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Cappitech, a provider of automated regulatory reporting technology for the financial services industry, has secured USD4 million in series A financing.
The financing round was led by 83North with participation from Rony Grushka and Kevin Gould, co-founders of Markit, one of the world’s most highly respected financial information companies with a market cap of USD20 billion. As part of the agreement, Rony Grushka, renowned for his expertise in accelerating global business growth, joins the Cappitech board.
Cappitech, a RegTech100 company which has been self-funded to date, plans to use the funds to accelerate product development, expand regulatory reach and
LBO France has acquired a majority stake in My Media Group, an independent French media buying agency.
Since it was founded in 2005, My Media has developed specific know-how in optimising TV-to-Web media campaigns (ie, the impact of offline communication, mainly television, on online traffic) and search engine optimisation (SEO) through Search Foresight, which is the leader in SEO consultancy in France.
My Media Group currently has more than 500 clients, for whom it manages each year more than EUR1 billion gross media space. As a leader in developing media strategies directly targeting customer acquisition, the company is particularly well
Eventador.io, a fully-managed Stream-Processing-as-a-Service provider has closed a USD3.8 million seed round (including conversion of USD1.3 m angel round) led by LiveOak Venture Partners with participation by Deep Space Ventures, RSH Ventures, Capital Factory and joined by existing investor, Keshif Ventures.
Venu Shamapant, Partner at LiveOak will join the board of directors.
Since launching in late 2016, Eventador has become the leading fully-managed streaming data solution built on Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. Customers can easily build, deploy, and manage modern streaming data applications, including a market-leading bring-your-own-cloud deployment model, without having to worry about the complex underlying infrastructure.
Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has successfully raised GBP144.5 million of capital for Apposite Healthcare Fund II and associated vehicles.
Apposite received strong support from existing investors and a well-diversified group of new investors comprising fund of funds, financial institutions, family offices, endowments, foundations and corporates from Europe, Asia and the US.
Apposite Capital is dedicated solely to healthcare investment and operates at the small end of the private equity market. It has been successful in building market leaders since 2006 providing both capital and expertise to healthcare businesses in the UK
Lawyers from Carey Olsen in Guernsey and Jersey have advised Silverfleet Capital on the sale of Ipes, a leading provider of fund administration and other outsourced services in the private equity sector, to Apex Group.
Silverfleet Capital, a pan-European private equity firm, has owned Ipes since acquiring it from RJD Partners in 2013. Since then, Ipes has achieved strong organic growth and has strengthened its pan-European footprint by more than doubling both number of clients and staff. Headquartered in Guernsey, Ipes now has 265 staff across five European offices. It works with 195 clients and provides administration and depositary oversight
Global fintech firm InvestCloud Inc has announced the acquisition of London-based rplan Limited for USD20 million.
rplan is a provider of client engagement technology in the UK to support bespoke investment propositions for web and mobile. Its client base includes some of the largest institutional asset managers in the world, including four of the top eight in the UK.
The firm writes that rplan has had significant success enabling asset managers to digitize their existing retail clients and catapult the development of their digital strategy to support multi-channel distribution.
The acquisition will see rplan’s capabilities made available to
Claroty, a specialist in cybersecurity for industrial control networks, has secured USD60 million in Series B funding from a prominent syndicate of investors, including industrial operators and control system vendors, bringing the company’s total investment to date to USD93 million.
The round was led by Temasek and included Rockwell Automation, Aster Capital (Sponsored by Schneider Electric), Next47 (Siemens-backed global venture firm), Envision Ventures, and Tekfen Ventures. Original Claroty investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Team8, Innovation Endeavors, and ICV all participated in the round.
Founded in 2014 and exiting stealth mode in late 2016, this investment comes on the heels of
Basingstoke-based Southern Communications is targeting further acquisitions in the telecoms and digital sectors following an increase in existing debt facilities from a syndicate led by Santander Corporate & Commercial, alongside HSBC and Aviva Investors (Aviva).
Southern Communications traces its roots to 1965 as a telecoms service provider and has, over the past 50 years, grown into one of the UK’s leading B2B telecoms and data service providers. It now offers a broad suite of market-leading voice and data products to almost 8,000 SME clients. The firm has successfully completed 13 acquisitions since 2013, which together with strong organic growth has
Ropes & Gray’s lawyers have announced or closed transactions totalling more than USD20 billion on four continents in two weeks. The milestone demonstrates the firm’s exceptional international reach on significant transactions, including across Asia, Latin America and Europe.
“From London and Tokyo, to Hong Kong and into Latin America, our cross-practice teams have reached milestones in headline-making, highly complex, private equity-backed transactions involving big global names: Bain Capital, Toshiba, Alibaba, Advent International, Walmart and more,” says Will Shields, co-chair of Ropes & Gray’s global private equity practice.
“Our results reaffirm that our practice excels in handling an array of
LDC, the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investor, has exited its investment in PEI Media Group (PEI Media) in a sale to Bridgepoint Development Capital.
The deal value has not been undisclosed.
PEI Media provides market-leading intelligence and analysis for senior professionals in the alternative asset classes of private equity, real estate, infrastructure, private debt and other emerging specialisms such as agri-investors. Its product suite includes globally recognised print and online publications, specialist sector research databases and events.
Since LDC backed the management buyout of PEI Media in 2015, the business has significantly invested in the development of
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