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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
Oppenheimer & Co has added to its leadership team within the Consumer Group of its investment banking business with the appointment of James Murray as a Managing Director in its Global Consumer Investment Banking Group. Murray will be based in London and report to Max Lami, European Chief Executive, and Emmanuel Durand, Global Head of Consumer Investment Banking.
Murray joins Oppenheimer with over 20 years’ experience in providing strategic advice to an extensive range of consumer clients. He will be focused on both the UK and the Continent and will work closely with Jeroen Van Den Heuvel, Managing Director in
Thomas H Lee Partners (THL), a premier private equity firm investing in middle market growth companies, has held the final close of THL Automation Fund at USD900 million. The Fund will back automation companies, including technology product, software and services businesses, that enhance productivity across a range of end markets and use cases.
“We created the Fund to invest in companies driving step-function change through automation and to support management teams in accelerating growth with both capital and with a 20-member integrated team of automation experts,” says Jim Carlisle, Managing Director who leads the Automation Fund.
“Automation is everywhere in the
By A Paris – As European regulators push for greater homogeneity across the European Union, jurisdictions like Malta need to focus on ensuring full compliance while also maintaining the element of flexibility and agility which is one of the country’s biggest draws. Although the island has suffered from a few years of reputational issues on a broader level, Malta’s fund industry has continued working with its partners and providing a robust service.
“The funds industry itself has been robust. We haven’t had any major fund blow ups and the fundamentals are strong. Any change to repair the reputation issues the island suffered
The funds industry in Malta has best positioned itself to attract business from fund managers falling out of the scope of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), managing portfolios within the small-to-medium sized space. This is the area of the industry expected to attract the majority of future investments. Managers looking to take advantage of opportunities arising during the global pandemic, also benefited from the quick time to market the jurisdiction offers through certain fund typologies unique to the Maltese domicile.
“The Professional Investor Fund (PIF), which is the structure Malta offers these smaller managers, is attractive for
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