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LeapFrog Investments, a Profit with Purpose investment firm, has acquired a 16.94 per cent stake in Ghana’s largest privately-owned bank, Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited from Amethis, an investment fund manager dedicated to the African continent, and Edmond de Rothschild Equity Strategies (ERES), a mid-cap growth and buy-out franchise affiliated with the Edmond de Rothschild Group, with a global investment mandate.
It is expected that LeapFrog will leverage on its decade of investment experience across Africa’s financial services sector to build upon the outstanding success achieved by Fidelity Bank in financial inclusion and general business growth.
Following the investment from Amethis
Aiera has closed a strategic funding round with the support of Citigroup, Franklin Templeton, and Fin Venture Capital, and announced a strategic partnership with Helios, a tonal analytics firm.
The ability to pause, rewind, and listen again during live earnings calls was never possible before Aiera, the only live event monitoring & financial search platform covering all available Wall Street events. At the heart of this audio innovation is Aiera’s proprietary event connection workflow, which has paved the way for the largest library of live investor events anywhere in the world.
“Aiera continues to push the envelope in event access
Partners Group, a global private markets firm, has, on behalf of its clients, agreed to sell Straive, a global provider of technology-driven content and data solutions, to funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA).
Established in 1980 and headquartered in Singapore, Straive provides a suite of technology-driven platforms and services for the creation, enrichment, and dissemination of e-learning content, research content, and specialised data solutions. The Company today has over 17,000 employees in 15 locations across the Philippines, Singapore, India, China, Vietnam, US, UK, and Nicaragua.
Partners Group acquired a majority stake in Straive, then known as SPi Global,
ATL Partners (ATL) has made a majority investment in GEOST, a designer and integrator of small-to-medium sized electro-optical/infrared sensors for high-value, national security space missions. ATL’s investment will support GEOST as the Company enters the next phase of growth.
Since its founding in 2004, GEOST has been focused on the cutting edge of the United States Department of Defense and the intelligence community’s efforts to enhance the country’s national security capabilities in space through optical systems and solutions. GEOST is a leading provider of small and medium, low-cost payloads for space domain awareness, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, missile warning, and
Apex Group (Apex) has been appointed, to provide fund administration and regulatory services to Bee Alternatives Limited (Bee Alternatives), an independent manager dedicated to secondary private equity investments.
Bee Alternatives has its origins as part of Ant Capital Partners Co Ltd (Ant Capital), where the team were one of the pioneers of secondary investments in Asia. Bee Alternatives now manages the series flagship secondary funds with a total AUM of cUSDD300 million with investments across the world, and is seeking to raise up to USD350 million for their latest fund Bridge 6 Bee Secondary.
In Q2 2021, Bee Alternatives
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising lower midmarket companies, has sold Corporate Visions Inc, a US sales and marketing enablement company, to The Riverside Company. The terms have not been disclosed.
Based in Reno, Nevada, Corporate Visions offers sales, marketing, and customer success messaging, content, and IP-based training solutions to B2B companies. Corporate Visions is a thought leader and innovator in the marketing and sales enablement industry, developing and applying research from its decision-making sciences to help clients win more business and increase profitability. Corporate Visions’ customer base is highly diversified, consisting of global, blue-chip,
Vault Verify, a human capital management platform that allows HR departments to automate employee verification through API integrations, today announced a significant growth investment from PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies.
The investment represents Vault Verify’s first institutional capital and aims to help accelerate the company’s investment in product innovation to help HR departments be more efficient and secure. PSG’s Adam Marcus, Managing Director, and Govind Anand, Principal, will join Vault Verify’s Board of Directors, along with Brian Kelly, Senior Advisor at PSG, who will join the Board as Chairman. Financial terms
Private equity investment firm Growthdeck – alongside existing investors, IP Group and Parkwalk – has closed a GBP1.575 million fundraise for the secure digital archiving platform Arkivum.
Arkivum helps businesses ensure that the data they have collected remains accessible, secure and usable for decades into the future. It works with businesses, often in highly regulated industries, to deal with the data archiving problems that tech consultancy Forrester has described as a ‘ticking time-bomb’.
Many of the organisations Arkivum works with, such as pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs, are required by regulators to retain clinical trial data for 25 years. Failure
Swvl, a Dubai-based provider of transformative mass transit and shared mobility solutions, is to acquire a controlling interest in Shotl, a mass transit platform that partners with municipalities and corporations to provide on-demand bus and van services across Europe, LATAM and APAC – optimising public transport systems and decreasing dependence on costly private options.
Central to both companies’ missions is the belief that providing accessible and equitable mobility solutions is a gateway to social and economic empowerment through access to better jobs, healthcare and education.
With a presence across 22 cities in 10 countries including Brazil, Japan and pan-European footprint1,
Arlington Capital Partners’ (Arlington) portfolio company, BlueHalo, a provider of advanced engineering solutions and technology to the national security community, is to acquire Intelligent Automation, (IAI).
IAI provides advanced technology development and productised solutions in the fields of AI/ML, cybersecurity, hypersonics, space, 5G, data analytics, and RF/communications. IAI has leveraged its highly credentialed employee base, including more than 75 PhDs, and a substantial intellectual property portfolio into a repeatable model of progressing R&D and prototyping initiatives into market-focused products and customer-driven solutions serving a variety of customers across the DoD and commercial markets.
BlueHalo is a rapidly expanding national security
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