Latest News
EQT Ventures has added deal partner Rania Belkahia to its team in the firm’s new Paris office.
With the opening of the new office in France, EQT Ventures now has teams on the ground in Paris, San Francisco, Berlin, Stockholm, London and Amsterdam. The firm’s current French portfolio companies include Tinyclues and Calldesk.
“The EQT Ventures team is delighted to have Rania on board to lead our search for exceptional founders in France and drive our ‘locals with locals’ approach from the new Paris office,” said Alastair Mitchell, partner and investment advisor at EQT Ventures.
Belkahia will be leading all
BlackRock Private Equity Partners, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Neuberger Berman, Investment Corporation of Dubai and RSIC are becoming minority shareholders in Nordic Capital-owned Trustly, an online account-to-account payments provider.
Nordic Capital remains the majority shareholder in Trustly, which it acquired in 2018. The deal will bring in additional long-term capital to support the company as it continues to invest in its products, infrastructure and expand globally, according to Nordic Capital.
Citigroup Global Markets Limited acted as financial advisor in connection with the transaction. Oscar Berglund, CEO of Trustly, said he welcomes BlackRock and the other investors as minority shareholders in
Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor, My Digital Accounts, has appointed Nic Scott, former CEO and co-founder of Fairsail, as its chairman with immediate effect.Fairsail, who pioneered the mid-market SaaS HR market, was bought by the UK’s largest software company, Sage Group Plc (FTSE: SGE), in 2017 for an undisclosed nine figure sum to develop its Sage People cloud offering. My Digital Accounts (MDA), founded by trained accountant CEO John Whelan, has operations in the UK and India. Its investors include NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund set up
Silverfin has secured a significant Series B investment led by Hg, a specialist software investor and expert in the tax and accounting sector. The investment will be used to support the company’s expansion internationally as it responds to demand for its cloud service that consolidates real-time financial data, automates compliance reporting and improves financial planning. Silverfin was founded in 2013 in Ghent, Belgium and now has offices in London, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The details and terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Joris Van Der Gucht, co-founder at Silverfin, says: “Our platform is the central nervous system thousands of
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised Puma Private Equity which led a GBP6 million equity investment into Tictrac, a leading health engagement company. The corporate team was led by Partner Leon Miller, Managing Associate Alex Fergus and South African qualified lawyer Alice Millar who advised on the transaction.
This funding will allow Tictrac to expand its Employee Wellbeing (SaaS) platform in a bid to tackle increasing stress levels and health problems in the workplace – with nearly 80 per cent of workers in the UK experiencing some level of stress, it will help businesses empower their staff to take
Wing Venture Capital announced today that it has raised Wing Three, a USD450 million pool of capital dedicated to early stage investing and long-term company-building in enterprise technology. Like the firm’s predecessor funds, Wing Three has the backing of the venture world’s most sophisticated institutional investors. In a sign of the times, Wing Three was raised virtually with nearly all investor discussions occurring via video during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Wing Three will be invested to help founders build businesses that enable the “Modern Enterprise,” which is an agile workplace built on data and powered by AI. The firm invests early,
Cortland Capital Market Services has completed its rebrand to Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services to alternative investment managers. Together, Alter Domus administers over USD750 billion of assets on behalf of 80 per cent of the largest private debt managers, real estate firms, and private equity houses globally.
Total private market assets under administration (AuA) in North America is expected to grow by 9.4 per cent to USD16.3 trillion by 2025.[1] For alternatives managers servicing these assets for end-investors, this unprecedented growth in AuA will increasingly place their back and middle office systems and processes under even
Fralock, an engineering and manufacturing provider of specialty material solutions for technically challenging and mission critical applications, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Career Technologies USA (Career Technologies). Fralock is a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a specialised private equity firm with strong expertise in the specialty materials industry.
Career Technologies, with three facilities in the greater Los Angeles area, is a leading provider of engineering and manufacturing solutions. The company focuses on integrating various materials and components for demanding applications and technologies, including flexible and rigid-flex circuits and related assemblies, for the medical device, aerospace,
An overwhelming majority (92 per cent) of private equity fund managers expect to see a rise in the volume of distressed fund transaction activity over the next 12 months. Due to the impact of Covid-19, almost half (46 per cent) of respondents believe that mismatches in valuation expectations between buyers and sellers will restrict deal flow.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 in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Distressed strategies are also likely to
Redwigwam, the UK’s leading provider of flexible workers, has secured investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to fuel the next phase of its expansion.The Liverpool-based company received the funding from NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
Redwigwam was founded four years ago by serial entrepreneur Lorna Davidson, who had previously founded and sold Tactical Solutions, one of the UK’s leading field sales and marketing companies, for £29million.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, it has seen the number of workers on its database surge to over 130,000 and the
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
