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iCapital Network, a global financial technology platform focused on access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries, has raised USD440 million in funding round led by Temasek, with participation from Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital; MSD Partners; Noah Holdings and Golub Capital.
Additional commitments came from existing investors WestCap, Ping An Voyager Partners, Blackstone, UBS, Pivot Investment Partners, BNY Mellon, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Today, the company’s valuation is approximately USD4.0 billion.
The company will use the proceeds from the capital raise to enhance its platform technology,
Growthdeck has exited its investment in electric vehicle developer Saietta Group via an IPO on London’s Alternative Investment Market, delivering up to 22x valuation to Growthdeck’s early stage EIS investors.
The AIM IPO, which took place on Wednesday, 7 July, raised GBP37.5 million of new investment, and gave Saietta Group a market capitalisation of cGBP105 million. The IPO will allow the group to establish a motor durability testing facility and expand European production capacity to 100,000 motors per year.
Growthdeck raised three separate rounds of investment for Saietta in 2017, 2018 and 2020. While returns vary depending on how long
Ropes & Gray has advised Pulsant, one of the leading nationwide providers of data centre and cloud infrastructure in the UK, on its sale from Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partners to Antin Infrastructure Partners.
Pulsant owns and operates a portfolio of ten data centres across seven cities in the UK. It provides essential data centre and cloud infrastructure, including colocation, private cloud, and network connectivity to a loyal base of over 1,000 private enterprise and public sector customers.
Following completion of the acquisition, Antin will work with Pulsant’s experienced management team, led by CEO Rob Coupland and
Saber Labs, a core contributor to Saber, the first Solana-based cross-chain stablecoin exchange, has secured USD7.7 million in a seed round led by Race Capital, with participation from Chamath Palihapitya’s Social Capital, Jump Capital, Multicoin Capital, Solana Foundation, and others, as well as crypto industry leaders from FTX, Okcoin, Curve, Terra, and Stacks.
With the newest injection of funds, Saber will continue to expand its decentralised liquidity network, which already includes assets originated from Solana, bitcoin, Ethereum and Terra.
Saber helps users trade digital assets quickly and efficiently, using the Solana blockchain. The exchange is focused on supporting robust stablecoin
Vestwell, a specialist in workplace savings and investing programmes, has raised USD70 million in Series C financing.
Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and Fin Venture Capital co-led the round, along with a host of other financial services and fintech leaders including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Manulife, Point72, Nationwide Ventures, Allianz Life Ventures, Northwestern Mutual, FinTech Collective, Greenspring Associates, Primary Venture Partners, Teamworthy Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Industry Ventures, and Commerce Ventures.
Vestwell provides the underlying infrastructure for workplace savings and investing programs, such as 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plans. The firm’s API-based technology is designed to support a diverse ecosystem of
Software investment firm Thoma Bravo is to acquire customer and employee experience specialist Medallia in a USD6.4 billion all-cash transaction.
Medallia will become a private company with additional resources and greater flexibility to build on its innovation leadership and expand its customer impact. Additionally, the transaction will allow Medallia to benefit from the operating capabilities, capital support and deep sector expertise of Thoma Bravo – one of the most experienced and successful software investors in the world.
Under the terms of the agreement, Medallia shareholders will receive USD34.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of approximately 20 per
Foresight Group (Foresight), an infrastructure and regional private equity investment manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has sold Poppy & Jacks Limited (Poppy & Jacks), a children’s nursery chain in North West England.
Poppy & Jacks was sold to Kids Planet Day Nurseries Limited (Kids Planet), a national nursery chain, backed by BGF. Kids Planet will be an excellent partner, supporting the Company’s development and the continued provision of an outstanding home from home environment across all nurseries.
Since its original investment in March 2016, Foresight has taken a proactive approach to supporting the senior management team, introducing Chairperson
North Haven Capital (NHC), a private investment firm based in Portland, Maine has acquired New England-based Interstate Fire Protection (IFP).
NHC teamed up with BankProv, a future-ready commercial bank that offers adaptive and technology-first banking solutions to emerging markets.
Interstate Fire Protection is a leading provider of fire protection services and systems that are protecting hundreds of businesses across New England. The company also undertakes the design and sale of systems protecting manufacturing assets outside of the region on a national level. North Haven Capital identified IFP as a rapidly growing, regional leader that is ready for a transition in
Six months after raising USD7 million in seed funding, Paris-based data-centric AI training platform Kili Technology has raised USD25 million in Series A financing from London-based venture capital fund Balderton Capital and further commitment from initial investors, Serena Capital and Headline.
“Managing and transforming unstructured data into training-ready data involves complex workflows and collaboration between business users and data teams. Kili’s data infrastructure platform simplifies this by managing the entire data lifecycle, helping companies to save time and money. We were impressed by the combination of technical experience from Kili’s team and their capacity to execute at a fast pace,”
SEDNA, an intelligent communications system for high-performance teams at leading companies like Glencore, Norden, and Bunge, has secured USD34 million in Series B funding.
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