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Shippeo, a specialist in real-time transportation visibility (RTTV), has secured USD32 million in an investment round co-led by Battery Ventures, a global, technology focused investment firm and existing investors (NGP Capital, ETF Partners, Partech and Bpifrance Digital Venture).
Shippeo will use the investment to strengthen its market-leading position and continue delivering on product innovation.
The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the need for supply-chain visibility, with major shippers across industries needing enhanced transparency more than ever before. With many countries in lockdown and with unpredictable border closures, companies with advanced visibility solutions managed to mitigate transport delays and the associated operational
Pollen Street has appointed Daniel Khouri as a partner to lead the firm’s team based in New York.
Khouri will focus on developing partnerships with best-in-class specialists in the non-bank lending sector to provide capital and strategic insight.
Khouri has deep experience working across the US credit market. Prior to joining Pollen Street, Khouri served six years as Co-Head of Private Credit at Colchis Capital Management, a credit investment fund manager in San Francisco, two years as a Principal at Atalaya Capital Management, a credit opportunities fund manager in New York, three years as a Vice President at TTM Capital,
Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has made a growth investment in Protera Technologies (Protera), a provider of public cloud-centric application management and migration services for SAP software, as well as other enterprise IT outsourcing services.
CEO Dean Adamopoulos, CTO Patrick Osterhaus, and the management team will maintain significant ownership in Protera and continue to manage the growth of the Company. The partnership with Pamlico will provide Protera with capital and resources to expand its market reach and service offering. Further transaction details were not disclosed.
Founded in 1998, Protera has a differentiated combination of talent, expertise, and technology to deliver unparalleled service
Palatine, a mid-market private equity firm, has promoted Stephanie Wall to the position of ESG Director.
In her new role Wall joins Palatine’s senior management team. She will continue to lead projects across Palatine’s Buy-Out and Impact funds to embed ESG (environmental, social and governance) practices and continuous improvement across its portfolio, with a particular focus on climate risk and diversity and inclusion strategies.
Wall joined Palatine as ESG Manager in 2018 following eight years with global consultancy WSP, where she advised investors on sustainability improvements.
Over the last three years Wall has been responsible for progressing Palatine’s
Memsource, an AI-powered translation management system, together with its majority shareholder The Carlyle Group, has acquired Phrase, a leading software localisation platform.
Headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, Memsource is a translation technology provider that assists global corporations and the language services industry in automating the localisation of large volumes of multilingual content. The company is a leader in AI-powered translation technology, which makes localisation easier, faster, and more cost-effective. Memsource translation software is used by leaders in their respective industries, such as Uber, Zendesk, Supercell, and Vistaprint.
Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, the Phrase platform provides cloud-based localisation for software,
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has added to its East & South East Midlands team with the appointment of experienced banker Richard Brighty.
Brighty joins as Investment Manager, based in Maven’s Nottingham office, he will be responsible for identifying and backing new local businesses via the MEIF Debt Funds. Brighty will also support existing portfolio companies across the East & South East Midlands with a particular focus in the Leicestershire area.
Brighty brings over 16 years’ financial services experience to the role having held senior positions at leading UK banks including HSBC, Yorkshire Bank and most recently Santander Corporate
Ironwood Capital portfolio company, Ironwave Technologies (Ironwave), has purchased a majority interest in Syntonics, a manufacturer and research and development company focused on advanced radio frequency (RF) systems and subsystems such as RF over fibre, Software Defined Radio, Tracking Tagging and Location (TLL) and Expendable Data Exfiltration (EDEX) technologies.
Harness, a platform for software delivery, has raised USD115 million in financing, reaching a valuation of USD1.7 billion in just three years after launching from stealth.
Alkeon Capital led a USD85 million Series C round, along with new investors Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Sorenson Capital, and Thomvest Ventures. The total funding includes a USD30 million Series B-1 funding round, led by existing investors Menlo Ventures, IVP, and Unusual Ventures. With a total of USD195 million in financing to date, Harness will use the funding to grow its world-class engineering team, support global expansion plans, and extend its
CareMetx, a technology-enabled hub services company improving patient access to specialty medications, General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, and The Vistria Group, a Chicago-based private investment firm, have formed a strategic partnership.
With the transaction, General Atlantic will become the majority owner of CareMetx. The Vistria Group, existing majority shareholder in CareMetx since 2017, will maintain a significant position in the Company by reinvesting through Vistria Fund III, LP. Additionally, Marty Nesbitt, Co-CEO of The Vistria Group, will serve as the Chairman of the Company.
Co-founded in 2011 by Bob Dresing and Mark Hansan, hub services pioneers, CareMetx
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