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Global law firm Paul Hastings has advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on a comprehensive financing package to support its investment in Iver Holding AB alongside management and other shareholders.
Headquartered in Stockholm, the Iver group specialises in IT outsourcing and multi-cloud solutions.
The European leveraged finance team at Paul Hastings advised ICG on all aspects of the debt financing process, including the establishment of committed term and revolving facilities to support the ongoing growth and expansion of the Iver group.
A multi-disciplinary Paul Hastings team was led by London based finance partner Luke McDougall together with finance partner
Aurelia, the startup dubbed “IFTTT for financial admin” because it helps businesses automate tasks across third-party financial apps and services on a single platform – has raised USD3 million in seed funding from Blossom Capital and angel investors including Guillaume Pousaz through his Zinal Growth investment vehicle and Erez Mathan (ex-COO and CRO at GoCardless).
ARQIS has advised London Stock Exchange listed Oxford Metrics on the indirect acquisition of Contemplas, a specialist in video-based movement analysis.
Oxford Metrics in an international software company servicing infrastructure, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets. Sellers are Stefan Klippel and Thomas Seeholzer who founded Contemplas in 2005.
Based in Kempten, Germany, Contemplas is one of the leading providers in the field of video-based movement analysis, developing and distributing worldwide software solutions for general motion analysis. Contemplas Templo software can record and track motion across a range of activities including walking, running, sprinting and swimming among many others, whether
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist mid-market private equity investor in technology enabled financial services, has made a majority investment in WebID, a German digital identification provider.
AnaCap will provide significant growth capital and partner with the founders and existing management team to extend WebID’s product offering to other industries outside of the core financial services and telecoms space where it has a market leading position, such as eGovernment, eHealth, eCommerce and eMobility as well as support inorganic growth through future acquisitions.
WebID provides a range of digital identification solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC) purposes, such as identification via video
ECI Partners has reinvested in Avantia, a new investment for its ECI 11 fund delivering a full realisation for ECI 9.
Avantia is a high-growth virtual insurer, with world-class machine learning technology and a data-led decisioning platform. Its cutting-edge technology gives it the most effective online quotability of any household insurer in the UK, via its brand, HomeProtect. It returns a quote to over 98% of applicants in under one second, with c80 per cent of its new customers in what other insurers would deem to be ‘difficult to insure’ risk categories.
Since ECI’s investment, the business has invested
Craft Prospect Ltd (CPL) has secured a significant investment from Capital for Colleagues plc (C4C), a business that focuses exclusively on advice, investment and support for Employee Owned Businesses (EOBs). Craft Prospect employs 20, based at the former headquarters of the Fairfield Shipyards in Govan, Glasgow.
CPL is a space engineering business that develops enabling quantum and AI-based products and mission applications for the small satellite market.
CPL is pleased to announce that it has raised GBP800,000 through the issue of new ordinary shares to C4C. Craft Prospect will use the new funds for furthering its flight heritage capability, recruiting
21 Invest France has continued to deploy its Fund V by taking a majority stake in TVH Consulting. The deal, signed on 5 August, 2021, allows the exit of the current shareholders led by Sparring Capital. The management team and all employee shareholders reinvested in the transaction.
Founded in 2003, TVH Consulting (TVH) supports SMEs towards more efficient business processes thanks to the integration of ERP and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions from Microsoft and SAP, as well as to the edition of business software.
Beyond being a Microsoft/SAP independent partner, TVH has developed in-house ERP and BI modules dedicated
Blockchain technology company SIMBA Chain has closed a USD25 million Series A funding round led by Valley Capital Partners.
The round received additional participation from the Notre Dame Pit Road Fund, Elevate Ventures, Stanford Law School Venture Fund, and individuals affiliated with Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts (KKR), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, SpaceX, Gap, Estee Lauder, AppLovin, Microsoft, Moelis & Company, Stanford University, the Golden State Warriors, the founders of Lightspeed Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates and other individual investors.
SIMBA Chain, a startup incubated at the University of Notre Dame, offers a simple, time- and energy-efficient method for deploying blockchain
Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), a European technology investor, has completed the acquisition of all of the business and assets of MIR Limited, which operates a payments platform and e-wallet solutions.
Founded in 2016, MIR Limited’s Business is a fast-growing Fintech business with more than one million registered users in 180 countries across the globe, including customers in the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada and the Netherlands. Its offering includes some of the world’s most innovative wearable contactless payment technology which integrates seamlessly with its popular e-wallet and ‘MasterCard’-branded prepaid debit cards.
Reflecting its commitment to innovation and its ability to
An affiliate of HIG Growth Partners (HIG) has invested in the Series D growth financing for Corelight, a cyber-security platform focused on network detection and response (“NDR”).
Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Corelight is the industry’s first open NDR platform. Built on the de-facto open source network security monitoring platform, Zeek and leveraging the power of Suricata, an independent open source threat detection engine, Corelight provides security teams with the world’s best network evidence to close investigations quickly. This helps security operations teams to better inspect, respond, and remediate against sophisticated network threats. Corelight’s platform is used
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