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Cyware, a provider of cyber fusion solutions, has raised a USD10 million Series A round to enhance its threat intelligence automation, threat response, and security orchestration solutions. This round was led by the Prelude Fund (the venture practice at Mercato Partners), and Tanium, a provider of unified endpoint management and security. Cyware’s seed investors, Emerald Development Managers and Great Road Holdings, also participated in the round. “This latest financing round is an important milestone in Cyware’s journey. It strengthens our ability to continue our growth and become a more innovative, customer-centric company,” says Anuj Goel, CEO and co-founder of Cyware. “As
Foresight Group (Foresight) has completed the acquisition of Pensions Infrastructure Platform Limited (PiP) which was previously announced in July 2020.Paula Burgess, CEO of PiP, becomes a Partner of Foresight and the PiP team, including CIO Ed Wilson and Head of Asset Management Andy Clapp, have joined Foresight’s infrastructure team of investment and asset management professionals.  The PiP platform and portfolio will continue as a discrete entity within Foresight, and the PiP team will continue to manage PiP’s assets and relationships with its LPs, building on this base for further diversification.  The acquisition sees Foresight’s assets under management grow by 38
Oil wells
Texas-based private investment firm Andros Capital Partners has closed its energy-focused inaugural investment fund Andros Energy Capital LP at its USD250 million hard cap. Andros did not use a placement agent or any outside advisor in connection with the capital raise. Partners Michael De Voe Piazza and Phillip Isom of Willkie Farr Gallagher LLP provided legal counsel to Andros in connection with the fund formation. The fund will employ a sector-specific investment strategy targeting private equity investments, credit opportunities and direct asset-level investments across the energy sector. Andros is mainly focused on middle-market transactions requiring between USD25 and USD200 million
Payment orchestration platform, Bridge, has received an additional GBP2.5 million from Gloag Investment Group to scale up its growing presence in the UK eCommerce and ePayments space and continue advancement of its technology innovation. 
Venture capital
Venture capital funds delivered exceptional performance in 2019 globally, which continued in Q1 2020 unscarred by the unfolding Covid-19 crisis, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.
Evotec SE and Novo Nordisk have formed a strategic allaince to focus on the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics for patients with chronic kidney disease.
O’Melveny has advised The Friedkin Group on its acquisition of the controlling stake in the professional Italian Serie A football club AS Roma. The deal was first announced on 5 August, 2020 and closed on 17 August, 2020. Romulus and Remus Investments LLC—a company designated by The Friedkin Group for the purpose of the acquisition—has acquired 100 per cent of the assets directly and indirectly owned by AS Roma SPV LLC, which includes approximately 86.6 per cent of the share capital of AS Roma SpA. Headquartered in Houston, TX, The Friedkin Group is a privately held consortium of businesses and investments
Global private equity investors Advent International (Advent) has completed its offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Forescout Technologies’ common stock for USD29.00 per share, without interest and subject to any applicable withholding taxes, net to the seller in cash. Advent intends to complete the acquisition of Forescout imminently through a second-step merger. Advent has partnered with Crosspoint Capital Partners (Crosspoint Capital), a private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries, on this transaction. Together they will provide Forescout with resources and expertise to help drive continued innovation and scale in Enterprise of Things security, delivering
Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions adviser for privately held businesses, has advised Mach 7.4 Inc (dba SHIPS-a-Lot) on an investment by a private investor.Details of the acquisition, which closed on 5 August, 2020, have not been  disclosed. SHIPS-a-Lot, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a third-party logistics company that does freight fulfilment. The Company was founded in 2015 when three ecommerce entrepreneurs were running an online beef jerky company. Trying to scale the business, they looked for a fulfilment centre to help with orders as they worked on growth. This is when Max and Zach Zitney and their co-founder Zach
Keeper Security, the provider of a cybersecurity platform for preventing password-related data breaches and cyberthreats, has closed a USD60 million minority investment by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. This is Keeper Security’s first equity raise since its inception. The synergy of the Keeper Security-Insight partnership will further accelerate product innovation and development and catalyse expansion of the company’s global customer base of consumers and businesses. Following the investment, Thomas Krane, Principal at Insight Partners, will join Keeper’s Board of Directors. No other terms of this private transaction are being disclosed. “The past four months have resulted in

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