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Anthemis Group has held the first close of the Anthemis Venture Fund I, which will focus on early stage venture investments, providing pre-seed, seed and series A financing to digitally native financial services startups across North America and Europe.
The fund is anchored by the European Investment Fund (“EIF”), as well as UniCredit, a leading European banking group.
Year-to-date for 2016, Anthemis has raised USD285 million in capital across its platform from institutional investors and is actively investing in early stage through growth-stage financing rounds.
As an early mover in financial technology with a history of successful venture capital investing,
Private equity platform TPG Capital is to acquire a majority interest in Transporeon from The Riverside Company and other shareholders. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval.
Transporeon offers various connectivity-focused applications for the different stages of freight execution, providing shippers and carriers with meaningful cost savings, productivity gains, and service-level improvements by enabling them to communicate, collaborate, and transact efficiently. Transporeon is the leading cloud-based logistics platform with the largest network of its kind, connecting more than 1,000 shippers with more than 57,000 carriers across the world.
RightCapital, a financial planning platform for registered investment advisors and independent broker-dealers, has secured USD1 million in a seed capital fund raise led by Camellia Venture Capital with other individual strategic investors also participating.
Camellia Venture Capital is a New Jersey based venture capital firm that focus on early-stage, high-growth fintech firms.
"We created RightCapital with the goal of developing a next-generation financial planning software that advisors can use to simplify the financial planning experience for their clients," says Shuang Chen, co-founder and CEO of RightCapital. "This round of funding will help us reach more advisors and deliver significant product
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired 100 per cent of Symplicity Corporation.
Headquartered in Arlington, Vitgina, Symplicity sells SaaS-based solutions to over 1,200 colleges and graduate school programs that help manage all aspects of a student’s life on campus, including career services, academics, behavioural intervention, and student conduct. In addition, more than 400,000 active employers utilise the Company’s on-campus recruiting software to leverage the largest Higher Education job network in the US and recruit students and alumni for entry-level jobs. In 2015, five million students submitted more than 13 million job applications through the
The London office of global law firm K&L Gates has added Barry Cosgrave as a partner in the firm’s global finance practice. Cosgrave (pictured), who joins K&L Gates from Shearman & Sterling LLP, is the second new partner addition to the firm’s London finance practice in just a month.
Cosgrave’s experience includes distressed debt and restructuring, debt capital markets, structured finance, and Islamic finance. He has significant Middle East experience, having also practiced in Dubai for a number of years.
“With a focus on distressed debt and the Middle East, my ambitions and experience are very much in line with the strategic direction of K&L
Edison Partners has led a financing of New York City-based Predata, a provider of predictive event intelligence used by hedge funds, corporate security officers, and government agencies to forecast geopolitical risk throughout the world.
Chicago Ventures and Conversion Capital also participated in the round. The investment will fuel continued product innovation and go-to-market expansion.
Using open-source intelligence (OSINT), the Predata platform enables organisations to collect and visualise tens of thousands of digital conversations from a range of social and collaborative media channels on a daily basis. Regressing this data against historical datasets allows Predata to quantify the probabilistic nature of
Praesidian Capital Europe (Praesidian), a provider of senior and subordinated debt and growth capital in the United Kingdom and Northern Europe, has made a GBP8.0 million investment of first lien debt in UK claims management business EMC Advisory Services (EMCAS).
The funds support the July 2016 buyout of the Company by incumbent management team James Scarth and Richard Hopwood and the realisation of their growth plan through increased investment in the Company’s leading operational platform as well as providing funds for acquisitions.
EMCAS, headquartered in Exeter, Devon, provides services to consumers who are unaware, or unwilling, to claim redress for
Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance has supported NFT Group’s GBP20 million-plus acquisition of owner-managed logistics company NR Evans with a debt package of GBP13 million.
Founded by Neil Evans, NR Evans is a leading UK temperature controlled distribution business, delivering over GBP1 billion of chilled and ambient product annually via its well invested fleet of 180 trucks and 300 trailers. The business will maintain its South Wales base, whilst integrating into NFT’s national network.
The acquisition the NFT Group significantly strengthens its market leading position in the provision of time critical logistics services to the UK grocery market. It employs
BMO Financial Group has completed the acquisition of the business of M&A advisory firm Greene Holcomb Fisher (GHF).
The transaction complements BMO Capital Markets' existing M&A practice by significantly increasing BMO's number of global M&A professionals. In the United States, the transaction expands and deepens BMO's footprint, raising deal flow and increasing the focus on key strategic industries ranging from Industrials to Food, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Technology, Business & Services and Energy.
GHF has been rebranded as BMO Capital Markets.
HgCapital portfolio company Intelliflo has launched an Open API for its business management system, Intelligent Office (iO), enabling its adviser and supplier partners to integrate their own solutions and processes fully with the data and functionality within iO.
Intelliflo’s aim is to allow its partners to enhance their own offerings using the data available via iO.
Nick Eatock (pictured), Intelliflo’s Executive Chairman, says: “We’ve opened up the iO system to give developers and clients access to most of its features, giving them the flexibility to interact with iO in whatever way they like including the ability to display the information
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