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Sagewind Capital (Sagewind), a New York-based middle-market private equity firm, has led the Series B financing of Code-X, a security software company that protects sensitive information and systems using its proprietary lattice-based technology.
Code-X has developed the first-ever commercially available lattice-based data protection platform that protects data, at rest and in motion, from the threat of quantum computing. The platform protects sensitive information across all IT environments while enabling authentication, management and monitoring data and systems in real time. Code-X’s platform is relied upon by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the intelligence community. The Series B funding
The executive team of Safic-Alcan, together with existing private equity funds partners EMZ partners, Sagard and Société Générale Capital Partenaires, have started a new project.
All three historical partners will continue to invest alongside the management with three new private equity funds – Equistone, IK Partners and GENEO Capital Entrepreneur – also taking a enormity stake in the new project
Safic-Alcan, a French independent distributor of specialty chemicals headquartered in Paris La Défense (France) and developer of a wide range of polymers, materials and additives for the rubber, coatings, adhesives, thermoplastics, polyurethane, lubricants, detergency, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals industries,
Plural, a new investment platform started by the founders and backers of some of Europe’s most significant tech companies, has launched, along with a €250 million early stage venture fund to back the next generation of founders with global ambitions.
Richard Haight has joined Nuveen Natural Capital as Head of Global Timberland Transactions.
In his new role, Haight will be a member of the leadership team and will focus on pipeline development, transactions (both acquisitions and dispositions), and capital deployment.
Most recently, Haight served as Head of TTG Forestry Services and US Operations for BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group (TIG), supporting the management of TIG’s $3.5 billion in global AUM in both the US and abroad. Before joining TIG in 2015, Haight spent six years as Chief Operating Officer working for Brookfield’s Timber Funds in Brazil. Haight played a
MaC Venture Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, has successfully raised a $203 million Fund II, building on the $110 million seed-stage fund secured in March 2021.
MaC Venture Capital, a majority Black-owned firm, will use Fund II capital to double down on their cultural investment framework, which has successfully supported technology startups who are shaping culture, increasing access and resources to underserved communities, and meeting consumer and industry needs.
The four founding general partners include seasoned operator and venture capitalist Marlon Nichols; former Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty; former William Morris Agency
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited Solid Solutions, a specialist reseller of 3D design software, to TriMech, a US-based technology and business solutions partner for designers, engineers, and manufacturers.
Founded in 1998 and with headquarters in Leamington Spa, Solid Solutions is the UK and Ireland’s leading independent provider of SOLIDWORKS, a 3D computer-aided design (CAD) package.
LDC backed Solid Solutions’ management team, led by CEO and Founder Alan Sampson, CTO Simon Turner and CSO Kathy Sampson in 2020. Since then, the private equity firm has helped the business to deliver an organic and acquisitive growth strategy.
Kaiko, a digital assets data provider serving institutional investors and enterprises, has raised $53 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Eight Roads, with participation from Revaia and existing investors Alven, Point9, Anthemis, and Underscore.
Founded in 2014, Kaiko is the global industry reference for digital assets market information. Kaiko has established its position by enhancing transparency and operational efficiency for institutional companies, DeFi participants, and Web3 enterprises.
The Company’s product suite comprises market data, portfolio solutions, rates & indices, pricing services, DeFi data, and research covering digital assets that comprise over 95% of global traded
Clearlake Capital Group is to sell Brightly Software to Siemens AG (Siemens) (FRA:SIE) for $1.575 billion of upfront cash consideration, along with $300 million in cash earn-out payments, for a total of $1.875 billion.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2022 and is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
Brightly is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of cloud-based enterprise asset management and facility operations management. Clearlake acquired Brightly, formerly known as “Dude Solutions,” in June 2019 and subsequently executed on its OPS strategy by partnering with management to support the Company through multiple
Impax, an AIM-listed sustainable economy investor has appointed Annette Wilson as non-executive director, effective 28 June, 2022.
Wilson, who will sit on the Company’s Audit & Risk and Remuneration Committees, has spent over twenty years in the private equity and venture capital sector. She is a former Partner and COO of Finch Capital and was founding CFO of Palamon Capital Partners, a European growth investor.
Prior to joining the private equity sector, Wilson worked in the insurance sector at Sedgwick plc, a FTSE 100 company in various roles in the UK, USA and Europe and thereafter was CFO of
Wieger Fokke is to join ILX Management as investment manager financial institutions and corporate, effective 1 August, 2022.
Fokke will be responsible for the investments across the Financial Institutions and Corporate sector alongside ILX’ global MDB and DFI partners. He joins ILX from the Dutch Development Bank FMO where he currently is Senior Investment officer in the Financial Institutions department Africa team.
Fokke, a Dutch national and a graduate from the University of Amsterdam, has more than 12 years of experience in emerging market development finance. He has been responsible for origination and execution of a wide variety of financing
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