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Nyriad Inc has raised an additional USD28 million of funding, primarily from existing investors. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s global go-to-market and engineering efforts for its reimagined storage solution based on a new architecture that redefines how data is stored and managed.
“Nyriad will deliver a breakthrough data storage solution,” says Guy Haddleton, Nyriad Chairman of the Board and lead investor. “Equally important, the company’s vision is backed up by a seasoned executive leadership team, exceptional engineering talent, and a strategy that focuses on delivering business value for customers. That this round of funding is coming
Customer data specialist business, Edit, has been sold to The Salocin Group (Salocin) in a deal financed by NVM Private Equity (NVM). The deal which has seen NVM invest GBP14.8 million will also see Edit’s leadership team take a stake in the business.
The Salocin Group is a data driven marketing services group, headed by serial marketing services and customer communications entrepreneur, Nick Dixon.
Edit, formerly part of Kin + Carta, delivers unified data solutions, acquisition, and retention campaigns for some of the world’s most recognised brands, including Jaguar Land Rover, Tesco Bank, The British Heart Foundation, and Shell.
Funds managed by Blackstone GP Stakes are to acquire a minority ownership interest in Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies.
Blackstone GP Stakes specialises in value-added, long-term investments in the management companies of leading private equity firms.
Managing Directors, Chris Gaffney, Michael Kumin, Mark Taber and Matt Vettel of Great Hill Partners, say: “Today is a significant milestone for Great Hill. Throughout our history, we have had the good fortune to partner with high-caliber limited partners, invest in innovative companies and collaborate with leading entrepreneurs. We are excited to welcome Blackstone, one of
Mondelēz International has joined Circulate Capital’s Ocean Fund (CCOF) as a limited partner and will now be supporting scalable business solutions to help develop infrastructure for the collecting, sorting and recycling of plastic waste, including flexible films.
The goal of this investment, which is part of Mondelēz International’s Sustainable Futures impact investing platform, is to enhance focus on the physical collection of flexible films – lightweight, multi-layer plastics used by the snacking industry – that have traditionally been more difficult to collect, sort, recycle and ultimately reuse.
CCOF is an investment fund dedicated to addressing India and Southeast Asia’s plastics
Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately held businesses, has advised Tesco Controls on its sale to United Flow Technologies – a holding of an affiliate of HIG Capital.
Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Sacramento, CA, Tesco Controls (TESCO) is one of North America’s pre-eminent control system integrators focused on the water, wastewater, transportation, and renewable energy sectors. TESCO provides its customers with industry-leading power and process control systems and comprehensive services via regional offices across the continental United States and Hawaii.
United Flow Technologies (UFT), is a platform established to invest in the municipal and industrial
Eurazeo is to acquire Scaled Agile, a provider of the framework, platform, professional training content and certifications for implementing business agility practices across the enterprise.
Eurazeo and its partners will hold a majority stake and invest approximately USD300 million alongside existing investors Leeds Equity Partners and the Scaled Agile management team. Definitive financial information will be disclosed once the transaction has been completed.
Founded in 2011 and based in Boulder, Colorado, USA, Scaled Agile is the provider of SAFe, the world’s leading framework for enabling business agility, a critical element to empowering digital transformation. With 1,000,000 trained professionals from
Coave Therapeutics (Coave), a clinical-stage biotechnology company backed by international life science and strategic investors Seroba Life Sciences, Théa Open Innovation, eureKARE, Fund+, Omnes Capital, V-Bio Ventures, Kurma Partners, Idinvest, GO Capital, Sham Innovation Santé/Turenne, has strengthened its leadership team with the appointments of Thomas Blaettler MD, as Chief Medical Officer, and Patricia Françon PhD, to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer.
“I am very pleased to welcome Thomas and Patricia to the leadership team at Coave. Their collective accomplishments and deep domain expertise in neuroscience, cell and gene therapy, in addition to their extensive clinical drug development
SEI has acquired Novus Partners (Novus), a global portfolio intelligence platform company, designed to expand SEI’s capabilities for both the institutional investor and investment management markets.
“The financial services landscape is ever-evolving. Our markets continue to face an unprecedented pace of change, and we continuously seek opportunities to stay ahead of and manage this change,” says Alfred P West, Jr, SEI Chairman and CEO. “By making strategic investments in our solutions and workforce, we drive growth and help our clients make confident decisions for their futures.”
Novus’ platform streamlines data management, performance measurement, reporting, attribution and look-through analysis in
Singularity Studio (SS) a metaverse development company and creator of the successful GameFi dapp, Zoo Crypto World (ZooCW) on the Binance Smart Chai, has secured investment from venture capitalist firms Spartan Capital and 40k Ventures whose seed investments will allow SS to devote itself entirely to building the Singularity Metaverse.
Additionally, the budding relationships SS is nurturing with Binance Labs and Google Cloud are playing a pivotal role in the development of the Metaverse.
SS has been greatly influenced by great minds, such as Shaan Puri, who has described digital assets like Bored Apes NFTs to Rolex and Fortnite Skins
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery has advised Apposite Capital, a healthcare specialist private equity investor, on its acquisition of a majority shareholding in CrestOptics, a specialist in the development and manufacture of advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy from XYence Capital and management.
As part of the transaction, the early-stage diagnostics research programmes that CrestOptic has been conducting with Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in the fields of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and point of care virus detection have been spun off into a sister company, D-TAILS.
CrestOptics is a world leader in scientific optical instrumentation for Fluorescence Microscopy. It
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