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Hopper has completed a USD175 million Series G financing led by GPI Capital with participation from Glade Brook Capital, WestCap, Goldman Sachs Growth and Accomplice as the company emerges from the pandemic stronger than ever.
As the travel industry continues to rebound, Hopper has demonstrated significant outperformance with its category-leading mobile-only marketplace, delivering value to customers and supply partners with the company’s proprietary suite of fintech offerings. Hopper has over 60 million downloads, consistently ranks as one of the most downloaded travel apps, and now has a larger air travel market share in North America than it did before the
Unified comms, contact centre and cyber solutions provider, Babble, has acquired both Concert (Concert Networks Limited) and 5 Rings (5 Rings Telecom Ltd and 5 Rings IT Ltd).
The deals – which are the fifth and sixth completed by Babble in 2021 – extend the leading tech business’s UK-wide footprint, adding scale across the North-West and the South Coast.
The announcement continues the period of growth at Babble, with a highly successful buy and build strategy complemented by robust organic growth resulting in a transformational cloud technology business that now has over 25,000 UCaaS, 24,000 mobile and 4,000 CCaaS
Spectra A&D Holdings (Spectra), a diversified designer and manufacturer of highly engineered avionics and electronics solutions for leading aerospace and defense platforms, has acquired Galleon Embedded Computing AS (Galleon).
Galleon is the first strategic add-on acquisition since the formation of Spectra. Spectra is a portfolio company of Vance Street Capital, forming the company in February 2021 by simultaneously merging three defense technology businesses.
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices in the UK and Texas, Galleon designs and sells advanced Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)-based embedded computing solutions for a variety of military and commercial applications that require high bandwidth,
Marketing analytics platform Adverity has closed a USD120 million Series D financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with existing investor Sapphire Ventures also participating in the round.
Adverity’s mission is to transform marketing performance through intelligent data-driven insights. The Vienna-born business – with offices in London and New York – has seen a 120 per cent client uplift in the last 12 months amid an expanding portfolio of global brands and agencies that include IKEA, Red Bull, Unilever, MediaCom, and Vodafone. This follows the best quarter in company history, a compound annual growth rate of 105 per cent
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, has invested in Itelyum Group (Itelyum) in partnership with Deutsche Beteiligungs (DBAG), a publicly listed mid-market private equity firm.
Stirling Square’s Fourth Fund and its co-investors will acquire a majority stake and DBAG Fund VII will acquire a minority stake in Itelyum from Stirling Square’s Third Fund. The management team of the Company will also make a significant investment in the Transaction.
Established in 1963, Itelyum is a leading European Circular Economy player, specialised in recycling complex streams of hazardous liquid waste, leveraging distinctive chemical competences. Itelyum operates
VTrips, a Florida based technology-enabled vacation rental manager throughout North America, has secured a significant minority equity investment from Hudson Hill Capital (HHC).
VTrips will leverage the investment to accelerate the company’s acquisition strategy and to further strengthen its technology offering. VTrips expects to deploy over USD250 million in the near-term to acquire attractive vacation rental management companies.
Founded in 2002 by CEO Steve Milo, VTrips offers full-service vacation rental management, including digital marketing, coupled with local market operations to service and maintain vacation properties, with the majority of its inventory in the Southeast today. VTrips’ mission is
NAV Fund Administration Group, a provider of administrative services to alternative asset managers, has launched NAV Fund Services (Australia) Pty Ltd, a new business entity in Australia.
“In evaluating Australia as a potential location, we found a market ideally positioned for the comprehensive range of services, industry expertise, responsive client support, and competitive fee structure that NAV has established over the last three decades,” says NAV COO Ambuj Garg. “We look forward to introducing Australian fund managers to our flexible administration solutions, backed by a team of 1,500 professionals and a robust and agile proprietary technology platform designed to support
Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), a middle market investment firm founded in 1961, has completed the sale of its portfolio company, Focal Point Data Risk, a data risk management services company, to CDW Corporation (CDW), a multi-brand provider of information technology solutions. The transaction closed on 30 July, 2021.
Serving mid-to-large enterprises and governments in the US and internationally, Focal Point offers solutions that help companies secure their business so they can grow and innovate without risk. Solutions offered include professional and managed services across identity & access management, cybersecurity & data privacy, cyber defense, cyber skills development, and other risk
Accession Capital Partners (ACP) has made an investment in proptech business Inplus/Cenatorium Group, a Polish provider of property and geospatial analytics.
Inplus/Cenatorium supplies data-based solutions through its state-of-the-art digital database that combines the most comprehensive real estate transactional data and the geospatial data across Poland. The company’s software combines its experience and knowledge of the dynamics of spatial economy phenomena with advanced data processing technologies, enabling clients to use automated valuation models for real estate as well as to support large-scale infrastructure projects in design, planning and permitting. The Group caters to a high-profile client base that includes top-rated
Warburg Pincus has made a strategic investment in A-LIGN, a high-growth provider of cybersecurity and compliance solutions and top issuer of SOC 2 reports worldwide, alongside existing investor FTV Capital.
This investment will be used to drive product innovation in the company’s A-SCEND SaaS platform, grow the company’s portfolio of service offerings, expand A-LIGN’s global footprint and execute on an aggressive hiring strategy. As demand for cybersecurity assessments continues to soar, A-LIGN is committed to providing the services and technology needed to meet today’s unique regulatory and cybersecurity requirements. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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