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Bespoke Partners, a provider of executive search services for the private equity market, has appointed Prakash Patel as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Prakash brings more than 14 years of experience in top-tier financial services and consulting engagements, including extensive work in private-equity-backed organizations, leading strategic initiatives and driving enterprise transformation projects.
Based in Chicago, Prakash joins Bespoke Partners from Kaufman Hall & Associates, a private-equity-backed health care consulting and SaaS organisation.
Barings has served as sole arranger of secured credit facilities to support the buyout of Prodieco Advanced Engineering Solutions (Prodieco) by Agility’s.
Synalogik, a company whose Scout data automation platform allows organisations to aggregate data, identify risk and create reports, has raised more than GBP3 million in a Series A funding round.
Spectrum Labs, an AI-based content moderation platform, has secured USD32 million in a s Series B investment round led by Intel Capital with participation from Munich Re Ventures, Gaingels, Harris Barton, and existing investors Wing Venture Capital, Greycroft, Ridge Ventures, Super{set}, and Global Founders Capital.
Intel Capital investment director, Divya Sudhakar, will join the company’s board.
The funding will accelerate the Company’s mission to ensure every digital interaction can be built on accurate and measurable Trust & Safety infrastructure. Spectrum Labs will scale the adoption of its leading AI-powered content moderation platform for online communities into new areas of the
JP Morgan Asset Management has established a new sustainability-focused growth private equity investment team.
The team will launch its first private equity strategy focused on investing in growth-stage private companies that drive resource efficiency and climate adaptation solutions across a range of industries.
JP Morgan is anchoring the team’s first investment strategy with an investment of up to USD150 million, one of its largest capital commitments ever made into an alternative investment strategy.
The new sustainable growth private equity team sits within JP Morgan Private Capital, a growth equity and private credit investment platform established to tap into the
CamerEye, a specialist in swimming pool and backyard safety AI-powered smart fences, has closed the last tranche of its seed-round funding series for a total of USD1.1 million.
A Place for Mom (APFM), a US marketplace for senior care services, has raised USD175 million in growth equity funding to fuel the next stage of the company’s growth and transformation.
The funding round was led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with additional participation from existing investors General Atlantic and Silver Lake.
A Place for Mom is the leading, online platform and trusted advisory service, powered by a national team of local experts, assisting families with personalised senior care guidance.
Private equity firm Accel-KKR has topped this year’s HEC–DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking ahead of Francisco Partners and TA Associates, in second and third spots.
The 2021 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking lists the world’s Top PE firms in terms of aggregate performance based on all buyout funds raised between 2008 and 2017. This ranking answers the question: “Which firm(s) generated the best performance for their investors over the past years?”
The ranking draws on a comprehensive set of data on PE fund performance provided by preqin and directly from PE Firms and uses a unique methodology to calculate the
Inflexion has made a minority investment in Wood Thilsted, a global offshore wind engineering consultancy.
The investment is being made from Enterprise Fund V, Inflexion’s dedicated lower mid-market fund.
Founded in 2015, Wood Thilsted designs the foundations for some of the world’s largest offshore wind farms which are a key driver of the global transition to renewable clean energy. The company operates in all the major wind energy markets of the world, providing its services to many of the leading wind developers, and is currently working on the three most significant wind development projects globally. The firm employs over 140
YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Reading, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, is continuing to expand its team throughout the UK with the appointment of Nick Holt as a portfolio director.
Based in the firm’s Reading office, Holt joins from GEMS Education, one of the world’s largest K-12 education providers where he was a member of the management team across Europe, responsible for corporate development and operations. Prior to that, he had 13 years working in private equity across a range of businesses and sectors including restaurants, pubs, software, healthcare, education, IT services and fintech.
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