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Private equity company Baird Capital has sold portfolio company Crisp Thinking Group (Crisp) to Kroll, Inc.
Apis Growth Fund I, a private equity fund managed by Apis Partners (Apis Partners), a UK-based asset manager that supports growth stage financial services and financial infrastructure businesses, is to sell the whole of its interest in payment solutions provider Q Link Holdings Ltd (Q Link) to Sanlam Private Equity (SPE).
Q Link provides payment application software to improve collection rates for the insurance industry and other third-party benefits providers in South Africa, while optimising costs. The company facilitates collections for over 30% of all recurring retail life insurance premiums in the country, and has focused on putting customer welfare
Campbell Lutyens, a global private markets advisors, has expanded its GP capital advisory team, which offers specialist advice to general partners on key investment and strategic growth decisions regarding their management company and their GP financing options, including minority GP stakes.
The firm’s GP capital advisory practice has seen a high level of activity in the past year and is currently working on a number of mandates involving asset managers raising minority equity capital, with volumes expected to increase in 2022, across a range of private asset classes globally.
The GP capital advisory practice is led by Thomas Liaudet,
Churchill Asset Management, an investment-specialist of Nuveen which provides customised financing solutions to private equity firms and their portfolio companies, has appointed Mickey Weatherston as principal, head of sustainability and ESG Integration.
Weatherston, who is based out of Churchill’s New York City headquarters and reports directly to Christopher Cox, chief risk officer, will be responsible for providing strategic direction for ESG integration across Churchill’s Senior Lending, Junior Capital & Private Equity Solutions strategies, working closely with parent company Nuveen’s Responsible Investing Team to coordinate efforts across the broader organisation.
In partnership with Churchill’s investment teams and external industry groups, he
Venture capital investor Forgepoint Capital has launched Surefire Cyber, a new incident response firm that helps cyber insurers, brokers, law firms and the organisations they support better manage cyber events.
Founded and led by leading incident response expert Billy Gouveia, Surefire Cyber emerged from stealth with $10 million in Series A funding from Forgepoint Capital following its successful incubation within the firm.
The second startup incubated at Forgepoint, Surefire Cyber has benefitted from a wide range of support including recruiting, platform development, introductions to its first customers, marketing, governance and critical introductions. These company building blocks have enabled Surefire Cyber
Middle market private equity firm Blackford Capital has appointed Ken Wagner as chief financial officer (CFO).
Yobota has announced its partnership with Tranch, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup platform on a mission to deliver more flexible payments to fast-growing businesses.
Founded in 2016, London-based core banking provider Yobota has built a fast, flexible, cloud-native core banking platform that allows clients to create and run financial products.
The announcement follows news that Tranch has raised £3.5 million ($4.25 million) in pre-seed equity and debt funding to expand its B2B offering.
ACA Group (ACA) and Foreside Financial Group (Foreside), two of the leading providers of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to clients in the financial services industry, have completed their merger.
Foreside’s distribution business will be rebranded as ACA Foreside and will become a division under ACA. Genstar Capital (Genstar), a leading private equity firm, is the lead investor in the combined business. ACA’s current CEO Shvetank Shah will be the combined entity’s CEO.
The combined firm has over 1,250 employees and 18 offices globally and will serve over 6,300 clients.
Biosynth Carbosynth (Biosynth), a supplier of critical materials to the life science industry, has acquired Aalto Bio Reagents (Aalto), a developer and provider of biological materials to the in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) and vaccine development industry in the field of emerging disease.
The acquisition represents a further milestone in Biosynth’s development, which broadens its capabilities and offering to the IVD industry. Aalto’s product portfolio includes an extensive range of proteins, antigens, antibodies, disease state human plasma and biospecimens used by the leading diagnostics and vaccine development companies around the world working on emerging diseases and disease variants.
OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI), a specialist decarbonisation investor, has participated in a Series D preferred stock financing in ZincFive, a producer of nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based solutions for immediate power applications.
OGCI CI made the investment after ZincFive demonstrated the significant emissions reduction impact that could be achieved in commercial and industrial sectors using its proprietary technology.
The investment demonstrates the maturity of opportunities within OGCI CI’s impact investment mandate and their potential to deliver scaled impact. ZincFive becomes OGCI CI’s Catalyst Fund I 27th portfolio investment.
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