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Preqin, a specialist in alternative assets data, tools and insights, has appointed Tom Hunt as its new Chief Technology Officer.
In addition to scaling up Preqin’s technology efforts, Hunt will focus on further developing the company’s solutions and data services to continue to provide the alternatives industry with market-leading data and insights.
Hunt was formerly a technology leader at Kantar and GlobalWebIndex, both market research and data analytics companies. He brings a breadth of experience leading engineering and development teams and leveraging data science to collect and manage large and complex datasets.
Hunt joins Preqin at a time when the
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By Wojciech Jezierski, partner, Abris Capital Partners – Why succession buyouts are a strong opportunity in Central and Eastern Europe at the moment, and why private equity is the ideal partner for the region’s SMEs, in the words of Wojciech Jezierski, partner at Abris Capital Partners.
In Central and Eastern Europe, it was not possible to start private businesses until 1989, after the freeing up of the economy. Therefore, in most cases the entrepreneurs we see today who are selling businesses are first generation: they established their businesses in the early 1990s and today, these are well-established companies – often industry
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PEWire Live kicked off its CFO/COO Summit on Wednesday, where a roster of industry experts spanning the private equity space looked at how the last twelve months have impacted GPs from an operational perspective.
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By Purva Aggarwal – Warburg Pincus has invested USD110 million into a Series C round for New York-based healthcare tech company Aetion.
This round is the latest in a string of similar investments within the health tech space for Warburg Pincus. The global growth equity PE group has poured in excess of USD12 billion and USD22 billion to date into health care and technology companies respectively, including Alignment Healthcare, Experity, Intelligent Medical Objects, Modernizing Medicine, and Outset Medical.
B Capital and Foresite Capital, as well as existing supporters New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Flare Capital Partners joined the fundraise,
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Multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures has led a USD40 million Series B funding round into Airkit, a low-code digital customer experience platform, on the back of the company’s recent USD28 million Series A announcement.
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By Purva Aggarwal – Aiming to defy the current downturn in the travel industry, a UK fintech company looking to offer consumers a more flexible way to finance travel post Covid-19 has raised GBP10 million in Series A funding, bringing its total received in investments to GBP45 million.
Asset management firms Revenio Capital and Taurus Wealth Advisors co-led the investment round, which will be aimed at expanding operations in Germany and UK, as well as in the US, the world’s largest travel market.
The commercial travel sector is recording an unprecedented slow down due to the pandemic. According to Fly
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What trends are emerging in the field of data analytics? What are the various ways that managers are actively using analytical tools, as part of their day-to-day fund management activities? And what are the some of the best practices GPs need to consider, as they look to introduce more analytical firepower into their respective firms? These questions, and more will be discussed in an upcoming webinar in collaboration with AssetMetrix on 30 June.
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By David Holden-White, co-founder & managing director of techspert.io – Investors have long sought data from primary research to get an edge in their decision-making. Whether gathered through surveys, focus groups, panels or qualitative interviews, insights from individuals with lived experience of the relevant problems, markets, technologies and services, are hugely valuable. They offer a way of uncovering the intangibles, those moments that can’t be quantified solely on data. They augment and extend an investor’s own knowledge and experiences.
They also provide companies with a real competitive advantage. Most investors will have access to the same pool of data, whether
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Blisce, a B Corp certified transatlantic growth VC fund that has previously backed ventures including Spotify, Pinterest and Headspace, has launched the new fund Blisce Fund II, with a final target of USD350 million.
Blisce Fund II, which held its first close today at USD150 million, will make investments ranging from USD10 million to USD35 million, in American and European companies on the forefront of new consumer trends. The fund will specifically look for high growth, high impact sectors including anti-food waste providers, and companies who deal with the future of health, micro-mobility, trusted financial services and access to education.
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The Alternative Credit Council, the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association, has launched its Investor Manager Committee, a new initiative which aims to strengthen the ACC’s work on key areas where private credit market practice is still evolving, and foster better engagement between investors and asset managers in this burgeoning asset class.
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