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Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) is making an investment in independent insurance brokerage firm Alliant Insurance Services.
The investment by the Canadian pension investment manager is joined by an additional investment from funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC. Following the transaction, funds managed by Stone Point will remain Alliant’s largest institutional shareholders, while the company’s management and producers will continue to own the majority of the firm.
“Alliant looks forward to partnering with PSP Investments as we enter this exciting new stage in our growth strategy,” says Tom Corbett, Chairman and CEO of Alliant. “Both PSP
The Alternative Investment Partners Private Markets Team (AIP Private Markets), an investment team within Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has held the final close of two investment funds and related separate accounts, with aggregate capital commitments of USD1.9 billion.
This total includes commitments to the inaugural Ashbridge Transformational Secondaries Fund I LP and Private Markets Fund VII LP, the seventh instalment of the team’s flagship globally diversified private markets fund.
Since its inception in 2000, AIP Private Markets has focused on providing innovative client solutions within less-efficient areas of the private markets. The team leverages its broad network and expertise
Business lending platform Growth Street has raised a GBP7.5 million scale-up investment round led by the Merian Chrysalis Investment Company Limited (Merian Chrysalis).
Asset manager Merian Global Investors has joined forces with leading individual investors including Rob Rankin, former co-Head of Corporate Banking & Securities at Deutsche Bank, and Peter Brodnicki, CEO of the Mortgage Advice Bureau, in backing Growth Street.
Existing Growth Street investors are also contributing to the round, including Christiaen van Lanschot, who serves as Growth Street’s chairman, Paolo Cuniberti, former CEO of Mediobanca UK, and Pi Capital CEO David Giampaolo. Growth Street was advised by
Israeli startup Hailo, developer of a proprietary processing architecture for deep learning on edge devices, has expanded its Series A funding round to USD21 million.
Chinese venture capital firm, Glory Ventures, led the investment-round expansion and was joined by existing and other new investors. The investment will enable the company to expand its target markets into China and Hong Kong, complementing its existing markets in Europe, North America, Japan and Korea.
Hailo is also opening registration for the Hailo-8 Fast Track program to select customers and is offering these customers the opportunity to evaluate the initial samples of its
Venture capital firm Par Equity has closed five investments worth GBP4.85 million in just two days. The firm was lead investor and partnered with the Scottish Investment Bank on all five deals.
The trades included one new investment and four follow-ons. New to Par Equity’s portfolio is Amiqus, a software company based in Edinburgh that offers an encrypted online tool to automate anti-money laundering and compliance checks. Clients include HR and recruitment agencies alongside a host of professional services firms.
Paul Munn, Partner at Par Equity, says: “Our interest in Amiqus started as clients rather than investors. But there’s
VCT funding so far in January 2019 totals GBP91.3 million, up 245 per cent compared with the same time last January (GBP26.4 million), according to data released by Wealth Club.
Over GBP313 million has been raised so far this tax year. A total of GBP745 million was invested for the whole of the previous tax year, which was second highest year on record.
Northern VCTs, which closed last Thursday, is the latest to sell out, having raised GBP19.8 million in 11 days. Octopus AIM and Hazel Renewable Energy are the other two VCTs to have sold out so far
BGF has completed a further investment in The Prezola Group to deploy new technology platforms and prepare for targeted international expansion.
Through the brands Prezola and GettingMarried, The Prezola Group is focussed on digitising the experience of wedding guests, from invitations and RSVP to registry purchases, accommodation booking and memory sharing. Over one million wedding guests used the group’s market-leading services last year.
Prezola generated revenue growth of 57 per cent in 2018 and is now the UK’s leading provider of wedding websites and registries. BGF, the UK’s most active investor, first invested in Prezola in 2017 from its
Sphera, a provider of integrated risk management software and information services with a focus on operational risk, environmental health & safety and product stewardship, has acquired Petrotechnics, a provider of operational risk software for hazardous industries.
Petrotechnics is based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Established in 1989, Petrotechnics has helped keep people safe in hazardous industries, such as oil & gas, chemical and rail, among others.
Petrotechnics’ solutions help companies visualise and connect their operations, maintenance and planning processes with frontline risk mitigation software that provides Safe System to Work and Electronic Permit to Work functionality. The company’s software solutions are
Chaucer has merged with Virtrium Consulting in a transaction that creates one of the largest independent end-to-end digital transformation consultancies in the UK.
The deal was structured and executed with support from private equity firm GCP.
Virtrium was established in 2006 and specialises in IT strategy, architecture and transformation services across financial services, consumer and public sectors. The founding partners of Virtrium will move across as part of the deal, joining the Chaucer senior leadership team.
The combined Chaucer Group will have circa GBP35 million of revenue and more than 250 consultants across the UK, Europe and
heidelpay Group (heidelpay), a German FinTech payment services provider backed by private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), has acquired UNIVERSUM Group (UNIVERSUM).
UNIVERSUM is a Frankfurt-based payment service and debt collection provider that specialises in “PayLater” solutions – the largest and fastest growing payment method in DACH for e-commerce merchants. UNIVERSUM’s platform covers the entire receivables lifecycle, from credit-checking to recovery once debt collection is required, both in Germany and globally.
UNIVERSUM represents the fifth bolt-on acquisition for heidelpay since AnaCap’s initial investment in September 2017 and continues the core strategy to build out the Group’s payments omni- channel,
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