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InvestCloud has raised USD45 million in growth equity funding in a round led by FTV Capital. The fund will be used to further invest in the company’s platform and functionality, enhance customer service, and expand the company’s global footprint.
Richard Garman, FTV Capital managing partner, has joined InvestCloud’s board of directors.
InvestCloud has built a proprietary technology platform that offers the investment community the ability to easily build and customise an end-to-end digital experience. Their platform uses highly configurable modules, viewed via a single dashboard, integrating dozens of disparate internal/external financial systems, accounts and products, and enabling unique reports,
An affiliate of HIG Capital, along with Split Rock Partners, has closed the acquisition of HelpSystems.
Headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN, HelpSystems is a leading provider of system & network management, business intelligence, and security & compliance solutions. With over 9,000 customers across a broad range of industries, HelpSystems is the market leader within system & network management for the IBM-i operating system and is rapidly expanding its presence on the Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms.
Fraser Preston (pictured), Managing Director at HIG, says: “We are excited to begin our journey with Chris Heim, Dan Mayleben, and the rest
Clearlake Capital Group is to acquire Syncsort Incorporated, a global Big Data enterprise software provider. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Syncsort provides powerful, secure, enterprise-grade software that spans “Big Iron to Big Data,” including fast-growing analytical platforms such as Apache Hadoop, Splunk, Apache Spark, and the cloud, as well as more mature platforms such as the IBM z Systems mainframe. Syncsort continues to build upon an over 40 year track record of delivering innovation for the most important industrial-scale data platforms in the world, allowing organisations to collect, integrate, sort and
Xpenditure has raised USD5.7 million in Series A financing. Xpenditure offers expense management solutions for enterprise and SME customers in 40 countries, and integrates with all major online accounting platforms.
Xpenditure aims to become the market leader in expense management.
The USD5.7 million Series A round was led by various private investors, including existing shareholder Bart Swanson (Summly, Badoo, Amazon). Previous investors also include Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens (Netlog, Twoo – sold to IAC), and Jonas Dhaenens (Combell).
The round, one of the largest Series A by a Belgian enterprise SaaS to date, confirms expense management as
The latest factsheet from Preqin provides a roundup of private equity fundraising in the third quarter, featuring breakdowns of fund closures by strategy and geography, data for time spent on the road, dry powder, and the 10 largest private equity funds to close in Q3.
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Palatine Private Equity has completed the management buyout of Vernacare, the UK’s market leading provider of single use infection control systems to the healthcare sector. This is Palatine’s first deal from the GBP220m Fund III which closed in June this year.
Based in Bolton, Vernacare employs over 200 staff across the UK and North America and sells to a varied customer base in more than 50 countries worldwide.
The company manufactures and supplies a range of products including the Vernacare system, which is the most widely adopted single-use disposable system in the UK healthcare market. It is comprised of
KKR is to acquire a majority stake in Selecta Group (Selecta) from Allianz Capital Partners ACP. The transaction is subject to, among other things, the consent of Selecta’s bondholders.
Selecta is a leader in the European vending and coffee services market and geographically diversified across Europe with operations in 21 countries and a special focus on Switzerland, Sweden and France. The company operates more than 145,000 vending machines, employs approximately 4,500 people, and serves more than 6 million consumers daily. KKR has supported Selecta since 2014, when KKR Credit provided EUR220 million in long-term financing as part of the Group’s
Inflexion has completed the GBP92m buyout of Alcumus Group Ltd (Alcumus), a market-leading provider of technology-enabled compliance risk management and certification services, from Sovereign Capital.
Alcumus serves over 8,000 clients, including 35 per cent of the FTSE 100, providing outsourced risk management services which are critical to compliance with UK regulations and internationally recognised standards. Formed through the integration of five companies, this high growth business holds a prominent share of the fragmented UK market, valued at around GBP500m and forecast to grow by up to 10 per cent per annum. Favourable market conditions are driven by a continuous regulatory
This factsheet from Preqin brings you up to speed with the latest data and information on private equity backed deals and exits that took place in Q3 2015. The factsheet features top-level industry statistics, key takeaways and listings of the largest deals and exits to have occurred in the third quarter.
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eMoov, the online UK estate agency, is celebrating a successful crowdfunding campaign after raising GBP2,615,530, more than two and half times its target.
eMoov launched the six-week fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding platform Crowdcube on 1 September and had initially targeted GBP1m for 5% equity in the company.
The figure achieved by eMoov was Crowdcube’s highest share equity raise for a property tech business and the second highest for a tech company behind JustPark who raised GBP3.7m in March.
With investments ranging from GBP10 to GBP500,000, money was raised from 795 individual investors, including VC investment from Episode 1 Ventures, Maxfield Capital Partners and
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