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Esme Learning Solutions, a specialist in online professional development has secured a further USD15 million in new funding to support the edtech company’s rapid global expansion.
Previous investors, Adit Ventures are committing a further USD10 million with leading edtech solution providers, ThriveDX making a strategic investment of USD5 million.
The funding round follows Esme Learning Solutions’ acquisition of AI collaboration platform Riff Analytics earlier in the year.
RiverNorth Capital Management has acquired a minority stake in TrueMark Investments, an Illinois-based asset manager and Advisor to the TrueShares actively managed ETFs.
The two firms will work jointly to develop a suite of ETFs under the RiverNorth brand, complementing its existing fund line-up which currently includes mutual funds, closed-end funds, private funds, SMAs, and soon to be ETFs. TrueMark’s capabilities will serve as an expansion of RiverNorth’s existing strengths in delivering opportunistic investment strategies to investors through a variety of investment vehicles.
BC Partners Credit, the credit arm of BC Partners, has held the final closing of Special Opportunities Fund II (SOF II).
The Fund was oversubscribed at USD1.2 billion relative to its USD750 million target.
BC Partners secured broad support from a diverse group of global investors and SOF II benefitted from strong demand from both existing and new LPs, with 100 per cent of institutional investors in SOF II’s predecessor fund renewing their commitment.
Permira’s growth fund has led a USD350 million Series G funding round in Sysdig, Inc, a unified container and cloud security specialist, at a valuation of USD2.5 billion. The round brings total funding to USD744 million and sees the company’s valuation more than double in eight months.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, is to invest in iCEV, a developer of SaaS-based digital curriculum, instructional materials and industry certifications for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) market.
Riverside has invested in more than 80 education and training companies, including those specialising in pre-K, K-12, post-secondary education, certifications and lifelong learning.
Portobello Capital has closed its acquisition of Legálitas, a tech-enabled legal services platform in Spain.
This deal constitutes the largest transaction in the consumer legal-tech segment in Spain in the recent years, and represents the consolidation of the expansion plan started by Legálitas three years ago.
Luis Peñarrocha, Norberto Arrate and Ramón Cerdeiras will represent Portobello Capital on the Board of Directors of Legálitas, together with independent directors with relevant experience in the sector.
Tikehau Capital is acting as financing provider and reference partner to Portobello in this transaction.
Patriot Growth Insurance Services (Patriot), a US national insurance agency backed by private equity firms GI Partners and Summit Partners, has added The Safegard Group (Safegard) to its platform.
The partnership with Safegard strengthens Patriot’s existing property & casualty and employee benefits brokerage capabilities and expands the platform’s geographic presence into the critical Philadelphia region.
O’Melveny has appointed private equity finance specialist, Ike Chidi, as a Corporate Finance partner.
A Legal 500–rated leveraged finance lawyer, Chidi comes to O’Melveny from the Banking and Finance practice of another AmLaw 50 firm in Los Angeles. He will be part of O’Melveny’s fast-growing California private equity team, which regularly advises on a large number of investment and portfolio company transactions for established and growing middle-market sponsors.
Oakley Capital Private Equity III is to sell its stake in TechInsights, an information services platform for the microelectronics sector.
The exit will generate a gross return on investment of c18.8x MM and c82 per cent IRR to Fund III. As part of the transaction, Oakley Capital Fund IV (Fund IV) will acquire a majority stake in TechInsights alongside CVC Growth Funds (CVC Growth) to benefit from the strong future growth potential of the business, as well as the significant strategic and sectoral synergies CVC Growth offers.
Fund III first invested in TechInsights in 2017 as a carveout from AXIO
Startup investment bank for the emerging markets JPIN Venture Catalysts (JPIN) has participated in a USD1.8 million investment round in BioSapien, a biotech that uses 3D Printed Biodegradable mesh designed to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumour sites with greater efficacy and reduced side effects.
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