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Sardine, a provider of fraud, compliance, and instant settlement solutions, has secured $51.5 million in a Series B financing led by Andreesen Horowitz’s growth fund, to accelerate product development as well as marketing and sales across the globe.
New and existing investors, including XYZ, Nyca Partners, Sound Ventures, Activant Capital, Visa, Google Ventures, Eric Schmidt, Vikram Pandit, The General Partnership, NAventures, ING Ventures, ConsenSys, Cross River Digital Ventures, Alloy Labs, and Uniswap Labs Ventures, also participated in the round.
Sardine’s real-time fraud prevention products help customers reduce more fraud with fewer false positives, leading to faster user growth and higher
Prewave, an AI platform that helps businesses predict, find, understand and categorise the risks affecting their suppliers, has raised €11 million in a Series A funding round co-led by KOMPAS and Ventech, who renewed its support after the company’s Seed round.
Early-stage investors aws Gründerfonds, IST cube, seed + speed, Segnalita, Speedinvest and Working Capital Fund also participated in the round.
Prewave uses its AI-powered platform to analyse millions of online sources in more than fifty languages to find, categorise and directly address the risks that might impact supply chains. The platform covers a wide variety of risks with suppliers
Manchester-based venture capital firm Praetura Ventures has added five new hires to its team of investment experts, including GC Angels’ Jessica Jackson. She joins Praetura Ventures as an investment manager, and will dedicate her extensive experience to strengthening the firm’s commitment to providing founders with ‘more than money’ support.
Prior to joining GC Angels in December 2018, Jackson worked in healthcare technology with the likes of Emis Health and Evergreen Life, gaining experience in M&A, start-up growth and angel investment. More recently, she has led investments into Guardian Angel, Collctiv and Xploro, and has also helped support funding rounds led by
Institutional investors are still confident about demand for alternative asset fund listings over the year ahead as long as funds have a strong ESG focus, according to new research from Ocarian.
The study by the fund administration services provider, found more than three out of four (78%) of institutional investors focusing on the alternatives sector expect an increase in funds listing this year and next.
More than a quarter (28%) of US and UK institutional investors focused on alternatives are predicting a dramatic increase in funds listing with just 15% convinced that the numbers listing will fall given the current
Nuveen, a global investment manager with over $1 trillion in assets under management, has appointed Nick Simon as Managing Director in its Private Credit Specialist team. Simon joined the firm in August.
Simon brings to the role just under 20 years’ experience in institutional sales and investor relations. Having worked across Europe and the Middle East, focused primarily on private credit, direct lending and structured credit. He holds business development experience across alternative markets including private debt, private equity, real estate and infrastructure. Simon joins Nuveen from Cross Ocean Partners, where he most recently worked as Head of EMEA Marketing.
MiddleGround Capital, an operationally focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American middle market B2B industrial and specialty distribution companies, has acquired HLC, a distributor of bicycle parts and accessories.
HLC’s President, Pat McGinnis, will continue to oversee day-to-day operations and its distribution centres across North America.
Headquartered in Lévis, Quebec and Lexington, South Carolina, HLC honours the rich heritage of both the Hawley and Lambert families. The company, which was founded over 75 years ago, is considered a critical distribution partner to well established and start-up brands, providing unparalleled post-sales service. HLC distributes more than 170 leading
Lerer Hippeau, an early-stage venture capital based in New York City, has raised $230 million in new capital across two funds: LH Seed VIII, which focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, and LH Select IV, which invests in companies from Series A to C.
With these new funds, Lerer Hippeau has also expanded the team with a series of promotions and new hires.
Additionally, Managing Partner Ben Lerer has joined Lerer Hippeau in a full-time capacity. He co-founded the fund in 2010 with Kenneth Lerer, and until recently he was also founder and CEO of Group Nine Media. He sold
The Any Hour Group, a provider of home services in the Mountain West region, has partnered with four additional leading home services businesses – Grapids Heating & Cooling (Grapids), Precision Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical (Precision), Chandler Air (Chandler), and All Hours Air (All Hours) – to further expand its operations in the Mountain West region and in new markets.
Financial terms of the transactions have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1961, Any Hour offers homeowners peace of mind through a full suite of high-quality HVAC, plumbing, and electrical services. The Company has achieved a market-leading position through rapid
HarbourVest Partners has opened a new office in Sydney, Australia in response to increased demand in the region from institutional and private wealth clients in Australia and New Zealand for the firm’s investment solutions.
The office, which represents the global private markets investment firm’s first location in Australia and sixth in Asia Pacific, will be led by Warwick Mancini, who will be responsible for the business development activities and client relationships in the region.
This expansion increases the firm’s global footprint to 13 locations across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. The Sydney office is fully integrated into the firm’s
Glennmont Partners from Nuveen (Glennmont), one of the world’s largest fund managers investing in clean energy, has launched the Nuveen European Core Renewable Infrastructure (NECRI) strategy in partnership with MN.
NECRI is an evergreen strategy that gives Glennmont and MN (on behalf of its client PMT) the mandate to invest in renewable projects on brownfield sites across continental Europe from Q4 in 2022. This includes the Netherlands, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, the Nordics, Germany and the other Benelux countries.
MN, who have previously invested in Glennmont’s strategies, will invest €600 million on behalf of its client PMT in NECRI.
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