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Coinsilium Group Limited, an accelerator focused on early-stage blockchain technology companies, has completed a SGD100,000 (circa GBP56,100) in Indorse Pte Ltd through a convertible loan agreement.
Indorse is a Singapore-based company developing a blockchain-powered decentralised professional network. In addition, Coinsilium will receive an entitlement to an undisclosed number of Indorse digital tokens to be issued by Indorse in the next few months.
Indorse is a professional social networking platform co-founded by David Moskowitz and Gaurang Torvekar. Indorse’s co-founders have demonstrated their ability to successfully deploy blockchain technology and smart contract solutions for private companies and public institutions in Singapore,
Independent wealth management firm Diversified Trust has launched DTC Private Equity VI and DTC Private Equity VI-Q, the firm’s sixth private equity fund series aimed at qualified and accredited investors.
“As a firm that believes in creating diversified investment portfolios, we are pleased to introduce Diversified Trust’s latest private equity fund to the market,” says Carol Womack, Principal and Head of Private Equity at Diversified Trust. “Our team has extensive private equity experience, and we understand the role of private equity in an investment portfolio and recognise that as a long-term asset class it should outperform public benchmarks.”
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Private equity-backed Cheetah Digital, a global enterprise cross-channel marketing solutions provider, has launched as an independent marketing technology company.
Formerly Experian Cross-Channel Marketing (CCM), the newly established Cheetah Digital says it is “committed to driving results for enterprise marketers at scale through an unrelenting focus on product innovation and expert services”.
In April 2017, Vector Capital, a leading technology-focused global private equity firm specialising in transformational investments, along with Peter McCormick, Co-Founder of ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce.com), acquired xperian CCM. The transaction encompassed Experian’s suite of cross-channel and email marketing products, including the Experian Marketing Suite, CheetahMail and Mail Publisher,
Linnaeus Group, a specialist veterinary group for small animals, has joined forces with UK private equity buy and build specialist Sovereign Capital’s portfolio business Village Vet.
This investment further consolidates the Group’s position as a leading veterinary services provider and makes it the fourth largest operator in the UK.
The Linnaeus Group was established following Sovereign’s 2014 platform investment in Willows Veterinary Centre and Referral Service, one of the largest and most highly regarded small animal specialist veterinary centres in the UK. Since then the Group has made 11 acquisitions including North Downs Specialist Referrals, Avonvale, Calder Vets and
Noerr has advised censhare AG on an investment by DuMont media group. In a first step, DuMont will acquire a 36.5 per cent stake in the company’s share capital as part of a growth financing.
censhare AG was founded in 2001 and is one of the technologically leading providers of marketing cloud services. It has more than 180 customers in Europe and in the US, including Ikea, Deutsche Bank, Jaguar, McDonald‘s, Swiss Re, Deutsche Post, and Rewe. censhare develops marketing and communications solutions for its customers to correlate data and information without media discontinuities or process disruptions, enabling them to
Scout RFP has completed a Series B financing round of USD15.5 million bringing total investment in the company to USD27.25 million. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and includes investments from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Matt Murphy, Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, will join Scout’s Board of Directors.
Scout has carved out a name for itself in the industry by delivering eSourcing solutions that allow enterprises to source faster and make a bigger business impact. Series B funding will help Scout expand engineering, extend its reach to serve global customer demands, and accelerate the innovation of its sourcing platform.
Alteon Capital Partners has opened a new office in Monaco, which will be run by Managing Partner Federico Arcelli and cover the firm’s activities across Europe and the Middle East.
Alteon is an international technology venture development firm with headquarters in Cambridge Mass., adjacent to the MIT campus. Alteon was founded in 2007 by George Lauro (former Managing Director of Wall Street firm Wasserstein Perella) and Gil Amelio (former CEO of Apple Computer and National Semiconductor).
We are a team of senior executives from the finance and technology industries. Alteon’s partners have raised over USD1 billion in equity financing,
Engineering and construction company Graña y Montero has closed the sale of its stake in GMD, a subsidiary of the Group specialising in information technology and telecommunications, to private equity firm Advent International.
Advent is acquiring the Group’s majority ownership stake in GMD for USD84.7 million, with an initial payment of USD37.3 million and subsequent payments subject to milestones agreed between the parties. The agreed price is equivalent to 8.2 times GMD’s 2016 EBITDA.
The Group decided to divest GMD after a thorough analysis of the future business strategy, which will focus on the areas of engineering and construction,
Segulah IV Futurum Utvikling AS and minority shareholders have signed an agreement to sell 100 per cent of Øglænd Industrier to family-owned Hilti AG.
Øglænd Industrier develops, manufactures and sells multidiscipline support solutions, cable trays and cable ladders world-wide to the oil & gas, infrastructure, ship building, wind power, water treat- ment and clean room industries. These solutions deliver added value through reduced installation time, maximised volume utilisation, weight reductions, enhanced life-time integrity and improved safety performance. In 2016, the Company had sales of MNOK 1,483.
Øglænd was acquired in March 2014 by Segulah IV from the Norwegian families
Hamilton Lane has held the final closing of Hamilton Lane Secondary Fund IV, a global and diversified private equity secondary fund.
Originally targeting USD1.25 billion, the Fund received strong demand from the institutional investor community and exceeded its target to close on USD1.9 billion, the firm’s largest secondary fund to-date. The Fund consists of a diverse base of more than 110 investors from around the globe, including Taft-Hartley pension plans, corporate and public pensions, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, endowments, foundations and other financial institutions.
“As the secondary market evolves, LPs are increasingly looking for differentiation among secondary firms.
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