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CAPZA has acquired a majority stake in Web Geo Services, a French API platform publisher and Google Maps’ partner operating in the booming “Location Based Services (LBS)” market.
Founded in 2009, Web Geo Services has built its reputation by becoming the Google Maps No1 Partner and reseller of Google Maps Platform in Europe. The company focuses on five sectors: Retail, Finance, e-business, Smart Mobility, and Travel & Hospitality.
Web Geo Services has also developed its own proprietary platform, “Woosmap”, a set of independent APIs dedicated to B2B2C business use cases: store locator, geofencing, data search, payment transaction cleaning, etc.
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Digital training platform Virti has raised USD10 million in a Series A to further its goal of improving human performance using world-class interactive technology. The round was led by deeptech investors IQ Capital and joined by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a new, UK-based learning technology VC fund.
Launched in 2018 by Dr Alexander Young – an NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon – Virti helps organisations optimise learning, training and performance using interactive simulations and AI-powered data analysis. The technology turns traditionally subjectively-assessed skills (such as communication, teamwork and decision-making under pressure) into objective and measurable data to improve performance. The
Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, is selling its ownership stake in Mobilitie, the largest privately-held wireless infrastructure firm in the nation, to global communications infrastructure provider, BAI Communications (BAI).
BAI’s acquisition of Mobilitie is a significant move towards becoming one of the leading connected infrastructure 5G players in North America, and globally. The deal combines Mobilitie’s extensive assets and operations across 5G outdoor and indoor wireless infrastructure, proven experience in small cell deployment, and work with transit operators across major US cities with BAI’s long-standing proven expertise in delivering communications infrastructure in dense urban and transit environments.
Primal Strength (Primal), a provider of performance strength products for the commercial and home fitness markets, has secured a multi-million-pound investment from Flywheel Partners (Flywheel) to accelerate its growth plans.
Primal, whose customers include leading professional sports teams, like Celtic Football Club, and an array of celebrity clientele, will utilise the investment and partnership with Flywheel to scale up the business and capture opportunities arising from the growth of strength training and post-lockdown health and wellness trends.
Primal has benefitted from the soaring spend in home workout equipment in the past year, with this set to continue alongside the
London based Fintech Traydstream Limited has raised USD8 million as part of a Series A funding round from institutional and private investors.
gunnercooke Corporate Partner Kyri Papantoniou led the legal side of the investment process, which began in summer last year.
Traydstream is a global provider of an AI powered platform to digitalise and automate trade finance document checking and is now live across four continents and 17 markets.
Traydstream CEO Sameer Sehgal, says: “The pandemic has caused a high level of disruption in trade finance and highlighted the weaknesses in existing models, which has led to a growing interest
Freedom Services Group, an organisation comprising a group of motor-based insurance businesses, has secured a GBP5 million loan from the alternative lender BOOST&Co to support its ongoing diversification and digitisation following a strong period of growth.
The Manchester-based company is working to revolutionise the insurance industry by providing a customer-centric approach that challenges the lack of honesty and transparency elsewhere in the market.
Spearheaded by serial entrepreneur Sam White, Freedom Services Group includes Action365, a provider of motor claims accident management services, that has recently been named in JP Morgan’s inaugural Top 200 Female-Powered Businesses report. Together with other
Claymore Capital Partners, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based investment advisor, has selected SS&C as the administrator for its new private equity fund-of-funds, Claymore Capital Partners Fund I.
Claymore will use SS&C’s full range of administration services, including fund accounting, investor services, reporting and analytics. Rob Neu, Managing Partner and 35-year industry veteran, launched the Claymore Capital Partners Fund I late last year to provide cost-efficient access to a diversified private equity portfolio in a single investment vehicle.
“We were looking for a technology partner with the know-how to help funds of all sizes,” says Rob Neu. “SS&C’s extensive expertise in the
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm with more than four decades of experience investing in enterprise software, has formed a new cloud-based platform called Revalize.
With over 8,000 customers today, Revalize empowers manufacturers to elevate buying experiences, accelerate sales cycles, and streamline manufacturing through purpose-built software. The company offers a full suite of specialised, mission-critical software solutions built to simplify customer processes and reduce friction throughout the entire revenue operations cycle.
Jim Contardi, formerly the CEO of AutoQuotes and Avitru, has been named the CEO of Revalize. In addition, Mark Friedman, a longtime and successful software
Nexa Equity LLC, a private equity firm focused on rapidly scaling lower middle market software and fintech businesses that address markets underserved by technology, has announced its official launch.
The firm was founded by Managing Partner Vlad Besprozvany, a former investor at Insight Partners and Managing Director at Greater Sum Ventures, along with former teammates who worked closely together at Insight Partners and bring substantial investment and operational experience investing in and growing successful companies. Nexa Equity will be focused primarily on control buyouts with strong alignment from current management teams but may selectively pursue other investment structures.
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New investments will help them improve service delivery with their products so that Asian financial institutions signed up will be able to automate the securities lending process and enhance profitability.
South Korea: Tru Technologies (Tru), a securities finance technology start-up, announced they had received Series-A investment worth USD3.1 million from seven market-leading Korean investors. The investors include Hana Financial Investment, Hanwha Securities, KB Investment, Kiwoom Investment, Korea Growth Investment Corp, Shinhan Capital, and Stonebridge Ventures.
Last year, Tru launched the first electronic securities lending trading platform, TruWeb, in Korea. The platform has helped many businesses upgrade from a manual and
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