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Januar ApS (januar.com) has closed the largest seed round in Danish history, a €6 million fund-raising led by Element Ventures.
Angular Ventures, Outward VC, and early pre-seed backers byFounders also participated in the round which also includes well-renowned angel investors including Nicolas Julia, co-founder and CEO of Sorare, Charlie Songhurst, former Head of Strategy at Microsoft, Pierre-Antoine Pierre, CEO and Founder IBanFirst, Jørgen Horwitz, former Director of Finansrådet as well as Einar Braathen from CoinFund.
With the proceeds from the seed round, Januar aims to become a leading one-stop crypto gate for European businesses, serving the growing crypto and
ICV Partners, an investment firm focused on lower middle market companies in business services, consumer goods & services, food & beverage, and healthcare, has appointed Fernanda Llera as vice president.
Prior to joining ICV, Llera was a Senior Associate at Investar Capital, a Dallas-based middle market private equity firm. Previously, she was an Analyst at L Catterton where she covered private equity transactions in the UK, Spain, Portugal, and Scandinavia.
HIG Capital (HIG) portfolio company, The Bluebird Group (Bluebird), has acquired 479 Sales & Marketing, LLC (479), a full-service retail services consulting firm.
With almost two decades of experience, 479 provides leading brands with the strategic planning, operations consulting, account management, digital optimization, and data analytics services necessary to succeed at Walmart, Walmart.com and Sam’s Club.
Investment bank and boutique advisory firms are moving into the GP-led segment to drive deals forward. Three leading figures explain how the market is changing as a result…
Platform Continues Growth Trajectory into Southern New England with its 6th Acquisition.
FSI’s founders Charles and Cheryl Barrett and Gary Lanowy will maintain a minority stake in the Company.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Altus has partnered with key industry executives, including Board Chair Kelly Romano, an AEI Operating Partner with deep sector experience in fire & security and commercial building industries including over 30 years at United Technologies Corporation (UTC), and Board Member Ed Cettina, a senior construction management executive previously working with AECOM and Tishman Construction.
Muzinich & Co (Muzinich) has launched the Muzinich Dynamic Credit Income Fund (DCI), which is designed for investors seeking outperformance in rising credit markets without taking excessive risks.
DCI targets a high level of portfolio income throughout the credit cycle while searching for opportunities presented by dislocated markets. The DCI portfolio has a flexible approach, with allocations dynamically changing depending on the stage of the credit cycle. This flexibility will allow the fund to pursue its higher income objective and to be fully invested across the credit segments, even during volatile markets.
Michael McEachern is the Fund’s Lead Portfolio Manager.
Tribe Capital has led a $50 million Series B funding round in LinearB, the developer of an engineering efficiency platform, according to a report by CTech.
New investor Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors Battery Ventures and 83North, also participated in the round.
This lates round brings total funding for LinearB to $71 million.
Shore Capital Partners (Shore) has formed a growth partnership with OC Flavors (OC), a custom flavour developer and manufacturer based in Chino, California.
OC Flavors was founded in 2007 by Leah McCuen and Monica Ahuero to offer a full range of natural and organic flavours and flavouring solutions across a variety of food, beverage and supplement product applications.
Shore Capital is partnering with the Company’s management team, which has led OC Flavors through tremendous growth over the past 15 years.
OC and Shore plan to invest in several key initiatives to drive growth, including added support in key areas such
Despite stringent lockdowns and pandemic-related challenges, Australia’s private capital industry continued to grow last year, according to research by Preqin.
Australia-focused private capital assets under management (AUM) stood at a record high of AUD90 billion as of June 2021, up 11% on December 2020’s AUD81 billion.
Private debt was by far the fastest-growing asset class, expanding 144% from December 2020 to an AUM of AUD1.4 billion in June 2021, albeit from a low base of just 2% of private capital AUM. Private equity remains the dominant asset class with AUD42 billion in AUM – a third of the total –
Access and identity control SaaS- and hardware start-up Nine Engineering is raising €1.1 million to increase access security, site safety and privacy compliancy.
Nine Engineering offers easy-to-use solutions that increase access security, site safety and privacy compliancy. The start-up’s offerings include both a privacy-compliant SaaS platform for documentation that centralises user identification, certificates, and training courses – which makes documents easily available for audits, and the hardware devices needed for access management on site, which work with QR codes, smartphone scans or facial recognition.
Nine Engineering has the support of investors including Pitchdrive and Noël Keysers, loans from BNP Paribas
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