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Private equity firm Liberty Strategic Capital is to invest USD150 million in Satellogic in connection with its merger with CF Acquisition Corp V (CFV), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, which will see Satellogic become a publicly traded company.
Satellogic specialises in high-resolution imagery of the Earth’s surface obtained through a constellation of low earth orbit satellites.
CFV was formed as a “blank check” company in January 2020 and completed an IPO in February 2021 at a price of USD10 per unit. In July 2021, CFV and Satellogic announced plans to merge at an implied enterprise
Houlihan Lokey has appointed Chris Hastings as a Managing Director in the firm’s Capital Markets Group.
Hastings will join Sean Fitzgerald in New York to provide equity solutions, including growth capital, structured equity, and PIPEs, to the firm’s corporate and financial-sponsor-backed clients. In addition, Brent Surber, an existing Director in the Capital Markets Group with substantial equity placement experience, will join the expanded equity team.
Hastings has more than two decades of experience advising clients on a broad range of private capital advisory transactions. He joins Houlihan Lokey from DC Advisory, where he was a Managing Director and Head of
Dream Games, a Turkey-based studio behind the hit mobile game Royal Match, has become one of the most valuable private mobile gaming companies in the world after raising USD255 million from investors at a USD2.75 billion valuation – representing a doubling of the company’s value in six months.
The Series C – the company’s third venture round in the past year – was led by Index Ventures, which has supported Dream Games since Series A. Makers Fund, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, IVP, Kora and Balderton Capital also participated in the round. The amount raised brings the total amount
Clockwise, a ‘Time Orchestration’ platform that helps teams free up their workdays, has raised USD45 million in a Series C funding round led by Coatue.
Atlassian Ventures and existing investors Accel, Greylock Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round which brings the company’s total funding raised to date to USD76 million.
Clockwise will use this investment to advance its AI technology and bring this new way of working to more people worldwide. The company is also growing its team to support this mission, with more than 25 open positions and another 100 openings planned in 2022. Placing
HRL Morrison & Co (Morrison & Co), a global infrastructure investor, has appointed Kate Mingay as a Non-Executive Director, effective immediately.
Mingay brings three decades of extensive commercial and regulatory experience from across the private and public infrastructure sectors. She currently holds advisory roles with Ofgem and CAA, the respective UK energy and airport economic regulators and is an Independent Non-Executive Director for Wessex Water and a Trustee of the British Science Association.
Mingay has a strong corporate finance background, having worked in executive director roles for UBS and Goldman Sachs earlier in her career, leading the UK financing teams.
The Riverside Company has invested in Transplant Connect (TC), whose iTransplantSM software platform facilitates the donation, transplantation and research of human biologics (including organs, tissues, corneas and birth tissue).
TC is an add-on investment to Riverside’s platform InVita Healthcare Technologies (InVita), which delivers supply chain software solutions to complex medical environments.
Riverside has invested in more than 360 platform and add-on companies in these sectors and possesses a team of industry experts who understand how to grow healthcare companies around the globe. TC is InVita’s third add-on, following Champion Healthcare Technologies in May 2019 and STACS DNA in May 2021.
Anna Humphrey has VC law firm Orrick as a partner in London focused on Employee Incentives and Executive Compensation.
She is the 11th partner addition to Orrick’s London office since 2020.
Humphrey joins Orrick from Taylor Wessing and will be part of the firm’s tech practice, which has ranked No1 in Europe for 5-plus years, according to Pitchbook’s third quarter 2021 report.
The firm advises over 3,000 technology companies and 50 unicorns.
Appcues has raised USD32.1 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by NewSpring.
The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s rapid product innovation and scale its operations globally.
Columbia Partners also participated in the round, along with existing investors Sierra Ventures and Accomplice. This fundraising brings Appcues’ total funding to USD47.9 million to date.
FLX Distribution – a Resource and Asset Management Platform (RAMP) for asset and wealth managers that provides modular-based front office solutions with on-demand resources, services, and investments – has partnered with Oasis, a Paychex company, focused on offering Professional Employer Organisation (PEO) solutions to its members.
Solving familiar HR challenges including high costs, limited options, complexities, and time-consuming personnel management, FLX is now delivering quality, efficient, and cost-effective solutions through this FLX-sponsored PEO.
Oasis is one of the leading Professional Employer Organisations (PEO) in the US, providing Human Resource Administration, Employee Benefits, Healthcare Reform (ACA), Payroll Administration and Risk
Hastings Equity Partners (Hastings) portfolio company, MKD Electric (MKD), a full-service industrial automation and electrical service platform, has invested in XSTele.com (XS Telecom).
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