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Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm with a focus on application and infrastructure software and technology enabled services, is to acquire Qlik, a specialist in visual analytics software and provider of solutions for self-service data visualization and guided analytics.
Under the terms of the all-cash transaction, which values Qlik at approximately USD3.0 billion and was unanimously approved by Qlik's board of directors, Qlik shareholders will receive USD30.50 in cash for each share of Qlik common stock they hold. This price represents a premium of 40 per cent to the Company's unaffected 10 day average stock price prior to 3 March,
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed the acquisition of Frank Russell Company’s asset management business (Russell Investments) from London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in a transaction valued at USD1,150 million.
Reverence Capital Partners, a financial services-focused investment firm, partnered with TA Associates and has made a significant minority investment in Russell Investments. Russell Investments’ management invested alongside TA Associates and Reverence Capital to acquire a meaningful equity stake. The transaction closed on 1 June.
Russell Investments is a global investment manager, with an 80-year heritage of delivering innovative solutions, strong investment results and high quality client service to institutional
Clear Ventures, a new Silicon Valley technology venture capital firm, has launched a new USD120 million venture capital fund.
Founded by partners Chris Rust and Rajeev Madhavan, the fund's financial backers include institutional pension funds, educational endowments, charitable foundations and iconic technology industry executives with more than USD80 billion in assets under management. Clear originally targeted an USD80 million raise then increased to USD120 million to accommodate demand.
With experience scaling companies from concept to USD1 billion-plus in annual revenue, the Clear team is dedicated to working with bold teams from the earliest stages of company creation to market leadership.
British fashion tech startup Thread, has closed a GBP4 million funding round which sees venture and growth capital investor Beringea join existing investors Balderton Capital and a number of angel investors.
This follows the previous series A round led by Balderton with a number of angel investors which was announced in August 2015.
Founded in 2012, Thread was launched with USD25,000 from renowned American accelerator programme Y Combinator. Founders and serial entrepreneurs Kieran O’Neill, Ben Phillips and Ben Kucsan noted the emerging trend of men wanting to dress well, but finding it difficult or frustrating to do so. Thread
Private equity swap executive James Gamett has formed Sweetwater Capital Partners (SWCP), which will assist institutional investors with active management of their private equity portfolios.
SWCP builds and manages direct investments, secondaries and co-investments to achieve desired outcomes. SWCP will focus predominantly in the US.
Gamett will serve as Managing Partner. Before starting SWCP, Gamett founded Madison Creek Partners, a health care services company, which he sold in Q1 2016. Previously, he was a Partner and Head of Secondaries at StepStone Group. SWCP’s investment team also includes Brooks Lindberg, Managing Director; Joseph Siletto, Managing Director; Ron Heinz, Principal; and Cameron
Romulus Capital, a seed-stage venture capital fund focused on investing and building technology businesses, has launched its third fund with over USD75 million in commitments.
Backed by investors in 15 countries, including 3 royal families, Asia's largest conglomerates, and individuals with strong ties to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Romulus has grown more than 200 percent in four years with USD150 million in assets under management.
Romulus is the largest independent venture capital firm in the world managed solely by partners under the age of 30 years old – in fact, Founder Krishna K. Gupta founded the company from
Smartkarma, the premier collaborative marketplace for Asian investment research and analysis, has closed its second strategic funding round, raising USD4.7million USD to further expand its investment research offering.
Smartkarma’s platform officially launched from closed beta in April 2016. This funding will be used to build on a number of key milestones already achieved during its first year of operations. These include usage by 140 global professional institutions, a 267 per cent year on year growth in platform activity, and a sharp acceleration in the number of insight providers joining the platform.
The latest round brings the total capital raised
Parthenon Capital Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco, has held the final closing of Parthenon Investors V with USD1.0 billion in commitments.
PCP Fund V exceeded its initial fund target of USD850 million and hit its “hard cap” of USD1.0 billion.
“We appreciate the overwhelming support we received from our existing limited partners and are also pleased to bring an outstanding group of new investors into the Parthenon family,” says Brian Golson, managing partner and co-chief executive officer. David Ament, managing partner and co-chief executive officer, adds: “We’re pleased that investors
UK mid-market private equity house Dinedin has backed the buyout of Kingsbridge Risk Solutions (Kingsbridge), an insurance broker for contractors and corporates.
The transaction, sees Livingbridge, the mid-market private equity firm that backed Kingsbridge in January 2014, fully exit the business.
This is Dunedin’s second investment in the financial services sector this year, following the buyout of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting in February 2016.
Founded by the current CEO Steve Wynne in 2001, Kingsbridge specialises in providing insurance services that are tailored to meet the needs of contractors, freelancers and independent professionals, as well as the compliance
Baird, an employee-owned, international financial services firm, and BR Partners, an independent investment bank in Brazil, have formed a strategic alliance for investment banking services, with an initial focus on cross-border mergers & acquisitions (M&A) between Brazil and Europe, and Brazil and the US.
Through the alliance, the two leading investment banks will enhance their respective M&A offerings by leveraging each bank’s strong knowledge and deep corporate relationships within each’s respective regions.
Baird and BR Partners have had a strong working relationship for the past several years. Most notably, last year the two firms co-advised Affinia Group Inc. on
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