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Lastline has secured USD28.5 million in its latest round of funding led by Thomvest Ventures.
The round also includes investments from Osage University Partners, Redpoint Ventures and other current investors, and strategic investors Barracuda Networks, Inc., NTT Finance Corporation, and WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
The Series C funding will be used to accelerate the company’s next phase of growth driven by an aggressive go-to-market strategy that focuses on sales and marketing expansion and bolstering its development organisation to deliver on its vision of breach detection.
Coinciding with its growth capital round, Lastline is augmenting its board of directors with
Ninety six per cent of women working for organisations that specialise in turnarounds, company restructures and business transformations have never been appointed to a board position within the industry. Yet an overwhelming 68 per cent said that they wanted to be considered for Board positions.
That’s according to new research undertaken by the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), which has revealed that they cited a dominant male culture (71 per cent) and a bias towards male candidates (58 per cent) as being key barriers to their progress within the industry and appointment to boards.
Sixty-eight per cent of respondents said
Foresight Group (Foresight) has launched Tranche A of its innovative Foresight Smart Bonds Fund, which offers investors the choice to invest over one-, two- or three-year fixed terms for between 4.07 per cent and 4.83 per cent rates of interest per annum.
The Fund, which Foresight says is the first of its kind, offers a funding solution for the UK roll out of smart meters. The funds raised will generate returns by lending to companies that own, operate and rent installed Smart Meters to UK energy suppliers.
Foresight Smart Bonds Fund Tranche A, the first tranche to be deployed,
Placement agent and advisory firm Eaton Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp, has appointed Bill McLeod (pictured), as a Managing Director.
He will continue to be based out of Stifel’s San Francisco office, establishing the eighth global office location for Eaton.
McLeod, an industry veteran with over 25 years of capital markets and investment banking experience, will focus on growing Eaton Partners’ direct private capital raising platform, advising clients on strategy and providing direct opportunities to investors across the globe. In addition, he will expand Eaton’s origination efforts in the acquisition of new fund clients across
UBS Financial Services has invested in iCapital Network, a financial technology platform providing access to alternative investments for high-net-worth individuals and their financial advisors, joining lead investor BlackRock as a strategic partner.
Founded in 2013, iCapital’s online platform offers the high-net-worth community access to a curated menu of alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity funds. As part of its offering, iCapital provides an end-to-end technology solution automating the unique subscription, administration and reporting processes of these investments, which have historically only been available to institutional investors. iCapital will use the infusion of capital to further develop the
FTI Consulting has appointed Adam Bradley as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Operational Transformation practice. He will be based in London.
Bradley will help accelerate the growth of FTI Consulting’s Operational Transformation capabilities in Europe and further expand its services to the private equity sector. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience and focuses on shaping and delivering large, complex and urgent business transformation and profit improvement programmes for private equity-backed businesses. He has extensive experience across multiple industries, in particular healthcare and life sciences, telecommunications, media and technology, infrastructure and business services.
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Atlantic-Pacific Capital has held the final closing of Growth Capital Partners Fund IV (Fund IV) with GBP205 million of capital commitments.
Fund IV received support from a diverse group of institutional investors, including public pension funds, corporate pension funds and investment management groups across the US and Europe.
“We are pleased to have partnered with Growth Capital Partners (GCP) on their fourth fundraise. Investors were very receptive to GCP’s distinct and differentiated strategy in the UK lower middle market, which has proven to generate strong results on a consistent basis. We congratulate the team on a successful fundraise,” says Richard
Hydrofarm, a leading wholesaler and manufacturer of hydroponics equipment and horticultural products, has secured a significant equity investment led by Serruya Private Equity Partners (SPE), a family managed private equity group.
Additional institutional investors included Hawthorn Equity Partners and affiliates of Broadband Capital Investments.
“We are very pleased to partner with Serruya Private Equity, which has a proven track record and a history of successfully investing in and building businesses. SPE has worked with both public and private companies to accelerate their growth,” says Chief Executive Officer of Hydrofarm, Peter Wardenburg. “It is the ideal time to add financial
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – It’s a widely held misconception that heavily regulated industries are the least agile, and the slowest to innovate. In the financial services sector particularly, there is a tendency to see compliance and responsibility as a barrier to success, when they should be seen as the essential foundation.
The UK, rather than being a difficult place to do business for financial services firms, fosters growth with an active mix of regulators, investors and accelerators, and a government which is heavily involved in the economy. In fact, the UK’s regulator, the
Hamburg-based private equity firm CEE has expanded its wind power portfolio with teh acquisition of an additional German wind farm in Lüdersdorf, Brandenburg from Danish company European Energy A/S.
The wind farm consists of two turbines (type Vestas V112). The hub height is 140m, the rotor diameter is 112m, and the wind farm’s overall capacity is 6.6 megawatts (MW). The turbines, which were commissioned in May, will deliver environmentally friendly power for about 5,000 households each year. CEE Operations, which manages the CEE Group’s power plant portfolio, is responsible for the commercial side. The seller of the wind farm is
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