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Hubilo, a global virtual events platform, has raised GBP92 million in Series B funding round led by Alkeon Capital and additionally, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Balderton Capital.
This brings the company’s total funding to GBP113 million to date in less than 18 months. The investment, one of the largest in the event technology category, signals the revolution in ways by which people connect, engage, share experiences, and create opportunities at a time when uncertainty about Covid-19 and its variants have resulted in cancelled events and delayed a return to traditional office environments.
The Series B funding allow the company to
Foresight Group (Foresight), a leading UK listed infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has sold Accrosoft Limited, a recruitment and employee onboarding software company, to Acendre Technologies Inc, a global HR software business headquartered in the US.
Based in Loughborough, Accrosoft was founded in 2008 by Alex Khakbiz and Mitesh Chauhan, experienced SaaS entrepreneurs. Accrosoft’s Vacancy Filler (VF) software streamlines talent acquisition and recruitment management for organisations. VF helps millions of candidates to apply for jobs easily and empowers thousands of recruiters and hiring managers to recruit better and faster. The product now supports customers across a range
9fin, a provider of data, news and predictive analytics for debt capital markets, has raised GBP8 million Series A round to fuel its expansion into the US.
CarDekho, India’s largest car search platform, has closed a USD250 million round of funding that included USD200 million Series E equity and USD50 million debt in its pre-IPO round.
Tiptree has secured a USD200 million strategic investment in its insurance subsidiary, The Fortegra Group (Fortegra) from Warburg Pincus.
The investment will give Warburg Pincus an approximate 24 per cent ownership in Fortegra on a fully diluted basis and is expected to close in the first quarter 2022. This transaction highlights the underlying intrinsic value of Fortegra to Tiptree shareholders, representing a significant milestone for the Company.
Fortegra is a rapidly growing and consistently profitable specialty insurer, underwriting over USD2.0 billion of gross written premiums and premium equivalents annually. The business underwrites and administers a variety of specialty insurance products
Two Sigma Impact, the impact investing business of Two Sigma, has acquired Eclipse Advantage (Eclipse), a provider of outsourced supply chain workforce solutions specialising in servicing warehouses and distribution centres across the US and Canada.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2003, Eclipse employs approximately 5,000 workers, or “industrial athletes”, to fill the gap in the large and growing outsourced distribution labor market. The Company has enjoyed year-over-year growth for nearly two decades and partners with Fortune 1000 companies to improve supply chain productivity and efficiency. Eclipse provides a comprehensive suite of labor services
North west-based multi-family investment office Arete, has announced it has led a GBP1.6 million investment into Travel Seen, an early stage business co-founded by award-winning entrepreneur and travel professional, Jen Atkinson.
The new venture, Travel Seen, is a ‘mass luxury’ travel agency that matches holidaymakers to destinations through social media influencer content, whether it’s a family holiday in Cyprus, a girls’ getaway to Dubai or trip for two to Mauritius, amongst other destinations across the globe. Travel Seen will also offer customers exclusive experience packages, inspired by their favourite moments in TV, film and literature.
The business enters the
Partners Group, global private markets firm, is expanding the shareholder base of Foncia, a provider of residential property management services in Europe. Incoming shareholder TA Associates has agreed to acquire a 25 per cent stake in the business, while Partners Group will continue to hold a majority stake in the Company on behalf of its clients.
Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Paris, France, Foncia provides a range of services primarily to residential property owners and tenants, including joint property management, lease management, letting, and brokerage services. The Company also offers a range of ancillary, digital, and B2B services, such
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS), a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation UMBF), has launched an automated optical character recognition (OCR) processing programme.
The technology enables faster, more accurate processing of handwritten subscription and tender documents by replacing manual reviews with OCR software and bot technology, turning what previously amounted to hundreds of hours of manual processing into a 24-hour automated service.
The programme creates a standard process for all client documents, whether received in paper, email, fax or data files, allowing UMBFS to handle high volume, short period spikes for tenders or product closings – a critical solution that has historically
Waterland Private Equity and management consultancy Horn & Company have entered into a 50/50 partnership to create a new growth platform for mid-sized consultancy businesses.
Horn & Company is one of the leading consultancies in the DACH region for the areas of strategy, digitalisation and revenue growth for financial service providers as well as industrial and trading companies. The current partners will remain with Horn & Company in their current roles and will continue to lead the company’s operational consulting business.
Founded in 2009 by Dr Christian Horn and Dr Alexander Bethke-Jaenicke, among others, Horn & Company, based in Dusseldorf,
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