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Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, is to sell its stake in Linkbynet, a provider of cloud, Devops and cyber security services.
This sale would take place in the context of the proposed acquisition of the company by Accenture.
Founded in 2000, Linkbynet is a cloud-native solutions provider with offices in France, Belgium, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Singapore and Vietnam. The company’s team is comprised of more than 900 highly skilled professionals with 400 certifications from major cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft or Alibaba.
Keensight Capital, as a shareholder of Linkbynet since
finncap Cavendish (Cavendish), part of financial advisory firm, finnCap Group, has has advised on the sale of a majority stake in Xexec Ltd (Xexec), an employee engagement tech firm, to funds advised by Castik Capital (Castik) and Boston-based private equity firm, Abry Partners (Abry).
Headquartered in London, Xexec is an employee engagement provider that offers a wide range of employee discounts and reward & recognition solutions through its scalable cloud-based platform. The company also offers customer loyalty programs which enables corporate clients to engage with and retain their own end-customers.
Xexec has proven to be a fast growing and
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a significant growth equity investment in regulatory technology (regtech) company FundApps.
As a Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) business, FundApps addresses the way investment managers deal with the regulatory burden by combining cloud technology, regulatory expertise, market data and the unique FundApps Community. Previously, compliance managers were overwhelmed by ever-increasing complexity, but services covering Shareholding Disclosure, Sensitive Industries and Position Limits have truly made compliance simple.
Today, London-headquartered FundApps has over 100 clients, ranging from hedge funds, asset managers and sell-sides, to the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. Collectively, FundApps’ services monitor over 10 per cent
Global investment bank GCA Altium has acted as exclusive financial adviser to the shareholders of RideMovi, a leading player in the industry of European shared micro-mobility based in Italy, on their Series A growth financing round from Generali.
RideMovi contributes to reducing congestion, traffic and air pollution, improving the quality of life of people in the cities where it operates. The RideMovi app allows users to find, unlock, ride their preferred vehicle (bike, e-bike, e-scooter) and park it at any public parking space, giving users the freedom to move in a fast and convenient way.
RideMovi can leverage a unique
Cherry, a portfolio company of a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based industrials private equity firm Argand Partners has Active Key, a Germany-based leading manufacturer of hygienic, washable keyboards and mice for medical and industrial end-markets.
Active Key is a leading brand in the development and engineering of specialist keyboards and mice that are used in medical, industrial, point-of-sale and office applications. Its product range includes keyboards that are resistant to dust and moisture, fully sealed keyboards that can be easily sanitised, programmable keyboards, and keyboards with integrated card readers. This acquisition strengthens Cherry’s position as a leading provider
EkkoSense Limited (EkkoSense), an advanced software and technology provider, has received a seven-figure cash injection from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), East & South East Midlands Debt Finance fund managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven).
EkkoSense will use the funding to support its rapid international expansion across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa. To aid this new level of growth, the business is adding a high number of resources to its sales, development and operational departments.
Based at the University of Nottingham Innovation Park, EkkoSense is recognised as a global leader in the provision of
By Purva Aggarwal – Aiming to defy the current downturn in the travel industry, a UK fintech company looking to offer consumers a more flexible way to finance travel post Covid-19 has raised GBP10 million in Series A funding, bringing its total received in investments to GBP45 million.
Asset management firms Revenio Capital and Taurus Wealth Advisors co-led the investment round, which will be aimed at expanding operations in Germany and UK, as well as in the US, the world’s largest travel market.
The commercial travel sector is recording an unprecedented slow down due to the pandemic. According to Fly
Sixty8 Capital, an Indianapolis-based, seed-stage venture capital (VC) firm supporting Black, Latinx, women and LGBTQ+ led startups, has held the first close of its new USD20 million venture fund.
Investors include The Indiana Next Level Fund, 50 South Capital, Bank of America, Eli Lilly and Company, First Internet Bank and the Central Indiana Community Foundation. Led by Managing Director Kelli Jones, Sixty8 Capital is industry-agnostic and will focus initially on seed investments between the coasts, with an emphasis on the Midwest. Sixty8 Capital is powered by Allos Ventures, one of Indiana’s most active VC firms, with Allos’ Paul Ehlinger serving
Growth capital investor, BGF has announced a successful exit from Telford-headquartered ReBOUND, a technology platform which supports retailers — such as ASOS, Gymshark, Missguided, JD Sports and Sweaty Betty — to manage their returns sustainably.
BGF backed ReBOUND in October 2018 to accelerate the company’s growth. In this period, annual sales increased by 130 per cent and the returns management platform secured many of the UK’s most successful fashion brands as customers. The business has been ranked in Sunday Times Fast Track leagues three times with its first entry into the Tech Track 100 as the tenth fastest growing tech business in
Radiant Logic, an identity unification pioneer, has secured a strategic investment from TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, positioning the company for further growth. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Whether it be in support of digital transformation, mergers or next-level partnerships, Radiant Logic is the first step in quickly and cost-effectively enabling organisations to execute initiatives that require real-time identity. The company’s industry-leading identity integration and unification platform, RadiantOne, is a dynamic technology that allows organisations to build a single source of truth for identities for today’s complex hybrid cloud environments.
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