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AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a mid-market private equity investor specialising in technology enabled financial services, is to invest in Further Underwriting International (Further), a digitally enabled specialist in the design and development of niche health insurance products and service solutions.
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Madrid, Further has successfully established itself as a leading, high growth company in its specialty area, with business in over 30 countries through partnerships with more than 300 insurers and employer groups.
The partnership with AnaCap will enable Further to accelerate its global growth strategy with expansion into new geographies, product categories and partnerships, as
3i Group (3i) is to invest in xSuite, an accounts payable process automation specialist focused on the SAP ecosystem.
3i will invest alongside the previous owners, funds advised by Pinova Capital (Pinova) and the management team, who are reinvesting in the business as minority shareholders.
Headquartered in Ahrensburg/Hamburg, Germany, xSuite specialises in software applications for Accounts Payable Invoice Automation (APIA), which enable customers to digitalise, streamline and automate invoice processing, helping them to reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and improve quality.
INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund, a private equity investment fund located in the Baltic region, has implemented new internal ESG procedures, following a recognition by the Fund‘s management team of the need to refine the procedures already in place to facilitate the practical implementation of an ever-evolving and improving ESG approach over time.
As part of this core initiative, several proprietary toolkits that cover both pre-investment assessment as well as post-investment monitoring stages have been developed. In addition, the Fund established the set-up of individual ESG key performance indicators (KPIs) as an essential part of value creation monitoring to all
Queen’s Park Equity (QPE) has supported the MBO of TelcoSwitch, a provider of unified communications and compliance solutions supporting 140,000 active daily users across 65 countries.
TelcoSwitch has been recognised in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and the FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies.
The investment will enable TelcoSwitch to explore further M&A opportunities, broaden its channel-focused product suite, increase headcount to better serve its customers and surpass 400,000 active users by the end of 2024. This will follow on from the series of successful acquisitions completed in the last 18 months, including OneVoice, PBX Hosting and SureVoIP.
Manchester based financial wellness company, Financielle has raised pre-seed funding led by Haatch Ventures, to fund its mission to help millions of women become financially sound.
Financielle was set up by sisters Laura Pomfret and Holly Holland who started the business back in 2018 on Instagram and have since bootstrapped the launch of the first ever female-focussed financial wellness app to its 40,000-strong global community.
Financielle aims to share simple money strategies that inspire and empower people to take control of their money and build strong financial foundations for their future.
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Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and regional private equity investment manager, has sold, subject to regulatory approval, portfolio company Codeplay Software Limited (Codeplay) to a US corporate buyer on 31 May 2022.
Codeplay is a UK provider of solutions for the semiconductor industry, accelerating the performance of computer chips that run Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other high-performance software.
The transaction will generate approximate gross proceeds of £48 million ($60 million SD) to funds managed by Foresight Group, equating to a 15.7x multiple on capital invested and an IRR of nearly 100% per annum.
Kyma, an independent Italian fund management company which targets growth buy-out transactions to acquire control stakes of fast-growing Italian SMEs announces, has rebranded as Kyip Capital SGR, effective 7 June.
Ocorian, a specialist in corporate and fiduciary services, fund administration and capital markets, has appointed Don Ross as global head, investor services as it continues the transformation of its technology-led fund services business.
Trovata, a fintech focused on corporate banking APIs, announced it has opened offices in London and Amsterdam to support its European expansion plans, having closed a $27 million Series B funding round, led by Fin Capital.
Existing investors, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Capital One Ventures, and Pivot Investment Partners, also participated in the round along with new investor NAB Ventures.
Global private equity investor the Riverside Company has added DroneCurriculum(dot)net to its iCEV platform.
DroneCurriculum(dot)net develops drone-related content, curriculum and instructional materials for the K-12 market. This is an add-on to Riverside’s iCEV investment, a developer of SaaS-based digital curriculum, instructional materials and industry certifications for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) market.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, DroneCurriculum(dot)net develops courses teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts such as design and engineering, physics and computer programming through the application of drones, as well as drone flight and commercial drone pilot certification preparation.
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