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Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has made a strategic investment in BlueConic, a pure-play customer data platform.
BlueConic’s existing investors, including Spring Lake Equity Partners, Sigma Prime Ventures, and Converge Venture Partners, will continue as minority investors in the Company.
The investment in BlueConic was led by Vista’s Endeavor Fund, which is focused on high-growth enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses seeking to expand their impact in the markets they serve. Endeavor partners with companies and their management teams, providing the capital, expertise, and support to build
Signature Brands, a North American manufacturer of dessert decorating products and a portfolio company of Traub Capita Partners, has acquired Brand Castle, a manufacturer and distributor of branded and private label baking & decorating kits, dessert decorating products, premium baking mixes and seasonal beverages.
Brand Castle also and designs and bakes its own gingerbread house line.
Carolyn Resar, President of Brand Castle, will lead the business and report to Signature Brands CEO Jared Konstanty; and founders Andrea and Jimmy Zeilinger will remain with the company. Brand Castle is based in Bedford Heights, Ohio.
Sygnum, a digital asset technology group with a Swiss banking license and a Singapore asset management licence, has raised USD90 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Sun Hung Kai & Co Limited, plus a a raft of new and existing strategic investors.
The round values Sygnum at USD800 million on a post-money basis.
As with all prior fundraising rounds, the Series B also saw the participation of a large group of employees as personal investors. These team members have now joined the co-founders, board members and management team as shareholders of the firm, and this group
Silversmith Capital Partners has promoted Rafael Urdaneta to Chief Financial Officer. Since joining Silversmith in 2018 as Vice President of Finance, Urdaneta has played an integral role in all finance and compliance related matters of the of the firm.
Urdaneta has over 15 years in finance and accounting experience. Prior to Silversmith, he served as a Controller at Summit Partners where he was actively involved in all aspects of the management company. He also provided support to Summit’s fund and compliance teams. Previously, Raf was a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Asset Management Practice focusing on alternative investments. He
CORL Technologies, a provider of vendor risk management solutions for the healthcare industry, has secured a strategic growth investment from Primus Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in healthcare, software, and technology-enabled services companies.
The partnership will allow CORL to accelerate its growth trajectory and continue its strong performance as the healthcare industry’s dominant vendor risk management solution.
Since its founding in 2012, CORL has delivered healthcare vendor and information security, compliance, and privacy solutions that harness vendor data intelligence, technology, and managed services to achieve measurable cybersecurity risk reduction at scale. CORL’s platform and tech-enabled services
UpCurve Energy Partners II has secured an equity commitment from Post Oak Energy Capital.
In addition to the new equity commitment, UpCurve II has completed an initial acquisition in the Delaware Basin. The Company will use the remaining equity commitment to continue to pursue an “acquire and exploit” strategy, focused on value creation via best-in-class execution.
UpCurve II is led by executives Zach Fenton, Steve Escaler and Dave Kyte, who have worked together for years in their existing partnership with Post Oak, UpCurve Energy Partners, LLC (UpCurve I). Both UpCurve I and II represent a highly economic acreage position in
North West law firm, Pannone Corporate, has advised on over GBP500 million of deals in Q4, as M&A activity remains buoyant.
The corporate team, including partners Mark Winthorpe, Tom Hall and Tim Hamilton, completed 14 transactions during the final quarter of 2021 across M&A, IPO and private equity transactions.
High-profile deals include the sale of online mortgage broker Mojo Mortgages to RVU, part of the Zoopla Property Group; the sale of investment platform Hubwise to US tech giant SS&C; the sale of streetwear brand, HERA London, to Gymshark director and former chairman, Paul Richardson; the GBP16 million sale of asset
Meditology Services, a provider of information risk management, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance services for the healthcare industry, has secured a strategic growth investment from Primus Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in healthcare, software, and technology-enabled services companies.
Founded in 2010, Meditology provides a broad array of services to healthcare entities including cybersecurity and privacy risk assessments, HITRUST and SOC 2 assurance services, PCI-DSS ASV and QSA services, HIPAA & OCR compliance support, penetration testing, cloud security services, and other related services.
Future Fertility, a fertility technology company developing AI-enabled and non-invasive fertility solutions to optimise clinical decision making in fertility care and in vitro fertilisation (IVF), has closed a Series A financing round led by M Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a global fertility leader).
Whitecap Venture Partners also participated in the round.
Future Fertility was co-founded in 2017 by Dr Dan Nayot, internationally renowned and practicing reproductive endocrinologist. The company’s mission is to harness the power of AI to improve fertility care and IVF outcomes, lower its costs, and alleviate emotional stress of the
RoadSafe Traffic Systems, a us-based provider of traffic control and pavement marking services backed by Investcorp, has acquired Clark Pavement Markings (CPM).
Based in Apex, North Carolina, CPM is a supplier of pavement marking products and services in the North Carolina market.
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