Managers
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a USD25 million Series A funding round in Atom Learning, an adaptive learning edtech platform.
ATL Partners portfolio company Global Critical Logistics (GCL) has acquired Dynamic International Freight Services and Dynamic Dox, a non-asset-based provider of Film & TV production logistics solutions based in the UK.
GCL is a global holding company for freight forwarding and global logistics providers to specialty sectors. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Main Capital Partners-backed Swedish HR-technology company Assessio has acquired People Test Systems.
European software investor Main Capital Partners backed the company in 2019 with the goal for Assessio to become the market leader in Europe for HR-technology and digital recruitment services. After completion of its second add-on acquisition in the Netherlands in October, the Assessio Group is now further expanding in the Nordic region with the acquisition of Danish e-assessment company, People Test Systems (PTS).
EQT Growth has led a EUR235 million Series E funding round in SaaS banking platform Mambu, the largest financing round to date for a banking software platform.
Eos Venture Partners (Eos), a InsurTech Venture Capital fund manager and Twelve Capital (Twelve), an investment manager specialising in the insurance industry, have joined forces to provide growth funding for successful InsurTech companies.
With a specialised fund Twelve and Eos aim to accelerate the digital disruption of the insurance industry through investing into the global InsurTech sector. According to a study by Valuates Reports published in August 2021, this sector is expected to grow at 34.4 per cent annually and reach USD119.4 billion by 2027.
Ten Coves Capital has led a USD35 million Series B round in Canopy, a cloud-based practice management platform for accounting professionals.
Current investors NewView Capital, Pelion Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Ankona Capital also made significant investments with the funding set to be used further accelerate Canopy’s mission to become the ”default operating system for accounting firms.
SoftBank Vision Fund, Speedinvest, and several venture capital partners have announced a collective USD8.7 million in committed capital to the nine start-ups that make up the first European edition of the Emerge accelerator programme for underrepresented founders.
The companies are: Blloc, Credrails, Fiat Republic, Juli, Kwara, Pear Bio, Robin AI, Vitaance, The Stack World.
Including the investment contribution from Emerge, these nine companies have gone on to cumulatively raise upwards of USD23 million in their latest funding rounds.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in milliCare, a floor and textile care franchise brand, from Milliken & Company.
The company is an add-on investment to Riverside’s Clintar platform, offering franchise solutions for a wide network of commercial property maintenance and cleaning services.
Global investment firm KKR has launched Stellar Renewable Power (Stellar), a new platform that will source, develop and operate utility-scale solar plants and storage facilities on behalf of KKR’s Asset-Based Finance (ABF) strategy. Stellar will source opportunities through greenfield development and acquisitions of early-stage assets from other developers.
Vijay Venkatachalam, a renewable energy expert with extensive experience developing utility-scale solar energy projects, will lead Stellar. Venkatachalam has spearheaded the development of nearly seven gigawatts of utility scale solar capacity in the United States and India, and he will be building out Stellar’s team of talented solar energy professionals over the
Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses, has led a strategic investment of approximately USD100 million in NZXT, a specialist in in PC gaming hardware and services.
In addition to Francisco Partners, strategic investors in NZXT also include leaders and entrepreneurs across multiple industries. This group of investors includes: Kevin Lin – Co-Founder of Twitch; Vanessa Dew – Co-Founder & CSO of Health-Ade Kombucha; Patrick Lee – Co-Founder of Rotten Tomatoes; James Lin – Co-Founder of CrunchyRoll; Eddie Hartman – Co-Founder of LegalZoom; James Park – Co-Founder & CEO of Fitbit, Inc; Kevin
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