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Jumio, a leading provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, has secured a USD150 million investment from Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies.
This infusion represents the single largest funding round in the digital identity space and speaks to the global importance of establishing a user’s identity remotely to defend against fraud and financial crime, comply with KYC and AML regulations and boost online conversions.
The investment will accelerate Jumio’s significant global lead in the digital identity space by devoting additional resources to automate its identity verification solutions, expand the breadth
Winter Capital has expanded its edtech portfolio by joining Udemy Series F investment round alongside Learn Capital and other marquee investors.
The round closing was finalised in Q4 of 2020. Udemy is the largest global marketplace for learning and teaching online. The capital raised will enable the company to continue growing its consumer and business product offerings to serve the world’s students, organizations, and instructors.
Education technology (edtech) is one of the key investment verticals for Winter Capital. Other notable investments include a significant interest in SkyEng, one of Europe’s largest online education platforms. Earlier this year, Winter Capital
Mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has launched a dedicated app to facilitate collaboration and encourage networking amongst its portfolio companies.
The platform, Nexus, will be a central hub of information and has been designed to give NorthEdge’s portfolio company teams a forum to collaborate, communicate and share best practice approaches on building successful businesses. The app will also provide access to NorthEdge’s wider network of experts and operating partners.
Nexus, named after the important connection between the parts of a system or a group of things, will also host easy-to-access information and insight produced by experts on topics such
Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, has made an investment in Learn on Demand Systems, a specialist provider of virtual labs used to power hands-on, experiential technology training. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Learn on Demand Systems provides cloud-based virtual lab environments to address a range of organizations’ information technology (IT) needs across skills validation, education, sales enablement, and customer support. The company’s offerings empower organizations to accelerate skills acquisition through scored hands-on experiences across a diverse set of topics including DevOps, cloud, security, and software development. The company has experienced record growth at a time when
DunPort Capital Management (DunPort) has launched a EUR50 million fund to provide tailored and flexible capital solutions to Irish small and medium sized enterprises whose businesses have been directly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
ec4u and Bulpros are merging to create a combined digital cloud solutions platform with more than 1,400 employees across 25 offices in 11 countries, backed by the pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital, which has made a majority investment in the merged company.
The two companies, ec4u and Bulpros, which have been collaborating since 2018, have their headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany and Sofia, Bulgaria, respectively. The company founders and existing management teams of both companies will remain as large shareholders and continue to operate the merged company. The merger transaction is only subject to regulatory approval.
Founded in 2000, ec4u
The Astrea VI private equity bonds issued this month have been tokenised by iSTOX to reduce the minimum investment ticket by up to 10 times.
This marks the first time digital tokens with exposure to bonds in the Astrea series have been offered.
The manager of the Astrea VI transaction is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Azalea Group, which is in turn an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings. iSTOX’s digital tokens lower the threshold for accredited investors to gain exposure to the private equity bond asset class.
The digital issuance, or tokenisation, covered bonds from the two USD-denominated tranches
FundRock has secured regulatory approval from the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the French financial markets regulator, for FundRock FFAM, its new AIFM service in France.
The new service, which will assist international and domestic professional investors in accessing alternative asset classes including private equity and real estate, strengthens FundRock’s presence in the alternative investment market in Europe and particularly in France.
Since the initiative was announced last year, FundRock has attracted a large number of new French regulated funds. Prior to the launch of FFAM, a dedicated team within FundRock had been managing these funds from its Luxembourg
Two of Scotland’s most successful entrepreneurs have launched a new investment arm for their diverse and growing portfolio of investments.
Paddy Burns and Chris van der Kuyl – co-founders of multiple award-winning games developer 4J Studios, best known for developing Minecraft for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo games consoles – have established Chroma Ventures as a means of consolidating an investment portfolio focused principally on data-led businesses and those developing and deploying innovative technology.
Chroma Ventures will channel flexible capital into a range of early-stage and established businesses with high-growth potential.
Burns and van der Kuyl have been active supporters
Chasm Partners has ChasmDILIGENCE, a new solution aimed at providing insights to help private equity and venture capital investors perform human capital diligence at deal stage.
“Since 2015, Chasm has helped our clients in Venture Capital and Private Equity scale by placing top tier talent in their healthcare organisation investments,” says Matt Dumas, Managing Partner at Chasm. “Leveraging our unique approaches to psychometric testing and candidate evaluation when making placements for our clients, we have developed ChasmDILIGENCE to provide a more practical alternative to human capital due diligence than traditional approaches have offered.”
All ChasmDILIGENCE engagements are managed by highly
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