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Elliptic, the cryptoasset risk management firm, has raised USD60 million in Series C funding. The financing round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, alongside new investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
Existing investors AlbionVC, Digital Currency Group, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, SBI Group, Octopus Ventures, SignalFire and Paladin Capital Group also participated.
The latest fundraise will accelerate Elliptic’s efforts in enabling financial markets participants to embrace the crypto opportunity with trust and confidence. The company serves traditional financial institutions, fintechs, crypto businesses and government agencies with the leading suite of compliance and investigative solutions built specifically for cryptoassets.
With the
Circularity Capital LLP, the private equity firm supporting growth stage European SMEs in the circular economy, has appointed Maximillian Bork as a new member of the firm’s investment team.
Joining Circularity Capital from KPMG’s private equity team in Munich, Bork brings additional pan-European experience and will work to support Circularity Capital’s investment origination and due diligence activities.
Bork says: “Over the past few years, Circularity Capital has affirmed itself as a true sector pioneer. With a proven track record investing in growth-stage businesses, alongside unmatched expertise in harnessing the circular economy as a framework to drive competitive advantage, it’s a
CSG has acquired DGIT Systems, a provider of configure, price and quote (CPQ) and order management solutions for the telecoms industry.
The acquisition brings together solutions specifically designed to streamline the complexities of commercialising the next era of multi-party digital offerings that will drive business growth for communications service providers (CSPs).
Order processing and management is often the root of frustration for CSPs when delivering complex data and digital services to B2B and multi-play B2C customers. As CSPs push to leverage the massive bandwidth and low latency of 5G and edge architectures, order processing demands will continue to rise alongside
KKR & Co (KKR) has appointed Joe Bae and Scott Nuttall as Co-Chief Executive Officers, while Co-Founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts will remain actively involved as Executive Co-Chairmen of KKR’s Board of Directors.
The leadership transition is effective immediately.
“Whether reflecting on the business, our mission or the team that undertakes it, we are proud of what we have built to support companies and serve our clients over the last four and a half decades. Joe and Scott—over the last 25 years—have played a significant role in that endeavour and in shaping the firm, its culture, and our market
O2 Investment Partners has appointed Derek Wardlaw as the firm’s lead in its newly formed Business Development Group.
O2’s Luke Plumpton says: “Derek’s successful track record of building and developing a deal sourcing group will be instrumental to our growing origination efforts and to increase the visibility of O2 in the lower middle market deal community.”
As Vice President and Head of Business Development, Wardlaw will be responsible for sourcing investment opportunities and developing relationships with deal making entities across the lower middle market.
“I was drawn to O2’s hands on, relationship-driven focus on deal sourcing and origination,” says Wardlaw.
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Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has already reached its target to match the successful previous fund raising for its infrastructure debt platform, the fifth vintage having raised to date more than EUR1.2 billion.
Online travel operator, Travcorp Holdings Ltd has raised GBP3.7 million in equity funding, led by growth capital investor BGF.
The Chester-headquartered company specialises in packaged holidays and hotels via its consumer brands – Destination2.co.uk and HolidayGems.co.uk.
The two brands service a diverse holiday market, from premium, long-haul holidays to destinations such as Barbados, Dubai and the Maldives, to low-cost, short-haul packages to locations, including the Canary Islands, Balearics, Turkey and Greece.
BGF’s backing, which will be supported by a significant co-investment by Travcorp’s management team, will enable the business to continue to invest heavily in technology, marketing and
UK M&A activity slowed in September after a period of increasingly intensive takeover activity between April and August, according to new data release by Peel Hunt.
Värde Partners has promoted Deputy Chief Investment Officers (CIOs) Brad Bauer and Giuseppe Naglieri to join Ilfryn Carstairs as Co-CIOs.
Bauer and Naglieri will share oversight of Värde’s global investment activity with Ilfryn, who is also Co-CEO.
“This is important recognition of the strong leadership that Brad and Giuseppe are already providing alongside me in the CIO function,” says Ilfryn. “Together with Jon Fox as President and Andy Lenk as Deputy CEO, this group represents a cohesive and experienced global leadership team for the firm.”
Based in London, Bauer joined Värde in 2007, was named partner in 2013,
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