds. With Fund III, Ten Coves now manages more than USD600 million in aggregate committed capital,
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
Private equity firm Summa Equity has closed its third fund (Fund III) with investor commitments of cEUR 2.3 billion (cSEK 23 billion).
The Fund was closed in record time and was oversubscribed within four months in a fully virtual fundraising environment.
With its new fund, Summa Equity now manages aggregated capital commitments of close to EUR4 billion (cSEK 40 billion).
The announcement of Fund III comes three years after Fund II, and five years after Fund I. Fund I and Fund II closed with commitments of cSEK 4.7 billion (cEUR 470 million) and SEK 6.8 billion (cEUR 680 million)
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
Sigma Defense, a portfolio company of Sagewind Capital, has acquired SOLUTE Inc, a technology and engineering firm that specialises in system modernisation with a focus on software engineering, cyber security, cloud architectures, and Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) for the US Department of Defense (DoD).
The acquisition of SOLUTE broadens the Sigma Defense portfolio, expanding its existing capabilities for C5ISR, JADC2 and tactical SATCOM communications. The combined company will deliver a comprehensive suite of software-led solutions and services that autonomously connect people, systems and information.
Together, Sigma Defense and SOLUTE are positioned to provide enhanced capabilities for digital modernization throughout
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