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Luminovo – an AI-powered software suite helping electronics leaders bring vital innovations to market faster, cheaper and more sustainably – has raised €11 million in a seed round led by Chalfen Ventures with participation by Tencent, Verve Ventures and Khadjavi Capital Partners, as well as existing investors La Famiglia and Cherry Ventures.
Launched in 2020 and led by Munich-based Stanford alumni Sebastian Schaal and Timon Ruban, Luminovo is the world’s first end-to-end cloud-based software suite built to help fuel technological progress through the improvement of hardware development on a global scale.
Luminovo’s unified data model and modular software suite streamlines,
Zing Dev Limited (Zing), a consulting partner of global cloud-communications provider Twilio, has launched as a fully independent company following significant new investment from Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and existing shareholders.
Twilio is the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalised experiences for today’s leading brands. Its platform powers trillions of interactions annually to create engaging experiences for their customers. Its portfolio of services includes flagship cloud-based programmable contact centre solution, Twilio Flex.
Based in London, Zing spun out from ProspectSoft just over two years ago, but remained part of the same group. With Maven’s profitable sale of ProspectSoft to
Owlin, an AI-based news analytics platform, and ApeVue, a specialist in market-based pricing data for private stocks, are to offer select insights across both of their data platforms to better service private capital markets customers.
Through the partnership, ApeVue’s daily pricing service will incorporate Owlin’s news content on private companies, providing customers with another source of market context for ApeVue’s dataset.
Customers of Owlin’s news analytics will receive daily pricing data on more than 100 unicorn-status companies, enhancing the robust market insights and risk metrics available through Owlin.
The universe of companies covered by Owlin and ApeVue is expected to
Pathzero, a SaaS-based company specialising in the management of financed emissions in private market investment portfolios, has appointed Anna Turvoll as vice president, investor relations.
Turvoll will be responsible for ensuring the company is appropriately and strategically positioned with analysts, investors and Pathzero stakeholders. Her role involves creating the appropriate strategy, framework, and tactics for the company as well as identifying collaborations and partnerships.
Turvoll brings more than 10 years’ experience in Corporate Advisory and Financial Services in London and Sydney with roles in C-Suite positions in Supply Chain and Manufacturing businesses. With deep experience in the startup community
RENA Technologies (RENA) – a specialist manufacturer of equipment for wet-chemical surface treatment and part of the portfolio of funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) since 2019 – is selling its China solar business to Productive Technologies Company Ltd (PDT).
The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
RENA, headquartered in Guetenbach/Germany, was founded in 1993 and has grown into a global technology leader in the area of wet-chemical surface treatment. RENA’s products cover a range of technologically demanding and fast-growing areas in the industrial and technology sectors, such as semiconductors and wafering, batteries, renewable energy, glass
Kofax, a supplier of intelligent automation software for digital workflow transformation, backed by TA Associates and Clearlake Capital Group, has acquired Ephesoft Inc.
The acquisition adds to Kofax’s intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions and go-to-market channels. With global coverage and cloud solutions, the combined company will provide organisations with value-add solutions to accelerate deployments. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Kofax will continue supporting Ephesoft’s products and customers, and Ike Kavas, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Ephesoft, will continue leading the firm’s organisational efforts.
Mizuho Securities acted as exclusive financial advisor to Ephesoft.
Aligned Orthopedic Partners (Aligned Ortho), a physician-led and majority physician-owned provider of orthopedic services in the greater Mid-Atlantic region and a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital (ASC), has formed a partnership with the Jordan-Young Institute, a specialised orthopaedic practice with renowned physicians at the cutting edge of orthopaedics, neurosurgery and physiatry.
Established in 1986, the Jordan-Young Institute team performs thousands of surgeries and procedures per year involving the knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, spine, foot & ankle, from the most minimally invasive arthroscopic procedures to the more complex joint replacement revision and advanced spine procedures. Jordan-Young’s surgeons are considered both
Valutico has launched a new Venture Capital (VC) method for valuing start-ups, available for the first time within its online platform.
The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing more than 23,000 board members, together with Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses, and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), a global trade association supporting HR and business executive members, have launched a new programme to increase diversity among directors serving on the compensation, nomination, and governance committees of private and public company boards.
The programme provides individuals from underrepresented backgrounds with access to 12 months of detailed curriculum tailored to preparation for board service
Solsten has raised $21.8 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding to $31 million since inception in 2018.
The round was led by Denver-based Konvoy, an early-stage investment firm that backs companies at the frontier of gaming, with participation from returning investors Inventure, the Nordic venture fund, consumer entertainment-focussed GFR Fund, early-stage games experts Sisu Game Ventures, and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni fund Bascom Ventures.
The round also included new investors Galaxy Interactive, Japanese marketing and communications industry specialists Dentsu Ventures, and the blockchain-focussed private equity group Warburg Serres.
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