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Pegasus Tech Ventures, a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, is making its official debut as a Venture Capital-as-a-Service (VCaaS) provider.
The firm takes a novel approach through its VCaaS model, managing multiple funds for well-known, global corporations that wish to partner with cutting-edge technology startups. Pegasus will vet investment opportunities for its partners, manage the investments, then connect portfolio companies to its ecosystem of global corporate partners to accelerate growth.
The Pegasus team has invested in more than 140 startups in North America, Europe, and Asia that have pathbreaking innovations across a broad spectrum of sectors, including
Global regulatory compliance firm Optima Partners as appointed private equity and hedge fund adviser David Gold as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).
“Hiring David represents a significant investment in Optima’s growth,” says Optima Partners CEO Jonathan Saxton. “His role will ensure the consistent delivery of the high level of advice and service to all of our clients, as well as the continued robust growth of our firm.”
Gold says: “I am looking forward to working with our global colleagues to help Optima broaden its market leadership and drive successful outcomes for its clients, employees and other stakeholders.”
Estera, a provider of funds, corporate and trust services, has moved to its new, state of the art offices in Guernsey. It will see the firm’s fund administration, accounting and reporting services, as well as their corporate and trust services offered from one high-specification office.
Estera acquired Heritage Financial Services Group and Morgan Sharpe in 2017 making it one of the island’s largest administrators. The move to the 17,600 sq ft offices at Trafalgar Court in St Peter Port, brings together the 100 members of the Guernsey team under one roof.
Farah Ballands, Chief Executive Officer at Estera, says:
Mosaic Smart Data, a real-time capital markets data analytics company, has completed an USD9 million investment round to support its rapid product development and global expansion.
The round was co-led by CommerzVentures and Octopus Ventures and includes JP Morgan – an existing investor and client.
Daily trading activity in the capital markets generates vast quantities of raw transaction and pricing data. Institutions are increasingly looking to extract the value from this, largely untapped, data asset. Annual spending on data analytics and market data has now grown to over USD30.5 billion a year. Being able to refine this raw data
Institutional Advisory Services Group (IASG), an independent advisory firm specialising in alternative investments for institutional and high net worth investors, has launched a new company – IASG Fund Services (IASG-FS).
Incorporated in 2019, IASG-FS will offer fund services to investment managers. This new company, majority owned by the Jonkheer family, has partnered with a known operator in the fund administration business. Through this operator’s innovative SaaS platform, Seamless Solutions, IASG-FS will sell fund administration services and products to managers. These services include but are not limited to back-office, shadow accounting, investor services, cash management, cloud technology, document storage and cybersecurity.
Oak, a new private client, corporate services and fund administration group, has acquired International Administration Group (IAG).
Founded in 2000 by Mark Woodall and Alison Simpson, IAG is a specialist fund administration business headquartered in Guernsey with a team of 43 people. IAG delivers bespoke fund administration and depositary services to private equity, open-ended, listed and alternative asset fund structures and will become the centre of fund expertise within the Oak business.
Oak, which is headquartered in Guernsey, launched in March this year. The business is the consolidation of Oak Trust Group, Consortia Partnership and Kreston IOM which between them
Onchain Custodian (ONC), a digital asset custodian backed by Sequoia, Fosun and DHVC, has on-boarded its first customers.
Headquartered in Singapore, Onchain Custodian has developed a personalised and comprehensive custody service for institutional players and accredited investors to secure digital assets with institutional grade security and controls. The SAFE Digital Asset Custody Platform is flexibly built to meet the possible futures of digital asset custody.
Onchain Custodian’s launch event took place at the Mandarin Oriental Singapore on 11 April during the Asia Pacific Blockchain New Finance Summit. The event attracted VIP guests from all over the world, from Canada to
The Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA) has named the first-ever group of people to achieve the new Chartered Due Diligence Analyst (CDDA) designation after sitting for and passing an intensive examination.
Under development by the IMDDA for more than two and a half years, the CDDA designation denotes a superior level of understanding of international due diligence practices and principles. Obtaining the CDDA distinguishes professionals as having achieved extensive background and experience in due diligence and possessing the skills to understand business, operational, accounting, financial and investment risks. The CDDA will be the recognised standard in Operational and Investment
Blufolio, a Swiss blockchain investment firm and manager of the Luxembourg-registered blufolio venture capital fund, has made its first investment in YAPEAL, a Zurich-based digital banking start-up founded by an experienced team of finance and technology professionals.
YAPEAL is initially addressing a specific section of the Swiss consumer market, with strong potential for mid-term growth via a B2B proposition.
“We are delighted to support the growth of YAPEAL, which targets a clear gap in the Swiss banking market. We see great opportunities for YAPEAL’s world-class management team to scale the company’s offering via partnerships in the Swiss and broader European
The amount of data is growing exponentially. According to IDC, there were 16.3 zettabytes of information generated in 2017 alone. In simple terms, if every piece of data were a penny, it would cover the earth’s surface five times over.
Against this growing tsunami of data, investment managers and service providers alike are looking for ways to ingest and make sense of it all. To find information that they can translate into insights and turn into knowledge, that if done correctly, could lead to improved business performance and enriched customer relationships.
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