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RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird) is to sell N3 to Accenture. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, N3 is a tech-enabled sales and demand generation firm with specialised talent across areas such as cloud, software and 5G ecosystems. The company utilises its artificial intelligence-powered platform to generate efficient sales conversion and high-value revenue solutions for its clients.
With over 2,200 employees and locations across five continents, the Company leverages its global reach as a key partner to leading technology firms, including Microsoft, Cisco, and SAP.
“N3 has experienced tremendous growth during its partnership
Point Predictive Inc, a San Diego-based company that provides machine learning solutions to the lending industry, has completed a Series B growth financing led by Napier Park Financial Partners with participation from the company’s existing investor, Mosaik Partners.
The company has also hired Michael Housman as its new Chief Technology Officer and promoted Eric Werab to Chief Revenue Officer to facilitate the rapid growth Point Predictive is experiencing.
Point Predictive has gained wide adoption of its Ai+Ni scoring solutions across the automotive and fintech markets over the last 18 months. The company’s Auto Fraud Manager, IncomePASS™, and Synthetic ID
Private markets asset management firm Hamilton Lane has appointed longtime Managing Director Paul Yett to the role of Director of ESG & Sustainability.
Hamilton Lane has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to ESG, sustainability and responsible investing, and Yett will focus on expanding and formally spearheading the firm’s ESG integration strategy going forward.
His responsibilities will include managing ESG integration throughout the investment processes across the Fund, Direct Investment, Secondary, Real Asset and Direct Credit teams; driving ESG policy development and advising deal teams during due diligence; supporting clients, government entities and other stakeholders in regards to ESG and sustainability
Finance Durham Fund, which was established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, has invested GBP250,000 in Power Roll, a developer of ultra-low-cost and lightweight flexible film for energy generation and storage.
The investment through Finance Durham, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), will support construction of a solar film pilot plant in County Durham, further improve the efficiency of Power Roll’s solar film technology and help commercialise its capacitor technology with its joint venture partner.
Headquartered in Sunderland, Power Roll has developed a unique, flexible, lightweight solar film capable of producing ultra-low-cost green electricity
Fircroft Group, a technical recruitment business backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has integrated with NES Global Talent (NES) to create a combined global human capital solutions organisation.
NES is a specialist in workforce solutions, providing staffing across the oil and gas, power, renewables, chemicals, life sciences and mining sectors worldwide. The firm has grown significantly in the last five years, both organically and through seven strategic acquisitions. It currently has over 66 offices in 33 countries, with more than 1,000 employees.
Warrington-based Fircroft was founded in 1970 to service oil and gas companies in the North Sea and
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on European dealmaking activity. However, opportunities remain for those willing to take risks, according to the eighth edition of the European M&A Outlook, published by CMS in association with Mergermarket.
The report is a comprehensive assessment of dealmaking sentiment in the European M&A market. It canvasses the opinions of 230 senior Europe-based executives, from corporate and private equity firms, about their expectations for M&A in the year ahead.
According to Mergermarket data, in H1 2020, European deal volume fell 31 per cent to 2,800 transactions and aggregate value dropped by 29 per
Hg, a European investor in software and tech-enabled services businesses, has made an investment in The Citation Group (Citation), a provider of tech-enabled, subscription-based HR and Employment law, Health & Safety, and ISO services to SMEs.
Citation provides tech-enabled compliance and quality related subscription services to over 40,000 SMEs across the UK. Citation helps these SMEs to comply with relevant regulations and ensure certain levels of quality and standards are met, in areas such as Health & Safety, HR/Employment Law, ISO and industry specific rules and standards by providing a combination of expert advice, software tools and audits/assessments, mostly on
Hunter Street Partners (Hunter Street), a Minneapolis-based alternative investment management firm, has launched a scalable platform to invest in equipment rental companies.
Hunter Street has acquired All-Star Equipment Rental of Naples (All-Star), a single-site operator based in Southwest Florida, and will work closely with the company’s management team to evaluate other opportunities for expansion in the region.
All-Star rents, sells, and services equipment including but not limited to forklifts, boom lifts, mini-excavators, skid steers, scissor lifts, and an extensive offering of small equipment. All-Star serves a range of commercial end-markets including construction, renovation, landscaping, energy, milling, and agriculture companies in
VNX Exchange, a Luxembourg-based digital asset investment platform, has completed the first VC deal in Europe utilising blockchain tech.
The deal sees the issue of EUR1.1 million of asset-backed tokens linked to the investment into Streami Inc, a South Korean blockchain company.
Issued on the Ethereum blockchain ERC-20, the asset-backed tokens represent claims on the future cash flow from the investment.
“This digital solution was very useful for fundraising when faced with the new reality brought by the pandemic, lockdown and travel bans,” said Junhaeng Lee, co-founder and CEO of Streami.
Streami is a parent company to a South Korean
A company backed by global private equity firm Permira, has agreed to acquire Neuraxpharm, a European specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of the central nervous system (CNS) from funds advised by Apax Partners. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
With its unique understanding of the CNS market built over 35 years, Neuraxpharm develops and commercialises value-added medicines and consumer healthcare products for chronic patients suffering from neurological and psychiatric disorders including Epilepsy, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Depression and Psychosis. With one of the broadest and most diversified product portfolios in the market, its strong medical reputation and
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