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Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to Eclipse Advantage, a provider of outsourced supply chain workforce solutions, on its acquisition by Two Sigma Impact.
Eclipse provides a comprehensive suite of labour services for warehouses and distribution centres that increase supply chain productivity and efficiency. Eclipse was a portfolio company of Longshore Capital Partners, a Chicago-based lower middle-market private equity firm. Two Sigma Impact is the impact investing business of Two Sigma.
Pete Westermann, chief executive officer of Eclipse, says: “The Citizens M&A Advisory team was terrific to work with. Citizens assisted us in articulating our complex
Groove, the sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, has raised a USD45 million Series B round of funding, led by Viking Global Investors.
Existing investors Capital One Ventures, Level Equity, Quest Venture Partners, and Uncork Capital also participated in the round. Groove plans to use the funding to expand its international operations and accelerate its momentum in the enterprise segment of the market, having grown enterprise ARR 114 per cent in the past twelve months with new customers that include Activision, iHeartMedia, LexisNexis, New Relic, TIBCO, Veeva, and Wintrust.
The global shift to digital selling as a result of
LevelTen Energy, a provider of renewable transaction infrastructure, has joined Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure in a second close of LevelTen’s Series C funding.
This August, LevelTen announced its first Series C close led by NGP ETP, with participation from leading global technology, energy, and venture capital firms. LevelTen raised USD35 million in this latest round, bringing the company’s aggregate funding to USD62.3 million.
The LevelTen Platform connects the world’s largest group of utility-scale renewable energy buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers, and delivers the marketplaces, analytics and software these entities need to
C3 (Creating Culinary Communities), global food tech platform founded by Sam Nazarian, announces a USD10 million strategic investment from Lurra Capital AG.
Based in Switzerland, Lurra Capital is an invitation-only private capital investment firm overseeing USD5 billion from UHNW investors and leading family offices. Lurra Capital has a track record of sourcing the most desirable and strategic investment opportunities globally via a highly effective and powerful network with a particular focus on venture capital and real estate. The investment was led by founder and CEO Tyron Birkmeir and is also a strategic partnership that gives C3access to Lurra Capital’s highly
National Fire & Safety, an end-to-end fire protection and life safety solutions platform and a portfolio company of Highview Capital (Highview), has acquired Maxim Fire Systems, a multifaceted, full-service fire sprinkler and life safety systems company serving the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Founded in 2011, Maxim Fire Systems specialises in the design, build, installation, service and inspection of a wide variety of automatic fire sprinkler systems, fire alarms, extinguishers and backflow preventers. The company provides life safety systems and services to commercial customers of all sizes, with a specialty in multi-family apartments, high-rises and warehouses and a long track record of
Allocations to alternative asset classes, like private capital, have risen sharply in the past two years. As the interest in such investments broadens to include retail clients, managers are facing growing regulatory and administrative burdens as calls for increasing transparency and reporting become more insistent.
WatchMyCompetitor (WMC) has secured GBP2 million in an investment round through Blackfinch Ventures and Praetura Ventures. Blackfinch and Manchester-based Praetura Ventures have both committed GBP1 million investment to the deal.
WMC’s platform enables organisations to automatically monitor competitors, clients, regulators and key partners. The innovative software uses the latest cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, combined with data analysts’ input to track anything available online, including websites, social media, press and other sources. The service automatically identifies commercial changes such as new product launches, promotions, price changes and organisational changes.
Attracting global customers in multiple sectors, the information captured allows users
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and ITN Productions are collaborating to raise awareness of alternative investments and the latest sector innovations that are benefitting investors, markets, and supporting the global economic recovery.
Juni has secured USD52 million in a funding round led by EQT Ventures, with participation from FJ labs and other existing investors to add to the USD21 million already raised from a Series-A round in late June this year.
This boosts Juni’s Series A round to USD73 million and takes the total funding to date to USD76 million. EQT Ventures joins Partners of DST Global, Felix Capital and Cherry Ventures in backing Juni to disrupt online banking for internet-first business customers. The company will use the funds to triple the number of its employees and launch an industry-first, fully integrated
The first automated RPA management platform, RPA Supervisor has raised USD5 million in a Seed round led by MMC Ventures.
RPS Supervisor has also appointed a new board member and investor, Pascal Baker, formerly founder of Symphony Ventures and pioneer in the Intelligent Automation Market. The investment will boost the startup’s innovation capabilities, feeding into Research & Development and expansion across EMEA and the US.
The Robot Process Automation (RPA) market where software technology automates digital tasks through robots has experienced rapid growth during the past 18 months. However, 30-50 per cent of RPA projects fail. This often stems
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