Solutions
Login VSI, a company dedicated to maximising the end-user experience, has secured a significant growth investment from Wavecrest Growth Partners. The funding will be used to expand all aspects of the business, specifically sales, marketing, and product innovation.
Today’s modern enterprises need a continuous understanding of the application experience delivered to their corporate users, a need that has grown given the increase in remote work caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Business-critical applications are being deployed in enterprise data centres (on-premises) and the cloud, further increasing performance variability and driving the need for multi-environment digital workspace testing. Login VSI’s flagship product,
SecZetta, a provider of third-party identity risk solutions, today announced an oversubscribed USD20.5 million Series B fundraising round.
The round was led by SYN Ventures, along with new investor MassMutual Ventures. The round also included participation from existing investors ClearSky and Rally Ventures, which strengthened their investments in SecZetta.
SecZetta offers security and assurance with its easy-to-use, purpose-built solutions that address third-party identity risk head-on and help better manage the identity risk and lifecycle management needs of growing third-party populations.
“To be successful, organisations need to automate best practices for managing the dynamic relationships required by their third-party resources
BlackRock has launched the Expected Return Analyzer, an portfolio analysis tool, to help advisers allocate to private markets.
Powered by BlackRock’s Aladdin technology, the Expected Return Analyzer draws on the BlackRock Investment Institute’s proprietary Capital Market Assumptions to show advisers how adding private markets or other asset class exposures to their clients’ portfolios can help meet their return targets.
The new tool is part of BlackRock’s commitment to increasing accessibility to alternative investments and helping advisers better understand the role alternatives can play in wealth portfolios to address their clients’ needs.
A BlackRock study indicates that the traditional 60/40 portfolio
Virtu Financial, a provider of trading solutions and liquidity to the global markets, has become a strategic investor in ClearList.
Other investors in ClearList include GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments, Tudor Global Trading, founded by legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones, and David “Tiger” Williams, founder of Williams Trading.
Together with GTS, the Virtu investment brings together on behalf of ClearList, two of the largest global electronic equity market makers in the world.
Doug Cifu, CEO of Virtu, says: “We have been watching with interest the overall development of the private markets and in particular the
Profian, a confidential computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, has secured USD5 million in seed funding.
The round was co-led by Project A Ventures and Illuminate Financial, and included angel investors: Olivier Pomel, Chief Executive Officer of Datadog; Tyler McMullen, Chief Technology Officer of Fastly; Till Schneidereit, Chairman of Bytecode Alliance; and Sarah Novotny, Board Member of the Linux Foundation.
As corporate cyber and data breaches continue to accelerate worldwide, there is a heightened requirement for organisations to increase their security for workloads in the cloud. For that reason, Profian aims to bring cryptographic proof and verifiable
finnCap Cavendish (Cavendish), part of financial advisory firm finnCap Group, has advised on the sale of Sentenial Group and its open banking brand Nuapay, an end-to-end payments platform specialised in account-to-account transactions, to EML Payments, an Australian-listed payments technology company for EUR108 million.
Through its regulated subsidiary Nuapay, Sentenial operates in the fast-growing European-open banking sector. The Group powers a complete set of payments for credit transfers, direct debits, instant payments and open banking. Over EUR44 billion worth of transactions is processed annually across 37 countries, with some EUR1/4 trillion processed to date.
Under the Sentenial brand, the Group’s original
Prometheus Alternative Investments has raised USD5 million in an oversubscribed seed round.
The round was led by 8VC/Joe Lonsdale with participation from a diverse set of prominent investors including Kyle Bass (Hayman Capital), Gaingels, John Quinn (Quinn Emanuel), Gil Weisblum (family office of Barry Diller), Jared Rothman (family office of Dennis Washington), Thane Ritchie, Curtis Macnguyen (Inflection Capital & Ivory Capital), Kim Kolt (For Good Ventures), Alok Agrawal (Bloom Tree Capital), Chris Blum (Global Head of Equities at JP Morgan Wealth Management) and Khalid Malik (Meridiem Capital).
Founded by former star hedge fund manager Michael Wang, Prometheus brings together a
Apex Group has launched a new digital marketing platform, Apex Profilir (Profilir), which offers clients a modern approach to investor relations, incorporating a digital marketing platform designed to connect LPs and GPs and support the capital raising process.
Following the acquisition of SaaS platform Senasen, Apex Group has rebranded the digital marketing platform as Apex Profilir, to reflect its unique offering, specifically designed to enhance relationships between Investors, Asset Managers and Companies by connecting them instantly and providing a means to for more efficient, meaningful and productive relationships. Market demand for secure and user-friendly digital engagement channels has risen following
Cybersecurity specialist BlueVoyant has acquired global professional services and big data solutions consultancy, Concanon, to provide the services and solutions to further empower Splunk customers worldwide and to maximise their investments in Splunk Cloud Platform.
With this acquisition, Concanon becomes a standalone but wholly-owned subsidiary of BlueVoyant. Concanon will coordinate services through BlueVoyant’s Modern SOC for Splunk® Cloud Platform, featuring 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR), and powered by BlueVoyant’s 24/7 cloud-based managed security operations center (SOC).
The acquisition will enable Concanon to expand their services to Splunk customers to optimize their investment and accelerate migration to the Splunk Cloud
L Squared Capital Partners (L Squared) is leading the recapitalisation of Literacy Resources, d/b/a Heggerty, an early childhood literacy solutions provider offering a suite of phonemic and phonological awareness solutions.
Heggerty’s product offering is anchored by its daily systematic phonemic and phonological awareness curriculum delivered in print and digital modalities that are used by more than 250,000 educators spanning from early pre-K to fifth grade. Heggerty has supplemented its foundational curriculum offering with a growing suite of solutions, including digital video content, digital assessment and screening tools, intervention curriculum, and decodable readers. Heggerty’s products are supported by professional development services
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