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Quantexa, the data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI), has raised USD153 million in Series D funding from Warburg Pincus and a growing group of blue-chip investors.
This latest fundraise follows an impressive year of 108 per cent growth for Quantexa during 2020/21, boosted by significant growth from new clients across geographies and industries.
This round was led by Warburg Pincus a global private equity firm focused on growth investing with a five-decade track record of handpicking future market leaders. Existing investors participating were Dawn Capital, AlbionVC, Evolution Equity Partners, HSBC, ABN AMRO Ventures and British Patient
Permira, a global private equity firm, has appointed Mark Garrett as a Senior Advisor, focusing on growth technology investments.
Garrett brings nearly 40 years of experience in technology, accounting and financial management, with a successful track record in executive leadership and transforming high-growth technology companies. He served most recently as Adobe’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, where he led the company’s worldwide finance, operations and corporate development activities. He helped guide Adobe through the fastest transition to a cloud-based subscription model among companies in the software industry.
Prior to Adobe, Garrett held senior leadership positions at Documentum
One Equity Partners (OEP), is to sell OneLink Holdings (OneLink), a provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, to Webhelp.
Webhelp is a global provider of customer experience (CX) and business solutions. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2013, OneLink provides digitally enabled customer experience CX, BPO, CRM, automation and other technology services to leading North American and Latin American businesses. The Company has an employee-first culture and operates 17 call centers through a network of over 14,000 agents who are recognised internally as “Incredybles.” These agents deliver high-touch
Kinzie Capital Partners (Kinzie) portfolio company Colony Display has acquired Braeside Displays (Braeside), an independent point-of-purchase display manufacturer.
The transaction was completed in partnership with Braeside’s and Colony’s management.
Founded in 1975, Braeside specialises in the design, engineering and manufacturing of stock and custom point-of-purchase displays. Braeside’s expertise in plastics brings additional capabilities to Colony’s focus on wood and metal display manufacturing in servicing the home improvement and retail industries. Braeside’s President and CEO Nathan Kelly will join Colony as Senior Vice President of Customer Strategy and Development.
“Braeside is thrilled to join forces with Colony, and we are confident
insightsoftware, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for the ‘Office of the CFO’, has secured an investment from Hg, a global software and services investor.
The Hg Saturn 2 Fund will make a cUSD1 billion equity investment in insightsoftware to become a significant minority shareholder alongside TA Associates (TA) in a transaction valuing the business at an Enterprise Value of around USD4 billion. TA and Hg will share joint control. As part of the transaction, insightsoftware will also continue to be supported by minority shareholders Genstar and ST6.
insightsoftware is a leading provider of financial reporting and enterprise
The United States remains unparalleled as a magnet for investors, according to the 10th anniversary edition of the Venture Capital (VC) and Private Equity (PE) Country Attractiveness Index.
The index ranks 125 countries according to the quality of their investment environment for adventurous VC and PE investors. The countries are analysed and ranked according to thousands of weighted data points covering six key drivers: economic activity, depth of capital markets, taxation, investor protections and corporate governance, human and social environment, and finally entrepreneurial culture and deal opportunities.
Based on its strong performance in all six areas, the United States continues
HelloFlow, a Danish FinTech startup, has closed a USD1.6 million Seed round led by a Danish VC PreSeed Ventures, and UK-based, Seedcamp. The company provides a no-code platform for client onboarding and identity verification in the financial industry which integrates with ID authentication services in local markets.
“Using the platform, you can set up a proper, sleek, and compliant onboarding process and share it with the clients, all inside a single day. This makes it possible to launch your service in new markets across the world within 10 minutes,” explains Mikkel Skarnager, the Co-Founder and CEO of HelloFlow.
With an
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An overwhelming majority (91 per cent) of US private equity firms are planning to deploy capital in Latin America over the next five years, according to a new study, fuelled by attractive valuations and a growing appetite for cross-border deal flow as the global economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new study, ‘Recovery to Rediscovery: Capitalising on a Changed Private Equity Landscape’, was commissioned by Auxadi, a provider of accounting, tax and payroll services to private equity, real estate and multinationals, and was based on interviews with 100 senior-level private equity investors based in North America, the UK, and
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