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Financial services provider iBanFirst, which delivers solutions across banking borders, has secured a growth equity investment to fund product development, international expansion and M&A, from global private equity firm Marlin, which became the fintech’s largest shareholder as a result, replacing existing business angels and some of the company’s early backers.
Through the transaction, a number of iBanFirst’s historic partners, including top-tier venture capital firm Elaia, Bpifrance Large Venture and Xavier Niel, have strengthened their existing commitments. iBanFirst CEO and Founder, Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier, will become the company’s second-largest shareholder as part of the new agreement.
The move marks a shift
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has signed a definitive agreement to sell Greenphire, a specialist in financial lifecycle management software for clinical trials, to Thoma Bravo, a software focused private equity firm.
The pending transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year, subject to the satisfaction of regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. Financial details were not disclosed.
Founded in 2008, Greenphire enables pharmaceutical industry leaders worldwide to run more efficient and successful clinical trials. The company’s end-to-end solutions optimise clinical trial performance by streamlining
Independent asset manager BOOST&Co is expanding across the UK, offering a wider range of funding options to SMEs by establishing a presence in Birmingham, Reading and Leeds.
The lender has hired nine new principals to better serve businesses throughout the country, and now has dealmakers in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Reading and Leeds.
This expansion will enable BOOST&Co to provide more UK businesses with alternative finance – particularly important as high-street banks increasingly shy away from lending to SMEs. The lender has instead committed to supporting these companies, wherever they are based, by hiring principals across the country
By Melanie Pittas, partner and co-head of financial services & Karen Allan, director, haysmacintyre – The private equity industry faced a number of challenges during the pandemic, with the majority of these arising from one underlying issue: uncertainty. These challenges included valuations, investor pessimism and a downturn in investment activity.
VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the business services, healthcare, education and information industries has completed a significant growth investment in Centroid Systems Inc (Centroid), a provider of managed cloud-services and enterprise workload consulting services. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Centroid is one of the few certified Oracle Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in all of North America, where it has won 14 North American Partner of the Year awards from Oracle. Centroid provides Oracle enterprise workload consulting and managed services across all major public cloud providers, including Azure, Amazon, Google, IBM,
Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector, has reached an agreement to acquire Greenphire, the global leader in financial lifecycle management software for clinical trials, from The Riverside Company.
The deal, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. Jim Murphy, CEO of Greenphire, will continue to lead the company along with the existing management team in King of Prussia, PA. Financial details have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2008, Greenphire enables pharmaceutical industry leaders worldwide to run more efficient and successful
HIG Growth Partners (HIG), the growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has completed a strategic growth investment in Accounting Seed, Inc, a rapidly growing cloud-based accounting and financial management software platform.
Based in Columbia, MD, Accounting Seed is a mission critical SaaS accounting platform that is purpose built for small to medium enterprises. Built on Force.com, Accounting Seed offers a robust and scalable enterprise grade technology stack and enables its customers to fully pilot their organisations with one system of record and unified workflow – from sales lead through to the general ledger. The Company’s feature rich software platform
Travel and event management company, TAG, has launched a new travel division focused on the Investment Management sector.
Sitting alongside Corporate, Touring, Events, Private Travel and Production the newly established Investment Management division will deliver a bespoke service to this complex and fast-paced sector, alongside the high touch experience TAG is renowned for.
Director of Business Development and Strategy Daniel Price explains: “We have been working with Investment Management firms for over 30 years, so we understand their ways of working and what is important to these clients. We realised that their needs differ from our Corporate travellers,
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has made a further investment into Fresh Relevance, following on a record quarter of growth for the company, to accelerate product roadmap roll out and support scaling.
Some members of the management team have participated in the funding round, demonstrating strong support for the business and its growth.
Based in London, Fresh Relevance is a SaaS-based personalisation and decision engine for online businesses and was co-founded in 2013 by Mike Austin, Pete Austin and Eddy Swindell. Fresh Relevance’s versatile platform analyses transactional data in real-time and optimises the customer
Mobeus has agreed to sell Ludlow Wealth Management, a North West-based financial advice business, to Mattioli Woods plc, for an enterprise value of GBP36.1 million, subject to regulatory approval and completion of a share placing by Mattioli Woods.
Mattioli Woods is an AIM-listed provider of advice on wealth management and employee benefits that is acquiring Ludlow as part of its ambitious growth plans within the wealth management sector.
Mobeus backed CEO Ian Hemingway in a GBP12 million buyout from founder Sid Ludlow in June 2017, when the business had GBP865 million of Assets under Advice (AuA). Mobeus introduced chairman Phil
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