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MDOTM, a European specialist in AI-driven investment strategies, has completed a EUR6.2m Series B fundraising. The funds will accelerate MDOTM’s international expansion, double the size of its teams in London and Milan, and see the company open a new office in the US.
The new funds have been raised from institutional investors, private individuals and leading finance professionals, including Federico Ghizzoni, Chairman of Rothschild Italy and former CEO of UniCredit; Lorenzo Pagani, Managing Director at PIMCO; and Alberto Zaffignani, Managing Director and Head of Global Markets Italy at Natixis. Zaffignani also joins MDOTM as a non-executive board member.
MDOTM was
Preqin has entered a partnership with the Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (IVCA), under eligibility from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), to produce performance benchmarks for alternative investment funds (AIFs) as an official benchmarking agency.
AIFs in India – classified as CAT I, II or III – operate across a wide range of asset classes including private equity & venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, private debt, and hedge funds. With a total of more than 730 such funds currently, they represent a part of the alternative investments ecosystem that is growing and becoming increasingly important
Mercer Global Advisors, (Mercer Advisors), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) majority owned by both Oak Hill Capital and Genstar Capital, has acquired Miller Advisors (Miller), a wealth management firm located in Kirkland, Washington.
Miller serves approximately 200 clients with assets under management (AUM) of approximately USD240 million. Miller was founded by Kathleen Miller, CFP, CDFA joined by her daughter Nicole Miller, CFP, CDFA, offering comprehensive wealth management services to its high-net-worth individuals, families, and their businesses, as well as planning for divorcing couples. The entire Miller team will also be joining Mercer Advisors.
Kathleen Miller (“Kathleen”), CFP®, CDFA™,
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a multi-million-pound investment in Marmalade Game Studio (Marmalade), a UK market leading games developer and publisher, to support the management team’s ambitious organic growth strategy and future game launches.
Marmalade is the UK’s leading developer of mobile, console and PC board games. Its catalogue includes classics such as Monopoly, Cluedo and Game of Life, licensed by gaming giants such as Hasbro, with its most recent addition, Jumanji, inspired by the feature film.
LDC’s investment will support the existing management team, led by joint CEOs Michael Willis and Cristina Mereuta, as they invest
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) is to sell Trace3 to affiliates of American Securities.
Trace3 is a premier provider of IT solutions and services to over 2,500 commercial and enterprise clients across the U.S. Through elite engineering talent, dynamic leadership, an in-house research team, and unparalleled venture capital connections, Trace3 stays on the leading edge of the technology innovation curve and empowers its clients with the most advanced cloud technologies, data center designs, security strategies, and business intelligence solutions in the industry. The Company is headquartered in Irvine, CA with offices across the United States.
HIG invested in the
CGE Partners (CGE) has invested in Inspera, a high growth end-to-end e-assessment SaaS provider sold into universities, schools and professional awarding bodies.
CGE is partnering with Bjørn Rustberggaard (CEO) and Håkon Thaulow (CFO) to help Inspera’s international expansion. Inspera launched in the Nordics where the higher education (HE) market was an early adopter of e-assessment. This market is rapidly accelerating worldwide as countries recognise the benefits of saving teachers’ time, capturing and analysing data, and the ability to reach a wider pool of candidates. Covid-19 has contributed to the shift away from paper-based exams and schools, universities and awarding bodies
The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, has released the first publication as part of its Culture and Diversity Initiative – Principles of Culture and Diversity Strategies.
There is general acknowledgement in the alternatives industry that diversity can help to improve industry outcomes, but putting in place an effective strategy to promote diversity can be challenging. The SBAI’s report provides five guiding principles which act as a framework for asset managers and allocators to define their own culture and diversity strategies.
In February 2021, the SBAI formed a Global
Affiliates of Lindsay Goldberg – a private investment firm that focuses on partnering with families, founders and management teams – have completed a majority investment in Summit Interconnect (Summit), a provider of high performance, complex printed circuit boards serving the aerospace, defence, and other highly demanding commercial sectors, along with the Company’s President and CEO, Shane Whiteside, and other members of the Company’s management team.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Summit Interconnect is one of the leading providers of complex rigid and flexible printed circuit boards in North America, offering solutions ranging from advanced prototyping to
Leading mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its minority investment in cloud technology company Aker Systems to Abry Partners. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2017, Aker Systems designs, builds and operates ground-breaking ultra-secure public cloud environments and advanced data infrastructure platforms.
LDC invested in Aker Systems in 2020, supporting investment in research and development to drive organic growth, as well as the extension of Aker’s team of highly experienced experts. The business has since grown by more than 50 per cent.
Darren Thomas, CEO of Aker Systems, says: “Over the last
Amro Partners has invested in Proportunity, an equity loan provider enabling buyers to purchase homes with a 5 per cent deposit, as part of a Series A funding round.
The fintech start-up, launched in 2016 by founders Vadim Toader and Stefan Boronea, helps homebuyers afford homes worth up to GBP150 thousand more by boosting their deposit with an equity loan, similar to the Government’s Help to Buy scheme which is set to end in 2023 and is limited to the new build market only. Proportunity has helped buyers acquire GBP50 million-plus worth of homes so far, helping hundreds of people access
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