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To mark Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), PEWire is publishing a mini-series of three Q&A interviews with women working in venture capital. First up is Kate Bingham, managing director of SV Health Investors, which invests in biotech, digital health companies, medical devices and healthcare services.
Covid-19 is making a real impact on the liquidity of many organisations across South Africa, which has affected everything from logistics to paying salaries. However, with this comes the opportunity for these businesses to engage in a conversation with Private Equity firms to consider capital investment.A number of organisations have had setbacks due to a supply chain being disrupted, with this heavily impacting services to clients. It has meant that there could be opportunities to secure a strong and profitable supply chain partnership through PE. Where consolidation opportunities exist in certain industries, private equity investors can add significant value in
Global investment bank GCA Altium has announced Adrian Reed as the new head of its Manchester office to lead the growing team of 21.Having joined GCA Altium in 2000 as a graduate, Reed has been managing director at the firm since 2012. He specialises in technology focused transactions and has led many notable deals in recent years, including the sale of predictive analytics software business Mobysoft to ECI in October, the acquisition of cybersecurity business TitanHQ by Livingbridge and the AIM IPO of indie gaming business Team 17. He also led the investment in Tonic Games – publisher of recent
Private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) has completed a strategic investment in Eyemart Express, a national value optical retailer, joining majority stakeholders FFL Partners (FFL) and the Barnes Family.While financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed, the new investment will not add any incremental debt to the Eyemart Express balance sheet.
“We are very excited to welcome Leonard Green & Partners to Eyemart Express,” says Michael Bender, CEO of Eyemart Express. “The team at LGP shares our vision about the significant market opportunity ahead, and their experience and insights, in partnership with FFL, will
Delivery Hero co-founder and serial entrepreneur Lukasz Gadowski (pictured) has invested EUR7.5 million in Finnish food delivery company Wolt, which recently achieved unicorns status with its EUR1 billion valuation following expansion into Japan and Germany.
International asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson, has acquired Bridge Group, a funds service provider based in Ireland, conditional on Irish regulatory approval. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Alantra has completed the acquisition of a 49 per cent stake in Indigo Capital SAS (Indigo), a pan-European private debt asset manager.Based in Paris, Indigo is an independent, established player in the alternative finance market specialising in the financing of small and medium-sized European businesses worth between EUR20-300 million through a combination of private bonds and preferred equity. Since inception, the firm’s seven investment professionals have completed over 50 investments for a total value of more than EUR800 million across France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK.
The investment in Indigo Capital represents yet another step in the growth
Inflexion has made a majority investment in Sparta Global, an technology and training services provider. The investment is being made by Inflexion Enterprise Fund V, Inflexion’s lower mid‐market fund. Sparta trains graduates in a range of technology skills and then deploys “Spartans” in relevant roles with its clients, plugging the skills gap between university education and technology and business professionals. Sparta’s graduates come from a diverse range of backgrounds before being trained in one of the firm’s programmes, which cover in demand technology areas such as data engineering, software engineering, DevOps and business analysis.
By ensuring its own intake is diverse,
One of the few positive effects of the pandemic is that it provides an opportunity to shift some bad habits and build some better ones. According to Jamie Nascimento, co-founder at LemonTree Software – the first low-code development platform for financial services with an alternative asset investment solution – the pandemic has exposed workarounds that many of his clients have in place, as their software didn’t deliver against their needs during lockdown. In this feature he explores the possibility of changing your habits, particularly tech habits, during a time when everything is in flux.
Habits. We all have them –
BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity services company, has acquired Managed Sentinel, a specialist in the deployment and management of Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM, and Azure Sentinel, plus Microsoft’s XDR platform, Microsoft Defender.Organisations are increasingly looking for cloud-native security solutions. With the shift towards Extended Detection and Response (XDR) as customers demand more response capabilities beyond endpoint, as well as the drive to consolidate vendors and service providers, the acquisition of Managed Sentinel complements BlueVoyant’s managed detection and response (MDR) for Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
Working alongside BlueVoyant, Managed Sentinel strengthens BlueVoyant’s ability to better serve Microsoft customers globally, while enabling Managed Sentinel
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