Solutions
Law Business Research (LBR), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired Hopkins Bruce Publishers LLC (Docket Navigator). Headquartered in London with offices in Hong Kong and Washington DC, LBR is a provider of business information, legal analysis tools and networking for global legal markets.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Docket Navigator is a provider of patent litigation information across the United States. Its proprietary technology tracks, processes, organises and synthesises every significant event across US district courts, the Court of Federal Claims, the International Trade Commission, and certain Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has raised USD210 million as part of a Series B financing on a valuation of USD3.2 billion. Investors include Baillie Gifford and iFinex.
The new funding comes alongside the acquisition of Spondoolies’ intellectual property, and the core team joining Blockstream to build Blockstream’s ASIC arm. Spondoolies is a bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer founded by top Israeli semiconductor veterans. Since its inception in 2013, the Spondoolies team successfully designed and built five different mining products and was one of the earliest teams in the bitcoin mining industry to deliver energy-efficient and high-performance mining hardware.
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Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics, and reporting solution for private markets investors and asset servicers, has launched capital account statement, capital call and distribution notice processing.
Firms will now be able to streamline the data extraction from these critical investment documents leveraging the same cutting-edge technology used by clients worldwide to process thousands of private markets fund performance reports each quarter.
Accelex provides an integrated environment to manage, extract and audit data from an endless range of general partner reporting formats. The AI-powered capabilities are applied to a comprehensive suite of metrics across capital accounts, fund commitments, payment instructions and
Vistra, a provider of advisory and administrative support to Private Equity and Venture Capital Fund, Corporate, Capital Market and Private Wealth clients, has formed a strategic partnership with the AMR Action Fund, a public-private partnership supporting the development of new antibiotics.
Vistra was chosen by the AMR Action Fund to provide fund administration and a multi-country, multi-service solution to enable them in their goal to bring two to four new antibiotics to market by the end of the decade.
The AMR Action Fund, a global venture capital fund, is an initiative of the international body representing the R&D pharmaceutical
PDQ.com (PDQ), a provider of IT asset management software for small and medium-sized businesses, has secured a growth investment from private equity firm TA Associates (TA).
TA, together with PDQ’s founders and executive management team, plan to accelerate PDQ’s growth as the company aims to expand its portfolio of easy-to-use IT asset management and scanning software solutions.
PDQ provides software for system administrators and IT professionals. The company’s primary products are PDQ Deploy, an automated patch management, software update and endpoint communications application; and PDQ Inventory, an endpoint information collection and reporting application for software, hardware and Windows configuration
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital), a Washington DC-area private equity firm, is to acquire MCR (MCR), a provider of cost analysis and engineering and software development expertise to customers in defence, intelligence and critical civilian governmental agencies in the US as well as customers internationally.
MCR’s senior management team has invested alongside Arlington in the transaction.
David Wodlinger, Partner at Arlington, says: “MCR has established itself as a preeminent provider of differentiated systems engineering and integration solutions that address critical national security objectives in the space, cyber, and missile defence domains. We are partnering with MCR to increase investment in
Tioga Capital, a leading European venture capital fund focusing on blockchain technology, has tripled its assets under management to EUR42 million.
Buoyed by commitments from multiple sovereign wealth funds and Europe’s largest endowment, Tioga Capital’s growth clearly highlights how institutional investors are moving into blockchain. Recent months have also seen Tioga Capital make initial investments in five blockchain infrastructure start-ups.
Tioga Capital, one of Europe’s leading venture capital funds focusing on blockchain technology, has added more than EUR25 million to its assets under management (AuM) – more than tripling its AuM to EUR42 million after its initial EUR14 million close.
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Info Edge Ventures has led a USD2 million seed round into Lumiq, an Indian data and analytics company that provides data-driven decision-making for financial enterprises.
The funding round also saw participation from Redstart Labs and angel investor Parampreet Bhasin. Lumiq plans to utilise the fresh capital in the company’s sales growth, improve its product offering, as well as expanding its global presence.
Lumiq is on a mission to make financial enterprises manage their data better, as it believes that most data pipelines of financial enterprises are broken. This results in an inefficient and suboptimal utilization of a vast pool
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) funds have completed the acquisition of RiverStone Europe from Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (Fairfax) and OMERS, the pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees.
The RiverStone Europe Group will now operate under the name RiverStone International.
RiverStone International is one of the largest global consolidators of non-life run-off insurance books, with a leading position in the UK and Lloyd’s markets and over 20 years of experience helping insurers release capital, streamline their operations and reduce volatility. Since 2010 the company has completed 22 acquisitions of legacy non-life books from blue-chip insurers and today manages around USD4 billion
ZEDRA has appointed Damien Fitzgerald as Head of Funds for Guernsey. In the role, he will lead the firm’s fund solutions offering and will be supported by the recently appointed Head of Fund Operations, John Donnelly, an industry veteran with considerable experience in client service management, financial reporting and fund accounting.
Fitzgerald has accumulated a wealth of knowledge with 23 years of fund administration, corporate governance, accounting and audit experience, including 17 years in Guernsey’s financial services industry. Prior to joining ZEDRA, he was Head of Funds at another renowned fund services administrator in Guernsey, leading a team of 70
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