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Venture capital funds delivered exceptional performance in 2019 globally, which continued in Q1 2020 unscarred by the unfolding Covid-19 crisis, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.
Evotec SE and Novo Nordisk have formed a strategic allaince to focus on the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics for patients with chronic kidney disease.
O’Melveny has advised The Friedkin Group on its acquisition of the controlling stake in the professional Italian Serie A football club AS Roma. The deal was first announced on 5 August, 2020 and closed on 17 August, 2020.
Romulus and Remus Investments LLC—a company designated by The Friedkin Group for the purpose of the acquisition—has acquired 100 per cent of the assets directly and indirectly owned by AS Roma SPV LLC, which includes approximately 86.6 per cent of the share capital of AS Roma SpA.
Headquartered in Houston, TX, The Friedkin Group is a privately held consortium of businesses and investments
Global private equity investors Advent International (Advent) has completed its offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Forescout Technologies’ common stock for USD29.00 per share, without interest and subject to any applicable withholding taxes, net to the seller in cash. Advent intends to complete the acquisition of Forescout imminently through a second-step merger.
Advent has partnered with Crosspoint Capital Partners (Crosspoint Capital), a private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries, on this transaction. Together they will provide Forescout with resources and expertise to help drive continued innovation and scale in Enterprise of Things security, delivering
Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions adviser for privately held businesses, has advised Mach 7.4 Inc (dba SHIPS-a-Lot) on an investment by a private investor.Details of the acquisition, which closed on 5 August, 2020, have not been disclosed.
SHIPS-a-Lot, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a third-party logistics company that does freight fulfilment. The Company was founded in 2015 when three ecommerce entrepreneurs were running an online beef jerky company. Trying to scale the business, they looked for a fulfilment centre to help with orders as they worked on growth. This is when Max and Zach Zitney and their co-founder Zach
Keeper Security, the provider of a cybersecurity platform for preventing password-related data breaches and cyberthreats, has closed a USD60 million minority investment by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. This is Keeper Security’s first equity raise since its inception.
The synergy of the Keeper Security-Insight partnership will further accelerate product innovation and development and catalyse expansion of the company’s global customer base of consumers and businesses. Following the investment, Thomas Krane, Principal at Insight Partners, will join Keeper’s Board of Directors. No other terms of this private transaction are being disclosed.
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Nova Pangaea Technologies, which has invented a way to use non-food biomass to make biofuels and other chemicals, has raised another GBP900,000 in the run-up to a planned Series A investment later this year.
The funding comes from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, the UK Government’s Future Fund and existing private investors.
The company also appointed Neil Guilder as CFO, Dr Neil Hindle as CTO and Peter McGenity as CCO in connection with the deal.
Nova Pangea Technologies completed its demonstration plant at Redcar in December 2019
Jim Momtazee has launched Patient Square Capital, an investment firm that will focus on the healthcare sector. Patient Square will partner with best-in-class management teams whose products, services, and technologies improve health. The Patient Square team has a shared vision to create an investment firm capable of managing large pools of capital and with the expertise to meet the considerable and critical needs of the health care world.
Momtazee is the Managing Partner of Patient Square. He is a 21-year veteran of KKR, where he helped form its Health Care Industry Group in 2001 and subsequently led the group for over
Agiloft has secured a USD45 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused investor in innovative companies in enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing. The investment from FTV is the Agiloft’s first round of external funding and will be used to build on its leadership position in the rapidly growing enterprise contract and commerce lifecycle management (CCLM) space as it accelerates its AI-based product development and expands its vertical and geographic market presence. Agiloft’s no-code platform drives industry-leading configurability and automates complex enterprise workflows through an iterative design process at a fraction of the time
TASE UP, a new electronic platform from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is aiming to link private companies seeking investment with institutional and accredited investors. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
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