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Exabeam has closed USD75 million in a Series E funding round led by new investor Sapphire Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, which have collectively backed nearly 40 IPOs.  Other existing investors also participated. The funds will be used for expanding sales reach and to expedite new product features and configurations.  In the last 12 months, Exabeam’s market perception has shifted from a user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA) vendor to a leading SIEM provider. Recognising this, Exabeam was recently named a leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management. During the last fiscal year, 76
Audax Private Equity (Audax), in partnership with management, has completed the sale of Magnitude Software (Magnitude) to 3i Group (3i). Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Magnitude is a provider of enterprise information management software that delivers insights on business performance in heterogeneous application and fragmented data environments. Magnitude’s product offerings of business application data access, management, and reporting products help business users simplify management of their data and achieve substantial productivity gains. Magnitude maintains strong relationships with leading ERP providers, SAP and Oracle, and continues to focus on global growth across the ERP ecosystem. The Company has over 1,400 customers globally
Asterion Industrial Partners, an independent investment management firm focusing on infrastructure investments in Europe, is to acquire a portfolio of data centres from Telefónica.  The portfolio consists of 29MW of power through 11 state-of-the-art & highly connected data centres, in Spain, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Argentina. The data centres mostly have a Tier III or IV certification, representing the highest quality in the reliability benchmark for a data centre’s server hosting ability. The carve-out, which values the transaction at EUR550 million, represents a highly attractive investment in an independent telecoms’ infrastructure platform with a global reach.  After recent
Investment group Infinity has added to its senior team with the appointment of Anna Kerrane as a director. Kerrane has joined Salford Quays-based Infinity from the Manchester office of law firm Shoosmiths where she was a senior associate. Before joining Shoosmiths, Kerrane spent a decade at Weightmans in Manchester. She is an experienced corporate lawyer who has advised on a range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures and company restructurings.  Over the years she has advised Infinity on a number of deals. Kerrane’s arrival at Infinity follows the appointment last year of another director, Paul Wogan,
Barnes & Thornburg has appointed Jason Myers as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department in Dallas.  Myers joins from Hudson Advisors, a global asset management company, where he served as director and senior counsel. He also previously served as counsel at Vinson & Elkins in Dallas for 11 years.   Myers has a track record of handling complex transactional, legal and regulatory matters, particularly in the areas of finance and real estate. Having worked in-house and in private practice during his career, Myers’ experience includes credit facilities, real estate financing, derivatives, and a wide variety of both traditional real
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Accusource, a provider of  middle- and back-office operational services, has teamed with Canoe Intelligence, in a bid to bring ‘efficiency, speed and increased accuracy’ to the investment management industry. Institutional investors and family offices manage complex portfolios that often include scores of alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity and venture capital. As a result, these firms are inundated with thousands of email, web-based and PDF documents containing hundreds of thousands or millions of transaction, valuation and performance data points. Manually converting these critical, data-rich documents to productive digital formats costs investment firms as much as $4 million annually.
Growth private equity firm TA Associates has held the first and final closing of TA XIII with total commitments at its hard cap of USD8.5 billion. Launched in the first quarter of 2019, TA XIII was oversubscribed and exceeded its original USD7.5 billion target. Commitments to TA XIII came from a diverse group of largely existing global investors, including leading public pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, foundations and endowments. As with its predecessor equity funds, TA XIII will focus on equity investments in middle-market growth companies, primarily in opportunities originated and led exclusively by TA. TA’s investments will range from
Private equity firm OpCapita has acquired maurices, a Duluth-based women’s fashion retailer. “This is an exciting day for our maurices family,” says maurices President and Chief Executive Officer, George Goldfarb. “We’ve had strong holiday and early spring sales, and are looking forward to building on our momentum with our new owners, OpCapita, who are truly invested in adding even greater value to the maurices brand by providing additional resources and expertise.”   maurices will continue to be led by Goldfarb and its current management, supported by OpCapita’s investment team, as well as a dedicated team in the United States. Jeff
DIP Capital’s Disruption Investment Platform (DIP) Fund I has invested USD1.7 million in Adludio, a globally leading mobile-technology company delivering immersive advertising to mobile devices. DIP Capital was established in February 2018 and focuses on investing in disruptive businesses. Founded and led by Riccardo Cirillo, DIP has a first fund of EUR40 million for deployment globally and is sponsored by Platina Partners, an independent European investment firm focusing on renewable energy and private equity.   DIP’s investment in Adludio was part of a larger round that also included the majority of participation from existing Adludio investors. The investment will primarily be
Private equity investment in European companies reached a new record of EUR80.6 billion in 2018, a 7 per cent year-on-year increase, according to data released today by Invest Europe.  Private equity funds invested in over 7,800 companies, also a new record, with 86 per cent of the total made up by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Invest Europe’s 2018 European Private Equity Activity Report is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of fundraising and investment data available. It reveals that investment increased across all segments of private equity, including larger buyouts, mid-market investments and growth capital, with venture capital backing for European

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