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D5 Capital, the media and technology investment and M&A advisor, has secured a cash exit from WalkMe, the interactive online guidance and engagement platform.
D5 Capital’s investor network and super-angel Ran Tushia participated in WalkMe’s Series A investment round in 2012.
The exit has delivered investors a 3.5x gain over the investment period (88 per cent IRR).
Rupert Ashe, CEO of D5 Capital, says: “We are delighted to have participated in the growth of WalkMe, which is an innovative SaaS platform for guiding users through their online journeys. Our investors have enjoyed a very strong return, demonstrating once
WordLogic has received a non-refundable financial commitment to purchase exclusive rights to its legal enterprise solutions for North America.
WordLogic’s predictive iKnowU keyboard, enriched with REACH technology, supersedes the need to exit core applications so that users will no longer have to navigate through numerous applications to obtain information such as directions, restaurant listings, ratings and reviews, travel information and other contextual data from Google or other mobile and content sites.
REACH is available on Android and soon on iOS 8.
The licensing will be to a US-Virginia based private equity group. The terms of the transaction include:
SmartKem has closed a series A funding round from an investment syndicate comprising BASF Venture Capital, Octopus Investments and Entrepreneurs Fund, plus further investment from Finance Wales, the company’s principal shareholder.
The investment will build on the GBP3m of investment from Finance Wales to date and will be used to further develop the scientific foundation of the SmartKem tru-FLEX organic semiconductor material range, and to accelerate this technology towards full commercialisation.
The investment will provide SmartKem with the ability to further develop its tru-FLEX semiconductor technology to the point of market-readiness. It will also contribute to the scale-up and
Buttonwood Group Advisors is to list on the FNEX online alternative investment platform via its placement agent, affiliated broker-dealer Joseph Gunnar & Co.
FNEX.com provides accredited investors, investment advisors, family offices and institutions access to private investment opportunities offered by investment banks and funds across the US.
The distribution platform lists offerings and provides investors with the necessary tools to educate themselves on alternative investment opportunities. To date, FNEX has integrated with custodians, trusts and self-directed IRA platforms that represent over 400,000 accounts and over USD40 billion in assets under management, with more than 200 investment banking offices and
PeerNova has secured a pre-series A investment by venture capital veteran and semiconductor industry pioneer Pierre Lamond.
Lamond helped pioneer the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley, with his leadership roles at Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor, which he cofounded in 1967.
At Sequoia Capital from 1981 to 2009, Lamond’s deals included Cypress Semiconductor, Microchip Semiconductor, Vitesse Semiconductor and Redback Networks. He also stepped in to lead engineering on a temporary basis at Cisco Systems and mentored the YouTube founders. In 2009 he left to become general partner at Khosla Ventures and served until early this year.
Lamond says:
As Asia's free-market economies mature, general partners (GPs) need to change the way they work with their portfolio companies, according to a survey by AlixPartners.
The report, entitled "Building Better Businesses; A Survey Report on Private Equity Value Creation in Asia," says that doing more hands-on work to increase portfolio companies' operational earnings, as measured by EBITDA, is potentially becoming a key differentiator.
Market forces in Asia, such as slowing economic growth and industry consolidation, were ranked first by GPs as the main reason operational value creation has come to the forefront, followed closely by poor operational management currently
The global private equity secondaries market is now at an inflection point, demonstrating its capacity to support liquidity events and fund restructurings for multiple limited partners seeking early exits from their holdings, says Neil Campbell, global head of Tullett Prebon Alternative Investments (TPAI).
Campbell says such efforts work best when general partners are the initiators.
Campbell’s comments coincide with PE manager Venator Real Estate Capital Partners’ recent announcement that it had successfully facilitated a secondary auction in its Chinese real estate development fund, called Trophy Property GP Limited, giving over 30 limited partners an early liquidity window, and Partners
HIG Growth Partners has partnered with Colleen Winter and Debra Cannon, the owners of LuLu*s Fashion Lounge, to make a strategic investment in the company.
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in California, LuLu*s is an e-commerce retailer of young women’s apparel, shoes and accessories.
Winter says: “We are very excited about this partnership with HIG and the shared vision we have for the next stage of LuLu*s growth. HIG’s investment will provide us the capital and strategic resources necessary to grow the LuLu*s brand.”
John Kim, a managing director with HIG Growth Partners, says: “LuLu*s is an emerging
Nasuni, a provider of enterprise storage as a service to global organisations, has secured USD10 million in new venture capital financing.
Previous investors Flybridge Capital Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners, as well as a strategic investor, all participated in this extension of Nasuni's C round.
The new financing brings the total funds raised by Nasuni to USD53 million.
The new funds will fuel Nasuni's triple-digit growth through increased investments in engineering, sales and marketing. In its most recent quarter, Nasuni's bookings grew 232 per cent over the same period in 2013. The company has already exceeded 2013's full-year sales
Abbey Pharma has secured a GBP2m investment from BGF, the independent company established to help Britain's growing businesses.
BGF will take a minority stake in the business and the investment will be used fund the company’s buy-and-build strategy.
The Group was established in 2009 and is a fast growing, dynamic specialty pharmaceutical group that manufactures, distributes and sells prescription and 'Over the Counter' (OTC) products. Based in Maidenhead, Abbey Pharma is a rapidly expanding business that has shown consistent year on year revenue growth, delivered by the incumbent management team, led by Kevin James as CEO and Shafiq Choudhary as
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