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Income streaming provider, Wagestream, which enables employees to access their earned wages in real time, today announced it has completed a GBP20 million Series B funding round.This latest investment — which takes the total raised to GBP65 million — will be used to consolidate the company’s dominant market share in the UK and to fund its international expansion.
Early-stage venture capital specialist Northzone is leading the funding round with participation from QED Investors, Latitude Ventures and Balderton Capital.
Since 1996, Northzone has raised more than GBP1.4 billion and made over 150 investments in companies including Spotify, Zopa and Trustpilot. QED
ADM Capital Europe, a London-based private equity firm, through its Cibus Enterprise Fund (Cibus) has invested in a predictive analytics and livestock monitoring software company, Connecterra, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Partners in the round include Kersia and impact fund, Pymwymic.
The Cibus Fund team believes that, in Connecterra, they have found a value additive technology that can improve animal welfare and increase returns to farmers by providing some much-needed technological advances and insight into an otherwise archaic farming system.
Connecterra has developed a solution that it has named IDA (Intelligent Dairy Assistant), which can provide farmers with the early detection of
European software investor Hg is to acquire a stake in F24, a pan-European sector leader for emergency notification, crisis & incident management and critical communications, headquartered in Munich, Germany. Hg will invest in a holding currently owned by Armira and co-founder Ralf Meister, and will become the majority shareholder in the business. The Executive Board, Dr Jörg Rahmer (spokesperson), Christian Götz (co-founder and Executive Board member) and Jochen Schütte (Executive Board member) will remain significantly invested in the business, alongside Hg.
F24 partnered with Armira in 2017 and has since then more than doubled its sales by executing a successful growth
Nearly four fifths (79 per cent) of private equity fund managers expect investors to demand more transparency in reporting on portfolio company performance over the next 12 months, reflecting growing concerns over the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, interviewed around 150 private equity fund managers across Europe, North America and Asia to identify the risks and opportunities facing the industry over the coming year.
As well as portfolio company performance, over half of GPs (59 per cent) expect LPs to call for improved disclosure on fee structures, risk exposures (55
A new survey by State Street Corporation reveals that the Covid-19 crisis has fuelled the appetite of insurers for alternative asset classes, particularly in private credit and private equity. In the short term, 33 per cent plan to increase their allocation to private credit and 28 per cent in private equity. Alternatively, 10 per cent expect to decrease their allocation to private credit and 13 per cent within private equity.
Angela Summonte, head of Asset Owner and Official Institutions, Sector Solutions EMEA, says: “With traditional fixed income strategies generating lower returns, we are observing insurance companies increase allocations into this asset
ESG investing continues to gain momentum and prominence among global institutional investors as they increasingly look to benchmark not only the performance of funds in their portfolios but the impact they have on the world.
Mutual funds and ETFs with a focus on sustainability attracted USD20.6 billion in net inflows in 2019, four times higher than the USD5.5 billion raised in 2018, according to Morningstar. Within private markets, however, there is still a way to go with only an estimated one third of private equity firms signed up to the UN’s Principles of Responsible Investment.
A recent survey conducted by
Baird Capital, the direct private investment arm of Baird, has promoted Michael Holgate to Partner and Andy Dyer to Director. Both associates are based in London.Holgate, Partner, joined Baird Capital in 2014 and focuses on sourcing investment opportunities, deal execution and portfolio management in the Technology & Services sector. Before joining Baird Capital, Holgate spent five years working in financial due diligence and corporate finance at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Spectrum Corporate Finance. Holgate is a chartered accountant and earned a First Class Master’s degree in chemistry from Bristol University.
Dyer, Director, joined Baird Capital in 2016 and focuses on sourcing
SANNE, a leading global provider of alternative asset and corporate services, has appointed Brijesh Patel as Global Head of Corporate Services.With more than 20 years of international financial services experience, Brijesh joins SANNE from State Street in Singapore where he held the role of Vice President, Relationship Management. As a qualified Chartered Accountant, Brijesh has an impressive background in managing strategic global relationships, leading servicing teams and coordinating service delivery from multiple jurisdictions and business areas to a broad range of clients invested in various asset classes.
Based in SANNE’s Singapore business, he will work closely with SANNE’s Country Heads
A new research paper called ‘The impact of culture’, published by Thinking Ahead Institute, suggests that the implementation of cultural change across the investment industry still lags.
Intriva Capital (Intriva), an independent alternative investment manager focused on special situations, has acquired Lending Works, a UK consumer credit and peer-to-peer lending business.Intriva has further committed to providing significant additional funding and capital to support the growth of the business following completion.
Headquartered in London, Lending Works is the UK’s leading disrupter in providing consumer credit through partnerships. Launched in 2014, Lending Works has grown to become one of the largest alternative lenders in the UK having lent almost GBP250 million to loan customers.
Nicholas Harding, founder and chief executive officer of Lending Works, will continue to
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