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Francisco Partners (FP) has hired Ashley Evans as a Partner of the firm. At FP, Ashley will focus primarily on application software investments across a range of end-markets.
Evans most recently served as a Managing Director at Carlyle Group, where she was a member of its technology investing team. Evans helped to establish Carlyle’s West Coast presence and was involved in many key investments for Carlyle’s technology team, most recently serving on the boards of HireVue, NEOGOV, Saama, TriNetX, Veritas, and ZoomInfo.
Prior to Carlyle, Ashley worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley. She earned her AB in the Study
Growth Capital Ventures (GCV) and its private investor network have successfully exited an investment in threat intelligence platform Intelligence Fusion after the company y was acquired by Sigma7, providing a profitable return for all investors.
GCV, based in North East England, has supported the Intelligence Fusion team, headquartered in Durham, since inception in 2015 on both an investment and technology basis.
Through GCV Labs, the company’s venture builder division, GCV worked closely with founder Michael McCabe on the concept from idea stage through to the launch of the core threat intelligence platform. GCV Labs provided a full-service software development
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has appointed William Trevelyan Thomas as a Director in the firm’s Investment Management group. Trevelyan Thomas will be based in LLCP’s London office.
Trevelyan Thomas joins LLCP from Charterhouse Capital Partners where he served as a Director for six years and prior to that he was with HIG Capital for five years.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, LLC is a middle-market private equity firm with a 39-year track record of investing across various targeted sectors, including franchising, business services, education and engineered products.
NorthEdge-backed Distology has acquired Squareball Digital (Squareball) a specialist in Identity Access Management strategies. Squareball already works alongside some of Distology’s vendor partners, including Okta and Auth0.
The acquisition represents another significant milestone for Distology following the investment from lower-mid market private equity firm NorthEdge in March 2021.
Since investing in the business, NorthEdge has focussed on supporting Distology to invest for growth, which has seen the business expand its team, move offices, launch the Distology proposition in Europe, increase strategic vendor partnerships and gain recognition for the work they do to drive diversity in the technology sector.
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising lower midmarket companies, has acquired SmartSign, an online provider of customisable signs, labels, and tags for regulatory, compliance, and safety applications.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, SmartSign operates a network of nearly 30 websites, each dedicated to offering highly specialized and customizable products to customers to fit thousands of specific-use cases. SmartSign services businesses of all sizes, including sales to 75% of the Fortune 1000 and across hundreds of verticals, including education, healthcare, and industrials.
Sentinel partnered with SmartSign’s management team
Snowball has appointed Sean Farrell as its new Investment Director. Farrell has over 20 years’ experience in private and public markets investing and portfolio composition, both through direct investing and the selection of fund managers.
Calulus has led a funding round in Optalitix, a provider of low code SaaS products, data analysis and AI models to insurers, and other financial institutions, providing £2.5 million of the total £4 million raised.
The funds will primarily be used to expand he sales capacity, invest in marketing and accelerate product development by expanding the engineering team. United Trust Bank subscribed for new equity following an earlier investment and support for the business.
Founded in 2013 by Jonathan Shapiro and Dani Katz, Optalitix allows business processes currently based on Excel to be transformed into robust online systems. It currently
HIG Capital has appointed Kim Leinwand Erle as managing director and global head of ESG, a newly created role that reflects the global alternative asset manager’s ongoing commitment to the integration of environmental, social and governance best practices across the firm.
Erle joins HIG from NY Green Bank, a specialty finance company, supporting sustainable investments in the clean energy markets. Erle was a Managing Director and head of Strategy and Impact, at NY Green Bank, where she was responsible for ESG business strategy formulation and execution.
Additionally, Erle was a member of New York State Energy Research & Development Authority’s
Though benchmark returns may be slowing after two years of record returns, limited partners still favour the asset class over public markets…
While nearly 50% of firms surveyed in the latest Private Equity Wire survey believe that returns in PE will decrease, LPs haven’t been put off the asset class and still believe that private equity will deliver good returns.
“I think that this is just a burgeoning asset class that will continue to grow. When you’re invested in your [fund] vehicle, you’re probably not sweating quarterly marks as much but if you’ve got more of a liquid portfolio, which
The first half of 2022 has been one of the worst in recent memory for IPO exits. With large amounts of liquidity still in the M&A market, an acceleration of exits to private strategic buyers may follow…
With the IPO market grinding to a veritable halt in 2022, GPs are looking for other exit routes in the second half of the year, with private M&A channels taking the lead.
Those with assets for sale are being advised to take advantage of the current environment and accelerate these processes in the event of a near-term reversal of fortunes.
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