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Capria Ventures, a global investor with the largest network of fund managers in emerging markets, termed the Global South, has released its annual impact report. According to the report, Capria and its affiliated network of funds have invested USD92.1 million as of December 2020, impacting 16.5 million lives across regions despite the pandemic-induced setbacks.
Capria’s network of 14 Fund managers have invested USD 92.1 million in early-stage startups spread across 56 countries as of Dec ‘2020.
“Capria is delivering market-rate returns while also creating impact through its investments in the Global South, specifically, in the tech hubs of Latin America,
ICAS World, a leading global provider of Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP), crisis management solutions and people development, will use a significant investment from the alternative lender BOOST&Co to drive its future growth and fund further acquisitions, after demand for its services surged in the wake of a growing awareness of mental health issues.
Founded in 1987, the business provides a range of mental health, work-life and wellness services to more than 2,500 corporate clients, serving more than 6.5 million employees. It employs more than 300 people and has offices in locations including London, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Johannesburg
Ropes & Gray has advised Acceleron in its USD11.5 billion sale to Merck & Co. This is one of Merck’s biggest acquisitions and diversifies the pharmaceutical company’s pipeline by adding Acceleron’s drugs to target rare diseases. The transaction was announced on 30 September.
Bernhard Capital Partners Management, a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm, is to acquire RailWorks Corp (RailWorks), a North American rail infrastructure solutions provider, from Wind Point Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021, subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory approvals.
“RailWorks has enjoyed unprecedented growth over the last decade, and we are excited to see that continue with Bernhard Capital’s ownership and expertise,” says Kevin Riddett, RailWorks’ President and CEO. “For RailWorks’ customers, it is business as usual. Our crews will continue to deliver
Virtu Financial, a provider of trading solutions and liquidity to the global markets, has become a strategic investor in ClearList.
Other investors in ClearList include GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments, Tudor Global Trading, founded by legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones, and David “Tiger” Williams, founder of Williams Trading.
Together with GTS, the Virtu investment brings together on behalf of ClearList, two of the largest global electronic equity market makers in the world.
Doug Cifu, CEO of Virtu, says: “We have been watching with interest the overall development of the private markets and in particular the
Profian, a confidential computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, has secured USD5 million in seed funding.
The round was co-led by Project A Ventures and Illuminate Financial, and included angel investors: Olivier Pomel, Chief Executive Officer of Datadog; Tyler McMullen, Chief Technology Officer of Fastly; Till Schneidereit, Chairman of Bytecode Alliance; and Sarah Novotny, Board Member of the Linux Foundation.
As corporate cyber and data breaches continue to accelerate worldwide, there is a heightened requirement for organisations to increase their security for workloads in the cloud. For that reason, Profian aims to bring cryptographic proof and verifiable
Kyma Investment Partners SGR (KYMA), an asset management company with a EUR130 million target size for its first fund dedicated to the digital transformation of Italian SMEs and specific focus on Education and Information Technology, has held its first closing at around EUR100 million.
The funds were raised from primary institutional investors, including European Investment Fund (as anchor investor) and Fondo Italiano d’Investimento (as anchor investor), and from various family offices and High Net Worth Individuals.
Concurrently with the first closing of the fund, KYMA entered a binding agreement to acquire the majority of Datlas Srl (Datlas), one of
Heyflow, the industry’s first no-code platform for interactive user experiences, has closed a USD6 million seed financing round led by Project A Ventures.
Heyflow solves the growing challenge companies face when trying to design high-converting user experiences, fast and cost-efficiently. Heyflow provides companies with a platform to build, design and integrate interactive clickflows – without the need to write a single line of code.
Additional investors include existing backers Atlantic Labs and Possible Ventures as well as several angel investors including Philipp Westermeyer (OMR).
A great user experience is paramount for companies to engage, convert and acquire new customers. Demand
The Midlands team of global investment bank GCA Altium has acted as advisor to Nichirei Holding Holland, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nichirei Logistics Group Inc on the acquisition of the cold storage division of Norish plc for a consideration of GBP65.7 million.
The specialist division currently operates from six strategically located sites, with key facilities located in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands and Wrexham in North Wales. It provides more than 47,500 racked, temperature-controlled pallet spaces in the UK.
The company provides supply chain solutions for businesses on a local, regional, and national basis by way of
finnCap Cavendish (Cavendish), part of financial advisory firm finnCap Group, has advised on the sale of Sentenial Group and its open banking brand Nuapay, an end-to-end payments platform specialised in account-to-account transactions, to EML Payments, an Australian-listed payments technology company for EUR108 million.
Through its regulated subsidiary Nuapay, Sentenial operates in the fast-growing European-open banking sector. The Group powers a complete set of payments for credit transfers, direct debits, instant payments and open banking. Over EUR44 billion worth of transactions is processed annually across 37 countries, with some EUR1/4 trillion processed to date.
Under the Sentenial brand, the Group’s original
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