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Seven Peaks Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on sparking innovation in the Pacific Northwest, has added Tom Gonser, founder of DocuSign, to its roster of partners.
Gonser most recently served as chief strategy officer at DocuSign, which provides eSignature and document workflow management solutions.
He previously worked at Apple, McCaw Cellular, AT&T Wireless and Wildfire Communications.
"Tom shares our belief that category-leading companies are being built in thriving regional markets across the country and in particular in the West, where easy access to the Bay Area has made markets like Seattle, Portland and Salt Lake City
Emarsys, a B2C marketing cloud company, has secured a USD22.3 million (GBP18.3 million) investment from TPG Specialty Lending Europe (TSLE), the European specialty lending investment platform of TSSP.
The financing will fuel innovation in artificial intelligence and data science, and accelerate growth at Emarsys as it seeks new opportunities in existing and new markets such as the US.
Emarsys customers will benefit from cloud-based marketing technologies resulting from the investment that will allow them to scale personalised interactions with consumers.
The deal brings the total funding received by Emarsys from investors in the last 24 months to USD55.3
Recruitment of marketing and fundraising staff across the alternative funds sector, including hedge funds, private equity firms, real estate managers and third-party marketing firms, reached an all-time high in the third quarter of 2016, according to corporate advisory and search firm Contect Jensen Partners (CJP).
“Hiring hit an all-time high in the third quarter, with marketing moves up across the board,” says Sasha Jensen (pictured), founder and CEO of Context Jensen Partners. “This demand reflects the continued need for experienced marketing professionals to establish fund flows and raise new capital. As we head into the end of the year, we
The Thomson Reuters Private Equity Buyout Index and the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index fell by 1.88 per cent and 0.19 per cent, respectively, in October.
Year to date, the indices are up 3.64 per cent and 3.63 per cent respectively.
The Thomson Reuters PE Buyout and VC Indices seek to track the aggregate gross performance of their respective industries in the US.
They are the first indices to allow liquid access to the gross performance of the private equity and venture capital industries through index-linked investment products.
Both the Thomson Reuters PE Buyout Index (TRPEI) and the Thomson Reuters
SPLIO, a SaaS-based customer experience software company, has secured a EUR10 million fundraising supported by three funds – Digital Ambition Fund, BNP Paribas Développement and Amundi Private Equity Funds.
Digital Ambition Fund is managed by Bpifrance under the Future Investment Program led by the Commissariat-General for investment (CGI).
Leveraging its relationship with over 500 customers in the retail and luxury goods sectors, SPLIO developed SPRING, the first cloud-based CEM platform dedicated to retailers.
In 2015, SPLIO generated a turnover of EUR16 million.
The goal of SPLIO’s new management team, put in place by the founders, will be
JMP Group, an investment banking and alternative asset management firm JMP Group, is partnering with investment bank with Bryan, Garnier & Co on the origination and execution of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory mandates and public and private capital-raising transactions.
The alliance will operate under the common brand of JMP Bryan Garnier.
JMP Securities and Bryan, Garnier & Co will also continue to operate separately, providing services to clients as standalone firms. The alliance will capitalise on a long-term trend toward increased integration of the US and European technology and healthcare markets.
JMP Bryan Garnier is led
The European Commission’s (EC) launch of a new venture capital fund of funds programme has the potential to attract over EUR1.6 billion to support the growth of Europe’s small businesses, says Invest Europe.
Space ventures, tech start-ups and budding engineering firms could all benefit from this investment, according to the trade association, in the commission’s latest initiative in its Capital Markets Union action plan to promote European innovation and economic growth.
The Venture Capital Fund of Funds will invest into a portfolio of venture capital funds across the continent. The commission will commit up to EUR400 million in fresh funding
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, is to invest USD20 million in Calligo, a provider of cloud solutions focused on serving the global mid-tier enterprise segment.
Founded in 2012, with the aim of leveraging jurisdictions across the globe that offer a robust data protection framework, Calligo provides a trusted cloud platform for hosting mid-tier enterprises, their data and applications.
The company’s proprietary cloud platform offers data privacy along with application performance guarantees, commercial flexibility and a personalised support service.
Calligo services hundreds of clients all over the world from its locations in Jersey, Guernsey, Switzerland,
Saratoga Partners has acquired the xenon cinema business from Philips Lighting, with debt financing provided by GC Andersen Partners Capital.
The business, to be named Lighting Technologies International (LTI), is a major manufacturer of xenon arc lamps for digital cinema projectors used in the worldwide cinema exhibition industry.
GC Andersen Partners, through its wholly-owned broker-dealer GC Andersen Partners Capital, acted as exclusive financial adviser and placement agent to Saratoga and raised the debt financing to complete the transaction.
Financing was provided by PNC Bank and Graycliff Partners.
LTI, based in Baldwin Park, California was established in 1999
HarbourVest Partners has held the final close of its latest secondaries fund, which was oversubscribed and closed above its USD3.6 billion target at USD4.77 billion.
“Our global secondaries team has decades of experience and deep industry relationships. As the secondaries market continues to evolve, these competitive advantages have helped us to remain well positioned to continue to provide our investors with access to the best opportunities available,” says Brett Gordon, managing director, HarbourVest. “Our experience and expertise to execute on even the most complex transactions is what makes HarbourVest a sought after partner as both LPs and GPs actively seek
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