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Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty (P&C) carriers, brokers, and MGAs today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Maprisk.
Maprisk provides geospatial data and analytics software to enable underwriting automation and allows P&C carriers and MGAs to smartly plan and proactively respond to natural disasters. With the addition of Maprisk to the Insurity suite, P&C carriers and MGAs writing personal and commercial lines can seamlessly integrate geospatial data and analytics across the full policy lifecycle, from quoting and underwriting to claims.
The acquisition of Maprisk builds on Insurity’s prior acquisition of SpatialKey, the
Funds managed by Blackstone Capital Partners have signed a definitive agreement with EQT VII fund (EQT Private Equity) and KHF to acquire a majority stake in VFS Global.
EQT Private Equity will remain indirectly invested in the Company with a minority position alongside Blackstone. Blackstone, as majority shareholder, and KHF, as minority shareholder, will be co-investors in the Company following the closing of the transaction.
VFS Global is the global market leader in visa outsourcing services, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland and Dubai, UAE. Founded by its current CEO, Zubin Karkaria in 2001, the Company pioneered the professionalisation of the visa
Global law firm White & Case has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of partners Ross Allardice, Mark Evans and Tony Brown, who all return to the Firm’s London office.
“The addition of Ross, Mark and Tony further deepens our bench of private equity partners in London and strengthens our private equity practice in EMEA, continuing the growth and success of our standout Global Private Equity Industry Group,” says White & Case partner John Reiss, Head of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. “The new partners will also help grow our sponsor mandates in key investor
Nexteam Group, which is backed by Tikehau Capital and ACE Capital Partners, and Ventana Group are to merge to create an industrial player serving the aeronautics, space and defence sectors.
The new group created, specialising in the aeronautics, space and defence sectors, will be built on its industrial centres of excellence and the commercial and geographical complementarities of the merged entities.
The planned merger is based on the commitment of the management teams of both groups. Convinced of the recovery of the sector and the positive dynamics brought about by this merger, the shareholder-managers are increasing their level of investment
Riskonnect, a specialist in integrated risk management (IRM) solutions, has acquired ICIX, a California-based value chain governance company that empowers businesses to manage, monitor, and verify ESG performance.
The acquisition accelerates Riskonnect’s global growth by expanding its IRM product suite to better serve the increasing risk and compliance demands of the fast-growing ESG market.
“Organisations are actively incorporating ESG into their overall risk and compliance strategy to build resilience and meet heightened expectations for how they make a positive environmental and social impact. We’re committed to helping organisations along that journey,” says Jim Wetekamp, Riskonnect’s CEO. “The addition of
Independent Iberian asset manager GED Capital has participated with its fund Conexo Ventures in the USD8 million Series A investment round of Troop, a startup that helps with the organisation of in-person meetings for all users.
In addition to GED Capital, other investors participating in the round included Madrona Venture Group (USA), Epic Ventures (USA), All Iron (ES), Plug and Play (USA), Travel Tech 1 – Top Seed Labs (ES) and Founders Factory (UK). The round has also been supported by some of the travel industry’s leading players, including Trivago founder Rolf Schromgens, former Egencia CEO Rob Greyber, former Uber
Entia, a medical technology business, which recently announced a commercial partnership with Pfizer UK, has raised USD12 million in a funding round co-led by UK growth capital investor, BGF and growth fund manager, Parkwalk, with participation from existing seed investor Sussex Place Ventures.
The company will use the funds to launch Entia Liberty, a virtual oncology solution that allows patients to perform their own blood tests at home so remote healthcare teams can monitor and manage the haematological toxicity of cancer treatment. Over 50 per cent of systemic anti-cancer therapies cause haematological toxicity, management of which accounts for 8 per
Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has acquired Fluitron. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Ivyland, Pennsylvania, Fluitron is a specialist in manufacturing industrial gas compression and dispensing equipment, including diaphragm compressors, pressure vessels, and other specialised products. Founded in 1976, Fluitron maintains operations in Ivyland, and sells to customers throughout the world, with its largest presences in the United States, Canada, India, China, Japan, and South Korea. Fluitron’s President, Anthony Chiccarine, and Vice President, Robert Chiccarine, will continue to lead Fluitron under Ara’s ownership.
Fluitron is well
Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) Global Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) has launched A&M Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG), a new proprietary technology that significantly increases the speed of deal identification.
Led by A&M DIG Executive Directors Tara Bilby, and Mishelle Weinerman, along with Chief Technology Officer Joey Baruch, the technology provides private equity firms with data, for better private market intelligence, from which to make informed deal identification decisions.
A&M DIG provides a technological deal identification solution, previously absent, to best meet growing sector demand. The technology mines siloed US public and government data through
BB Capital Investments-backed KidsKonnect has acquired Dutch childcare software company ROSA, its fifth bolt-on acquisition in 2021.
ROSA specialises in software for the administration of childcare and childminder. The transaction was preceded by KidsKonnect’s acquisitions of the Dutch childcare software specialists Social Schools, PortaBase and Doenkids and the Belgian Deona.
Investment company BB Capital took a majority interest in Konnect in 2019 from its participation in Flexkids, after which a merger between the two IT specialists resulted in KidsKonnect. In the Netherlands and Belgium, more than ten companies together now serve more than one million children in the age
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