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Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Zinc Ahead, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR and a provider of marketing compliance and approval software-as-a-service solutions to the life sciences industry, on its sale to Veeva Systems Inc.
Zinc Ahead provides marketing compliance and rich media management SaaS solutions for the life sciences industry. Over two million digital assets have been approved through the Zinc cloud, transforming the digital media development and compliance community in over 120 life sciences companies, including all of the top 20 and 40 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical companies, across 170 countries. More than 50,000
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has launched a mobile app for its proprietary alternative investment fund accounting and investor servicing technology called UMB Fund Services FastPro.
The app, which is live on Android and Apple iOS operating systems, allows clients to view historical data and reports, investor demographics and fund performance information at anytime, anywhere an internet connection is available. The FastPro platform had previously only been available via web browser.
“Technology is changing the way our clients operate, and in response, we’ve taken our award-winning reporting solution and given it mobile capabilities,” said Chad Allen, managing director of alternative investments
Exabeam, a specialist in user behaviour analytics (UBA) for security, has held the closing of a USD25 million financing round to further accelerate the company's rapid growth and continue updating its UBA solution in response to customer demand and industry trends.
Icon Ventures led the Series B investment round. Icon Ventures’ previous security investments include Palo Alto Networks and FireEye two of the most valuable security companies in the world. Exabeam’s previous investors – Aspect Ventures, Investor Shlomo Kramer and Norwest Venture Partners – also participated in the Series B funding, which follows a milestone year of growth for Exabeam
Law firm Bond Dickinson has advised longstanding client and specialist consumer investor Piper on its GBP6 million investment in Forthglade Foods Limited, the Devon-based pet food company.
Piper is a specialist private equity firm focused on investments in consumer brands with strong growth potential in retail, leisure, consumer products and consumer services. Bond Dickinson has advised Piper on a wide range of investments including Weird Fish, Bottlegreen, Turtle Bay restaurants, Loungers, Orlebar Brown and Hickory's Smokehouse.
On this investment the Bond Dickinson corporate team, led by partner Simon Hewes (pictured) and solicitor Sammy Hill, worked closely with its regulatory
Private investment firm Enhanced Capital and FocusPoint Private Capital Group (FocusPoint), a FINRA member focused on private capital raising, have formed Enhanced FocusPoint (EFP), a partnership to source, seed and launch a series of private investment funds.
EFP will identify talented management teams with investment strategies suitable for institutional investors allocating capital to private funds. This partnership will expand the reach and capabilities of each firm, providing experienced limited partners with new investment strategies.
Four sectors of focus have been identified for the platform: Equity, Credit/Income-Generating, Real Assets, and Special Opportunities. Enhanced and FocusPoint have a long history of backing
Baird, an employee-owned, international financial services firm, has appointed Terry Huffine (pictured) as a Managing Director in the firm’s Global Consumer Investment Banking group in London.
With extensive transaction experience across several different Consumer sector verticals, Huffine will further expand Baird’s Global Consumer Investment Banking coverage in Europe and strengthen its comprehensive, capital markets industry platform.
Huffine was most recently a Managing Director and Head of Consumer at DC Advisory where he established and built out its fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) investment banking business. Prior to DC Advisory, he was a senior banker at ABN AMRO/Royal Bank of Scotland
Swarm64 AS, a data acceleration company from Oslo and Berlin, has raised a total of up to EUR7.1 million from lead investors Alliance Venture, Target Partners and Investinor. The funds will be used for market entry, building out the team and to set up operations in the US market.
Swarm64 has been developing a hardware and software solution that scales databases in size and speed past their current limitations. Swarm64’s Scalable Data Accelerator (SDA) and its database extensions will contribute to the professionalisation of open source databases. The SDA resolves the known trade-off in databases between transaction heavy and analytics
Omnes Capital has invested EUR9.5 million in Capcom, a company specialising in the deployment, installation, maintenance and sale of fibre optic and cable network services, on the occasion of a primary owner buy out (OBO) alongside management.
Founded in 2001, Capcom provides telecoms operators with deployment, installation and technical maintenance services for their high speed and fibre optic telecommunications networks. The company performs 1,400 client services each day and manages 1 million households, providing round-the-clock maintenance. It generated sales of EUR50 million in 2014.
The company recently signed partnership agreements with the main telecoms and energy operators (Orange, Numéricable-SFR,
Inflexion has completed a Partnership Capital, minority investment, in Mobica, a software development and integration services company.
Founded in 2004 by the current Chairman, Mobica is a rapidly growing provider of leading edge software engineering expertise. With a team of more than 800 people across the UK, Poland, Mexico and the USA, the company focuses on multi-billion pound market verticals including semiconductor and automotive. Mobica has established itself as the development partner of choice to some of the world’s leading technology companies by delivering innovative, cost-effective software solutions at the forefront of technological advances.
Inflexion’s Partnership Capital investment will
Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Partners are to acquire Ascensus Inc. from JC Flowers & Co. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter, following regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Ascensus, the nation’s largest independent service provider of retirement and college savings plans, was founded more than 30 years ago and has since expanded into new markets within the financial services industry to offer a comprehensive suite of defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plan solutions, benefits education, 529 college savings plan recordkeeping, and IRA and health savings
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