Managers
Cogsy, a real-time operational intelligence and supply chain management platform for SME e-commerce merchants, has raised a USD6 million seed round led by Accel with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, WooCommerce (Automattic), Sugar Capital, and RiverPark Ventures.
Angel investors including Casey Armstrong (CMO, ShipBob), Jay Myers (co-founder, Bold Commerce), Brian Long (co-founder and CEO, Attentive), Tomer Tagrin and Omri Cohen (co-founders, Yotpo) also participated in the round.
The investment will be used to make key hires at all levels across functions and geographies, as Cogsy is a fully distributed team. The funding will allow Cogsy to build on the platform’s
Clessidra Private Equity SGR has finalised an agreement for the acquisition of a majority stake in Formula Impresoft, a technology hub in the Italian software and services market, from Xenon Private Equity VII SCA SICAV RAIF.
The top management of Impresoft Group, composed largely of the founders, will keep a significant stake in the company.
The investment in Impresoft Group marks the third transaction of Clessidra Capital Partners 4 fund, whose first closing took place last June. Italmobiliare will participate in the transaction as a co-investor.
Calibrate Ventures has raised USD97 million in new funds for its second fund Calibrate II , which will partner with founders building the next generation of AI and automation companies. Fund II will build on the firm’s track record of investing in early-stage AI and automation startups rapidly transforming industries such as education, healthcare, logistics, law, financial services, manufacturing, and transportation.
Amid strong continued demand from limited partners, Calibrate Fund II is over 20 per cent larger than the firm’s fully-invested first fund, which backed many notable AI and automation leaders such as Built Robotics, Embodied, FarmWise, Soft Robotics, Talage,
Healthcare investor BPOC has made a strategic investment in Alliance Physical Therapy Partners (Alliance), a provider of physical therapy services across the US.
Alliance is a national physical therapy operator offering outpatient physical therapy across a network of 90-plus clinics in 14 states. In addition to traditional physical therapy, Alliance offers virtual physical therapy, a workplace therapy solution, in-hospital services, and a comprehensive electronic medical record platform.
Financial terms of the transactions, which will see BPOC partner with the existing management team, led by Richard Leaver, have not been disclosed.
Project Admission, a technology company specialising in ticketing technologies, has closed a seed funding round led by global venture investment firm, Anthemis Group with participation from Flyover Capital.
With this funding, Project Admission plans to expand operations to meet the growing needs of the rapidly evolving digitally-driven ticketing ecosystem. Anthemis has a passion for emerging technology and strategically invests in tech-driven companies who serve as thought-leaders and change-agents in the world of finance. With more than USD9 million in funding to date, this latest round helps to further Project Admission’s mission to create unique monetising features and opportunities around the
The Jordan Company, a middle-market private equity firm investing primarily in North American businesses, has held the final close of The Resolute Fund V, (Resolute V), with approximately USD5 billion in capital commitments from a diverse group of limited partners including US public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, multinational corporations, insurance companies, fund of funds, endowments, foundations, family offices and other investors, making it the largest fund raised in the firm’s history.
The fund closed above its hard cap of USD4.5 billion and was oversubscribed.
Resolute V enhances the Firm’s capacity to invest in middle-market businesses across TJC’s four
SFC Capital and FINTECH Circle are partnering to find the next top 10-20 fintech startups or scaleups. SFC Capital has assigned GBP1.5 million in funds which will be distributed among the selected startups. The final list of startups will be revealed by mid April 2022.
Candidates must be UK based eligible for the UK Government’s Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), which is designed to help companies raise money at the start of their growth journey by offering tax reliefs to individual investors who can buy new shares in a company founded less than two years ago.
SFC Capital is a
Pemberton, a European private debt manager, is to provide a refinancing package to support growth trajectory of PLIXXENT, a German headquartered polyurethane systems business.
The firm was carved out from listed business Covestro AG in 2019, and is now majority owned by alternative investment firm HIG Capital.
Following two acquisitions, PLIXXENT now has six production sites across Europe and its polyurethane systems are used in both, flexible and rigid foam applications across a variety of industries including energy, insulation, footwear, appliances, construction, furniture and transportation.
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
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