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Evolution Equity Partners has held the final closing of a new fund with total capital commitments of USD125 million to make investments in cybersecurity and next generation enterprise software and services in North America, Europe and Israel.
The fund exceeded its target and is backed by leading institutional investors, corporates, family offices and technology entrepreneurs from the United States and Europe including Cisco Investments, The European Investment Fund (EIF), Witelo Fund (PZU Insurance Group), Alpha Associates among others.
The Evolution Technology Fund will make investments in the range of USD5 million to USD25 million in early and growth stage
KEEN Growth Capital (KEEN), an early-stage venture fund focused on better-for-you food and wellness brands, has appointed a new Venture Partner, David Comeau.
Comeau, founder and principal of DC50 Advisors and former President of Mondelez International Asia Pacific, enhances the leadership team of KEEN’s food industry experts.
“KEEN’s team of experienced and seasoned professionals is bolstered by the addition of Comeau as Venture Partner,” says Jerry Bello, Managing Partner of KEEN Growth Capital. “His experience in M&A and developing IP to create value will be a great asset as we grow our portfolio companies. We are thrilled to have
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a GBP3.5 million investment in Contego Fraud Solutions (Contego), to support the continued growth of the business.
The transaction is being jointly funded by Maven and NVM Private Equity (NVM) which are investing GBP1.8 million and GBP1.5 million respectively. The remaining GBP0.2 million is being funded by existing investors.
Contego provides an automated compliance solution across a wide range of industries, helping organisations in the property, banking, financial services and public sectors to gain a full understanding of their clients, customers and employees by automating onboarding, monitoring and data
Privacy engineering software company, Privitar, has raised USD16 million in a Series A funding round led by Partech Ventures with participation from CME Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
Existing investors IQ Capital, 24Haymarket and Illuminate Financial have reinvested. Privitar will use the funds to accelerate the delivery of its product roadmap and core IP. The firm will also look to build on sales success in Europe with expansion to the United States and other key geographies.
The landmark investment signals the growing significance of the privacy engineering discipline, as data-driven organisations look to maintain customer trust and comply with legislation
White Oak Global Advisors and its affiliates have sourced arranged and provided a cornerstone commitment, alongside early commitments from funds advised by Permira Debt Managers, and HIG WhiteHorse, for a EUR164 million Senior Financing to support the acquisition of Getronics by strategic investor Bottega InvestCo.
Getronics is a leading player in the ICT services sector in Europe, with strong positioning within medium to large-sized enterprises and with public institutions. The Lenders were involved at an early stage of the process, coordinating their diligence with Bottega and management, and structuring a bespoke solution for the new owner/operator, while focusing global resources
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA – The aptly named WannaCry cryptoworm, is working its way around the world, encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the cryptocurrency, bitcoin.
The attack was global in scale, and brought parts of the NHS to a standstill, along with Telefonica in Spain, FedEx, Deutsche Bahn and LATAM Airlines, to name a few.
For financial services firms, WannaCry is a wakeup call, because although the sector seems to have escaped relatively unscathed, so far, the next attack is just around the corner, and:
1) WannaCry has all the signs of an amateur attack.
Form3, a cloud-based, end-to-end, secure platform for global payments processing, has secured a strategic investment from Barclays, the Angel CoFund and several individual investors who have joined the existing shareholders in raising USD5 million.
This latest funding will be used to continue building on Form3’s momentum in the UK and expand services across Europe and North America.
Form3 will use this round of funding to continue expanding its API based Payments-as-a-Service platform to offer clients real-time and interbank payment types. In addition to the current offering for UK Faster Payments, Bacs, CHAPS, SEPA and SWIFT, Form3 will launch SEPA
Activa Capital and Bpifrance have sold their stakes in Nexeya, a French group specialised in the design and manufacture of mission-critical electronic systems for major industrial companies primarily in the defence, aeronautics, space, energy, railway and automotive sectors.
After having substantially reinvested, Nexeya’s management now holds a majority stake in the group.
The operation, led by Nexeya managers Jean-Yves Rivière, Philippe Gautier, and Jérôme Giraud, gives the group’s management a 75 per cent majority stake in the company. The management team plans to accelerate the company’s development by product innovation and international expansion.
Established in 1997, Nexeya works
KKR & Co has expanded its executive leadership team with the appointment of Joe Bae (pictured), and Scott Nuttall as Co-Presidents and Co-Chief Operating Officers and members of the firm’s Board of Directors.
Henry Kravis and George Roberts will continue to lead the firm they founded as Co-Chairmen and Co-Chief Executive Officers.
In their new roles, Nuttall and Bae will jointly be responsible for the day-to-day operations of KKR.
Henry Kravis and George Roberts, Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs of KKR, say: “Today’s announcement is about the future and ensuring we have the right team and leadership structure to serve
CSM Bakery Solutions, a specialist in bakery ingredients, products and services, is selling its BakeMark business to Pamplona Capital Management.
The sale is part of CSM’s strategy to focus on its core business in Europe and North America, according to President and CEO Marianne Kirkegaard.
“We have always had great appreciation for the value of the BakeMark business but this sale will help us support our goal of further strengthening our core business in Europe and North America by focusing on our value added bakery products and ingredients portfolio,” she says. “Under Pamplona’s ownership, BakeMark can further strengthen its
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