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CEPRES, a provider of investment decision solutions for private markets, and Bain & Company, have joined forces to create DealEdge, a digital product for private equity dealmakers. DealEdge delivers intelligence to allow better-informed investment decisions, from early-stage diligence to the final investment committee.
DealEdge gives investment professionals an unbeatable combination: Bain’s industry leading due diligence consulting expertise applied to CEPRES’ unique and granular investment-grade private equity deal data. Deal team professionals can now instantly assess and prioritise deal pipelines and easily collate and share results. Its simple dashboard interface puts detailed investment analyses based on over 30,000 buyout, growth and infrastructure
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, has appointed Habib Abdur-Rahman, Principal, Corporate Development as its internal ESG lead. Within this new role, Abdur-Rahman will be responsible for overseeing the accelerated adoption of a standardised ESG framework, including implementing and enhancing ESG alignment across all business lines and geographies.
Rishi Kapoor, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Investcorp, says: “One of our key priorities at Investcorp is to deliver sustainable value for our stakeholders. Integrating strong alignment with key ESG factors that are consistent with our own core values is an integral part of this process. We are pleased to
Canadian private equity group Novacap has acquired an interest in AGA Financial Group Inc (AGA), one of Quebec’s leading employee benefits advisory firms and third-party administrators of group insurance and retirement plans.AGA helps businesses across Canada develop and administer tailor-made group insurance plans. AGA was founded in 1978 and has been owned and operated since 2013 by veteran insurance executives Martin Papillon, Chantal Dufresne and Gabriel Gagnon. AGA serves more than 1,200 clients across the spectrum from small and medium-sized businesses to those with national footprints. It employs more than 100 professionals, including a team of actuaries and a network
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has listed its portfolio company Mintra Holding AS, a provider of on-demand digital learning and enterprise HCM software solutions for safety-critical industries worldwide, on the Merkur Market of the Oslo Stock Exchange.
B-North has raised a further GBP1 million as it moves closer to obtaining regulatory approval.B-North teamed up with County Durham fintech specialist, Growth Capital Ventures (GCV), to announce the fundraise, which is part of a GBP20 million series A fundraising round designed to give B-North the necessary capital to finalise its banking licence process.
Prior to this latest raise, B-North had completed two fundraising rounds worth a combined GBP6.9 million.
Tapping into the UK SME lending market which has a stock of over GBP150 billion, Manchester-based B-North will deliver loans of between GBP500,000 and GBP5m and is built upon the
Nu Quantum, a quantum photonics specialist, has raised GBP2.1 million in Seed funding in a round led by Amadeus Capital Partners. Ahren Innovation Capital, IQ Capital, Cambridge Enterprise and Martlet Capital have also followed-on from the company’s pre-Seed investment round last September, with Seraphim Capital joining as a new investor. The funding will go towards a state-of-the-art photonics lab in Cambridge and a major recruitment drive for scientists, product team members and business functions as the company approaches the launch of its first commercial technology demonstration.
Nu Quantum brings together a portfolio of intellectual property combining quantum optics, semiconductor photonics, and
TMF Group, a global professional services firm, has appointed a new senior executive to help drive its North America growth plans in the fund administration sector.Kwame Lewis joins TMF Group as head of fund services for the North America region. Previously, Lewis served as chief financial officer for ACON Investments, a middle-market buyout private equity manager with more than USD5 billion in assets. Prior to that he spent 16 years as an auditor for PwC, focusing on private equity and venture capital funds. Lewis will support and accelerate the growth of TMF’s fund services unit in North America.
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Vacation Innovations (VI), a provider of travel-related products, software and services, has acquired Holiday Systems International (HSI), an established travel technology solutions provider and membership platform with a 27-year history of innovation in the travel industry. HSI provides travel discounts at below-OTA rates and custom software solutions that drive a range of private-client travel, rewards and exclusive loyalty programs for a membership base of nearly 400,000 travellers and multiple major global corporate partners.
HSI was founded in 1993 by Craig Morganson and has earned its reputation as a leading developer of award-winning, travel-related technology and membership-based discount programs, producing some of
Avaloq, a Swiss-based specialist in digital banking solutions, core banking software and wealth management technology, has been acquired from its existing shareholders, including private equity investor Wearburg Pincus, by Japanese NEC Corporation. Founded in 1985, Avaloq provides powerful cloud solutions for banks and wealth managers around the globe through business process as a service (BPaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). With more than 120 years of expertise, NEC is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. Listed on the Tokyo stock exchange, NEC is a truly global organisation with
Private equity firm YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London, has promoted Mike Clarke to the partnership.Clarke has 12 years’ experience in corporate finance and joined the Leeds office as investment director in January 2019. Over the last 18 months, he has been involved in a number of high-profile deals, including the £4.5m Series A investment into Leeds-based data visualisation, reporting and analytics software developer Panintelligence.
As well as representing YFM on the board of Panintelligence, Mike is responsible for sourcing and transacting the firm’s new investment opportunities across Yorkshire and North East,
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