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Start-up investment platform nr2, which gives businesses and investors AI-enabled insights into South Korea and China’s most promising and innovative start-ups, has raised capital for expansion from new investors, including Lord Rothschild and Sir Simon Robey.
The cross-border investment platform will use the funding to accelerate growth, expand its team of AI engineers and develop its AI-powered search engine.
Investor Maxim Parr and entrepreneur Jordan Monnet founded nr2 in 2019, leveraging 20 years of international experience in investment and AI, to build cutting-edge search algorithms to source start-ups in Asia. The search engine provides data and insights into the booming
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has sold Spanish concrete precast group Pretersa Prenavisa (Pretersa) to Precon, a subsidiary of Cementos Molins.
Pretersa specialises in the design and engineering, production, transport and installation of precast concrete buildings for a range of different industries including logistics, retail, manufacturing, and the growing housing market backed by the growth of industrialised construction and BIM. The Company operates from three factories in Teruel, Jaén and Sevogia (Spain) and services the Spanish and French markets.
Kartesia first invested in Pretersa in 2015 and has supported the growth
Hyperscience, a human centred automation company, has raised USD100 million in a Series E funding round led by existing investors Global Founders Capital, Tiger, Stripes, and Bessemer.
This latest investment, which comes hot on the heels of Hyperscience’s first acquisition, underscores growing interest in the company’s deeply human-centric approach that turns antiquated business processes into digital assembly lines, combining data, people, and processes. With machine learning and its proprietary human-in-the-loop functionality at its core, Hyperscience delivers automation that more easily adapts to business changes and evolving market dynamics—without the traditionally high cost of change management.
FPE Capital (FPE), a software and services focused lower mid-market growth investor, has invested in 60 Decibels, a social impact measurement company, that talks directly to customers, employees or beneficiaries about social issues in more than 50 countries on behalf of impact focused investors and enterprises.
This marks the eleventh investment from FPE Fund II. 60 Decibels is the fifth investment FPE has made in the last 13 months in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
FPE’s investment will make it the largest shareholder in the business. As part of the transaction, Henry Sallitt and Llewellyn John will join
Tempo Software, a specialist in team time management and productivity-enhancing solutions, has acquired ALM Works, developer of the Structure for the Jira software suite tfor project and programme manager.
ALM Works helps over 5000 organisations worldwide visualise, track and manage progress across large-scale, complex projects. Tempo and ALM Works together will provide the first suite of purpose-built program management apps to meet project, program and portfolio management needs for over 70 million users within the Atlassian Ecosystem.
Combined with the recent acquisition of Roadmunk, the addition of ALM Works strengthens Tempo’s strategic portfolio management offering. As a modern and
Following an initial investment in 2019, Diligend, an institutional-grade due diligence platform vendor, has secured a third round of capital to realise its growth ambitions in 2022.
The funding will support development of Diligend’s core platform, designed for institutional investors and consultants which is continually evolving to meet client requirements. Recent new features include the SEC Form ADV module, which allows investor and consultant clients to review and monitor Form ADV data, getting notifications when changes occur. The ESG and Diversity disclosure module released this year allows clients to request specific data sets quickly and easily, pulling results into tailored,
International law firm Clifford Chance has advised longstanding client Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, on the acquisition of atNorth.
atNorth is a data centre platform providing renewable-only, power efficient, and cost-optimised data centre hosting services to clients. Partners Group will work to transform atNorth into a major pan-Nordic provider of sustainable and efficient data centre solutions.
This deal follows several significant, recent digital infrastructure projects on which Clifford Chance has advised, as the sector continues to see increased interest from a broad range of financial investors.
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus has closed Warburg Pincus Asia Real Estate Fund with committed capital of USD2.8 billion, making it one of the largest ever first-time dedicated real estate funds globally and the second largest active opportunistic real estate fund in Asia.
The fund was launched in November 2020, initially targeting a fund size of USD1.5 billion. Due to the strong demand from the limited partners, the Fund received commitments in excess of the USD2.5 billion hard cap set during the fundraise and completed a final close at USD2.8 billion. Over 60 per cent of the capital raised
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has closed its first Continuation Fund capitalised by AlpInvest and a group of limited partners.
The Continuation Fund was established to acquire Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) and BCM One Holdings (BCM One). The transaction closed with a combined enterprise value of approximately USD1.2 billion and the Continuation Fund includes substantial additional capital to drive organic growth initiatives and strategic acquisitions at both companies.
The transaction was led by AlpInvest, a subsidiary of Carlyle Global Investment Solutions, and supported by a diverse group of high-quality investors, including both
HIG Capital (HIG) has sold its portfolio company Digital Room, (Digital Room) to an affiliate of Sycamore Partners.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Sherman Oaks, CA, Digital Room is a leading e-commerce provider of customised marketing products to small and medium sized businesses. The Company reaches its diversified customer base through a series of its own websites and fulfils the products through an extensive network of facilities across North America.
HIG acquired Digital Room in December 2017 in partnership with the Company’s senior management. Through a combination of significant organic growth as well as highly
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