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Synthesia, a UK-based startup developing video synthesis technology, has raised USD3.1 million to continue its mission to help brands and content creators scale their video production using AI.
This financing round was led by LDV Capital, early investor Mark Cuban, and joined by new investors MMC Ventures, Seedcamp, Martin Varsavsky’s VAS Ventures, TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, Tiny VC, and advertising executive Nigel Morris.
Their cloud-based platform ENACT enables customers to automatically generate personalised and interactive video content for their audiences at an exponentially faster rate and a fraction of the costs.
“Consumers and employees today expect video-based communication
A new Seyfarth Shaw survey suggests that 2019 will continue to be a seller-friendly environment for middle-market M&A deal activity, with more deal participants using representation and warranty insurance policies.
“We are cautiously optimistic that 2019 will be another good year for middle-market M&A activity,” says Andrew Lucano (pictured), Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, when discussing with Private Equity Wire the findings of the sixth edition of its Middle-Market M&A SurveyBook.
“We have closed a number of deals already in 2019 and right now, we are very busy on a number of pending deals and there are still
Fast growing Shearwater Aero Capital, a global corporate aviation finance specialist, is looking to raise up to USD100 million to support its growth, following its strongest performance ever in 2018.
Since Shearwater’s launch in late 2014, the Company has been providing finance solutions for all types of aircraft. Family offices have provided the vast majority of funding for Shearwater’s deals and have received an average Return on Investment (ROI) of between 13 per cent and 15 per cent, with no losses. Funding is relatively low risk with an average loan to value of 65 per cent. As added investment security, all financed aircraft
ClearCourse Partnership, a group of technology companies providing membership software/services and digital capabilities to the membership, events & bookings and sports & leisure sectors, has acquired NetXtra, a provider of intuitive integrated digital services to the membership, charity, not-for-profit and e-commerce sectors.
The deal represents Aquiline-backed ClearCourse’s sixth acquisition and expands the range of digital services that it can provide to membership organisations.
Headquartered in Bury St Edmunds, NetXtra was Co-Founded in 1995 by Simon Hardingham. The Bury St Edmunds based, 25 strong NetXtra team develop and support digital infrastructure services that connect Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems with
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, has agreed to sell CARE Fertility (CARE), a UK fertility clinic group for IVF treatment, to Silverfleet Capital.
Established in 1997, CARE operates nine full-service fertility clinics supported by a network of 13 satellite facilities, providing extensive coverage across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Since its formation, CARE has aided the conception of over 30,000 babies, and its success rates are amongst the highest in the UK. With an extensive R&D capability, CARE has become one of the world’s leading providers of fertility treatment, genetic diagnosis and screening techniques, and associated fertility
Oriient, a specialist in high-performance indoor GPS, announced has closed USD4 million in seed funding from F2 Capital and innogy Innovation Hub, the accelerator and venture capital arm ofGerman energy company innogy SE.
The company is already working with some of the world’s largest retailers, as it scales to unlock the power of indoor navigation by delivering an experience similar to online search, to in-store shoppers.
Oriient provides enterprise level businesses including retailers, airports, malls and wholesalers, with the ability to allow their customers to navigate large areas and locate items with pin-point accuracy. The service is the first solution
Clairvest Group has held a first and final closing for Clairvest Equity Partners VI (CEP VI) at its hard cap of USD850 million.
Marketing of CEP VI commenced in January 2019 with a fund target size of USD800 million. Clairvest’s commitment to the fund is USD230 million alongside USD620 million from third party investors. As with Clairvest’s previous funds, Clairvest will be the single largest investor in CEP VI.
“We are delighted to have a renewed commitment by many of our existing fund investors as well as to welcome several new investors to CEP VI. We are pleased that the
Stonyrock Partners (Stonyrock) and Leucadia Asset Management (LAM), a division of Jefferies Financial Group, have formed a strategic partnership to raise a permanent capital vehicle to invest in middle market alternative managers.
Stonyrock will target minority equity stakes in high-quality, middle-market alternative managers across a range of asset classes, strategies and geographies, including private equity, credit, hedge funds, real estate, venture, and infrastructure, creating a highly diversified portfolio of partnerships. Stonyrock’s strategy seeks to address the growing demand from alternative managers to bring in outside capital to execute on a range of strategic priorities including franchise growth initiatives, operational investments
Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a mid-market investor in UK SMEs, has promoted Jay Salter to Investment Manager. Salter joined GCP in 2017 and most recently worked on the investments in The DMW Group and Indigo Telecom Group.
Salter previously worked in the corporate finance team at Ernst & Young where he spent four years in the London office working in corporate restructuring and transactions support before three years in Sydney as part of the private equity transactions team, specialising in mid-market investments.
Salter says: “It’s a very exciting time to be at GCP, with our recent investments from Fund
Edison Partners, the growth equity investment firm, has led a USD4 million growth round in Northpass, a New Jersey-based enterprise learning solution for driving business performance.
The capital will be used to accelerate Northpass’ go-to-market execution and product innovation to transform the USD5 billion learning management system (LMS) category.
Northpass experienced significant momentum in 2018 as it grew its customer base to more than 200 logos including notable disruptor brands such as Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Shopify and Square. Northpass achieved 100 percent revenue growth for the year and anticipates the same 2x growth trajectory for 2019.
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