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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.
Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital), a private investment firm focused on investing in defensible businesses in growing markets with tangible performance improvement opportunities, has appointed Howard Eisen as Principal on the Investor Relations team, and Jennifer Wildroudt as Vice President of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG).
Eisen has over 20 years of investor relations and investment fund experience to Sun Capital. He joins from TMF Group, where he was Head of Business Development and was responsible for developing a full range of asset services to fund managers globally. Wildroudt meanwhile, brings more than a decade of ESG experience, most recently from
SoftBank Vision Fund, Speedinvest, and several venture capital partners have announced a collective USD8.7 million in committed capital to the nine start-ups that make up the first European edition of the Emerge accelerator programme for underrepresented founders.
The companies are: Blloc, Credrails, Fiat Republic, Juli, Kwara, Pear Bio, Robin AI, Vitaance, The Stack World.
Including the investment contribution from Emerge, these nine companies have gone on to cumulatively raise upwards of USD23 million in their latest funding rounds.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in milliCare, a floor and textile care franchise brand, from Milliken & Company.
The company is an add-on investment to Riverside’s Clintar platform, offering franchise solutions for a wide network of commercial property maintenance and cleaning services.
North Sky Capital (North Sky), a specialist in impact investing, has appointed Monica Ravi as an Associate with the firm’s Impact Secondaries practice.
Prior to joining North Sky, Ravi worked as both a Credit and an Investment Analyst at Commerce Bancshares, Inc, performing bottom-up analysis on portfolio companies, identifying divestment opportunities, and serving as part of a team managing USD3.6 billion in investments.
The appetite for private equity remains as strong as ever, with 35 per cent of institutional investors and an impressive 88 per cent of family offices and foundations reporting an allocation of more than 10 per cent of their portfolio to the asset class, according to Montana Capital Partners’ ninth MCP Annual Investor Survey – “Finding outperformance in private equity — how leading investors actively manage their portfolios”.
For both investor types, allocations have been gradually increasing over the past years, arguably as a key measure to increase portfolio returns and as a result of the relative outperformance of the
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