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Quantexa, the data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI), has raised USD153 million in Series D funding from Warburg Pincus and a growing group of blue-chip investors.
This latest fundraise follows an impressive year of 108 per cent growth for Quantexa during 2020/21, boosted by significant growth from new clients across geographies and industries.
This round was led by Warburg Pincus a global private equity firm focused on growth investing with a five-decade track record of handpicking future market leaders. Existing investors participating were Dawn Capital, AlbionVC, Evolution Equity Partners, HSBC, ABN AMRO Ventures and British Patient
One Equity Partners (OEP), is to sell OneLink Holdings (OneLink), a provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, to Webhelp.
Webhelp is a global provider of customer experience (CX) and business solutions. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2013, OneLink provides digitally enabled customer experience CX, BPO, CRM, automation and other technology services to leading North American and Latin American businesses. The Company has an employee-first culture and operates 17 call centers through a network of over 14,000 agents who are recognised internally as “Incredybles.” These agents deliver high-touch
Kinzie Capital Partners (Kinzie) portfolio company Colony Display has acquired Braeside Displays (Braeside), an independent point-of-purchase display manufacturer.
The transaction was completed in partnership with Braeside’s and Colony’s management.
Founded in 1975, Braeside specialises in the design, engineering and manufacturing of stock and custom point-of-purchase displays. Braeside’s expertise in plastics brings additional capabilities to Colony’s focus on wood and metal display manufacturing in servicing the home improvement and retail industries. Braeside’s President and CEO Nathan Kelly will join Colony as Senior Vice President of Customer Strategy and Development.
“Braeside is thrilled to join forces with Colony, and we are confident
insightsoftware, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for the ‘Office of the CFO’, has secured an investment from Hg, a global software and services investor.
The Hg Saturn 2 Fund will make a cUSD1 billion equity investment in insightsoftware to become a significant minority shareholder alongside TA Associates (TA) in a transaction valuing the business at an Enterprise Value of around USD4 billion. TA and Hg will share joint control. As part of the transaction, insightsoftware will also continue to be supported by minority shareholders Genstar and ST6.
insightsoftware is a leading provider of financial reporting and enterprise
HelloFlow, a Danish FinTech startup, has closed a USD1.6 million Seed round led by a Danish VC PreSeed Ventures, and UK-based, Seedcamp. The company provides a no-code platform for client onboarding and identity verification in the financial industry which integrates with ID authentication services in local markets.
“Using the platform, you can set up a proper, sleek, and compliant onboarding process and share it with the clients, all inside a single day. This makes it possible to launch your service in new markets across the world within 10 minutes,” explains Mikkel Skarnager, the Co-Founder and CEO of HelloFlow.
With an
In this podcast, Private Equity Wire speaks to New York-based growth equity firm LB Equity, a firm that invests in high-growth beauty and wellness brands, about sustainability themes within the beauty space. Founded in 2012, LB Equity is led by co-founders Jay Lucas (pictured), a former partner at Bain & Company, and Karen Ballou, who used to work for Redken and Elizabeth Arden.
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An overwhelming majority (91 per cent) of US private equity firms are planning to deploy capital in Latin America over the next five years, according to a new study, fuelled by attractive valuations and a growing appetite for cross-border deal flow as the global economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new study, ‘Recovery to Rediscovery: Capitalising on a Changed Private Equity Landscape’, was commissioned by Auxadi, a provider of accounting, tax and payroll services to private equity, real estate and multinationals, and was based on interviews with 100 senior-level private equity investors based in North America, the UK, and
IW Capital has invested in e-pharmacy company SimplyMeds, marking the first external investment in the highly scalable online platform.
SimplyMeds is an end-to-end digital pharmacy platform that provides a convenient method of ordering same day prescriptions and lifestyle products while empowering patients to have medical autonomy. While most online pharmacies are designed to service only one sector, SimplyMeds caters to both the private and NHS prescriptions market in what is believed to be a market first, having developed the distribution channels and a highly sophisticated platform to effectively serve both sectors.
Bootstrapped by two entrepreneurs with extensive experience in the
Ironwood Capital portfolio company The Facilities Group (TFG) has acquired Excel Building Services (Excel), a California-based janitorial services provider with a primary focus on retail and distribution customers.
Ironwood Capital Partner Roger Roche, says: “Excel serves customers in 40 states, significantly expanding the reach and market penetration of TFG. The overlap and fit with TFG are perfect, and the acquisition allows both TFG and Excel to better service their customers.” Paul Witinski, director at Ironwood Capital added, “Our investment thesis for The Facilities Group is to continue building a national leader within the janitorial services industry through both organic growth
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