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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
Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA), the alternative investment specialist of the Pictet Group, has held the final close of its debut thematic private equity fund focused on technology at its hard cap of USD350 million.
The Pictet Thematic Private Equity – Technology is a fund of funds exclusively dedicated to technology investments and innovation.
PAA’s expertise in building diversified portfolios, that include investments in tech companies of different maturity stages (from venture capital, growth and buyout) has allowed investors to gain exposure to several layers of the technology investment landscape with a mitigated risk approach.
The Pictet Thematic Private
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,
Trustmary, a testimonial marketing platform, has closed its first funding round of USD2.2 million to drive growth both in North America and Europe.
The investment will be used to further intensify the company’s market entry while also strengthening marketing and development teams in both the European headquarters in Finland and the US headquarters in Minneapolis.
Since the launch of the first SaaS product, the company has rapidly gained hundreds of customers from USA, Canada, Germany, Finland, and Sweden. The round consisted of a USD1.34 million equity investment from Vendep Capital, a Northern European SaaS focused venture capital company and a
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