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Silverfin has secured a significant Series B investment led by Hg, a specialist software investor and expert in the tax and accounting sector. The investment will be used to support the company’s expansion internationally as it responds to demand for its cloud service that consolidates real-time financial data, automates compliance reporting and improves financial planning. Silverfin was founded in 2013 in Ghent, Belgium and now has offices in London, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The details and terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Joris Van Der Gucht, co-founder at Silverfin, says: “Our platform is the central nervous system thousands of
- 10/06/2020
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised Puma Private Equity which led a GBP6 million equity investment into Tictrac, a leading health engagement company. The corporate team was led by Partner Leon Miller, Managing Associate Alex Fergus and South African qualified lawyer Alice Millar who advised on the transaction.
This funding will allow Tictrac to expand its Employee Wellbeing (SaaS) platform in a bid to tackle increasing stress levels and health problems in the workplace – with nearly 80 per cent of workers in the UK experiencing some level of stress, it will help businesses empower their staff to take
- 10/06/2020
Wing Venture Capital announced today that it has raised Wing Three, a USD450 million pool of capital dedicated to early stage investing and long-term company-building in enterprise technology. Like the firm’s predecessor funds, Wing Three has the backing of the venture world’s most sophisticated institutional investors. In a sign of the times, Wing Three was raised virtually with nearly all investor discussions occurring via video during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Wing Three will be invested to help founders build businesses that enable the “Modern Enterprise,” which is an agile workplace built on data and powered by AI. The firm invests early,
- 10/06/2020
Cortland Capital Market Services has completed its rebrand to Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services to alternative investment managers. Together, Alter Domus administers over USD750 billion of assets on behalf of 80 per cent of the largest private debt managers, real estate firms, and private equity houses globally.
Total private market assets under administration (AuA) in North America is expected to grow by 9.4 per cent to USD16.3 trillion by 2025.[1] For alternatives managers servicing these assets for end-investors, this unprecedented growth in AuA will increasingly place their back and middle office systems and processes under even
- 09/06/2020
- 09/06/2020
Fralock, an engineering and manufacturing provider of specialty material solutions for technically challenging and mission critical applications, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Career Technologies USA (Career Technologies). Fralock is a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a specialised private equity firm with strong expertise in the specialty materials industry.
Career Technologies, with three facilities in the greater Los Angeles area, is a leading provider of engineering and manufacturing solutions. The company focuses on integrating various materials and components for demanding applications and technologies, including flexible and rigid-flex circuits and related assemblies, for the medical device, aerospace,
- 09/06/2020
An overwhelming majority (92 per cent) of private equity fund managers expect to see a rise in the volume of distressed fund transaction activity over the next 12 months. Due to the impact of Covid-19, almost half (46 per cent) of respondents believe that mismatches in valuation expectations between buyers and sellers will restrict deal flow.Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, interviewed around 150 private equity fund managers across Europe, North America and Asia to identify the risks and opportunities facing the industry in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Distressed strategies are also likely to
- 09/06/2020
Redwigwam, the UK’s leading provider of flexible workers, has secured investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to fuel the next phase of its expansion.The Liverpool-based company received the funding from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
Redwigwam was founded four years ago by serial entrepreneur Lorna Davidson, who had previously founded and sold Tactical Solutions, one of the UK’s leading field sales and marketing companies, for £29million.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, it has seen the number of workers on its database surge to over 130,000 and the
- 09/06/2020
Orion Innovation (Orion), a global business and technology services firm that provides digital transformation and product development services, has acquired Zodiac Systems (Zodiac), a New York-based video service delivery software company. Zodiac provides advanced cloud and device software and engineering services for Tier 1 media and telecom operators globally.
Zodiac brings deep video knowhow and its software adds significant proprietary Intellectual Property (IP) to Orion’s growing telecommunications and media capabilities. Zodiac’s Matrix video API management cloud integration platform enables operators to seamlessly orchestrate service-by-service upgrades and migrations from legacy delivery permutations to today’s OTT video IP back-office delivery platforms. In addition, Zodiac’s Stack device software enables OTT
- 09/06/2020
- 09/06/2020
As anti-racism protests are spreading with force across the US and Europe, the business world has begun responding. Private Equity Wire sat down with Anand Prasanna, managing partner of Indian VC firm Iron Pillar, which recently partnered with Nitya Capital to invest in large outcome tech companies from India, to discuss if tech can have an effect on politics, the role of impact investing, and why VCs have been slower than the big private equity groups in adopting ESG policies…
- 09/06/2020
Some of the most active professionals in the private equity industry shared their views on current market conditions, the deal making climate, and the operational challenges and possibilities brought on by the Covid-19 crisis, during the recent Private Equity Wire digital summit, PEWlive North America, which took place from 2-4 June. Here we share some of the findings from the live polls that were held throughout the three-day event…
- 09/06/2020
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