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Crosspoint Capital Partners (Crosspoint), a private equity investment firm focused on cybersecurity, privacy, and infrastructure software markets, has appointed Samir Kapuria as Managing Director to help lead the company’s efforts to identify and grow world-class companies in the cybersecurity space.
A strategic leader with a proven track record of investing in industry-changing innovation, Kapuria brings more than 25 years of experience in leading Enterprise Software, Consumer Software and Managed Services businesses in cybersecurity. Kapuria was previously the President of NortonLifeLock, a global leader in consumer cyber safety, where his leadership helped scale the company to annual revenues exceeding $2.4B.
Freedom Services Group, an organisation comprising a group of motor-based insurance businesses, has secured a GBP5 million loan from the alternative lender BOOST&Co to support its ongoing diversification and digitisation following a strong period of growth.
The Manchester-based company is working to revolutionise the insurance industry by providing a customer-centric approach that challenges the lack of honesty and transparency elsewhere in the market.
Spearheaded by serial entrepreneur Sam White, Freedom Services Group includes Action365, a provider of motor claims accident management services, that has recently been named in JP Morgan’s inaugural Top 200 Female-Powered Businesses report. Together with other
Claymore Capital Partners, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based investment advisor, has selected SS&C as the administrator for its new private equity fund-of-funds, Claymore Capital Partners Fund I.
Claymore will use SS&C’s full range of administration services, including fund accounting, investor services, reporting and analytics. Rob Neu, Managing Partner and 35-year industry veteran, launched the Claymore Capital Partners Fund I late last year to provide cost-efficient access to a diversified private equity portfolio in a single investment vehicle.
“We were looking for a technology partner with the know-how to help funds of all sizes,” says Rob Neu. “SS&C’s extensive expertise in the
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm with more than four decades of experience investing in enterprise software, has formed a new cloud-based platform called Revalize.
With over 8,000 customers today, Revalize empowers manufacturers to elevate buying experiences, accelerate sales cycles, and streamline manufacturing through purpose-built software. The company offers a full suite of specialised, mission-critical software solutions built to simplify customer processes and reduce friction throughout the entire revenue operations cycle.
Jim Contardi, formerly the CEO of AutoQuotes and Avitru, has been named the CEO of Revalize. In addition, Mark Friedman, a longtime and successful software
Nexa Equity LLC, a private equity firm focused on rapidly scaling lower middle market software and fintech businesses that address markets underserved by technology, has announced its official launch.
The firm was founded by Managing Partner Vlad Besprozvany, a former investor at Insight Partners and Managing Director at Greater Sum Ventures, along with former teammates who worked closely together at Insight Partners and bring substantial investment and operational experience investing in and growing successful companies. Nexa Equity will be focused primarily on control buyouts with strong alignment from current management teams but may selectively pursue other investment structures.
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New investments will help them improve service delivery with their products so that Asian financial institutions signed up will be able to automate the securities lending process and enhance profitability.
South Korea: Tru Technologies (Tru), a securities finance technology start-up, announced they had received Series-A investment worth USD3.1 million from seven market-leading Korean investors. The investors include Hana Financial Investment, Hanwha Securities, KB Investment, Kiwoom Investment, Korea Growth Investment Corp, Shinhan Capital, and Stonebridge Ventures.
Last year, Tru launched the first electronic securities lending trading platform, TruWeb, in Korea. The platform has helped many businesses upgrade from a manual and
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its ownership stake in portfolio company Trinity Consultants to Oak Hill Capital (Oak Hill), with Trinity Consultants employees maintaining a significant minority ownership position.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1974, Trinity Consultants is a leading provider of regulatory-driven environmental, health & safety (EHS), engineering and sciences consulting services. The Company employs over 1,000 professionals specialising in highly technical, compliance-driven services that address clients’ mission-critical needs. Trinity is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and operates from over 70 offices worldwide, with a national
Flexpoint Ford (Flexpoint), a private equity investment firm specialising in the financial services and healthcare industries, has completed its acquisition of AFH Financial Group (AFH), a leading UK financial planning-led wealth management firm.
Since its IPO in 2014, AFH has been providing wealth management and financial advisory services to over 20,000 clients in the UK. The firm seeks to deliver on its strategy focused on increasing shareholder value through a combination of organic growth via greater productivity of advisers and by value accretive acquisitions financed on an earn-out model.
“We could not be more excited to announce the completion
Argand Partners (Argand), a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based industrials private equity firm, has announced that its portfolio company, Cherry AG (Cherry), a global designer and manufacturer of high-precision keyboard PC gaming mechanical switch technology, has successfully completed its IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
At the final offer price of EUR32 per share, the total volume of the IPO was significantly oversubscribed. Cherry’s 24,300,000 shares began trading this morning, 29 June, 2021, under the ticker C3RY on the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse).
The total number of shares and the final offer
Anterra Capital (Anterra), an international food and agriculture specialist venture capital firm, has held the initial closing of its second food and agriculture technology fund, Anterra F&A Ventures II, raising USD175 million, exceeding the targeted size of the fund.
Due to the positive market reception for the fund’s mission and strategy, Anterra is tracking towards an upsized second fund, and anticipates a final closing in the third quarter, 2021.
Anterra’s unique investment approach has attracted commitments from a prestigious and aligned group of long-term oriented global investors, with continued support from Eight Roads Ventures, backed by Fidelity, and Rabo Investments,
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