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Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) has appointed Adam Feigenbaum as a senior advisor.Feigenbaum joins SGE following nearly 20 years at iCIMS, Inc. (“iCIMS”), where he helped to develop the company’s go-to-market strategies and operations infrastructure that led it to become the world’s leading, best-in-class talent acquisition software provider. As Chief Customer Officer, he worked to ensure sales and customer service delivery strategies were aligned, integrated and optimised to create optimal customer experience.
“SGE has created a unique culture internally and among its portfolio companies that is collaborative, creative and forward-thinking. I am thrilled to join the team and look forward
CEPRES is offering a Risk Analysis & Rating Dashboard on its platform to support LPs in understanding the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on their portfolios.
CEPRES’ Health Check Rating System is based on the CEPRES Platform’s flexible analysis dashboarding system and can inform investors on whether their private market portfolio is in good position to face major challenges ahead. The Platform allows the rating of users’ portfolios according to a predictive methodology derived on the granular analysis of development pattern of more than 80,000 portfolio company investments during former crises and recovery phases, as well as CEPRES’ own economic
The coronavirus crisis and nationwide lockdown have given clarity on how to evaluate companies’ ability to tackle social issues, “crystallising” what the S in ESG stands for, according to Bas NieuweWeme, CEO of Aegon Asset Management.
The impact from coronavirus and the changes to the way people have had to both work and live means this has now come to the forefront, according to the investment manager.
“The lockdown has allowed a crystallisation of the real performance on social issues versus mere policies and positioning,” said NieuweWeme.
He continued: “We can now look at how companies have behaved
Akia, a Menlo Park-based start-up focused on transforming the way hotels engage with their guests, has secured a new round of funding from GSR Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with more than USD3 billion under management. Akia will utilise the capital to accelerate and expand implementation of its AI-enabled SaaS platform, which allows hotels to provide guests with contactless options such as pre-arrival check-in and shifting in-person guest communications to text messaging. Akia’s customers include brands such as Hyatt, Marriott, Best Western, NoMad, The Ritz-Carlton Club & Residences, and many luxury boutiques.
“Akia’s messaging platform helps hotels provide superior
Trinity Consultants (Trinity), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired Vision Environment Australia Pty Ltd (Vision Environment). Vision Environment, based in Queensland, Australia, is a leading provider of water quality monitoring services to clients involved in commercial dredging and other industrial activities that impact the marine environment.
Trinity is a leading provider of regulatory-driven environmental, health & safety and engineering consulting services. Trinity specialises in highly technical, compliance-driven services with a core presence in air quality and an expanding presence in adjacencies such as commissioning, qualification and validation, process safety management, toxicology and water quality. Trinity operates
Investcorp’s portfolio company Calligo Limited (Calligo), an end-to-end managed data services provider, has acquired Itomic Voice & Data Ltd (Itomic). Itomic is a Cork- and Dublin-based IT managed services provider, specializing in IT solutions and maintenance and managed Microsoft 365 and Azure services.
Founded in 2012, Jersey-based Calligo puts data and its privacy at the heart of a tailored collection of managed data services for SMEs and enterprises, including IT managed services, managed cloud services, data privacy services and privacy-by-design machine learning services. Investcorp Technology Partners via Investcorp Technology Fund IV backed Calligo in 2016 and has invested more than
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has appointed R Todd Bradley as an Operating Partner. Bradley will have a broad mandate as an Operating Partner, where he will bring his extensive executive experience to bear working with OEP’s investment teams to identify operational excellence opportunities within the firm’s portfolio and with respect to new investments. As an executive with decades of governance, senior leadership, strategic growth and operations experience, Bradley will serve as both a board member and executive resource for OEP’s portfolio companies.
“As a firm focused on helping our investments achieve the highest levels of
There has been a big leap in investor satisfaction with the transparency of GPs’ disclosures and communications, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer. In the years following the Global Financial Crisis, only two in five LPs were satisfied with their GPs’ transparency. Four in five Limited Partners are satisfied today.
Many private equity investors believe rising geopolitical tensions will have a material effect on the asset allocation of private equity and venture capital funds in the next few years. And many also expect higher political risk in private equity’s emerging markets – especially Russia, China, the Middle
IQ Capital, a deep-tech venture capital firm based in Cambridge and London, has appointed Simon Hirtzel as General Partner.Hirtzel, alumnus of the University of Cambridge holding a degree in Natural Sciences, served as Chief Financial Officer at PA Consulting Group until 2007, then as Chief Operating Officer of Kreos Capital, Europe’s leading growth debt provider for high-growth companies. In his new role at IQ Capital, Hirtzel will focus on building LP relationships to further IQ’s ambitions of taking companies through their entire growth cycle, from seed to exit. Hirtzel brings to IQ his experience of managing operations, finance and compliance
Swappie, an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished smartphones, has raised a USD40.6 million (EUR35.8 million) Series B funding round. Participants in the round included TESI, alongside existing investors Lifeline Ventures, Reaktor Ventures, and Inventure – all of which participated in Swappie’s Series A in 2019 – bringing the total amount raised by Swappie to USD48 million (EUR42.5 million). The funding will be used to accelerate Swappie’s international expansion and to support the company’s rapid growth.
Swappie was co-founded in 2016 by Sami Marttinen (CEO) and Jiri Heinonen (CMO) with the simple mission of providing customers with a way to upgrade their phones
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