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Hunters has secured USD68 million in a Series C round led by growth equity firm Stripes, with participation from new investors DTCP, Cisco Investments and Databricks, and existing investors YL Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Microsoft’s venture fund M12, US Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital and Snowflake Ventures. The new funding brings the total investment in Hunters to USD118 million. Hunters’ SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter across the entire attack surface. Global enterprises, including leading Fortune 500 companies in financial services, media, retail and manufacturing choose Hunters as their main SOC platform, replacing
Onramper – a fiat-to-crypto gateway aggregator – has raised USD6 million in a seed funding round, led by EQT Ventures, with participation from Backed VC and TRGC.
Vending Machines International (VMI), has secured a SGD135 Million capital commitment from GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (GGY), a Luxembourg-based private alternative investment vehicle. Under the agreement, GGY will provide VMI with a Share Subscription Facility of up to SGD135 million for a 36-month period following a public listing of VMI’s common stock. VMI will control the timing and maximum amount of drawdowns under this facility and has no minimum drawdown obligation.
Dawn Capital (Dawn), a European specialist B2B software investor, has made a number of internal promotions as well as five new appointments to its team. Most notably Henry Mason has been promoted to Partner, making him the fourth partner promoted internally at Dawn. Half of Dawn’s General Partners are internally promoted.   Dawn is immensely proud of the talent in its team which enables it to draw on rich and diverse perspectives. The team comes from a broad range of countries and backgrounds, with over 20 languages spoken and an age range spanning four decades. It also maintains a 50/50
British smart home systems installer BOXT is accelerating its expansion plans to become the leader in the UK domestic heating market after raising GBP20 million in a fresh round of funding led by Brookfield, a global investor in infrastructure. Brookfield has also invested in residential infrastructure specialists Thermondo in Germany and Enercare in Canada and the US. The fundraising follows an initial investment from engineering giant Bosch.
Browne Jacobson’s national corporate tech lawyers have advised specialist e-mobility and cyclist insurtech business Laka on its USD12 million series A investment round which was led by US mobility investor Autotech Ventures. Sustainable mobility and energy fund Ponooc (a Dutch, sustainable mobility investor with close ties to the world’s largest bike seller, Pon) and ABN AMRO Ventures also particpated, while existing investors including Creandum, LocalGlobe, 1818 Ventures and Elkstone Partners made follow  on investments, with new angel investment coming from Zwift CEO and co-founder, Eric Min. The cash injection will allow Laka to expand its operations across Europe and support
Asia Alternatives, one of the largest independent Asian private equity fund-of-funds, has held the the final close of of new commitments across Asia Alternatives Capital Partners VI, LP and several fund vehicles at a combined USD2 billion.
Private equity firms value their legal departments more as a result of the pandemic – and it’s causing them to shuffle their legal spend priorities. That’s according to a new report from Apperio titled, Controlling Costs in Private Equity: The PE Legal Spend Landscape for 2022 which reveals that 71 per cent of respondents – lawyers and finance professionals working in PE – say the legal team is more valued in the wake of the pandemic. The heightened appreciation has been hard-earned because the in-house team’s work volume has grown too. Indeed, 73 per cent of respondents say workload, headcount
Post Road Group (Post Road), an alternative investment firm focused on middle-market corporate strategies and real estate, has closed the Post Road Special Opportunity Fund II LP with total capital commitments of more than USD300 million, exceeding the Fund’s target. SOF II received significant backing from existing Post Road limited partners as well as new investors globally, including pension funds, fund of funds, university endowments, private foundations, and family offices.   SOF II invests in a range of corporate strategies, including secured credit, structured equity, and special situations in middle-market technology, media, telecommunications, and business services sectors. The Fund seeks
Jebbit, provider of a zero-party data platform, has received a USD70 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses. The growth capital will help the company scale across all departments to further accelerate its mission to help brands deliver personalised digital experiences that collect data that is willingly and intentionally shared by a consumer (“zero-party data”).   Jebbit’s no-code platform enables companies to build interactive product and personality quizzes, lookbooks, trivia, lead generation forms and more that gather zero-party and first-party data.  The investment in Jebbit

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