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Teamleader has raised an investment of EUR10 million in a funding round led by Fortino Capital.
The funds will be used by Teamleader to further develop its product into a fully-fledged platform for SMEs.
Jeroen De Wit, CEO of Teamleader, says: “This investment will allow us to quickly seek out new markets. Of course, we will also continue to invest in the product and in providing our existing clients with support. After all, our strategy of staying close to our clients is what makes us successful, and that’s something we will never lose sight of.”
Teamleader was launched
After 15 years in business, Financière Cambon is changing its name and visual identity to Cambon Partners.
The change is designed to reflect the firm’s growing international standing and mark the beginning of a new phase in its development.
Cambon Partners, the only French M&A boutique with a physical presence in the Silicon Valley, has also hired Laurent Azout, previously partner at Messier Maris & Associés, in charge of the TMT sector, and executive director at Lazard.
Azout has completed over 60 transactions, mainly in the TMT sector, and has extensive expertise in the digital space.
Azout says: “Our
Harris Williams & Co is advising Grohmann Engineering on its pending sale to Tesla Motors.
Grohmann is a developer and manufacturer of highly customised, high yield, multi-process modular assembly solutions for future oriented end-markets.
Harris Williams & Co served as the exclusive financial adviser to Klaus Grohmann, founder and majority stakeholder of Grohmann Engineering, and Deutsche Beteiligungs, a German listed private equity company and minority stakeholder of Grohmann Engineering.
Post transaction, Grohmann Engineering will become Tesla Grohmann Automation and serve as the initial base for Tesla Advanced Automation Germany headquarters, with other locations to follow.
The pending
BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), is injecting USD50 million into women-led technology firms as part of its efforts to support female entrepreneurs.
"Women-led firms are vital to Canada's prosperity and competitiveness," says Alison Nankivell, vice president, funds and co-investment, BDC Capital. "Recognising the need for financial and non-financial support for female founders, we are proud to launch several new initiatives to encourage women tech founders who are starting new companies, growing existing ones, creating jobs and triggering innovation."
Of the funds, USD40 million will be used to create a new program
MMA Capital Management has entered into an agreement with an affiliate of TSSP, a special situations investment platform, to form a solar lending joint venture.
The joint venture will operate under the name Renewable Energy Lending (REL) and will provide financing for the construction and ongoing operations of solar power projects located throughout North America.
MMA Energy Capital (MEC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MMA Capital, will provide loan origination and administrative services to REL. Kimberlite Advisors served as financial adviser in the formation of Renewable Energy Lending.
Michael Falcone (pictured), MMA Capital Management's chief executive officer, says: "We
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative investment funds, has welcomed the launch of the UK’s new National CyberSecurity Strategy, which includes stepped up efforts to combat data breaches, identify theft, fraud and money laundering in the financial services sector.
Abacus says its services already meet or exceed these standards.
Abacus, which in October announced a major expansion of its services and the opening of a second data centre in London, provides cyber defences to its more than 400 clients in the alternative investment field globally.
Noting that the US Securities and Exchange Commission
Statkraft Ventures, with the participation of ETF Partners, has led a USD5 million investment into European smart meter software company Greenbird.
Greenbird is a profitable and rapidly growing software vendor and IT integration specialist based in Norway.
The company has served utilities representing more than 80 per cent of the Norwegian market, and it is continuing to build its international customer base.
Its Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings Metercloud.io and Ghostwriter enable utilities to quickly implement flexible IT architectures for modern smart meter operations.
"At Statkraft Ventures we are well aware of the software integration challenge
Gide is advising Inner Mongolia Furui Medical Science, a Chinese company dedicated to pharmaceutical, diagnosis and medical services, on its investment in Median Technologies.
Median specialises in medical imaging software and services dedicated to oncology clinical trials, cancer screening and clinical practice.
The transaction, which is subject to customary conditions, will consist in a capital increase of Median Technologies at a price of EUR13 per share, representing a total amount of EUR19,599,996 reserved to Furui Medical Science Company Luxembourg, a wholly owned subsidiary of Furui.
The completion of the transaction will allow Furui Medical Science Company Luxembourg to
Frazier Healthcare Partners, a provider of growth capital to healthcare companies, has added Kent Berkley, Jeremy Janson, Neeraj Prathipati, and Shyamal Swami to its growth buyout team.
“We are pleased to welcome these four professionals to the Frazier growth buyout team, as they will be valuable additions to the existing depth and expertise of our investment team,” says Ben Magnano, general partner.” We look forward to leveraging their talents and insights as we continue to grow our investment platform, and we are delighted that they have chosen to join us.”
Berkley, vice president, comes to Frazier after four years
In the third quarter of 2016, Israeli private equity deal-making rose to USD1.7 billion in 18 deals, the highest quarterly amount in the past two years.
The amount was 32 per cent above the USD1.3 billion reached in the previous quarter and over four times the USD358 million achieved in the third quarter of 2015.
The number of deals was the same as in the last quarter, but slightly down from the 22 deals quarterly average of the past five years.
While the Q1-Q3/2016 period in Israeli private equity can be viewed as having the best performance in
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