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Monk’s Hill Ventures (MHV), a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Southeast Asia, today announced the launch of the MHV Scouts programme.
The programme comprises over 20 Venture Scouts who will nurture and invest in high-growth pre-seed and seed startups across Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and Malaysia.
The MHV Venture Scouts community brings together exceptional founders, entrepreneurs, and operators with strong track records. They also represent a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. MHV Scouts include Achmad Zaky, Cofounder of Bukalapak, Araya Noon Hutasuwan, Cofounder of Snapcart, Royston Tay, Cofounder of Zopim, Gita Sjahrir, Founder of
Irving Place Capital (IPC), a middle-market private equity firm, is to sell Mold-Rite Plastics (Mold-Rite), a provider of caps, closures and jars principally for the health & wellness market, to Clearlake Capital Group.
“It has been a pleasure to work with the extremely talented management team at Mold-Rite to consistently deliver successful results,” says Brian Bauerbach, CEO of Mold-Rite. “The IPC team, which includes seasoned industry executives and operating resources, has actively supported the exceptional growth that Mold-Rite has achieved during our partnership. Together, we integrated three independent businesses to create a supplier with a comprehensive line of caps &
Inveniam Capital Partners, is to close its USD25 million Series-A round this month with lead investments from global financial services provider, Apex Group, K20 Fund, Dev.Pro, and Global Blockchain Ventures.
Inveniam Capital Partners’ software platform, Inveniam.io™, is the operating system for real asset data in the rapidly developing decentralised market.
“The use of blockchain to transmit trust in data will drive automation in valuation and price discovery in the private markets. Inveniam.io allows data rich, low-frequency trading private market assets to have monthly marks by subject matter experts. Price discovery for illiquid assets with fully observable inputs will transform the
Holland & Knight has expanded its Private Equity Team with the addition of Alvin Johnson as partner in the firm’s Atlanta office.
Johnson represents private equity firms and the world’s leading companies in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions. He was previously an associate with DLA Piper.
“Alvin’s significant experience advising private equity clients and strong focus on client service are a perfect fit for our corporate and private equity practices,” says David Barkus, co-head of Holland & Knight’s Corporate, M&A and Securities Practice Group and head of the firm’s Private Equity Team. “We are fortunate that
HIG Growth Partners (HIG Growth), the growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has promoted Managing Director Scott Hilleboe to Co-Head of HIG Growth to work alongside Ross Hiatt who has been hired as a Managing Director and Co-Head.
Both will be based in San Francisco and will lead the day-to-day investment activities of HIG Growth. They succeed John Black who will remain with HIG Growth as a Senior Advisor.
Hilleboe has almost two decades of experience investing in venture capital and private equity transactions, and focuses on SaaS software, cybersecurity, marketplaces, consumer tech, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hard
Full Sail IP Partners, an acquirer of leading brands, has acquired the Odwalla brand from the Coca-Cola Company.
Odwalla, a popular food and beverage brand, was founded in Santa Cruz, California in 1980 by three jazz musicians with a desire to nourish people everywhere, respect our planet, protect the soil, and create products good for the soul. Over the past 40 years, Odwalla has delivered delicious fruit juices, smoothies, and energy bars to consumers with fresh, plant-based ingredients. Its iconic brand represents, to countless consumers, nurturing food for the whole body.
“We’re thrilled that Odwalla, with its long history of
FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor in innovative enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing companies, has promoted Richard Liu to partner.
Since joining FTV in 2014, Liu has played an integral role in expanding the firm’s successful enterprise technology and tech-enabled services practice.
With investing experience spanning security and compliance, vertical software, tech-enabled services and marketplaces, Liu has been instrumental in a number of notable investments at FTV. He is currently a board director at FTV portfolio companies A-LIGN, Security Compass and Sysnet, and actively involved with several other FTV investments, including Egress,
Colizey, an online French marketplace dedicated to sports goods, has secured EUR8 million in a Series A funding round, led by Cathay Innovation, which brings together historic investors Aglaé Ventures, Cassius Family and Tony Parker, as well as new investors including Teddy Riner.
Colizey previously raised EUR2.5 million in its seed round in May 2020.
In a European market where the supply of sporting goods remains highly fragmented, Colizey is reinventing the online shopping experience by connecting its partner stores (brands, stores and e-retailers) with consumers on a single platform. With 110 partners, the marketplace currently lists more than
Peach Finance (Peach), a modern SaaS-based loan servicing platform, has raised USD20 million in a Series A funding round led by Canapi Ventures with participation from existing and new investors, SciFi VC, Caffeinated Capital, Nyca Partners and Moore Specialty Credit.
The funding will support Peach’s continued expansion within the growing loan management and servicing market, including through new credit product launches, customer growth initiatives and increased hiring.
Peach is the first all-in-one SaaS platform addressing the full range of evolving needs of fintech companies and established financial institutions like banks and credit unions through its loan management, servicing and Compliance
BriteCore, a provider of next-generation core platforms for P&C insurers, has appointed Ray Villeneuve as CEO and completed a USD20 million Series C financing.
The two strategic milestones move to further accelerate BriteCore’s growth and momentum as a leading provider of modern cloud-based core systems software for property and casualty (P&C) insurers.
Villeneuve has been leading tech companies for the past two decades. His executive experience includes launching and scaling up tech organisations in enterprise SaaS, machine learning, and artificial intelligence domains. These include Quartic.ai, Reflektion, Virtana (Virtual Instruments), Skytree, Riverbed, and NetApp. He has refined strategies, built successful teams,
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