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FPE Capital (FPE), a software & services focused lower mid-market growth investor, has led a growth investment in Global App Testing, a global web and app testing platform to the software development community.
This marks the third investment from FPE Fund III, the successful final close of which was announced in May at a raised hard cap of £185 million.
The investment from FPE will back the founders Ronald Cummings-John and Owais Peer and their management team as they accelerate the Company’s existing strong growth on the back of earlier stage investment.
Global App Testing was founded in 2013
Crossbeam, a venture capital firm that invests in Pre-Seed and Series A startups, has made two additions to its team – Sana Godhwani who join as Vice President, and Mili Raina who joins as a Senior Associate.
Godhwani, who was previously an Associate Director within the Investment Bank at UBS, covering the Global Industrials Group in New York, will be esponsible for providing support & guidance on the Operations & Finance functions within the firm. She has an MBA with a concentration in Finance and Accounting from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and a BSc in Mathematics with
CoinFund, a web3 and crypto-focused investment firm, has launched CoinFund Ventures I (Ventures I), a new $300 million early-stage venture capital fund, backed by a combination of sophisticated institutional investors, family offices, and cryptonative founders.
Ventures I seeks to back the most ambitious founders across blockchain sub-sectors demonstrating early traction and large potential market sizes.
A number of current CoinFund seed stage portfolio companies are preparing to raise Series A funding and wish to maintain the support and partnership of CoinFund’s cryptonative investing team and its “founders first” philosophy. In addition to making early-stage, venture-scale investments in existing portfolio companies
Private investment firm Orangewood Partners has exited its investment in George Industries, a designer and manufacturer of mission-critical and highly engineered components for the defence, aerospace, and industrial sectors. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Under Orangewood’s ownership, George saw meaningful improvement in its performance by executing strategic M&A, recruiting a highly experienced management team to strengthen operations, expanding customer relationships, and enhancing its product offerings.
Affiliates of Orangewood acquired George in 2016 in partnership with the founding family who previously owned and operated George for more than 60 years.
Genesis Global, a low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organisations, has appointed Jason Jhonson as Chief Marketing Officer CMO. Jhonson reports to CEO, Stephen Murphy.
Jhonson has more than 20 years of experience building brands for pioneering technology companies like Improbable, GitHub, PayPal and Yahoo. He joins Genesis from Improbable, tahe metaverse technology company. As Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Commercial Officer, he built marketing and sales teams from ground up and helped Improbable scale during five years of growth.
He earned his MBA and undergraduate degree from the University of Florida.
HiBob, the company behind HR platform Bob, has raised an additional $150 million in growth funding, just ten months after raising a $150 million Series C in October 2021.
Led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, and with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and other insiders, HiBob’s Series D round takes the company’s valuation to $2.45 billion and total funding to $424 million since inception. This latest growth investment is intended to support HiBob in capitalising on its market leadership as the company continues to execute on key business priorities in the current market environment.
The latest round
Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent private capital fund administrator, has launched E-Subdocs, a digital offering that automates the private fund subscription process, significantly improving the investor experience and providing PE Fund managers with real-time information on fundraising.
Replacing the traditionally time-intensive and error-prone paper-based subscription process, E-Subdocs, which is powered by Anduin, streamlines fund subscriptions from start to finish. At the heart of the E-Subdocs solution is a digital smart subscription form, fully integrated with e-signature, document management, and tracking software. E-Subdocs simplifies the subscription process for investors, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.
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Earth Capital Limited (ECL), a UK growth equity impact investor, has launched a new company, Sustainable Energy Holdings Limited (SEHL), formed through a merger of four of its portfolio companies, all low-carbon bioenergy generation assets: Eccleshall Biomass, Limelight Energy, Black Dog Biogas and Bright Light Energy Ltd.
These UK-based biomass-fuelled renewable energy plants will now benefit from a single dedicated management team which will focus on operational performance, and a consolidation of financial and commercial functions. Together, these facilities will generate 3.89 MW of base load renewable energy, enough to power 9,000 homes and will avoid the emission of 5,000
Global law firm Dentons has appointed partners Rob Irving and Kuif Klein Wassink as co-heads of the Europe Corporate and M&A practice group. They will be responsible for leading the firm’s corporate and M&A group across Europe and Central Asia and for further developing the market profile and client base of the practice.
In addition, partners Piotr Dulewicz and Olivia Guéguen have been named Europe Co-heads of Private Equity and Venture Capital sector group. They will be responsible for enhancing the Firm’s offering and client relationships in the private equity sector.
Irving is an M&A and private equity partner with
Private equity firms of all sizes are prioritising talent management over any other strategy, but they face challenges and may end up re-building their organisations in the process…
Hiring challenges in most developed economies have forced many private equity firms to think harder about where they are under-resourced and how their organization is structured.
One area is receiving particular attention.
EY’s latest Global Private Equity survey shows that, aside from asset growth, talent management is the most important strategic priority for firms of all sizes.
Data science, operations and reporting roles are all in high demand across the industry, as
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