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SS&C Technologies Holdings has signed on more than 150 clients to Eze Eclipse, SS&C Eze’s cloud-based front-to-back office investment management platform. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
A consortium of investors led by Elbrus Capital and Winter Capital Funds has completed the acquisition of a stake in Banki.ru, Russia’s largest financial marketplace.
The sellers included the company’s founders Philip and Kirill Ilin-Adaev, as well as Elena Ishcheeva, who exited the business as a result of the transaction. The second shareholder, Russia Partners fund, retained its stake in the company. The deal settled all disagreements between the founders of Banki.ru and Russia Partners.
Dmitri Krukov, Senior Partner at Elbrus Capital Funds, says: “With the development of digital economy and financial services, Russia will see steadily growing consumer demand
Trace3, a portfolio company of HIG Capital (HIG), has acquired Groupware Technology (Groupware) to expand its market position in Northern California and Arizona.
Through elite-engineering and a continual focus on emerging technology, both companies are committed to assist their commercial and enterprise clients, including many of the Fortune 500, in realising superior business outcomes through advanced technology solutions and services.
Headquartered in Campbell, California, Groupware serves several Fortune 500 companies well-known for complex and challenging technology deployments. The newly combined company will serve as a leading technology solutions provider in Cloud, Data Intelligence, Security, and overall Enterprise IT.
The acquisition
IHS Markit, a provider of benchmark indices for fixed income and credit markets, has entered into a strategic partnership with Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm with a global presence in private capital markets and a provider of private investment benchmarks.
As part of the partnership, IHS Markit will have exclusive rights to distribute the Cambridge Associates benchmarks in aggregated and anonymous form via digital formats to end users, data redistributors and reporting and analytics platforms. Cambridge Associates will remain responsible for fund manager relations, data collection, benchmark development and production, as well as managing the security and confidentiality of
SICCAR has received an investment of GBP1.3 million led by specialist technology investment house, Par Equity.
Scotland-based SICCAR, previously Wallet Services, connect organisations with reliable, protected data. The investment will strengthen its product development and customer teams as the company builds on its success in two industry sectors.
SICCAR aim to empower organisations to remove friction from digital interactions with partners customers and citizens. The SICCAR platform addresses issues of data protection, consent, and accountability, using distributed ledger technology.
In high value manufacturing the SICCAR platform has enabled secure sharing of data along complex supply chains (known as industry 4.0).
Solar power producer Amarenco Groupas closed a EUR150 million investment led by Tikehau Capital, the alternative asset management and investment group.
Amarenco started a capital raising process at the beginning of the year to secure a total investment capacity of EUR3 billion to fund growth in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East markets whilst maintaining Amarenco as an independent, founder-led company.
This new capital commitment a share capital increase and an equity line totalling EUR150 million. The capital raise was subscribed to by the co-founders themselves, by IDIA Capital Investissement and by Tikehau Capital through its Energy
Westhook Capital (Westhook), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has made an investment in RainShadow Labs (RainShadow), a full-service provider of private label manufacturing services to natural and organic personal care brands.
Since its founding in 1983, RainShadow has been the pioneer in helping independent brands, entrepreneurs, and skincare professionals custom formulate, manufacture, and launch thousands of successful personal care products into the natural and organics skincare marketplace. RainShadow offers cutting-edge product development and creative product design; technical support including packaging and label procurement; warehousing for excess product packaging, contract filling, multi-product packaging, shipping, and logistics support.
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Starwood Capital Group: Best Real Estate Manager (Fund Size >USD1bn) – Starwood Capital Group is a private investment firm with a primary focus on global real estate. Since its inception in 1991, Starwood Capital Group has raised over USD45 billion of equity capital and currently has in excess of USD60 billion of assets under management. Over the past 29 years, Starwood Capital has acquired more than USD100 billion of assets across every major real estate asset class.
A hallmark of Starwood Capital is to invest opportunistically, moving between asset classes, geographies and positions in the capital stack as risk/return dynamics evolve.
With more than USD58 billion in capital commitments and over 20 years of PE investing expertise, Vista Equity Partners has cemented its reputation as one of the industry’s leading software technology investors, exclusively focusing on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses.
At the helm of the firm is Robert F Smith, Founder, Chairman and CEO. Since Smith opened Vista’s first office in 2000, the firm has developed deep sectoral expertise, making it better positioned than any other to take advantage of opportunities in the enterprise software industry.
Vista’s disciplined strategy of investing in companies with superior products – or companies
Private equity assets under management will increase from USD 4.41 trillion in 2020 to USD9.11 trillion in 2025 – and with a CAGR of 15.6 per cent, it will be the fastest-growing asset class over the next five years, according to Preqin.
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