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An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with USD22 billion of equity capital under management, has acquired NCI, a diversified IT and professional services company that provides software development, information assurance, IT system engineering and modernisation and other enterprise IT solutions primarily to the US Department of Defence, Intelligence Community, and federal health and civilian agencies.
Paul Dillahay, CEO of NCI, says: “We are excited about our partnership with HIG and what it means for our customers and employees. This partnership with HIG Capital will offer NCI an opportunity to accelerate our growth strategy; enhance
NGX Bio has closed a USD3 million funding round led by 180 Degree Capital Corp with participation from Third Kind Venture Capital, Lateral Capital, the Band of Angels and the Berkeley Angel Network, as well as other investors.
NGX Bio was founded in 2014 to provide streamlined, on-line access to next-generation sequencing services for clients seeking high quality, rapid and cost-effective sequencing of both human and non-human samples globally. Demand for sequencing services is growing exponentially. NGX Bio’s platform matches the sequencing needs of customers with providers who have available sequencing capacity. Customers are able to purchase a wide range of
SnapApp, provider of an SaaS platform used by B2B marketers to create, publish, and measure interactive content, has closed USD10.2 million in additional funding from its principal investor, Providence Strategic Growth, the growth equity affiliate of Providence Equity Partners.
The Series B round follows a period of sustained and rapid growth for SnapApp over the past two years as interactive marketing has increasingly become a must-have for modern marketers.
Founded in 2011, SnapApp empowers marketers to create personalised interactive experiences that accelerates leads, activates buyers through the funnel, and unleash growth. Its interactive content creation platform easily lets marketers
VentureMed Group (VMG), a medical device company developing and commercialising next-generation endovascular products to treat patients suffering from peripheral artery disease (PAD), has raised USD15 million in new equity financing.
The Series B Round was led by new investor Endeavour Vision, a technology and life science investor based in Geneva, Switzerland, and also included new investor RiverVest Venture Partners, a St Louis, MO, based venture capital firm dedicated to life science and healthcare investing.
“We are very pleased to have Endeavour Vision’s and RiverVest Venture Partners’ support to help build our team and expand our product line, enabling us
Law firm Stroock’s FinTech group, led by partner Ian DiBernardo and special counsel Jeffrey Mann, has advised Instinet Holdings Incorporated in its acquisition of State Street’s BlockCross ATS, an alternative trading system (ATS).
The Stroock team also included associates Binni Shah and Adam Sapper. The transaction, which closed on August 10, 2017, is the third in a series of transactions Stroock has handled for Instinet. Terms were not disclosed.
Stroock’s FinTech team counselled Instinet in the preparation, negotiation and due diligence of vital intellectual property and information technology components. The deal included complex technology, cybersecurity and business issues that
More and more institutions are turning to private equity for the first time, in search of investment returns that are increasingly hard to find elsewhere. Commitments to private investment strategies have grown from an estimated USD180 billion in commitments in 2009 to over USD480 billion in 2016.
Many investors believe that private equity “fund-of-funds” managers offer the best way to get started in the asset class, since they invest in a portfolio of private equity funds, providing new investors exposure to private investment managers and helping them learn about the industry in general.
But secondary funds – which buy
Solid Solutions Management has acquired New Technology CADCAM to support its continued growth and enhance its ability to deliver more sophisticated SolidWorks-based CAD solutions.
Having acquired New Technology CADCAM, and following the acquisition of Cadtek Systems Ltd in 2016, Solid Solutions now supports a customer community of more than 12,500 UK and Ireland-based customers. These encompass product designers, mechanical engineers, manufacturers and educational institutions. The Group provides an extensive range of 3D computer aided design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM) software tools, as well as comprehensive training and support services.
Founded in 1998 by Managing Director, Alan Sampson, and Technical
Dragos Inc, an industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity company made up of industry experts with the vision of securing global industrial infrastructure, has secured USD10 million in Series A venture capital funding from co-lead investors Energy Impact Partners (EIP) and Allegis Capital, with additional support from DataTribe, a cybersecurity startup studio that initially funded Dragos.
The Series A round will be used to increase the company’s workforce to meet rising customer demand, generated in part through key partnerships with Deloitte, the global audit and financial advisory services firm, and CrowdStrike Inc, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection.
Dragos is
Prudential Capital Group, a source of private capital for public and private companies, has provided more than USD7.1 billion to companies and projects worldwide in the first two quarters of 2017.
This milestone represents an increase of USD1.8 billion compared to the first half of 2016, and an almost doubling in investments outside of North America. Prudential Capital Group is the private placement arm of PGIM, the USD1.1 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc.
“This has clearly been a very busy six-month period for Prudential Capital Group,” says Allen Weaver, senior managing director and head of Prudential
TPG Capital, the global private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, is to acquire Transplace, a provider of transportation management and other third-party logistics services.
TPG is partnering with company management to purchase Transplace from Greenbriar Equity Group (Greenbriar). The transaction is expected to close in September and is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2000, Transplace is North America’s premier provider of managed transportation, supply chain consulting and transportation management systems (TMS) technology solutions, as well as other intermodal, truck brokerage, and cross-border trade services.
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