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Ektron has closed a second round of equity funding with Accel-KKR. This increased investment follows the investment made by Accel-KKR in April 2014, which was the company's first institutional round.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
"Accel-KKR’s increased investment provides strong support for Ektron as it delivers upon its vision and mission to provide solutions to customers that allow them to deliver consistent, relevant, and rich online experiences across all channels," says Ektron President, Tim McKinnon. "Ektron is proud to be making a very real difference in driving hard dollar value for organizations from their digital investments
Emerging market private equity firm Actis, has made a significant investment in Université Centrale Group (Université Centrale), a provider of private tertiary education in Tunisia.
Founded and managed by the Ben Turkia family, the university’s four schools offer courses across medical, legal, engineering and business disciplines.
Rick Phillips, Partner and Head of North Africa at Actis, says: "There is a clear growth in demand for high quality tertiary education across emerging markets. Actis has invested behind this trend repetitively across Asia and Latin America. We are delighted to be partnering with the Ben Turkia family and joining the next stage
CurrencyEvolution.com, one of the world's largest Bitcoin projects, is exiting stealth-mode after twelve months of strategic acquisitions and development and officially seeking venture capital funding.
“Our exclusive goal is to bring Bitcoin to the masses on a global scale,” says founder Niko Younts. “While we recognise our conceptual digital blueprint is an ambitious one, we also fully comprehend the unparalleled opportunity and value of what we have created to date. Bitcoin venture capital funding has recently surpassed the USD400m milestone and we’re looking to add our name to the history books as an early adopter and global marketing contributor.”
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Duke Street, the first private equity investor to enter the post-reform legal services market, is increasing its investment in Parabis Group to help fund significant development and change.
The GBP13 million investment underscores Duke Street’s long-term commitment to Parabis and will enable the Group to capitalise further on opportunities presented by accelerating change in the legal services sector.
The new capital will help to fund an ambitious programme of investment in people, property and technology creating a modern infrastructure which allows Parabis to continue to be innovative and competitive in its delivery of high quality services.
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Newly launched Touchdown Ventures is aiming to become the preeminent partner for corporations looking to establish, grow and manage their venture capital platforms.
The firm, founded by investment professionals from Comcast Ventures and DFJ Frontier, will initially partner with companies seeking to invest in education, human capital, digital media, entertainment, and retail-focused startups. Apollo Education Ventures, LLC, the newly formed venture capital platform of Apollo Education Group APOL, -0.12% is among the firm’s initial partners.
“US corporations have USD2 trillion on their balance sheets and are increasingly looking to put this capital to use by supporting new and innovative ventures,”
Lion Capital is to acquire PittaRosso from 21 Investimenti SGR (“21 Investimenti”), a leading mid-market European private equity group, and other minority shareholders including members of the founding family.
21 Investimenti will support Lion Capital and the management, retaining a minority stake in the business. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in the 1920’s by the Pittarello family and transformed into a solid family-run retail chain, PittaRosso was acquired by 21 Investimenti in 2011. Under 21 Investimenti’s ownership and the stewardship of the CEO Andrea Cipolloni and his team, the company has more than doubled its store
North Capital Investment Technology has closed its seed funding round of USD1 million, attracting support from major institutional investors including JFO, Karlani Capital and Green Visor Capital.
The funding enables the San Francisco-based private placement technology company to continue technology innovation, roll out proprietary funding platforms and hire staff to support its growing broker-dealer, North Capital Private Securities Corporation (NCPS).
Green Visor Capital General Partner Michael Walsh said the private securities markets are in the early stages of a period of unprecedented change. General solicitation and crowdfunding will drive transparency and broader distribution, leading to a deeper and more liquid
BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched a bridge financing service aimed at private equity and real estate funds.
The service provides fund manager clients of the bank with committed credit lines, enabling them to access funding efficiently and respond rapidly to market developments.
‘Treasury management for private equity and real estate funds can be complex,’ says Jacques Bofferding, Head of alternative financing, BNP Paribas Securities Services. ‘Investment opportunities close rapidly, but accessing capital commitments from investors can take a long time. Add this to the fact that general partners, the funds’ managers, often wish to group capital calls together
Nordic Capital Fund V has sold its entire holding of 7,627,620 shares in Bufa Holding (20.0%, to institutional investors. Nordic Capital no longer holds any shares in the company.
Bufab was acquired by Nordic Capital in early 2005 through a public offering for Finnveden which was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange at the time. Shortly thereafter, Bufab became a stand-alone company with an independent management and board of directors.
Under Nordic Capital’s ownership, Bufab established a solid platform for sourcing and sales of C-Parts by expanding its presence from 10 to 23 countries. The Company has grown strongly with
Crowdfundraiser, a site focused on both debt and equity crowdfund investing now offers, investment options for both accredited and non-accredited investors alike.
The company provides both private and public equity investments for crowdfunding deals across all platforms in the crowdfunding ecosystem. This means all types of investors are able to take advantage of crowdfund investing opportunities .
While large crowds are unable to invest in private equity, each private deal can take a limited number of non-accredited investors. Corwdfundraiser works with non-accredited investors on private equity deals to ensure clients' are always reaching the threshold of non-accredited investors. The number of
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