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VoxSmart Ltd, a specialist in communications surveillance, has acquired GreenKey Technologies Inc, an automated speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) provider, to further bolster its communications surveillance offering to global financial institutions.
The addition of GreenKey’s domain-specific communication analysis expertise will enable VoxSmart to rapidly accelerate growth and position the company as the de facto market leaders in natural language processing (NLP) and voice analytics for Financial Markets.
Oliver Blower, CEO of VoxSmart, says: “By acquiring GreenKey, we have added an extremely valuable asset to our product portfolio enabling us to provide even greater value and deeper
Sanome, a European health start-up, has raised GBP2 million as its first round of funding from a number of leading UK and European HealthTech specialist investors.
The round was led by Heal Capital, with participation from Crista Galli Ventures, Selvedge Ventures, o2h Ventures, Meltwind and a number of high-profile angels including David Cleevely and Pam Garside.
Sanome has developed a diagnostics innovation engine that combines biomarkers to develop medical grade, at home diagnostic products (IVDs) more efficiently and effectively. Most digital health, wearables and consumer biotech tools have limited medical use because it’s hard to validate them clinically. Sanome’s novel
Pilot Freight Services (Pilot), a worldwide transportation and logistics services provider has acquired franchise stations in strategic markets in the Pacific Northwest and Oklahoma.
The franchises will be seamlessly integrated into Pilot’s corporate organisation with no disruption in service offerings or senior management.
The franchises, located in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Oklahoma, are attractive assets due to strong historical growth and operational performance. The serve a robust domestic and global customer-base, with a particular expertise in perishables freight forwarding. The leadership and employees of the franchises will join the Pilot organisation as part of the transactions.
“We are truly excited
PFR Ventures has extended its PFR Private Equity programme. The investing arm of Polish Development Fund will invest over EUR110 million in new private equity funds, growing the overall budget of the programme to EUR240 million.
PFR Ventures has already invested capital from the newest pool closing on a new partnership.
PFR Private Equity (PFR PE) is a programme with the goals of investing in local private equity firms to support development of a local ecosystem, and joining international teams, to increase Poland’s exposure to them. PFR Ventures has already invested EUR130 million in three local and four international private
Octopus Energy Group has entered into a major strategic partnership with Generation Investment Management, a firm established in 2004 to back businesses driving sustainability and the fight against climate change, in a deal that valued the UK entech pioneer at USD4 billion pre-deal, and up to USD4.6 billion post-deal.
The agreement, which has been several months in the making, will see Generation’s Long-term Equity strategy take a stake of up to approximately 13 per cent in the business. Octopus will use the proceeds of Generation’s strategic investment to turbo boost its mission to drive the renewable revolution globally.
Octopus’s technology
Mercer Global Advisors, (Mercer Advisors), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) majority owned by both Oak Hill Capital and Genstar Capital, has acquired Miller Advisors (Miller), a wealth management firm located in Kirkland, Washington.
Miller serves approximately 200 clients with assets under management (AUM) of approximately USD240 million. Miller was founded by Kathleen Miller, CFP, CDFA joined by her daughter Nicole Miller, CFP, CDFA, offering comprehensive wealth management services to its high-net-worth individuals, families, and their businesses, as well as planning for divorcing couples. The entire Miller team will also be joining Mercer Advisors.
Kathleen Miller (“Kathleen”), CFP®, CDFA™,
Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity investors, has invested in Venatus, a global advertising technology platform targeting video gaming and entertainment audiences.
Co-founded in 2010 by CEO Rob Gay and COO Matt Cannon, Venatus is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Seoul. The firm connects advertisers and their agencies with video gaming content and community website owners (“publishers”), giving them access to the hard-to-reach and highly valuable global gaming audience.
Venatus’s commitment to excellence has enabled it to exclusively represent direct and programmatic ad sales for over 250 core publishers – including Rovio, EA,
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a multi-million-pound investment in Marmalade Game Studio (Marmalade), a UK market leading games developer and publisher, to support the management team’s ambitious organic growth strategy and future game launches.
Marmalade is the UK’s leading developer of mobile, console and PC board games. Its catalogue includes classics such as Monopoly, Cluedo and Game of Life, licensed by gaming giants such as Hasbro, with its most recent addition, Jumanji, inspired by the feature film.
LDC’s investment will support the existing management team, led by joint CEOs Michael Willis and Cristina Mereuta, as they invest
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) is to sell Trace3 to affiliates of American Securities.
Trace3 is a premier provider of IT solutions and services to over 2,500 commercial and enterprise clients across the U.S. Through elite engineering talent, dynamic leadership, an in-house research team, and unparalleled venture capital connections, Trace3 stays on the leading edge of the technology innovation curve and empowers its clients with the most advanced cloud technologies, data center designs, security strategies, and business intelligence solutions in the industry. The Company is headquartered in Irvine, CA with offices across the United States.
HIG invested in the
Golding Capital Partners is driving the strategic expansion of its impact investing division and launching its first institutional impact fund of funds.
With “Golding Impact 2021” the Munich-based asset manager is pursuing a global private equity impact strategy based on environmental and social sustainability targets that are ambitious, quantifiable and integrated. The new fund will focus on companies in Europe, North America and emerging markets with transformative business models in the areas of green solutions (35 per cent), sustainable agricultural technology (35 per cent), and financial services and other sustainable sectors (30 per cent). Golding is aiming for a net
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