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Digital Horizon, a venture fund and venture builder investment company, has launched its second venture fund with a target volume of USD200 million.
The first fund, which opened in 2019, is completing the investment stage and has so far returned 40 per cent per annum to investors. Its portfolio contains more than 20 companies including Klarna, team management platform Monday.com, data streaming platform Ably, retail analytics platform Trax and InsureTech companies Cuvva and Obligo.
Digital Horizon’s new fund will retain the successful strategy of its first.
This includes a specific focus on the fintech and corporate software sectors. These are
M2 Orthopedics (M2O), a specialist in modern practice management for orthopaedic surgeons, has secured significant funding to broaden its ability to support orthopaedic practices.
Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty (P&C) carriers, brokers, and MGAs has secured a strategic growth investment from global growth private equity firm TA Associates.
TA, along with Insurity’s current investor GI Partners, plan to further accelerate Insurity’s growth and expand the delivery of the P&C insurance industry’s most configurable, cloud-native, and intuitively analytical software platforms.
Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Hartford, CT, Insurity has built a team of nearly 1,500 team members globally. The team’s deep industry expertise and software offerings supporting the entire policy lifecycle have enabled it to build a strong
Essling Capital, an independent company specialising in private equity, is strengthening its team to support the development of its co-investment activity and increase its international presence.
Arnaud Lipkowicz joins as Partner of Essling Capital and Head of the Co-Investment activity, which has existed since the company’s inception.
Lipkowicz has more than 20 years of experience in private equity in Europe and North America, mainly in primary, secondary and co-investment activities. Prior to joining Essling Capital, Lipkowicz was a Managing Director of GCM Grosvenor’s Global Private Markets business (cUSD30 billion of assets under management), a member of its Private Markets Global
EQT is to acquire LSP (Life Sciences Partners), a European life sciences venture capital firm with approximately EUR2.2 billion of assets under management (AUM) and a team of 34 professionals.
LSP, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative companies with strong scientific and clinical rationale across several life sciences strategies. The Company was founded in 1998 and today is one of Europe’s largest and most experienced life sciences investment firms. LSP employs 34 professionals across its offices in Amsterdam, Munich, and Boston.
Over the past two decades, LSP has invested in over
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry with USD1.3 trillion in global AUA, and Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), a financial technology company redefining data management processes for alternative investors and allocators, have formed a strategic partnership to provide clients with alternative data management solutions that combine best-of-breed automated technology and data accuracy.
Experienced private equity and venture capital finance director, Marcus Karia has joined fast growing YFM Equity Partners (YFM) as chief financial officer.
Joining YFM as a partner, Karia will work across YFM’s offices in London, Leeds, Manchester, Reading and Birmingham. Over the last 13 years, he has held roles across the fund management industry, including with Bridges Fund Management and with LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group.
Most recently, Karia was group finance director of London Stock Exchange-listed venture capital firm Arix Bioscience plc, dealing with all aspects of its operations and overseeing finance, portfolio monitoring
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) portfolio company PestCo Holdings, LLC (PestCo), an acquisition company formed to consolidate the highly fragmented pest control industry, acquired the assets of Presto Pest Control, Inc (Presto).
Located in Telford, PA and founded in 1999, Presto is a provider of commercial pest control services in the middle Atlantic with a particular focus on serving the restaurant industry. Presto is PestCo’s first acquisition. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Jay Keating, CEO of PestCo, says: “Presto is an ideal starting point for our consolidation efforts at PestCo. Ken Fox has built a high-quality
Kudo Insurance (Kudo) has started fundraising for its Series A, as it launches its new app designed to radically change how insurance is typically consumed, priced and distributed.
The business has a five-year ambition of becoming the most profitable and popular insurer in the UK, notable given the sector’s recent struggle to deliver profit. The market Kudo is addressing is a sizeable one, with GBP16 billion of gross written premiums in 2019, but the sector is loss making and suffers significant reputation and trust issues. Kudo believes by being mobile first and harnessing great technology and product it can start
VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has invested in The HFW Companies (HFW), a newly formed platform and partnership focused on investing in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) services firms.
Concurrently, HFW has introduced its first member firm – Miller Legg, an award-winning multi-disciplinary engineering and consulting firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Financial terms of the transactions have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, HFW is led by an executive team of three industry veterans who have experience in AEC services including prior operating,
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