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Keensight Capital, a European growth private equity firm, has completed the sale of FircoSoft, a provider of watch list filtering solutions for bank transactions, to Reed Elsevier.
Created in 1990 and based in Paris, FircoSoft provides software solutions which allow its clients to filter financial transactions against sanctions and watch lists in order to ensure compliance with existing regulations while meeting Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.
Keensight Capital first invested in the company in May 2011 through a majority LBO transaction, alongside the management and Paris Orléans.
In three years, FircoSoft has opened seven new offices throughout the
An investment fund that Adamas Finance Asia (ADAM) invested USD1 million in last September has exited from a credit-finance project with a gross IRR of 22 per cent.
ADAM has also received a second semi-annual dividend distribution in the amount of USD75,301.98 from its investment in GCCF.
Following an initial dividend payment in March 2014, GCCF has to date yielded an annual dividend return of 15.06 per cent for ADAM.
GCCF was launched in August 2013 by Hong Kong-based Adamas Asset Management (HK) Limited, which since February 2014 has been has been acting as ADAM's investment manager.
Eos and Greenstone Equity Partners have joined forces in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region to meet rising investor demand for global investment opportunities in alternative assets.
Greenstone Equity Partners, a Dubai-based fund placement firm, will bring an Eos sponsored credit fund to the region's sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors and family offices.
Partnering with Eos, Greenstone Equity Partners is able to address its clients' demand for liquid alternative assets.
Eos is collaborating with Greenstone Equity Partners to expand its brand within the region and to develop new relationships with GCC-based investors.
"Greenstone is a leader in
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA) has submitted a comment letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as the regulatory agency considers proposed changes to the definition of an “accredited investor” under Rule 501 of Regulation D.
The HFA is urging the SEC to reject an increase in the current requirements, originally set in 1982, to account for inflation. The definition was already significantly narrowed when the value of an investor’s primary residence was excluded under The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
“While the HFA fully appreciates and shares the SEC’s goal of protecting investors
Uniplaces has secured GBP2.2 million in a second round of investment from venture capital firm Octopus Investments as it plans major expansion in key student cities worldwide.
After previously investing over GBP700,000 in November 2013, Octopus Investments showed continued interest in the brand as it followed on into the latest funding round.
Other investors in this round include Alex Chesterman (founder of Zoopla and LoveFiLM), Portuguese angel fund Shilling Capital Partners, and Rob McClatchey (former chairman of University Partnerships Program Ltd and managing director of Barclays Capital), who also joined the board as a non-executive director.
Launched in
Eversight, a provider of cloud-based software, has received USD9.7 million in its Series A round of funding from Emergence Capital Partners, an enterprise cloud venture capital firm.
Eversight is using the funding to scale its engineering, sales and marketing, and service and support teams to drive innovation and growth, and continue to deliver value to its customers, which include multiple top consumer package goods (CPG) companies such as Unilever and BIC.
Operating in stealth mode for nearly 18 months as Promolytics, Eversight released its Software-as-a-Service solution in January 2014. Enabled by recent advances in predictive analytics, cloud, and big
Private equity firm Keensight Capital has completed the final closing of its new fund, Keensight IV, for EUR250 million.
Jean-Michel Beghin, managing partner at Keensight Capital, says: “The fact that Keensight IV reached its hard cap in less than six months and was significantly oversubscribed, demonstrates the relevance and attractiveness of our investment strategy based on creating value through the strong growth of profitable European companies. We are proud of the continued confidence of our historical investors, such as the Rothschild group, Bpifrance, the Banque Cantonale de Genève, and the EIF, while also welcoming around ten new European investors, including
Venture capital firm Target Partners has appointed Dr Marc Gumpinger as a venture partner.
Gumpinger, a successful serial entrepreneur, will support founders of new businesses with his experience and contacts.
As a founder and CEO, Gumpinger himself previously received financing from Target Partners. He developed the mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop into a global market leader. Gumpinger's sale of the company to RIM (BlackBerry) in 2011 was one of the most successful exits of a German tech start-up in recent years.
"Marc is an experienced and successful serial entrepreneur who knows the scene very well, both as a
Technology investor Mercia Fund Management has made a GBP200,000 investment in Edge Case Game, the team behind the space flight combat game Strike Suit Zero.
Formed by two industry veterans, James Brooksby and Chris Mehers, and supported by a creative team based in Guildford, Edge Case Games is moving to the free to play games as a service model, focusing on the core PC gamer audience.
Mehers says: “These funds will be used to expand the development team, and create the right launch platform for our first free to play game.
“We chose Mercia as our funding partner
Investment banking boutique Zeus Capital has appointed Adam Pollock and Michael Allen.
Pollock joins as head of corporate broking from Panmure Gordon, where he held the same role for the last seven years. He has 30 years of corporate finance and broking experience in the UK equity markets and has been involved in over 300 equity fund raisings during his career.
Allen joins Zeus as a research director. He previously worked as an executive director at Panmure Gordon and was one of the founding members of the firm’s Liverpool office. During his seven years at Panmure, he was heavily involved
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