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Insider, a marketing platform for the delivery of individualised, cross-channel customer experiences, has secured an additional investment of up to $105 million from existing investors, Qatar Investment Authority and Esas Private Equity.
The New Jersey Department of the Treasury’s Division of Investment has appointed Dana Johns as its new head of private equity with immediate effect. Johns was previously a member of the PE team at the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System.
Johns has more than 20 years of experience investing and managing multi-billion dollar global portfolios of institutional alternative investment assets.
She is board chair of the Private Equity Women Investor Network and a member of the Institutional Limited Partners Association Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council, Academy for Institutional Investors Editorial Committee, AIF Women’s Leadership Steering Committee, and the SEO
Global fintech venture capital firm QED Investors has closed two new funds with combined capital commitments of $925 million – Fund VIII, an oversubscribed $650 million early stage fund, and Growth II, a $275 million early growth-stage fund.
QED says the new funds will allow it to continue to invest in disruptive fintech companies in the US, the UK and Europe, Latin America, India and Southeast Asia and Africa.
Founded in 2007 by Nigel Morris and Frank Rotman, QED has to date invested in more than 200 companies – including 28 unicorns. With these two new funds, QED will have
Chronograph, a provider of portfolio monitoring solutions for private equity, has begun working with data cloud company Snowflake to launch a new connectivity-as-a-service offering for PE portfolio monitoring.
Chronograph’s Snowflake connectivity-as-a-service offering aims to simplify data extract, load, transform (ELT) at scale, and enhances the company’s existing portfolio monitoring solutions, which enable private equity and general partners to unify data from scattered PDFs, Excel files, databases, and other sources to understand and manage their investments in detail.
Chronograph says clients will now be bale to connect data from Chronograph, client, and third-party systems into Snowflake’s Data Cloud for analysis and
Blazehill Capital, a credit opportunities debt fund providing flexible financing solutions to mid-market businesses, has held the final close of its £250 million Fund II, just two years on from the launch of its maiden fund.
Paul Hastings has bolstered its global finance platform with the addition of a three-partner finance group comprising Marc Lashbrook, Josh Zelig, and David Barash in New York from the Band 1 practice at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.
The trio is known for their transactional work for clients including JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Barclays, as well as dozens of other banks and direct lenders across from the world’s leading private equity firms and public and private companies.
Lashbrook, Zelig and Barash join on the heels of Paul Hastings’ recent additions, including a Band 1 finance team from Latham
Alternative fund managers are optimistic about the next 18 months, with almost all (98%) confident about launching new funds and eight in ten (81%) expecting fundraising to be higher in the next next year and a half than in the previous 18 months, according to new research form Ocorian.
Some 69% of fund managers are cautiously optimistic stating they are expecting to see a slightly higher level of fundraising, whereas 12% believe it will be dramatically higher. Just 18% say it will be about the same and 1% say it will be lower.
Of the 98% who are confident in
In a sign that stock market valuations are not expected to regain their previous highs anytime soon, private equity firms are increasingly selling shares in portfolio companies at a discount to their IPO prices, according to a report by The Financial Times.
FFL Partners, a private equity firm focused on growth investments in healthcare and tech-enabled services businesses, has exited its investment in ProService, a provider of bundled HR solutions.
Global private equity firm Permira has appointed David Floyd as a senior adviser to its global Healthcare team. Floyd brings over 35 years of experience in healthcare with a particular focus on the medical device industry.
Floyd’s professional experience spans international leadership roles including group president of orthopaedics, Stryker Corporation from 2012 to 2019, where he oversaw a number of acquisitions – most notably Mako Surgical, and also Instratek, Small Bone Innovations and Stanmore Implants.
He was previously worldwide president, DePuy Orthopaedics (nowy DePuy Synthes) initially with US responsibility, before being promoted to global responsibility, and also worked at Abbott
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