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Quantifind has closed a USD30 million funding round led by global venture capital fund Cathay Innovation. Previous investors Redpoint Ventures, US Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, Iris Capital and AME Cloud Ventures also joined the round.
This investment will support the company’s growth as it helps marketers understand exactly how their efforts are driving revenue for their respective businesses.
This round of funding, the company’s fourth, will fuel Quantifind’s market expansion efforts, accelerate product development, and allow the company to double staff in its Menlo Park headquarters. Quantifind will focus on growing the sales and customer success teams, as well
PolyPid, an emerging clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company, focused primarily on the development of post-surgical anti-infection pipeline, has closed a USD22 million private equity financing.
The financing was co-led by new investor Shavit Capital and current investor Aurum Ventures. The round also included participation of Chaim Hurvitz who will now head the Company's board of directors, as well as other existing shareholders.
The new investment is expected to facilitate the completion of an ongoing confirmatory European clinical trial in severe open tibia fractures for BonyPid-1000™, the company’s proprietary investigational doxycycline-loaded synthetic bone substitute, which is planned to be completed by 2017. The
Alternative investment manager Lexington Partners has opened an office in Santiago, Chile, which will serve as the firm’s regional hub and enhance its strong investor and sponsor relationships in Latin America.
The office is led by Jose Sosa del Valle, a Principal who has spearheaded Lexington’s Latin American activities for the past seven years. Lexington Partners will continue to be supported in an advisory capacity by Brian D. O’Neill, who was appointed by the firm in 2010 as a Senior Advisor focusing on the Latin American region.
Lexington Partners is the world’s largest independent manager of secondary acquisition and
Laila Worrell has joined The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a Partner and Managing Director in the firm’s fast-growing Principal Investors & Private Equity (PIPE) practice. She will be based in New York.
Worrell brings more than two decades of experience advising senior business leaders in both the private equity and corporate sectors. She joins BCG from Accenture, where she served as Managing Director and head of the New York Metro region and led the firm's private equity work. While at Accenture, she also served on the North America Leadership Team, comprising the business leaders responsible for the performance of
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital has acquired a portfolio of compensation product offerings, including Salary.com, from IBM Corporation.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Salary.com is a provider of reliable information, software, and best practices for compensation professionals. The Company’s product offerings help employers find and analyse detailed, real-time, and accurate information about employee compensation, as well as providing a platform for managing their daily workflow.
William Nolan, Managing Director at HIG, says: “We are excited to have the opportunity to invest in Salary.com and work with Kent Plunkett and his team as
AMP Capital’s global infrastructure platform has raised more than USD1 billion in new commitments as it nears its final close of USD2 billion. The Global Infrastructure Fund raised nearly USD400 million cumulatively for its second and third closes.
The investor commitments combined with the global infrastructure platform’s existing portfolio of diversified European infrastructure equity assets mean the platform is more than three quarters towards meeting its target.
AMP Capital Global Infrastructure Fund Managing Partner Boe Pahari, says: “Investors have come to understand the many benefits that infrastructure provides to a portfolio such as low volatility, high yield, GDP and inflation
Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) has closed on over USD225 million in final capital commitments for Private Markets Income Fund I (PMIF).
The fund’s strategy is to invest in niche income-oriented private market strategies, across primary fund commitments, co-investments and secondaries, which provide near-to-medium-term cash distributions. These investment strategies are frequently backed by real, financial or intellectual property assets. While PMIF represented AIP’s first standalone fund in this strategy, AIP has been an active participant in this investment space since 2000.
“Our clients rely on alternative investments to meet many different objectives, and this capital raise demonstrates how
Trilantic Capital Partners Europe has entered into an agreement with Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri (FSM) to make an initial investment of EUR66 million in the company to finance both organic and inorganic growth projects.
As part of the transaction, FSM, a leading Italian operator of private hospitals, will transfer all its operations to a new company. Trilantic Europe will invest in Maugeri through a EUR66 million capital investment and initially will own c. 34% of Maugeri, and FSM will own the remaining circa 66 per cent. Trilantic Europe also has an option to increase its investment to a total of circa
CensorNet has acquired SMS Passcode, a European based multi-factor authentication vendor, and will integrate the unique multi-factor authentication technology into its Unified Security Solution.
The funding for the acquisition was led by Talis Capital alongside existing investors. Hill Dickinson LLP advised investors on the transaction.
This acquisition follows the Series A round completed in September 2015, also led by Talis Capital, and is an important transition for the company. This allows CensorNet to claim a truly global footprint, protecting over one million users across 4,000 customers in 40 countries throughout EMEA and the US.
CensorNet’s management team is
Venture capital investor Octopus Ventures has exited its investment in Vision Direct, the online contact lens retailer. Vision Direct has been acquired by Essilor.
Octopus Ventures invested in Vision Direct in 2009 when the company employed 33 people and has remained the largest shareholder throughout this time, seeing Vision Direct grow to 80 employees with a turnover of GBP33 million. This exit represents the second significant exit for Octopus Ventures in 2016, coming after the recent exit from SwiftKey following its acquisition by Microsoft.
Alex Macpherson, head of Octopus Ventures, says: “Today is a huge day for Vision Direct
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