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BigTime Software, a provider of cloud-based software for professional services firms, has secured a USD100 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Augusoft, a specialist in enrolment management for continuing and corporate education programmes.
Shakepay, a Canadian bitcoin technology company enabling customers to easily buy and earn bitcoin through financial applications, has raised CAD44 million in a Series A investment, at a CAD313m valuation.
The round was led by QED Investors, a US-based venture capital firm that invests in businesses that disrupt and empower the financial technology industry, funding over 150 successful fintech companies.
Existing investors Boost VC and BoxOne Ventures also participated along with Golden Ventures, Broadhaven, Henri Machalani, Mike Murchison, Jevon MacDonald, Mark MacLeod, Dan Debow, Farhan Thawar, and several product leaders from Shopify.
The funding will be used to scale Shakepay’s
Maple Finance has acquired Avari, an undercollateralised lending protocol, which will allow Maple to launch on the Solana blockchain quickly, becoming the first corporate credit marketplace to do so.
The acquihire of Avari and its team, will increase Maple’s total addressable market (TAM) and grow the potential total value locked (TVL) of the protocol, making Maple the largest undercollateralised lending product by TVL in decentralised finance (DeFi) and building the strongest engineering team on Solana.
Undercollateralized lending in crypto is still comparatively small, representing less than 1 per cent of the outstanding debt market. This indicates there is a lot
BlockFills, a digital asset trading and financial technology company, has closed a USD37 million Series A funding round led by institutional investors, including Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, CME Ventures, Simplex Ventures, C6E, Nexo Inc, and several other institutional investors and funds.
This is the second multimillion-dollar funding round since the company’s founding in 2018. BlockFills has raised a total of USD44 million to date from institutional investors.
The Series A funding round will allow BlockFills to expand and evolve its technology platforms to provide more advanced solutions for the hedge fund and asset management community, a sector in which the
Big Health, a digital therapeutics company dedicated to helping millions back to good mental health, has raised USD75 million in a Series C funding round, led by new investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
ArrowMark Partners and existing investors Octopus Ventures, Gilde Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente Ventures (KPV), and Morningside Ventures, also participated.
Pixis (formerly known as Pyxis One), a provider of contextual codeless AI infrastructure for complete marketing optimisation, has secured US USD100 million in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank Vision 2.
Pixis will leverage the fresh funds to help the company rapidly scale its AI platforms and plugins, as well as accelerate expansions across North America, Europe, and APAC.
The Series C round included participation from new investor General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, plus existing investors Celesta Capital, Premji Invest, Chiratae Ventures, and Crimsonox Ventures. With the close of its USD17 million Series B round
Vinter, Europe’s fastest-growing index provider specialised in crypto assets, has raised a further USD3.4m as it continues to expand its range of crypto asset indexes for ETP and ETF issuers.
The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from the Ricketts family office, D4 Ventures, Pfeffer Capital and notable angels including Gokul Rajaram, Marc Powers and David Chreng.
Global investment firm NPX Capital, through its private equity arm, NPX Private Equity, has invested USD43 million into digital content developer Copin Communications.
Founded in 2017, Copin Communications is a digital content developer with specialties in character design, emoji, webtoon and animation productions.
In September 2021, NPX Capital made its first investment in Copin Communications worth USD13 million. Since then, NPX Capital has been closely cooperating with Copin Communications, which led to the additional investment, which will be used to strengthen and diversify digital content production capabilities as well as to support business expansion overseas, targeting promising global markets including
European private equity firm IK Partners, via the IK Small Cap III Fund, is to acquire FCG, from international private equity group Bridgepoint.
The deal, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
FCG is a GRC services provider, offering advisory, outsourcing, GRC technology and fund administration services to the financial services industry.
Together with IK, FCG plans to continue its international growth strategy, further strengthen the service offering within key growth areas such as ESG. IK is acquiring its
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