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Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, a trusted partner to operations and facility managers across North America, has acquired American Maintenance. KBS is a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management (Cerberus).
Headquartered in Babylon, New York, American Maintenance is a leading provider of facility maintenance solutions. For more than 45 years, it has delivered high-quality janitorial and light maintenance services to clients throughout the United States. The company has experience in the government, education, manufacturing and retail sectors, as well as in sports and entertainment and Class A office buildings. American Maintenance shares the KBS commitment to sustainability, having implemented green cleaning as
Fabric RQ, a startup founded by veteran risk manager Richard Bookstaber to provide institutional quality risk management software to individual investors through their financial advisors, has closed a seed round led by Pandeavor Ventures, Vikram S Pandit’s family office, and John P Arnhold, managing member of Arnhold LLC.
SoftWorks AI (SoftWorks), provider of the Trapeze intelligent mortgage automation platform, has closed of a minority growth investment led by Long Ridge Equity Partners (Long Ridge), a private investment firm focused on the financial and business technology sectors.
CBC Companies (CBC), a holding company whose subsidiaries include Factual Data, DataVerify and Byte Software, also participated in the round. The investment will enable the Company to continue to expand its technological leadership and footprint in this important market.
“SoftWorks has consistently been at the forefront of AI-based mortgage automation, and our partnership with Long Ridge and CBC will allow us to
Founder and Lightning, a company that helps non-specialist, commercially minded business leaders to develop and scale new tech ventures, has secured a GBP1.5 million loan to invest in a new generation of tech trailblazers.
The funding will also help to support the company’s white-label platforms, which are used to enhance a start-up’s functionality without incurring the cost of developing single-use systems.
The business works with entrepreneurs who lack the specialist knowledge to launch new tech companies and products in sectors such as fintech, edutech and medtech. In the past five years, it has helped to build 25 companies, with
Objectway, Global Top 100 fintech leader in the Digital Wealth and Asset Management software, has acquired Die Software Peter Fitzon GmbH (DSW), a primary German provider of Core Banking solutions.
Crestbridge has received regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Ireland to provide fund administration services in Ireland.
Cambridge Judge Business School and Esme Learning, an AI-powered digital learning platform, have partnered to provide two six-week online executive education programmes in startup funding and regtech.
Startup Funding: From Pre-Seed to Exit, will help entrepreneurs overcome the trickiest funding challenges facing startups.
RegTech: AI for Financial Regulation, Risk, and Compliance, meanwhile, will prepare risk, compliance, innovation, and data sector business leaders to navigate the complexities of the industry, including technologies such as AI and machine learning that support automated regulation.
Successful programme participants will receive a certificate issued by the Cambridge Judge Business School. The first presentation of
Objectway, a global specialist in the Digital Wealth and Asset Management software, announced today the acquisition of Die Software Peter Fitzon (DSW), a primary German provider of Core Banking solutions.
Founded in 1990, Objectway provides leading financial institutions with state-of-the-art technology to support their digital transformation programmes, supplying front-to-back, intelligent and cloud-ready solutions that power up customer engagement, front-office productivity and back-office operational efficiency. Die Software is a leading provider of Core Banking solutions in German-speaking Europe, with more than 35 years of market presence. Its complete, open and modular platform fulfils the needs of prominent private banks,
Advania AB (Advania), one of the leading full-service IT providers in the Nordics, is to acquire Visolit AS (Visolit), a leading provider of corporate IT solutions and cloud services across Sweden and Norway, from the IK VII Fund and other shareholders.
The combined group will have a total turnover in excess of SEK9 billion in 2021 and approximately 2,550 employees, and will leverage the commercial strengths, resources, and expertise of both the Advania and Visolit platforms to offer a highly compelling, future-ready suite of products and services to its customer base – with the combination enabling a broader, deeper and
Kroo Ltd has raised GBP17.7 million in a Series A funding round led by tech entrepreneur and founder of Karlani Capital, Rudy Karsan. The capital raised will be used to mobilise the bank ahead of its launch in early 2022.
Kroo’s goal as a social bank is to remove friction from financial interactions with friends and family. Currently it does so by offering customers a prepaid debit card and innovative ways to track their personal and social finances – enabling them to easily create groups with friends, track spending, and split and pay bills quickly and securely. It aims
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