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Cowen Group is to acquire CRT Capital Group’s credit products, credit research, special situations and emerging markets units. The acquired business will be named Cowen Credit Research and Trading and will focus on distressed debt, special situations and emerging markets.
CRT will use the proceeds from the transaction to invest further in its Equities, Banking and Rates businesses.
CRT’s Credit Products unit encompasses the sales and trading of distressed convertibles, high yield securities, distressed debt, private placements and trade claims. The Credit Research unit is focused on distressed and special situations coverage and cross-capital structure. The Special Situations group includes
Intelligent Partnership is teaming up with the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) to launch the Angel Investing Accreditation – the new official qualification to promote effective investments in Britain’s small businesses.
With the numbers of angels in the UK set to grow, it's vital that new angels can access the education and resources they need to invest with confidence. Without the appropriate skills and knowledge, enthusiastic but inexperienced investors may run the risk of losing their money. For these reasons, Intelligent Partnership and the UKBAA are launching an e-learning angel investing qualification.
Intelligent Partnership is the UK’s leading provider
ClubReady, a business management software provider for the fitness and wellness industry, has closed a Series A investment from Level Equity.
Ben Levin, Founder and Partner of Level Equity, will join the company’s board of directors. ClubReady, already profitable, will use the funds to further accelerate its rapid growth by advancing development of its product platform, introducing new services, and continuing its international expansion.
ClubReady was built from the ground up as a web-based, core business system for successful fitness club operators to manage all aspects of their business. The intuitive, easy-to-use software features club management, payment processing, and CRM
CI Capital Partners has acquired a majority interest in Hero Digital, a digital consulting firm based in San Francisco. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Hero’s management retains a significant equity stake in the company.
CI Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has acquired a majority interest in Hero, a digital consulting firm based in San Francisco. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed, but
Hero’s management has retained a significant equity stake.
Hero provides strategy, experience design and engineering services to help marketers for leading brands improve the customer experience and drive business performance.
Adarza BioSystems has closed a USD5 million Series B financing. Proceeds from the financing will be used to expand production capacity in its St Peters, MO manufacturing facility and launch its first immunoassay product consumable and instrument platform.
Proceeds will also be used to accelerate development of highly sensitive assays targeting a variety of biological analytes including cytokines, antigens and small molecules. Adarza’s Arrayed Imaging Reflectometry (AIR-StripTM) will bring an unprecedented combination of performance, workflow benefits with high sensitivity, broad dynamic range, precision, assay robustness to both life science and drug development researchers as well as clinical diagnostics practitioners.
Sverica Capital Management has held the final close of its fourth private equity fund, Sverica Capital Partners Fund IV LP, which exceeded its original target, was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap of USD275 million.
Sverica will use Fund IV to continue its strategy of investing in growing business and IT services, healthcare services and high value industrial companies that have the potential to be category leaders in their respective industries.
Dave Finley, Managing Director of Sverica, says: “We appreciate the strong support shown for Fund IV from new and key existing investors. We believe the fundraise validates Sverica’s
Spectral Edge has completed an oversubscribed GBP1.5 million second funding round. New lead investors IQ Capital and Parkwalk Advisors, along with angel investors from Cambridge Angels, Wren Capital, Cambridge Capital Group and Martlet, the Marshall of Cambridge Corporate Angel investment fund, join the Rainbow Seed Fund/Midven and Iceni in backing the company.
Spun out of the University of East Anglia (UEA) Colour Lab, Spectral Edge has developed innovative image fusion technology. This combines different types of image, ranging from the visible to invisible (such as infrared and thermal), to enhance detail, aid visual accessibility, and create ever more beautiful pictures.
Gimv today announces a EUR 4 million investment in Topas Therapeutics, a biopharma company developing a unique immunotherapy approach to treat autoimmune diseases.
This investment is part of a total Series A financing round of EUR 14 million from a consortium of specialised life sciences investors including Epidarex Capital, EMBL Ventures and Evotec AG.
Topas Therapeutics, based in Hamburg (Germany), has developed a unique technology for the induction of antigen-specific immune tolerance. This new approach has the potential to treat autoimmune diseases, allergies and drug induced immune reactions in a more efficient and safe way. The funds will be used
Asure Software has acquired Mangrove Employer Services, a Tampa, Florida-based cloud SaaS vendor in Human Capital Management (HCM) applications.
The company develops, and implements HR, Payroll, Benefits, and Talent Management software solutions. Mangrove’s HCM suite of solutions is designed to be easy-to-use, with fully integrated HR/payroll applications to help companies recruit, manage, pay, and analyse their workforce more effectively.
The acquisition enables Asure Software to alter the marketplace of Human Capital Management by offering a comprehensive solution that brings workforce and workspace management together. These two workflows combined in one unified management platform increases company bottom-line performance through greater employee
AITV, a US-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and medium-growth software companies, has made a follow-on investment in LiveAction's recent USD36 million Series B financing, alongside Insight Venture Partners and Cisco Investments.
As part of the investment, founding general partner, Bill Malloy, joins the LiveAction board as an observer, alongside already presiding board member and founding general partner, Brian Nugent. The funding proceeds will allow LiveAction to focus on expanding operations globally and accelerate feature product development, further establishing the company as the visibility software standard for the Forbes Global 2000.
"Our follow-on capital into LiveAction not only
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