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C5 Capital’s founder and managing partner, Andre Pienaar speaks with tangible passion when discussing the potential for investing in female entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity space. As one of the UK’s foremost cybersecurity VC investors, C5 Capital knows what to look for when assessing innovation in the sector. In Pienaar’s view “for the future success of the sector we have to diversify”.
“The cybersecurity sector is producing a significant number of dynamic female founders, which is a positive development,” he says. “They are building very successful businesses. This is an important theme of our latest fund, C5 Impact Partners LP: to
VNX Exchange, a Luxembourg asset backed token issuance platform, has launched a new offering – the syndication of an investment round into Middle East e-commerce platform, by a Luxembourg VC fund 2be.lu.This USD2.5 million offering on VNX, is a part of the USD7.5 million new funding round of Sprii. As a part of the round, Luxembourg-based VC fund 2be.lu, a long-standing investor of Sprii, subscribes to the convertible notes issued as a part of the new financing round and offers financial investors an opportunity to join the investment through VNX platform.
“We help lead investors to syndicate deals on the
Eurazeo has signed the gender diversity charter drawn up by the association France Invest by which private equity firms commit to achieving gender-balanced representation within their firms and portfolio companies.
London-founded tech company JUMO, focusing on next-generation financial services for emerging market entrepreneurs, has raised USD55 million in debt and equity funding from new and existing investors.
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has published an online Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Roadmap for the global private equity (PE) industry. The Roadmap is comprised of best practices that both general and limited partners can adopt to advance D&I at their own organisations and throughout the PE ecosystem. Each best practice is accompanied by a list of resources that supports the practice’s implementation. As the Roadmap is intended to be an ongoing source of up-to-date, actionable information, outside submissions of additional best practices and resources are encouraged.
“Over the last several years, we have seen many organisations take substantive steps to improve
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has launched a new payment and fraud risk assessment (PFRA) offering, which is designed to help firms identify and remediate vulnerabilities within payment flows in order to reduce the risk of costly fraud issues. The service is overseen by the ACA Aponix division’s senior principal consultant Kamlesh Harry.
Before joining ACA, Kamlesh was an Executive Director at JP Morgan, where he led various teams across the firm’s technology, client support services, cybersecurity, and payment fraud functions for over 13 years. Amongst other key contributions, he was instrumental in developing controls for the EMEA Wholesale Banking payment platforms
Blue River Partners (Blue River), a US provider of outsourced solutions to alternative asset managers including fund administration for private equity funds, is to be acquired by IQ-EQ.
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ICR, a strategic communications and advisory firm, has launched ICR ESG Diagnostics, a comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance analysis offering to help private equity and venture capital firms identify and assess corporate ESG issues during the investment due diligence process.
“As limited partners focus on responsible, long-term investments, they are increasingly focused on ESG issues,” says Don Duffy, President of ICR. “With comprehensive ESG due diligence now a core part of the investment process, our Governance Solutions team developed a comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance analysis to help financial sponsors identify risks and opportunities in potential investments.”
ICR ESG Diagnostics
ICR, a strategic communications and advisory firm, has launched ICR ESG Diagnostics, a comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance analysis offering to help private equity and venture capital firms identify and assess corporate ESG issues during the investment due diligence process.“As limited partners focus on responsible, long-term investments, they are increasingly focused on ESG issues,” says Don Duffy, President of ICR. “With comprehensive ESG due diligence now a core part of the investment process, our Governance Solutions team developed a comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance analysis to help financial sponsors identify risks and opportunities in potential investments.”
ICR ESG Diagnostics analyses
PEF Services (PEF), a fund administrator for alternative investment managers, has been selected to provide fund administration services to Parliament Capital Management (PCM). “PEF’s reputation for providing exceptional service to its clients, together with innovative technology solutions that will allow us to scale, were key drivers in our decision,” says José R Otero-Freiría, Managing Partner of Parliament Capital Management. “PEF Services’ extensive experience in working with debt funds will help us focus on expanding strategic, high-value initiatives like deal sourcing and asset management, among other areas.”
PEF Services is a private capital fund administrators supporting multiple fund types and investments including Buyout,
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