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Hornetsecurity Group, a cloud email security provider, has made its second acquisition this year – email protection specialist Zerospam, which comes hot on the heels of its acquisition of worldwide backup solution provider Altaro in January.
Zerospam is a fast-growing business that serves more than 4,000 small, midsized and enterprise customers worldwide via an ecosystem of 400+ partners focused primarily on Canada and the US. It is a recognized leader in providing cloud-based email security solutions to the SMB market across North America, helping them block unwanted emails and combat cybercriminals.
Providing customers and partners with innovative and safe
The Solana Foundation has partnered with cryptocurrency exchanges, OKEx and MXC, to launch two strategic investment funds that will bring USD40 million of new capital to accelerate the growth and development of key projects in the Solana ecosystem.
Solana’s layer 1 proof of stake network has grown at an exponential rate, with 560+ active community validators around the world who have produced over 70 million blocks and processed over 14 billion transactions. Since the launch of its mainnet beta in 2020, Solana has attracted industry-leading projects like Serum, Chainlink, Terra, Audius, USDC, USDT, and more to deploy on its blockchain.
Linking platform Linktree has raised USD45 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Index Ventures, an investor in Patreon and Discord, and Coatue, an investor in TikTok, with participation from returning investors AirTree Ventures and Insight Partners.
Coatue Chairman Dan Rose will join Linktree’s Board of Directors, bringing his 20 years of experience from Facebook and Amazon. The funding follows a USD10.7 million Series A round announced in October 2020.
Linktree is the rapidly growing social identity layer with more than 12 million users globally, four million of whom signed up in the last three months. The platform
Horizon Capital’s USD200 million fund, Emerging Europe Growth Fund III, has sold its minority stake in Dobrobut to existing shareholders – Oleg Kalashnikov, Dobrobut’s Managing Shareholder and CEO, and Concorde Capital.
Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Horizon Capital invested in Dobrobut in April 2019. Fuelled by the Fund’s investment, the Company was able to rapidly execute value-accretive strategic projects, strongly accelerating the growth of the business. Over the last two years, Dobrobut completed two lucrative M&A transactions, acquiring Boris and Doctor Sam clinics; is completing the construction of a new flagship hospital; expanded its network
Council Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, has invested in ViaQuest Holdings, Ltd and Affiliates (ViaQuest).
ViaQuest is a leading provider of residential, day and employment services for individuals with development disabilities (IDD), (ii) hospice care and (iii) behavioural and mental health services. The company delivers care tailored to patients’ and their family’s individual needs and circumstances. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, ViaQuest provides services in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
Eric Keen, General Partner at Council Capital, says: “We are excited to invest in ViaQuest and partner with Founder/CEO Rich Johnson and the management team. ViaQuest is
JTC, a specialist global fund administrator, has been appointed by Resolute Capital Partners (Resolute Capital), a San Francisco-based private equity firm, to administer its two new international feeder funds.
Resolute Capital actively invests in and manages investments in energy, real estate, and technology and structures its offerings with proven and flexible operational techniques. JTC Americas (formerly NES Financial) has been administering Resolute Capital’s private equity funds since 2018. When Resolute Capital decided to expand globally and researched available fund administrator options, they awarded JTC the opportunity to administer their international feeder funds in Guernsey, a well-established fund domicile and a
Lukka, a specialist enterprise crypto asset software and data provider, announced it has completed its USD53m Series D round of financing. Participants in the round include Soros Fund Management, S&P Global, and CPA.com (a subsidiary of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants). This fundraise follows Lukka’s recent Series C round, which was led by State Street just three months prior.
This investment will accelerate Lukka’s operations as a specialist institutional-grade middle and back office crypto asset software and data provider at a time when the rapid adoption of crypto assets by the traditional financial services industry requires more
Avista Capital Partners (Avista), a private equity firm focused exclusively on healthcare, is to invest in eMolecules, a novel and fast-growing e-procurement platform for high-value chemicals and bioreagents used by pharmaceutical companies in drug discovery. Financial terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2005, eMolecules accelerates the drug discovery process by connecting pharmaceutical and biotechnology researchers with sophisticated reagents not offered by the usual commodity suppliers. The Company serves nearly 1,000 customers around the world, with more than 120 million SKUs that are sourced from more than 300 suppliers across 35 countries. eMolecules’ unique e-commerce platform makes
Greenbriar Equity Group, LP today announced the final closing of Greenbriar Equity Fund V (Fund V) with total capital commitments of USD1.68 billion.
Fund V represents the firm’s largest fund to date, receiving strong support from both existing investors as well as a broad base of globally diverse and highly regarded new investors across the US, Europe and Asia. Fund V was significantly oversubscribed, successfully completing the fundraise above its USD1.0 billion target after launching in the fourth quarter last year, executed in an entirely virtual process.
Fund V will continue Greenbriar’s 20-plus year strategy of investing in industrial services
Fundraising for disruptive, low cost telecoms provider Boom has been oversubscribed by 45 per cent, reaching GBP3.2 million and surpassing its original goal of GBP2.2 million through Growthdeck, a private equity investment firm, providing tax-efficient investment opportunities in UK growth businesses to sophisticated and high net worth investors, with a minimum investment of GBP5,000.
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