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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
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
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