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Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa) is to acquire intive SA, a provider of software development services with over 1,600 qualified specialists in 19 offices worldwide, from Enterprise Investors.
The transaction is subject to customary competition clearance and is expected to close in Q1 2019.
Combining design and technology, intive has become the digitalisation partner of choice for many international corporations across multiple industry verticals including automotive, high-tech, industrial, media, as well as consumer and financial services.
Kerim Turkmen, Partner of Mid Europa, says: “We are excited to be teaming up with intive’s management team and have been particularly
DOB Equity, a Dutch family-backed impact investor in East Africa, has invested in Coconut Holdings Limited, producer and owner of the Kentaste range of coconut-based products.
The investment in Coconut Holdings adds to DOB Equity’s health conscious agri portfolio, following its recent investment in Ten Senses Africa, an organic macadamia nut producer and processing company.
Coconut Holdings owns and operates two coconut processing facilities on Kenya’s coast and is the largest producer of coconut oil, milk and cream in the country. It targets both the food and personal care market. The business purchases coconuts from small-holder farmers of which
Finitive, a financial technology platform providing institutional investors with direct access to alternative lending investments, has added seasoned fintech investor and executive Neil Wolfson to its board of directors.
Wolfson, who has significant public company board experience, spent the last decade as President and CIO of SF Capital Group. In this role he oversaw all debt and equity investing, asset allocation, and investment management for the billion-dollar multi-generational family office. At SF Capital he invested in over 30 direct debt and equity investments in emerging technology companies with a focus on fintech companies.
“Finitive has established an innovative platform
Analytics Ventures, a fund dedicated to creating and building venture companies that harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, has added AlphaTrAI – a proprietary AI-based automated trading platform that fuses the latest explainable AI (XAI) techniques with multiple sophisticated trading strategies – to its venture portfolio.
With three-year back-testing results extending into the current volatile trading atmosphere, AlphaTrAI has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500. The company is now moving to live, real-time trading for the next phase of validation.
“AlphaTrAI consistently outperformed top hedge funds during back testing due to the proprietary end-to-end trading algorithms
Krypton Fund Services Holdings Ltd, a boutique independent fund services company based in Bermuda, has selected Pacific Fund Systems’ PFS-PAXUS fund administration system for its third-party fund administration business operations.
An established market-leading product, PFS-PAXUS offers a complete back-office fund accounting, portfolio valuation, fund pricing and transfer agency administrative solution that includes regulatory reporting, on a single, fully integrated system that satisfies the needs of the most sophisticated fund administrators.
Krypton provides fund administration, registrar and transfer agent, regulatory reporting, project management and setup, to a wide range of family office investment portfolios, investment funds, private and special purpose
Crestbridge has appointed former Director General of the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), John Harris, as non-executive Chairman of the Crestbridge Group, effective 1 January 2019.
This newly created role reflects the significant success and growth of the Group, which now employs over 280 staff across its offices in Bahrain, the Cayman Islands, Jersey, London and Luxembourg.
Bringing extensive private and public sector experience in international financial services institutions to the role, Harris (pictured), will join Crestbridge as one of a small number of professional and non-executive director commitments following his retirement from the JFSC earlier in the year.
SYZ Group has launched SYZ Capital, a private market investment and advisory specialist. As the fourth business arm of the group, it focuses on selecting attractive investment opportunities across private markets, offering tailor-made solutions through thematic funds and co-investment vehicles, as well as advisory services around financing solutions and capital structuring.
SYZ Capital is a private markets investment and advisory specialist founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It focuses on investment opportunities in segments of private markets overlooked by traditional market participants because of size, complexity or varying investment horizons.
Based in Zurich, Switzerland, and co-managed by Marc Syz and
Private equity firm TA Associates is to invest, alongside GI Partners, in Netsmart Technologies (Netsmart) a healthcare software company delivering management process solutions and electronic medical records to the health and human services (HHS) and post-acute end markets.
TA Associates and GI Partners, a current shareholder in Netsmart, will acquire the stake in Netsmart held by Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX). The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018 and is subject to customary closing conditions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1968, Netsmart provides software and services to the
Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments, has closed an investment of GBP3.6 million into Dymag Group, the British designer and manufacturer of carbon hybrid automotive wheels.
Established in 1974, the company is a pioneer in carbon wheel technology and expects a record 2019, with the investment fuelling its global growth plans.
Puma Private Equity advises Puma Investments on discretionary funding to SMEs across all sectors, and partners with SME management teams to accelerate growth and help businesses achieve their potential. So far this year, funds managed by Puma Investments have invested GBP25 million into seven
GP-led private equity transactions are broadly harmful to the interests of limited partners, according to a new report from London-based secondaries adviser PEFOX.
The research paper provides a critical examination of these new structures and considers the impact of fines by the SEC against GPs for abuses; complaints by multiple parties including law firms, consultants and some of the largest LPs in the world; and, a rise in LP activism to block GP-led deals. Highlighting examples where these transactions have drawn significant opposition from LPs, the advisor observes that “fatigue and concern are now commonplace reactions by many LPs to
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