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Barings has served as lead arranger of a senior secured credit facility to support Hg in its majority investment in BrightPay and Relate Software.
Financial terms have not been disclosed.
“BrightPay and Relate’s combination brings together complementary businesses in terms of product offering and geographic presence, creating a true sector leader in Ireland. Both have leading reputations for ease-of-use and functionality of their products, providing clear efficiencies and value to their customers,” says Rana Misirlizade, Director in Barings’ European Private Finance group. “We are delighted to support Hg’s investment in the combined group, further strengthening our two firms’ long-term
Astia, the global organisation investing in businesses with women leaders, has hired UK-based Leanne Case as Director of Astia Connect – its programmes for engaging the Astia Advisor expert community to ensure the success of high-growth startups.
In this role, Case will manage the Expert Sift – an innovative, proven methodology utilising crowd wisdom facilitated by a technology platform to eliminate gender, racial and age bias in the investment sourcing and screening process. As of October 1 this year, the Sift reviewed USD2.6 billion in investment opportunities – putting to rest any pipeline issue. Case’s key appointment follows the launch
BidX1, a European digital property investment platform, has secured strategic growth investments from doValue, a Servicer in Southern Europe for loan and real estate management services, and Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. Both acquire minority equity stakes in the Dublin-based PropTech company.
Oliver Wyman and doValue will join existing investor Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street), a London-based private equity firm, and BidX1’s Founder, Stephen McCarthy, as shareholders in the Company.
Pollen Street made a strategic investment in BidX1 in 2018 to accelerate the platform’s international expansion. Both Pollen Street and McCarthy maintain majority stakes in the business. The
Kerv, a cloud and digital transformation services provider, has acquired Gyrocom, a network and security integrator with a specialisation in SD-WAN.
In addition to SD-WAN, Kerv’s strategic acquisition brings skills in managed networks and network security, including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), the rapidly emerging cybersecurity solution. Gyrocom will operate as Kerv’s specialist networking and security division.
Gyrocom, headquartered in Surrey, was founded in 2006 by Graham Brown and Ryan Coombes, who had worked together previously at Nortel Networks; fellow director Jane Hamlyn joined the company in 2011. The company brings strategic technology relationships with VMWare Velocloud, Dell, Cisco,
Bite Investments, a digital asset manager and fintech company specialised in alternative investments, has launched the Bite Private Markets Portfolio, offering investors the opportunity to access a diversified allocation to alternatives with one investment.
From this week, investors can get diversified exposure across investments strategies, geographies, and fund managers in one ticket. The Bite Private Markets Portfolio will allocate capital into 8-10 underlying top-tier funds, assessed and selected by Bite Investments’ expert investment team. The minimum investment size is USD100,000 and the core sectors are: Healthcare, Information Technology, Software, Business Services, Financial Services, Consumer, and Industrials.
“The promise of
Delio has been selected by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SMTB) as the provider of a new digital platform that will accelerate the promotion and distribution of private market investment opportunities to the bank’s high-net-worth (HNW) and institutional clients.
The platform launch marks the start of a strategic partnership between Delio and SMTB and is a significant milestone in the bank’s strategy to offer its clients greater access to private markets.
The launch of the platform comes as many industry commentators predict that Asia will become a global force in the private markets space over the next decade. Driven by
Gamut Capital Management (Gamut), a New York-based middle market private equity firm, is to acquire Davis-Standard, LLC and its affiliates (Davis-Standard) from ONCAP, the middle-market private equity platform of Onex.
Davis-Standard is a supplier of extrusion and converting systems and related aftermarket products and services for the rigid packaging, flexible packaging and infrastructure end-markets with an installed base of approximately USD7.5 billion of equipment globally.
“We are excited to partner with the Gamut team during this next phase of Davis-Standard’s long history as a provider of highly engineered solutions to an extensive base of industry-leading customers. The resources Gamut brings
Summit Partners, a global growth equity investor, has added JD Mullin to the firm’s Executive-in-Residence (EIR) programme.
In this role, Mullin will work closely with Summit’s technology team to identify new investment and leadership opportunities in growth-stage software companies.
Mullin brings substantial experience in leading and scaling fast-growing SaaS businesses, as well as in building engineering and product teams that help drive rapid innovation and support high-velocity sales models.
Mullin joins Summit’s EIR program from Intuit, where he has led the QuickBooks Time business unit since 2019. He joined Inuit following the company’s acquisition of TSheets, a leading SaaS-based time
Core BTS, a technology consulting and managed services provider, today entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nomura Research Institute.
Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a Japanese research and consulting firm, is to acquire technology consulting and managed services provider Core VTS from Tailwind Capital.
NRI was established in 1965 and since its inception, the Company has been dedicated to assisting clients to confidently manage the complexity of modern markets. Core BTS is a US-based solution provider leveraging both the Microsoft and Cisco ecosystems to modernise business applications and maximise the value of the cloud. As an NRI Group
Novata, a new technology platform and public benefit corporation that provides the private markets with a cutting-edge Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) solution, has announced a Series A investment round of USD21 million.
The investment represents one of the largest initial funding rounds for a public benefit corporation.
Principal investors include members of the one-of-a-kind consortium that collaborated to launch Novata in October 2021, including the Ford Foundation, S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) and Omidyar Network. This significant funding enables Novata to meet the private markets’ critical and immediate need for an independent, unbiased and flexible
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