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X-Margin, a specialist in applying privacy-preserving technology to credit and financial market risk, has raised USD8 million in a Series A funding round where Coinbase Ventures, HashKey Capital and Spartan Group were major investors.
Bixin Ventures, Miranda Ventures (Bybit), Gemini, Primitive Ventures and Kenetic Capital also participated in the funding round.
Existing investors that followed-on include Alameda Research Ventures, CMT Digital, CoinShares, DCG, GSR, and Polychain.
Additionally, X-Margin received backing by some of the most active trading institutions and users of X-Margin Credit. They included CMS Holdings, Wintermute, MGNR, Dunamis Trading, Pirata Capital, and Kronos Research.
Established in 2019,
London-based Kick Game, a luxury trainer and apparel retailer, is on track to grow revenues to GBP50 million in 2022 following a GBP3.5m injection of capital from VGC Partners.
Founded by brothers Rob and David Franks in 2013, Kick Game is a destination-retailer to shop exclusive, rare and sold-out trainers and streetwear from brands such as Air Jordan, Nike, Yeezy, Off-White, Trapstar, Fear of God Essentials and Supreme.
The business continues to capitalise on the phenomenal demand for limited edition trainers and the rise of streetwear culture across the globe. Such demand has been fuelled by high-profile collaborations with
Sprinque, an Amsterdam-based checkout platform for B2B merchants and marketplaces offering a SaaS payment solution tailored to businesses’ needs, has raised EUR1.7 million in funding from Volta Ventures, Force Over Mass and a renowned group of angel investors and payments industry executives.
Sprinque built a digital checkout infrastructure to make business transactions as frictionless as ordering something from a consumer webshop. Their SaaS solution only needs one single integration and offers a multitude of business-specific options. These include pay with net 30-, 60-, and 90-day terms, split payments, and pay on milestones. It also provides access to multiple payment methods,
Perwyn has appointed Martin le Huray has Partner and member of its Investment Committee. He will be based in Perwyn’s London office.
Le Huray joins Perwyn from HgCapital where he was an equity partner focusing on Software and Technology investments.
Prior to Hg, le Huray was Co-Head of European Private Equity at OMERS, where he played a leading role in building their team, culture, portfolio, and reputation. At OMERS, le Huray was also a member of the Private Equity and Infrastructure Investment Committees and of the Global Private Equity and European pan-asset leadership teams. Prior to OMERS, Martin worked
L’ATTITUDE 2021 will once again feature Match-Up, a national stage that matches US Latina/o entrepreneurs with unparalleled visibility, institutional capital, and strategic global partners.
Match-Up is hosted and anchored by L’ATTITUDE VENTURES (LAT VC), a venture fund that invests exclusively in early-stage US Latino entrepreneurs. LAT VC has raised over half of its USD100 million target size from leading institutions who recognise the critical entrepreneurial and economic growth of US Latinos, a USD2.6 trillion cohort that generates one in every four new entrepreneurs. The major investors in LAT VC will be revealed at L’ATTITUDE in San Diego 29 September to
CVC, a private equity and credit investment advisory firm, and Glendower Capital (Glendower), a private equity secondaries manager, have agreed to merge and establish a strategic partnership.
The partnership will greatly complement and enhance both firms’ existing businesses and create a combined group with total assets under management of approximately EUR113 billion.
Commenting on the transaction, CVC’s Co-Founder, Rolly van Rappard, says: “We are delighted to announce this exciting acquisition and partnership with Glendower, a high-quality founder-led business with strong performance and growth.
“Glendower has a very similar investment-led culture to CVC as well as the operational and
Funds advised by KLAR Partners Limited (KLAR Partners) have invested in Oleter Group, a Property damage restoration (PDR) provider in the Nordic region.
KLAR has invested as a growth partner alongside the existing owners and management with the objective of developing the company into a provider of PDR services in Northern Europe.
Oleter Group consists of Ocab and Frøiland Bygg Skade (FBS), market-leading providers of property damage restoration services. The service offering includes damage inspection, pest control and restoration of fire and water damage. The group has a strong geographical presence in Sweden and Norway with close to 1,700 employees
Drawbridge, a premier provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the investment industry, has added three industry veterans to bolster its business development, strategy and operations teams.
Drawbridge continues to invest in premier talent to drive exceptional customer service, meet new client and market requirements and continue to scale the business through a period of hyper growth.
2021 has been a breakthrough year for Drawbridge. The company secured a growth equity investment from Long Ridge Equity Partners in early 2021 and named FinTech industry pioneer Scott DePetris President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) and appointed him to the
Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, a global alternative investment management platform, has appointed Colleen Sullivan, CEO and co-founder of CMT Digital, to lead the firm’s private and venture investment activities in crypto.
Additionally, Sullivan is to chair the investment committee of a new strategy which will focus on the highly compelling and disruptive technologies in this asset class. Brevan Howard is also announcing the formation of BH Digital, a new division to manage cryptocurrency and digital assets.
“Brevan Howard’s belief in the huge diversity of opportunities within the digital asset space and the significance of this to long term macro
CGE Partners (CGE) has invested in SureCloud, a provider of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions and tech-enabled Risk and Cybersecurity services to international blue chip corporate clients.
SureCloud’s software solutions and IP-led services are underpinned by a cloud-based platform which enables organisations to proactively manage increasingly complex IT, business continuity and cyber risks with ease. SureCloud is at the core of CGE’s sector focused investment strategy of scaling businesses in high-growth markets.
CGE is partnering with Richard Hibbert (CEO), Nick Rafferty (COO) and Chris Haynes (CFO) to support SureCloud in its next phase of growth, amid the
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