Managers
An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock), a middle-market private investment firm, has completed the acquisition of Xenon arc Inc, in partnership with the company’s management team.
Xenon arc is a technology-enabled provider of managed services to food & beverage, industrial, and chemical producer clients. The Company manages its clients’ long tails of thousands of SMB customers collectively through its service offering including technical sales, support, technology and distribution services. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with operations across the United States, Europe and South America, the Company has built a strong reputation in the industry for exceptional service, technical capabilities
Paylend, a Kenyan FinTech startup focused on providing access to finance and digitising MSMEs in Kenya, has raised USD2 million in seed investment from Next Chymia Consulting HK Limited, an Asian based company that provides blockchain applications, consultancy services and training to global entities.
Founded in September 2019, Paylend has digitised over 10,000 SMEs and growing with its users enjoying an array of services including access to credit for products and services and crowdfunding tools.
Paylend is an Adanian Labs startup, a Pan African smart technologies venture studio with a mission to build, nurture and scale 300 impact driven tech
Korify Capital has launched its first venture fund, Korify Capital Fund ONE, which is targeting USD100 million for breakthrough biotech investments with a focus on longevity and mental health.
Korify’s focus is to invest in companies that give people the opportunity to live longer, healthier, and happier lives by both preventing and treating age-related diseases and mental illnesses. The new fund is being launched at a time when the biotech sector is transforming rapidly through evolving artificial intelligence and machine learning, leading to diminished costs and a speeding up of vital development processes.
Bielenda Kosmetyki Naturalne, a portfolio company of Innova Capital, is to acquire SHE Cosmetics – a Polish cosmetics company specialising in hand and foot care products.
Bielenda Kosmetyki Naturalne, established in 1990, is a major player in the cosmetics market in Poland. In January 2021, the company expanded its portfolio by adding Soraya and Dermika brands, which it acquired with the support of Innova Capital. In addition to Bielenda and Bielenda Professional brands, the group’s portfolio also includes BodyBoom, FaceBoom, and BabyBoom.
Diversis Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled services organisations, has made a significant growth investment in SalesRabbit, a specialist in field sales software.
Founded in 2013, SalesRabbit has been enabling field sales organisations with end-to-end native mobile and web-based software. Its complete sales enablement platform aims to solve the needs of outside sales organisations at every step of the sales process from lead to close and delivers solutions that include team management, lead management, lead conversion, presentations, proposals, forms and contracts.
Software investor Thoma Bravo has led a USD110 million Series C funding round in Figment, one of the world’s largest blockchain infrastructure and services providers, at a USD1.4 billion post-money valuation.
Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), Binance Labs, Mirae Asset, ParaFi Capital, Avon Ventures, a venture capital fund affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments, Bitstamp, CMS Holdings, Two Sigma, B Capital Group, Franklin Templeton, DTCP, and StarkWare, also particpated.
The new capital raised will expand Figment’s ability to support the adoption, growth and long-term success of the Web 3 ecosystem – as well as significantly grow its
Software investment firm Thoma Bravo is to acquire Bottomline Technologies (Nasdaq: EPAY), a provider of business payments financial technology in an all-cash transaction that values the company at approximately USD2.6 billion.
Voi Technology – a European specialist in micromobility – has raised USD115 million in an oversubscribed financing round led by Raine Group and VNV Global.
Existing investors including Inbox Capital, Nordic Ninja, Stena Sessan, Kreos Capital also participated along with new investors Ilmarinen, Nineyards Equity and ICT Capital and others. Leading entrepreneurs and operators from King, Avito, BCG and more also participated in the fundraising round.
The round closed on the back of Voi’s best ever year, in which the company outperformed its peers and saw strong and growing demand for micro-mobility.
An affiliate of Waypoint Capital (Waypoint) has acquired a 70 per cent stake in Allergy Partners (Allergy Partners), a US group of single-specialty allergy and asthma practices.
Allergy Partners will continue to be led by current Chief Executive Officer, David Brown. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Estancia Capital Partners is to make a significant investment in R&T Deposit Networks, an administrator of reciprocal deposit networks for banks and insured cash sweep programs for broker-dealers and other financial institutions.
The investment, which is expected to close on 31 December, 2021, is intended to accelerate R&T’s continued expansion within the fast-growing and dynamic cash management market.
Estancia selected Hamilton Lane who is allocating capital from New York State Common Retirement Fund, Flexpoint Ford, and Madison Capital Funding as capital partners for this investment.
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