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Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, is to acquire the majority ownership of Wizeline, a global technology services provider that partners with clients to build digital products and platforms.
Apax Digital Fund, which has been a majority owner since 2018, will remain as a share holder following the transaction.
Founded in 2014, Wizeline’s origins as a cloud-native, product development company have served it well in its partnerships with customers needing to mature their data-driven capabilities, build next-generation products and platforms, and stay competitive in a constantly evolving market. The company works with its
‘ResTech’ company WALR has acquired technology business QuenchTec.
WALR, launched in lockdown last year by co-founders Lewis Reeves, formerly of VIGA (now Savanta), and Patrick Fraser, formerly Ipsos Mori and Critical Research, has seen a debut year of stellar growth, helping pave the way for this first acquisition.
The combined business, whose technology enables all aspects of the data collection process for insight professionals, will have an initial headcount of around 30 staff in six markets with key bases in the UK, USA and Europe. All QuenchTec staff will transfer with the deal, ensuring a seamless continuation of service for
Paysafe, a specialised payments platform, has completed its acquisition of PagoEfectivo, a Peruvian-based alternative payments (APM) platform.
For Paysafe, the investment gives it a strategic foothold in Latin America, one of the world’s fastest-growing online markets where merchants and consumers alike are demonstrating an increased appetite for alternative payment methods and open banking solutions. Together with its recently announced plans to acquire SafetyPay, the two Latin American investments position Paysafe as a prominent payments partner in the region.
PagoEfectivo, formerly a subsidiary of Empresa Editora El Comercio (Grupo El Comercio), is a market leader in Latin America in the provision
Globacap, an automated end-to-end solution for raising and managing private capital, has finalised its ecosystem with the launch of Globacap Liquidity, offering companies the ability to take back control of their liquidity events.
Since becoming the first company to ever issue digitised shares in 2018, Globacap has now realised its ambition to completely overhaul the processes behind the creation, management and now transferability of private securities. By using the blockchain powered platform, private companies are now able to digitise their shares and access liquidity whilst still staying in control of their share price and investor-pool.
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American-Israeli AgTech startup Fieldin has completed a USD30 million Series B funding round, led by Fortissimo Capital, with the participation of Zeev Ventures, Icon Ventures, Luxembourg-based Maor Investments, and Akkadian ventures.
Series B funders join early-stage investors Terra Ventures, Gal Ventures, Germin8, and Mindset, with the aim of scaling Fieldin’s agricultural operating system. The close of Series B brings Fieldin’s total fundraising to USD55 million.
Fieldin’s agricultural operating system (AgOS) empowers commercial farmers to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, using real-time data and performance management tools to digitise the operations of an industry that has been slow to embrace
Digital coaching platform CoachHub has raised USD80 million in Series B2 funding, increasing total Series B capital to USD110 million.
Draper Esprit, RTP Global, HV Capital, Signals Venture Capital, Partech, and Speedinvest were all part of this latest round, bringing the total funds raised to USD130 million since 2019.
The money will continue to fund CoachHub’s meteoric expansion which started just three years ago. In just the first half of 2021, CoachHub has exceeded 2020’s new business generation, tripled its number of employees, and added some of the biggest, foremost global brands to its stable of clients including Fujitsu,
An innovative property and tech investment firm has unveiled its plans to revolutionise the public housing sector following a private equity investment deal worth hundreds of millions.
Influenced by the Latin ‘Convivo’, meaning to ‘live at the same time’, Convivia was established in 2017 by CEO, Roy Ledgister, with a vision to create an inspirational property and tech portfolio that delivers experiential living and brings communities to life.
In recognising the growing demand for affordable homes across the UK, Ledgister and the Convivia board have shifted 100 per cent of their focus to the public sector with the imminent launch
Sales experience platform Walnut has raised USD15 million in Series A funding led by Eight Roads Ventures, a global VC managing USD8 billion of assets, with portfolio companies such as AppsFlyer, Alibaba, Hibob and Made.com.
This funding round comes just several months after a high-demand USD6 million seed round, bringing the total funding raised to date to USD21 million, less than a year after it was founded. Seed investors include NFX, A Capital, Liquid2, Graph ventures and leading figures in the tech industry from Google, Wix, HubSpot, GitHub and more.
Walnut aims to make demos, as they are performed today,
BankiFi, a fintech business specialising in payment processing and financial administration services for SMEs, has secured a GBP2.2 million investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures, with participation from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).
Headquartered in Manchester, BankiFi was founded to help financial institutions better serve small and medium-sized businesses. The firm’s technology equips banks to take on challengers and provide more agile customer-led services to SMEs, as opposed to more traditional product-led offerings. BankiFi enables banks to provide a set of integrated services, including invoicing, payments, cash management and accounting, which are designed to help businesses
Pan-European private equity investor Oakley Capital’s (Oakley) portfolio company Ocean Technologies Group (OTG) has acquired COMPAS, a crew management SAAS provider to the maritime industry.
The acquisition is OTG’s fifth bolt-on acquisition and continues Oakley’s transformation of the business into a diversified software platform serving the multiple needs of the maritime industry.
COMPAS is a leading human capital management (HCM) SAAS solution that helps ship owners and professionals to efficiently manage all aspects of crewing activities, such as crew planning, crew change management and other logistics.
OTG is a leading software provider to the maritime industry, serving around 20,000 vessels
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