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Blackstone has appointed Sara Clemens, former Chief Operating Officer at Twitch and Pandora, as a Senior Advisor.
Clemens has over 25 years of experience helping lead high-growth companies at the intersection of streaming content and consumer technology. She will advise across Blackstone’s businesses, with a focus on Blackstone Growth (BXG), the firm’s growth equity investing platform.
As Chief Operating Officer at Twitch, Clemens was responsible for the corporate, revenue and go-to-market functions globally. Previously, she served as COO at Pandora, the internet radio pioneer, and was a member of the Executive Teams at LinkedIn and Xbox. Clemens is currently a
Giift, a provider of loyalty management solutions around the globe, backed by Apis Growth Fund II, a private equity fund managed by Apis Partners, has acquired a significant strategic interest in Xoxoday, a fintech disruptor in the rewards, incentives and payout space.
The partnership includes both primary and secondary capital components, and the collaboration will enable both Giift and Xoxoday to enlarge their service offerings and collectively accelerate growth globally.
Xoxoday provides technology infrastructure to enable businesses to automate rewards, incentives and payouts across the value chain. Xoxoday will use the USD30 million investment to fuel the next stage of
Northern Trust has partnered with 5th Century Partners (5CP), a purpose-driven private investment firm based in Chicago, to provide fund administration and related services.
The relationship includes banking, investor services and support for the launch of 5CP’s oversubscribed debut fund, which closed to investors earlier this year with $144 million in capital commitments.
5CP invests in growing middle-market companies with a focused approach that taps into diversity as a tool to drive strong financial outcomes that can create transformative wealth opportunities for diverse communities and stakeholders. The firm’s investment strategy was designed to embrace an increasingly diverse world and create
Atech.cloud (Atech), a UK Cloud Service Provider (CSP), has secured an initial GBP10 million investment from Pelican Capital.
The funds will be used to enhance Atech’s rapid organic growth and to finance its pipeline of acquisition opportunities, with follow-on funding available if required.
A Microsoft Advanced Specialist, and multi-gold, direct partner, Atech is focused on harnessing the potential of Microsoft technologies to transform its client’s operations, and business efficiency.
Atech primarily supports mid-market and enterprise corporations, with complex cloud requirements. Its key services include Digital transformation, Managed services, Managed security and Infrastructure support, with a specific focus on deploying and
Liberty Strategic Capital, a private equity firm founded and led by former Secretary of the Treasury Steven T Mnuchin, is to invest a total of USD125 million in cyber defence platform BlueVoyant’s USD250 million Series D financing round.
New investors as well as existing investors, including ISTARI (a Temasek company), Eden Global Partners (a New York-based growth equity investment firm), and 8VC, among others, also participated in the round, while Eden’s registered broker-dealer affiliate, Eden Global Capital Partners, served as a strategic advisor and together with Morgan Stanley as co-placement agent for the round.
This is Liberty Strategic Capital’s fourth
The Agri-Business Capital Fund (ABC Fund) has received its first investment from a corporate global financial institution, with the Bank of America deploying USD5 million.
The ABC Fund is a blended-finance impact fund investing in smallholder farmers and small-to-medium sized rural agribusinesses in developing countries to support sustainable and inclusive agricultural value chains. Through its activities, the ABC Fund aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers with a particular focus on women and young people.
The blended finance structure supports an investment from Bank of America at the intermediate tranche (B-shares). All previous investors invested in the first
Perwyn has appointed Gurinder Sunner as a Partner. Sunner joins the firm from BGF, where he has worked since 2011, and led the investment team in the Midlands and Milton Keynes and was also a member of BGF’s Investment Committee.
Sunner led over 20 transactions at BGF, with notable investments and exits including Chase Distillery, ReBound Returns, GCI, Victoria, and CHS Healthcare.
Prior to his career at BGF, SUnner worked at BDO, where his responsibilities included distressed transactions during the 2008 recession, alongside other corporate finance work. Key deals included acting on the buyside for LDC’s acquisition of the Emergency
Weavr, a London-headquartered technology provider that enables businesses with Plug-and-Play financial solutions, has closed a USD40 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global.
The company is disrupting the current banking-as-a-service (BaaS) model – which can serve only a limited audience because of its heavy costs, compliance and technical burdens as well as long implementation times – by making embedded financial services available to any business with a digital presence. The financing will support Weavr’s international expansion plans, beginning with an official US market launch.
Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) has become a signatory to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
IK Partners (IK) is to invest in Sofia Développement Group (Sofia) via the IK Small Cap III Fund, joining existing shareholders Extens, Capital Croissance and Bpifrance to finance the acceleration of organic growth and acquisitions to come.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Sofia is a leading e-health player in France and was created in 2019 following the merger of two software publishers, IDEA (Topaze and Télévitale) and SNAL (Albus).
IK’s investment will help accelerate Sofia’s growth and support its strategy to expand the offering beyond web and mobile tele-transmission towards a fully integrated digital practice
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