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Francisco Partners has been named the top-performing firm in the 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking.
The San Francisco-headquartered tech specialist came top out of 529 private equity (PE) firms analysed, delivering an aggregate performance that was 2.40 standard deviations above the average. Genstar Capital Partners, and Vitruvian Partners were ranked second and third, respectively. Thoma Bravo, which had held top spot for the previous three years remained in the top 10 performing funds in the sample, at sixth position.
The annual ranking, developed on the research of HEC Professor and MJ Hudson Fund Performance Analytics founder, Oliver Gottschalg,
An innovative North East based immersive technology company is aiming to transform the way customers engage and experience entertainment, sport, visitor attractions, hospitality and retail.
Fame Media Tech – led by entrepreneur Bryan Hoare – is on a mission to transform customer experiences through mobile and content technology to help operators create more engaged and loyal customers, fans and visitors.
The County Durham business, whose team combines market leading technology with decades of experience in publishing and digital media, has already started to create innovative content experiences for millions of mobile users around the world and is now about
Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Kusters Beheer, a group of six companies offering advanced manufacturing capacities for the production of high-tech precision components.
The financial terms of the transaction, which remains subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities, have not been disclosed.
Going forward, the group will be led by Geert Ketelaars and Adwin Kannekens, Managing Directors of Wilting, one of the companies that make up Kusters Beheer; they will take up the positions of CEO and CCO respectively. As part of the transaction, the founding family as well
Centaur Fund Services, a specialist in fund administration and fiduciary services for the alternative investment fund industry, has expanded its US Private Equity and Real Estate (PERE) team with two additional new senior hires based out of its New Jersey office – PERE Managers Grant Della Torre and Kyle Solheim.
Since launching its Private Equity Service five years ago, Centaur Fund Services has gone through exponential growth in the sector. This has been backed by the firm’s heavy investment in PE specific technology developed specifically to support Centaur Private Equity clients. Centaur has also gained deep sector knowledge in Private
CBRE Caledon Capital Management Inc has acquired Karlssonbuss, a regional and school bus operator in southern Sweden.
The vendors of the family-owned bus operator, the Karlsson family, will continue to have a small equity stake in the business.
CBRE Caledon is making the investment on behalf of a fund sponsored by the firm as well as a separately managed account. It represents the second investment completed in the Nordics since 2019.
Karlssonbuss has been operating since 1949 in southern Sweden, with the majority of its customers being public transport authorities for regional routes and local authorities for school
Atrato Group, an alternative asset management and advisory group specialising in asset backed income strategies, has made four new hires across Compliance, Fund Finance and Fund Management.
The appointment of John Mahony, Haffiz Kala, Gary Chesterton and Gerald Bishop grows the Atrato Group team to 20 people, with 12 new appointments in the last 12 months.
Atrato Capital, an Atrato Group company, is the UK’s leading investment specialist in supermarket real estate. Atrato Capital is the investment adviser to Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), the only REIT specialising in UK grocery property. SUPR provides secure, long-dated, inflation protected income
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, is to create 100 new jobs, substantially increasing headcount at its European Centre of Excellence in Cork.
From Cork, Alter Domus operates a European hub for global private debt, private equity, real estate and infrastructure investors and managers supporting over EUR1 trillion in assets under administration globally. With offices in Cork and Dublin, Alter Domus has already invested significantly in its Irish operations, having increased its headcount in Ireland from 100 to 180 people in 2020.
To support continued growth, the Company is investing in a new workplace
Splashtop, a remote access and remote support company, has closed a USD50 million financing round that takes its valuation above the USD1 billion mark.
Alternative data specialist Eagle Alpha, has added AI-driven financial information technology provider Causality Link’s data to its library of alternative data supplied to asset managers, private equity professionals and corporate enterprises.
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Weatherford Capital, a family-owned private investment firm, has completed a USD22.5 million Series A investment in SOMA Global, a provider of cloud-native, modern public safety solutions focused on the public sector.
SOMA Global was founded in 2017 to redefine and deliver modern, best-of-breed public safety solutions with a primary focus on saving lives and protecting first responders. Founded by a team of public safety and technology veterans, SOMA Global’s Public Safety as a Service (PSAAS) platform offers industry-leading computer-aided dispatch, mobile dispatch, records management and jail solutions. Government Technology magazine recently named SOMA Global to its 2021 GovTech 100, a
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