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CEPRES: Best Data Management Solutions Provider – The private equity industry is expected to undergo significant changes across its investment processes. This is due to occur both in response to the current crisis and also bearing in mind the broader fundamental shift in capital and returns and systematic risk prior to this global calamity.
“We expect a full digitisation of the investment process for private capital markets with counterparties choosing to act online rather than revert to the old-fashioned approaches. This will be combined with even deeper demands for transactional data exchange to underwrite investment decisions and monitor portfolios based on
Centaur Fund Services: Best Fund Administrator <USD30 billion – Although the private equity industry’s resilience is being tested by the Covid-19 crisis, the outlook is not gloomy on all fronts. Market volatility can lead to losses, but it also has the potential to provide opportunities.
SS&C Intralinks: Best Secure Workflow Management Provider – Investors’ demands have grown exponentially in the past few years, with requests for more transparency, data and standardisation – combined with a focus on reducing fees. These operational requirements have become increasingly burdensome for GPs and create pressure that drives the need for efficiency.
Strait Fund Services (STRAIT) has strengthened its compliance offering for hedge fund and private equity clients with the appointment of Michael Barakat.Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Like every business, the Private Equity sector has been buffeted by the COVID-19 crisis.
A new fund advised by VI Partners held its first close in April on EUR71 million. The fund will focus on medical and deep tech innovations from the Swiss scientific research ecosystem, and hold a final close in 2021.
Blockchain Valley Ventures (BVV), a blockchain technology-focused venture capital firm, in collaboration with Delio, a provider of private markets investment technology, has launched the BVV Dealroom – a virtual deal marketplace for blockchain startups and investors. The new platform – one of the first of its kind in the blockchain space – will offer a solution to the current funding bottleneck that has beset many startups, owing to the Covid-19 related restrictions imposed across the world.
Heinrich Zetlmayer, Founder and General Partner of BVV, says: “We are on a mission to provide the essential support that startups require during these
FalconX is to expand its digital asset trading platform following a new USD17 million VC funding round. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Swiss company Creoptix, which received series C funding in September and focuses on next-generation bioanalysis, is supporting Professor Adriano Aguzzi, Professor for Neuropathology at University of Zurich, in developing Covid-19 antibody tests.
Blockdaemon, a blockchain infrastructure platform for node management serving institutions and developers, has completed a strategic funding round of USD5.5 million led by venture capital (VC) firms focused on blockchain technology. Blockdaemon’s funding round is supported by a number of new investors including Hashkey, CoinShares, Blockchain.com, Kenetic, SPiCE VC and Fenbushi Capital. Early investors Comcast Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Boldstart, and Heavybit will also continue their participation in the latest funding round.
Investor and advisor Meltem Demirors, says: “At CoinShares, we believe compute and connectivity will define the next decade of economic growth, and that blockchain networks and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are
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