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PreVeil has secured a Series A investment from Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in disruptive startups. This is the first outside investment in PreVeil; two of its founders, successful serial tech entrepreneurs Sanjeev Verma and Randy Battat, were the seed round investors.
PreVeil’s unique email and document services combine end-to-end encryption, with distributed trust that ensures no one administrator is a gateway for hackers, and finally, eliminates the need for passwords, a common security weak point in enterprises. Nobody outside of an enterprise, not even PreVeil, can read a business’ files – especially critical as the threat
LLR Partners has closed a USD30 million minority growth equity investment in Midigator, the provider of a fully-automated software platform to prevent, analyse and manage payment card chargebacks, thereby increasing merchant revenue and lowering costs.
Key features of the platform include automated chargeback prevention alerts, intelligent chargeback representments with industry leading win-rates and real-time data analytics and reporting.
“Merchants, small and large, are struggling to keep pace with the rapid growth of fraud and payment card chargebacks. Midigator’s fully-automated software platform is uniquely positioned to help processors, acquiring banks, ISOs and merchants prevent and manage chargebacks,” says Corey Baggett,
Alter Domus, a provider of Fund and Corporate Services to alternative investment managers, has completed the acquisition of Cortland Capital Market Services (Cortland) in the US.
Headquartered in Chicago and with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Austin, Indianapolis, and China, Cortland is a leading independent investment servicing company providing third-party fund administration and middle and back-office outsourcing to financial institutions, including alternative investment managers, real estate private equity firms and credit funds. It currently has over USD200 billion of assets under administration.
The firm was founded in 2008 by Doug Hart CEO, Russ Goldenberg, Tim Houghton and
Lithium Werks has acquired the original A123 Systems manufacturing plants located in Changzhou, China.
These plants were the first to introduce the revolutionary NanoPhosphate technology in the form of cylindrical cells that have been used globally in a wide array of applications, especially in the industrial market. As part of the transaction, Lithium Werks has taken over the customer relationships in China, Europe and the United States as well as the operations, staff and product designs associated with the Changzhou business. Lithium Werks is also the new owner of the POWER. SAFETY. LIFE. trademark that characterised A123’s product portfolio in its early
Cathay Capital Private Equity (Cathay), Total Energy Ventures (Total), and Hubei High Technology Investment Guiding Fund Management (Hubei), are to launch the Cathay Smart Energy Fund, an investment fund dedicated to the new energy sector in China.
The fund will focus its investments on emerging technologies and new business models of the Chinese energy sector, notably renewable energy, energy internet, energy storage, distributed energy, smart energy and low carbon activities. To launch this new vehicle – and Cathay Capital’s second RMB industry fund – Total and Hubei will respectively invest around RMB300 million (USD50 million). Ultimately, the fund targets a
Narrow Gauge Capital (NGC) has completed the acquisition of Class Appraisal, a provider of real estate asset valuation and appraisal management solutions to the US residential mortgage industry.
Class is one of the fastest-growing and most respected companies in the industry, offering its clients the highest levels of service and performance in the appraisal management process.
“Class Appraisal is a tremendous company that offers the absolute best service model that we have seen in the appraisal management business,” says Adam Doctoroff, partner at NGC. “Class has developed an incredible company culture, operational excellence, and a trusted partnership with industry-leading
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate and finance practice in the Cayman Islands have advised 99, the Brazilian ride-sharing application and Uber competitor, on its sale to China’s Didi Chuxing.
By Hugh Stacy, Augentius – While the world may have suffered its share of challenges and dislocations over the past decade, the aviation sector has continued to move from strength to strength. The increasingly mobile nature of the global economy has seen air travel volume more than double over the past 15 years.
2017 marked the eighth straight year of above-trend growth and 2018 is likely to follow suit.
The emergence of millions of new middle class consumers in nations such as China and India – many keen to experience air travel for the first time – is likely to accelerate the
Maxwellia, a ‘prescription to over the counter’ medicines company, has raised GBP700,000 in early-stage investment from the GM&C Life Sciences Fund, managed by Catapult Ventures, as well as from existing investors and angels.
The funding represents a vital step for Maxwellia, which specialises in ‘switching’ – the conversion of prescription medicines into branded versions that can be bought without a prescription, over the counter (OTC).
The NHS is under unprecedented strain with soaring public demand and severe budget constraints. Minor ailments account for one in five GP consultations in England and cost an estimated GBP2 billion each year. Many
An affiliate of middle-market private equity firm Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock) has made a significant investment in CloudNine, a provider of eDiscovery SaaS solutions.
Peak Rock and CloudNine have also simultaneously acquired the eDiscovery business from LexisNexis, which includes the LAW PreDiscovery, Early Discovery Analyzer (EDA), and Concordance products as well as the development, sales, and services teams supporting them. With this acquisition, the Company provides innovative and industry leading cloud-based and on-premise solutions to over 2,000 of the top legal and business customers in North America.
“We are pleased to partner with CloudNine in their acquisition of
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