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Web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired 100 per cent of UAB “Interneto vizija”, headquartered in Vilnius in Lithuania, including its subsidiary company UAB “Rakrėjus”.Founded in 2003, UAB “Interneto vizija” (IV) is a web hosting business with around 68,000 customers, and with 170,000 registered domains accounting for 60 per cent of all registered domains in Lithuania. Through its subsidiary company, UAB “Rakrėjus” (www.rackray.com), IV also runs a Tier III data centre based in Vilnius.
Alongside its core shared web hosting and data centre offerings, IV provides services including website development, e-mail, domain names, VPS servers and SSL certificates. The
Maven Capital Partners, one of the leading VCT managers, has realised its VCT investment in Edinburgh-based Symphonic Software (Symphonic) through a sale to PING Identity, a NYSE listed company which delivers Intelligent Identity solutions for enterprise. The exit from Symphonic, Maven’s fourth VCT realisation of 2020, has delivered an impressive 2.9x money multiple return and 90 per cent IRR for investors.
A leading player in the fast-growing Identity and Access Management (IAM) market, Symphonic has developed a software solution for organisations looking to share confidential, time-sensitive information securely, meeting the increasing demands of data security, GDPR, and Open Banking regulations.
Early cancer diagnostic specialist, Zilico Ltd, has secured further investment from existing investor, Deepbridge Capital and appointed Martin Frost CBE as its new Chairman.Frost joins Zilico as Non-Executive Chair of the Board after stepping down as CEO of CMR Surgical, a surgical robotics company he co-founded and led to successful commercial launch in the UK, mainland Europe and India. In order to launch and scale CMR Surgical, Cambridge’s most recent unicorn, Martin, as CEO, raised more than GBP200 million, a record for a European private medical device company.
Zilico Chief Executive, Sameer Kothari, says: “I am delighted and look forward
Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has appointed John P Malfettone as Senior Advisor with the firm’s Global Transaction Advisory Group. Malfettone will work with Global Transaction Advisory leaders to identify solutions to maximise emerging merger and acquisition (M&A) and private equity trends. His appointment boosts the firm’s bench of senior transaction advisors and reflects its commitment to expanding executive leadership talent in support of clients’ increasingly complex demands.
Malfettone brings over 40 years of senior leadership experience spanning public accounting, financial services and asset management covering several industries including manufacturing, distribution, technology, services and retail. Before joining A&M, Malfettone served in
O’Melveny has represented Strava, a social platform for athletes, in its USD110 million Series F financing round led by TCV and Sequoia Capital, with participation by Dragoneer Investment Group and existing investors including Madrone Capital Partners, Jackson Square Ventures, and Go4it Capital.With more than 70 million members in 195 countries, Strava is the largest sports community in the world. Over the last year, Strava has seen rapid growth, adding more than two million athletes a month. This latest round of financing will help the company enhance its platform to better serve more athletes.
The O’Melveny team was led by Warren
Fidante Partners (Fidante), a global investment management business has partnered with Proterra Investment Partners, a private equity fund manager focused on the food and agribusiness sectors, to provide European investors with access to Asia’s thriving and resilient food sector. Partnering with Proterra is consistent with Fidante’s global growth strategy to expand its existing range of boutique partnerships. Fidante’s specialist distribution and business development expertise will help Proterra expand its reach to a European base of investors.
Proterra’s experienced team has a proven track record as a specialist alternative investment manager focused on the global food and agriculture sectors. Headquartered in
A consortium led by CITIC Capital Holdings’ private equity arm and Caixin Global has agreed to a full exit from its investment in ISI Emerging Markets Group (ISI) through a sale to Montagu, a leading European private equity firm. Completion of the sale is expected next month, subject to customary closing requirements.
ISI Emerging Markets Group is a leading provider of critical, hard-to-obtain macroeconomic, company and industry digital intelligence for the emerging markets. Subsequent to the carve-out from Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc in 2018 led by CITIC Capital and Caixin Global, the two brands CEIC and EMIS, were successfully integrated
Diversis Capital Partners I LP, a Los Angeles-based private equity fund that invests in lower middle-market data and technology companies, has made a strategic growth investment in Retail Finance Intelligence (RFi Group).With primary offices in Australia and the United Kingdom, RFi Group is a data-driven insights provider and thought leader to the global financial services industry. As part of the transaction, co-founders Charles Green and Alan Shields, will maintain a significant minority ownership in the company and will continue to lead the company in their roles as CEO and COO, respectively.
“RFi has built a fantastic data-driven insight offering over
DW Healthcare Partners (DWHP), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has invested in CareXM, a provider of virtual care and patient engagement solutions for post-acute and non-acute healthcare providers. CareXM is one of three investments in DWHP’s fifth fund.
CareXM’s patient engagement platform and virtual care offerings, including clinical nurse triage, are used by home health and hospice providers, physician practices, hospitals, and many other care providers across the United States. All services are HIPAA-compliant, available 24/7, and can be integrated with providers’ existing electronic medical record and scheduling platforms.
“CareXM’s partnership with DW Healthcare Partners has proven to be an ideal
O’Melveny has represented MindTickle, a specialist in Sales Readiness technology, in a successful USD100 million combination of equity and debt financing, led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 to prepare customer-facing employees everywhere to drive revenue growth. Existing investors, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan, NewView Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures also participated in the round.
The funding will be used to accelerate MindTickle’s go-to-market activities and expansion of global operations while advancing investments in product innovation to close the loop on customer-facing readiness and in-field execution.
MindTickle’s SaaS platform enables enterprises to ready their customer-facing teams for the “moment of truth” – when they
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