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Providence Strategic Growth (PSG), the growth equity affiliate of asset management firm Providence Equity Partners (Providence), has completed a majority investment in Sympa, a leading provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software in the Nordics.
Alfvén & Didrikson, an active, long-term backer of Nordic businesses with international growth potential, invested in Sympa in 2016 and will retain a minority stake alongside the company’s founding team. PSG team members Edward Hughes, Aldo Mareuse, and Tobias Richter have joined Sympa’s board of directors. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Sympa was founded in 2005 and is now one of the fastest-growing
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has been selected to provide fund accounting and administration services for the Kiva Refugee Investment Fund (KRIF).
Dutch family-backed impact investor DOB Equity has re-invested in Tanzania’s biggest dairy processor, Tanga Fresh.
AST Private Company Solutions (AST PCS) has formed a new strategic partnership with HC Global Funds Services, (HC Global) as a provider of fund administration services to seed fund, accelerator fund, venture, and private equity funds as well as special purpose vehicles. Users of AST PCS’s recently launched Astrella capitalisation (cap) table and ownership data management platform will benefit from the new integration.
Astrella was developed by AST PCS, the Silicon Valley-based business unit of ownership data management leader AST, using transformative technology to build a new cloud-based SaaS platform. The solution brings together private blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and
Kain Capital has completed its investment in MDLand, a technology platform designed to unify and modernise the healthcare industry’s antiquated and disjointed systems. MDLand equips managed care service providers with the technology needed to work more efficiently and profitably, while improving patient outcomes and generating quality of care performance incentives.
Built by physicians, for physicians, MDLand handles everything from scheduling, practice management, population health management, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and billing in one comprehensive solution. The cloud-based platform brings together the traditional elements of an electronic health record with newer concepts of population health management making it possible to manage patients
US alternative investment managers (alt IMs) have seen a recovery in fund performance and balance sheet investment valuations in Q2 2020, on the back of rebounding equity markets and credit spread tightening, according to Fitch Ratings. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Leading global investor services group IQ-EQ has added to its senior corporate services team in the UK with the appointment of Amy LeJune, who joins the group’s Corporate segment as a client services director.Since getting her start at a ‘Big 4’ firm in Texas, LeJune has gained over 20 years’ accounting experience, spanning the financial services, hospitality and media industries. She joins IQ-EQ from a competing international fund and corporate services firm, where she held the role of Business Unit Manager, Finance.
LeJune has led numerous accounting teams and worked on large multinational accounts across the North American and
Aliter Capital (Aliter), the specialist UK support services investor has completed its investment in London-headquartered Temple Grange Partners, a consultancy firm with a leading financial crime (FCC) and compliance practice. This investment, in close partnership with Aliter’s existing portfolio companies Sponge and Bolt Learning, will support the creation of differentiated FCC-focused eLearning content designed specifically for the Financial Services market.
Eoin O’Shea, Founder and CEO of Temple Grange Partners, says: “We have been very impressed from the start with Aliter’s long-term investment strategy. In addition to helping to grow and expand our consultancy and advisory capabilities – including our leading compliance
Cloud Comms, Contact Centre and Cyber solutions firm, Babble, has acquired Corporate Management Telecom Ltd (CMT). The deal, which was funded by mid-market private equity investor LDC, is the third acquisition completed by the business this year as the management team continues to deliver its ambitious buy and build strategy.Established in 1998 and based in Braintree, CMT provides business telephony and cloud-based services including voice, system hardware, IT and mobile to 500 customers.
Since Babble partnered with LDC in 2017, the business has delivered a combination of impressive double-digit organic and acquisitive growth including the purchase of Arden Group, Direct
A new report by M&A and strategic advisory firm, Aquaa Partners, has found that the value-led investment approach in non-tech companies common among many institutional investors is undervaluing the significant role tech companies play in delivering investor returns.The new report, titled, ‘The death of value investing and the dawn of a new investment paradigm’, highlights the changing nature of tech stocks and their increasing capacity to confound traditional investment expectations by delivering significant value compared to traditional stocks coupled with lower volatility.
The report compares compounded total shareholder returns (TSR) of the key tech and non-tech indices over time.
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