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JRJ Group, an international private equity investment firm focused on the financial services sector and growth situations, is to sell ETX Capital, a providers of multi-asset CFDs and spread betting products, to a fund associated with Guru Capital, a Switzerland-based private equity firm with specific experience in the CFD space.Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Roger Nagioff, Founding Partner of JRJ Group, says: “During JRJ’s ownership, we have invested in bolt-on acquisitions and enhanced the technology of the firm. We are delighted with the strength and resilience of the platform we have built, alongside the management team and
US private equity firm Horizon Capital’s USD200 million Emerging Europe Growth Fund III has acquired a minority stake in European e-commerce beauty company MAKEUP, thereby becoming its main financial investor.
Poplar has closed a USD2.1million investment, led by Fuel Ventures, to push its ambition to become the world’s leading augmented reality (AR) creative platform. This seed round, which sees Haatch Ventures, Ascension Ventures and Super Ventures also invest, will help Poplar deliver on-demand creation of premium AR and 3D experiences to accommodate the growing demand for branded AR campaigns. Since the pandemic lockdown in March, AR engagement has spiked by 19 per cent as consumers turn to social, web and mobile for alternative ways to engage with retailers and brands.
Poplar’s platform automatically assembles teams of certified and trusted AR and
International law firm Proskauer has launched the Proskauer Private Credit Default Index which tracks, on a quarterly basis, the default rates of senior secured and unitranche loans.“Traditionally, the private credit market has been viewed as being opaque with few sources of information on default rates. Our new Default Index provides a new level of transparency and gives investors a window into the market, and its performance, they have otherwise not had,” says Stephen A Boyko, co-chair of Proskauer’s Corporate & Transaction Department and Private Credit Group. “Given the number of deals we are seeing and the growing importance of this
C5 Capital USA (C5 Capital), a specialist investment firm investing in the secure data ecosystem, has led a Series D funding round for Synack, a provider of continuous application security and penetration testing services using AI and skilled ethical hackers.C5 Capital led the Series D round investment of USD52 million along with B Capital Group, and which also included a number of strategic partners and leading technology investors including GGV Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Icon Ventures, Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s venture fund M12 and Singtel Innov8 (the corporate venture arm of the Singtel Group).
Basis Vectors, a Berkshire Hathaway-style alternative investment and technology firm, has launched with plans to acquire, transform and accelerate vertically-focused B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) companies.Basis Vectors transforms high-potential yet undervalued SaaS companies that demonstrate potential for long-term growth and robust balance sheets, and is uniquely positioned to help companies that have been strained by the global coronavirus pandemic. Investment in the firm’s USD50 million fund is led by Cianna Capital, a private investment fund focused on new-age technology investments, with participation from the UHNW family offices of Rajesh Jain, founder of Netcore, Abhishek Goel and Tracxn.
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Wasabi Technologies, a hot cloud storage company, has closed a USD30 million financing round led by Forestay Capital, the technology innovation arm of Waypoint Capital, with participation from Wasabi’s previous investors.
Aquiline Capital Partners, a private equity firm that specialises in financial services and technology, has held a final close of its fourth fund, the Aquiline Financial Services Fund IV.
Founded in 2005, Aquiline Capital Partners is a private investment firm specialising in financial services and technology, which is based in New York and London and has USD5.3 billion in assets under management.
“Today’s dynamic market conditions are creating significant disruptions across financial services, technology and healthcare that we believe will present compelling investment opportunities for us,” said Jeff Greenberg, chairman and CEO of Aquiline.
The fund closed with USD2 billion in commitments,
Warranty & Indemnity (W&I) insurance is likely to become more sought after in the coming months as a result of Covid-19, according to Lockton, one of the world’s largest privately held independent insurance brokers.
Take up of W&I insurance in M&A deals is up from 6 per cent to over 40 per cent in the past five years as companies scramble to win transactions in increasingly aggressive and competitive auction processes.
“Back in 2014, W&I insurance was a rarity in M&A transactions. But in the last five years, W&I insurance products – and buy-side policies in particular – have
insitro, a machine-learning driven drug discovery and development company, has raised USD143 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing. The financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from new investors Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) and funds and accounts advised by T Rowe Price Associates, Inc. as well as funds managed by BlackRock, Casdin Capital, HOF Capital, WuXi AppTec’s Corporate Venture Fund, and other undisclosed investors. Current investors ARCH Venture Partners, Foresite Capital, GV, Third Rock Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and Alexandria Venture Investments also participated in the financing. In addition, insitro announced that Vijay Pande, PhD, general
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