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Traub Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has appointed Sean Reilly as the firm’s Chief Financial Officer.
Reilly has 20 years of experience in the private equity sector. Prior to joining Traub Capital Partners, he partnered with several former colleagues in an entrepreneurial venture that launched and expanded Carta Fund Services, LLC, a fund administrator platform, which was acquired by a large Luxembourg-based company. Reilly also served as Chief Financial Officer of Clean Energy Partners, LP for more than five years. He has also held senior private equity finance roles with Blackstone and Credit Suisse.
Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund (SEQI), the FTSE250 specialist economic infrastructure lender, has made a GBP60 million investment in LightSpeed Broadband, the Internet Service Provider.
The new investment will accelerate the construction of LightSpeed’s FTTP multi-gigabit broadband network to 25 towns across the East of England, with the company’s aim of becoming the region’s leading provider. It builds on LightSpeed’s original GBP55 million backing from AtmosClear Investments, Kompass Kapital and Thesaurium bringing total funding to date to GBP115 million.
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a USD25 million Series A funding round in Atom Learning, an adaptive learning edtech platform.
Mercury Capital Advisors has appointed Masashi Hirose as Partner and Eugene Park as Principal to boost distribution and project management efforts for the firm, respectively.
Hirose, who joins Mercury from Teneo Partners, is based in Tokyo, while Park, who has spent the last nine years at First Avenue Partners, ark has joined Mercury’s New York office.
Hirose’s experience covers real estate, infrastructure, private equity, direct loans, hedge funds and venture capital, while Park has completed significant capital raises across a variety of fund types and direct deals in key asset classes including infrastructure, private credit, and private equity.
ATL Partners portfolio company Global Critical Logistics (GCL) has acquired Dynamic International Freight Services and Dynamic Dox, a non-asset-based provider of Film & TV production logistics solutions based in the UK.
GCL is a global holding company for freight forwarding and global logistics providers to specialty sectors. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Main Capital Partners-backed Swedish HR-technology company Assessio has acquired People Test Systems.
European software investor Main Capital Partners backed the company in 2019 with the goal for Assessio to become the market leader in Europe for HR-technology and digital recruitment services. After completion of its second add-on acquisition in the Netherlands in October, the Assessio Group is now further expanding in the Nordic region with the acquisition of Danish e-assessment company, People Test Systems (PTS).
EQT Growth has led a EUR235 million Series E funding round in SaaS banking platform Mambu, the largest financing round to date for a banking software platform.
Broadridge Financial Solutions and SLIB, a software vendor in electronic voting and securities services based in France, have announced the live operational running of their joint cross-border proxy voting solution.
Unique in the French market, the solution enables intermediaries – including banks, brokers and wealth managers that serve France-based investors – to meet their new, mandatory obligations to support voting for European shareholder meetings under the updated Shareholder Rights Directive (SRDII).
Eos Venture Partners (Eos), a InsurTech Venture Capital fund manager and Twelve Capital (Twelve), an investment manager specialising in the insurance industry, have joined forces to provide growth funding for successful InsurTech companies.
With a specialised fund Twelve and Eos aim to accelerate the digital disruption of the insurance industry through investing into the global InsurTech sector. According to a study by Valuates Reports published in August 2021, this sector is expected to grow at 34.4 per cent annually and reach USD119.4 billion by 2027.
Ten Coves Capital has led a USD35 million Series B round in Canopy, a cloud-based practice management platform for accounting professionals.
Current investors NewView Capital, Pelion Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Ankona Capital also made significant investments with the funding set to be used further accelerate Canopy’s mission to become the ”default operating system for accounting firms.
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