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Japanese accountancy SaaS company freee has secured USD6 million in Series B2 funding from Pavilion Capital and Recruit Strategic Partners.
This follows the Series B1 funding of USD8 million from DCM and Infinity Ventures.
The investor support and additional funding will allow freee to accelerate its development and strengthen its position among the Japanese SMB market.
Daisuke Sasaki, chief executive of freee, says: "In Japan, SaaS penetration among SMBs is still around 17 per cent. SMBs did not choose SaaS for accounting tasks until freee was launched. We successfully opened this market by offering the first online accounting
Investment banking boutique Zeus Capital has appointed Sir Nigel Knowles as chairman.
Knowles (pictured) currently holds the position of global co-chief executive officer and managing partner of DLA Piper.
Over the last 18 years he has led DLA Piper’s growth from a regional law firm to a global business with a turnover in excess of GBP1bn and over 4,200 lawyers across 30 countries.
Knowles’ leadership was also instrumental in the largest transatlantic legal sector merger in recent history, which saw DLA integrated with US-based firms Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in 2005.
Zeus Capital,
Winter sports apparel specialist POW Inc has secured USD2.5 million from Seattle-based investment firm Columbia Pacific Advisors.
Headquartered in Seattle’s Ballard neighbourhood, POW Inc now operates three apparel brands catering to skiers, snowboarders and outdoor sports enthusiasts: POW Gloves, Holden Outerwear and Spacecraft.
The combined company sells outdoor sports apparel in more than 35 countries around the world.
The USD2.5 million in financing from Columbia Pacific Advisors will enable the company to expand its customer base, enter new markets and upgrade the supply chain and customer-service operations.
“All three of our brands were created by Northwest
Pamplona Capital Management is expanding its US private equity effort with the appointment of Bill Pruellage as a partner.
Pruellage, who will be based in the New York office, will be sourcing and managing new investments across various industrial, consumer and service sectors.
He was previously at Castle Harlan, a New York private equity firm, where he served as co-president since 2010. His recent transactions include the sale of Pretium Packaging to Genstar Capital and the acquisition of Gold Star Foods from Prospect Partners.
He joins more than 25 investment professionals at Pamplona, which is currently investing its recently
Omnes Capital is selling its stake in Legoupil Industrie to a consortium of investment funds led by Bpifrance and Capitem.
Since it was founded in 1976, Legoupil Industrie has been based in the Vire region of France, and it specialises in designing, making, renting out and selling industrial buildings used for storage and production purposes, along with modular buildings. The group also operates in the interior fittings market.
Delta Partners Corporate Finance has acted as sole strategic and financial advisor on transactions worth more than USD1 billion during the course of 2014, helping telecom operators on the execution of their digital strategy.
These transactions resulted in collaborations between the telecom operators and Rocket Internet, one of the largest internet groups outside the US and China. Rocket Internet has launched more than 100 businesses in over 40 countries to date ranging from e-retailing and online marketplaces to e-payments and finance technology.
The partnerships with the telecom operators will open up many new e-commerce business opportunities in emerging markets.
Augentius has launched a new AIFMD Reporter service, developed in conjunction with software provider KNEIP.
The service – already tested with real fund data – comprises three possible levels of service, from total outsourcing through to simply having access to the software.
Clients will be able to transition across the different service levels over time as they develop their own knowledge and experience in the regulatory requirements.
Ian Kelly, CEO of Augentius, says: “The deadline for the first tranche of AIFMD reporting couldn’t come at a worse time for private equity and real estate managers. CFOs already have
A private equity fund managed by Elaïs Capital on behalf of eight family investors has become the main shareholder of France Elevateur alongside Stéphan Pham, Argos Expansion, Capital Export and the firm’s management team.
Through the deal, France Elevateur has also secured financings to roll-out its expansion plans for the next five years.
France Elevateur was founded in 1986 and is now the leading French manufacturer of aerial lifts. The group currently employs over 200 persons and generated revenues of EUR41 million in 2013. Its customers include the main operators of aerial networks (energy, railways, telecom and utility service
Adaptimmune Limited, a biotechnology company focused on the use of T-cell therapy to treat cancer and infectious disease, has completed a USD104 million Series A financing round.
The oversubscribed round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and additional new investors participating included OrbiMed Advisors, Wellington Management Company, Fidelity Biosciences, Foresite Capital Management, Ridgeback Capital Management, Novo A/S, QVT, Rock Springs Capital, venBio Select and Merlin Nexus.
Existing investors participating included the University of Oxford and others.
Adaptimmune plans to use the proceeds from the Series A financing to advance the company’s internal programmes into the clinic in
WiserTogether has completes a Series B funding of USD9 million led by Martin Ventures and Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI).
The company's founder and CEO, Shub Debgupta, as well as all prior institutional investors, including Grotech Ventures, Harbert Venture Partners, 7Wire Ventures and Blue Heron Capital, participated in the round.
"With the addition of Merck GHI and Martin Ventures and our existing investors, WiserTogether is thrilled to have some of the smartest and most sophisticated investors from every major category of the healthcare industry represented and working together to achieve our exciting vision," says Shub Debgupta, chief
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