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The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has sold its investment in WorkStride, an enterprise rewards solutions business, to Prepaid Technologies, a leading provider of prepaid payment technology solutions based in Alabama.
WorkStride offers a feature-rich SaaS platform that incorporates industry-leading front-end technology, powerful integrated rewards technology, strong engagement features and a unique wallet that have enabled the company to establish a strong market position in the provision of reward and incentive solutions for enterprise clients.
Riverside originally invested in the company in December 2012 as a portfolio company within its
Unison, a provider of procurement, supply chain, and contract management software to US federal government agencies and government contractors, has secured a strategic majority investment from funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP), a private equity investment firm based in Chicago.
As part of the transaction, funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle will sell a majority stake to MDP, while remaining a strategic partner as a minority investor.
MDP joins existing investors, Carlyle and Unison management, to provide additional resources and industry expertise to help Unison continue to enhance its innovative software offerings and growth trajectory. Financial terms were
Kirtland Capital Partners has appointed Ralph M Della Ratta as a partner. Dell Ratta’s formal relationship with Kirtland began nearly ten years ago when he invested in and provided assistance to Kirtland Capital Partners V.
Della Ratta has over forty years of experience. He has built and shaped several different investment banks during his career, including McDonald Investments, Inc, Key Corporation, Western Reserve Partners and Citizens Bank. Della Ratta has also served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Kent State University, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Duke Alumni Association and is a long standing member of the
Hildred Capital Management (Hildred), a New York based private equity firm, has promoted Kevin Regan to vice president.
Since joining the firm in 2020, Regan has been an instrumental member of the Investment Team, helping to identify, evaluate and execute high potential investments in healthcare and providing valuable operational and strategic support to the firm’s portfolio companies.
Regan joined Hildred from Centre Lane Partners in September 2020 as a Senior Associate. At Centre Lane, he was responsible for investment across various sectors including healthcare, business services, consumer products, industrials, software, media and technology and worked closely with portfolio company board
finnCap Cavendish has promoted Chris Malcolm and Anthony Platt to co-heads of technology.
finnCap Group is a provider of strategic advisory and capital raising services to growth companies. As an integral part of the firm’s full service offering, the 12 strong finnCap Cavendish Technology team offers technology expertise across the full suite of sell side and buy side M&A advisory, debt advisory, growth capital and public markets.
Since the start of 2021 the team has closed 15 technology deals including The Floow, Boku Identity, Wood Thilsted, Mail Manager, Intelling, Xexec, Systal and Redcentric / Piksel, with a strong and
Quadrata, a passport network bringing identity, reputation and compliance to blockchain applications, has announced a $7.5 million seed funding round, led by blockchain-focused venture capital firm, Dragonfly Capital.
The raise also saw participation from institutional investors such as Franklin Templeton, Abra, GSR Ventures, Orange DAO, Fellows Fund, GreatPoint Ventures and August Capital. Prominent Angel investors include Balaji Srinivasan (FRM Coinbase), Ryan Selkis (Messari), Mathieu Nouzareth (The Sandbox), Zeneca (ZenAcademy) and Wilson Lee (The Littles).
The funds will allow Quadrata to grow its ecosystem with the goal of integrating hundreds of dApps and offering the Quadrata Passport to millions of blockchain
Dedicated Swiss blockchain investor Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC) and its ecosystem company CV Labs have opened CV Labs Cape Town, the African region’s first in situ blockchain incubation and ecosystem hub.
As an initiator of Crypto Valley, Switzerland – the world’s most mature blockchain hub, with an admirable regulatory landscape and 14 blockchain Unicorns, the opening of CV Labs Cape Town is a result of CV Labs actioning its expertise to enable blockchain as a transformative tech in Africa.
CV Labs already has blockchain hubs in Switzerland (Zug) and Liechtenstein (Vaduz). This new hub in Africa will soon
Conscious Venture Partners has raised $15.8 million for Conscious Venture Fund II which has a target size of $50 million.
Sagamore Ventures – the investment arm of Under Armour founder Kevin Plank – has made a $2.5 million commitment to the Baltimore-based fund.
Conscious Venture Partners seeks out minority and women founders to invest in entrepreneurs that others are ignoring for all the wrong reasons. They support companies that are using technology to break down barriers to access and create a more equitable society, including in the healthcare, food, technology, media, mobility, and education industries.
Conscious Venture Partners believes businesses that practice
Insight automation platform Zinklar has raised €5.5 million ($5.7 million) in a Series A funding round led by Caixa Capital Risc.
New investors including UK-based Beacon Capital, as well as EASO Ventures, Full Global Investments and CDTI Innvierte, also participated in the rind.
As part of the deal, a representative from Beacon Capital has joined the board, alongside Caixa Capital Risc, Inveready and Zinklar’s founders. Together, they will bring their extensive experience in scaling-up technology businesses.
Zinklar’s insights automation platform provides critical information about consumer needs and preferences to improve businesses’ decision-making.
Bregal Sagemount (Sagemount), a growth-focused private equity firm, has made a strategic growth investment in Optima Partners Holdings (Optima), a provider of specialised compliance advisory services to the investment management industry in the United States, United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.
Headquartered in New York City, Optima provides clients with a broad suite of outsourced compliance services to help them remain compliant with relevant regulatory bodies and major regulatory and legislative regimes. With approximately 1,000 clients, Optima’s global team of regulatory and compliance experts provides customised services tailored to each client’s individual needs.
Sagemount’s investment was led by Gene Yoon, Pavan
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