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UMB Fund Services (UMBFS), a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation has been selected to provide fund accounting, investor servicing and tax reporting for Farnam Street Real Estate Capital (FSREC).
FSREC is a full-service commercial real estate investment firm. FSREC launched its first closed-end fund, Farnam Street Real Estate Capital Partners I, LP, on 7 May, 2021.
Founded in Omaha in 1981, The Lund Company – which joined the Cushman & Wakefield Alliance in 2012 – serves as a strategic partner for FSREC and provides property management and real estate services.
True Global Ventures 4 Plus (TGV4 Plus) Fund has invested USD5.7 million and led the USD17 million Series B round for Coinhouse, a French company which has been providing cryptocurrency management and transaction services since 2015.
Palatine-backed Suntera Global has enhanced its presence in the Channel Islands with the acquisition of specialist fiduciary services provider, Nedgroup Trust Limited.
Suntera says the deal strengthens its offering and extends its reach into an additional tier one jurisdiction in Guernsey.
Nedgroup Trust Limited has a 70 strong team of staff across the Channel Islands, with 50 of those based in Guernsey, a new jurisdiction for Suntera, and supports a significant international client base including a substantial proportion based in South Africa.
Currently owned by Nedbank Private Wealth Limited, Nedgroup Trust provides a full suite of fiduciary services to high-net
ELYSIA, a decentralised project linking has raised a strategic investment (USD1 million) from FBG Capital, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency hedge fund and venture capital firm.
The ELYSIA Foundation plans to utilise FBG Capital’s network to preoccupy the global market and accelerate technological advancement through this investment.
ELYSIA is a protocol that makes real assets into asset tokens (NFTs) to be used on-chain, and the asset tokens created in this way can be used in ELYSIA’s DeFi, ELYFI. ELYFI is the first DeFi project to utilise real assets brought on-chain through the ELYSIA protocol. Participants in the ELYFI Protocol can obtain investment
Lukka, the crypto-asset software and data provider, have closed their Series E investment round of USD110 million, valuing the company at more than USD1.3 billion. This round comes after closing their Series D round just nine months ago.
The round was led by Marshall Wace, a global alternative asset manager. The round’s other notable investors include Miami International Holdings, In, Summer Capital, and SiriusPoint Ltd., as well as participation from previous investors Soros Fund Management, Liberty City Ventures, S&P Global, and CPA.com, who all contributed to the company’s Series D investment.
Vienna-based GoStudent, which provides one-to-one video-based online tutoring, has raised EUR300m in a Series D funding round led by new investor Prosus.
Additional participation in the round came from Deutsche Telekom, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tencent, Dragoneer, Left Lane Capital and Coatue.
The funding comes just seven months after GoStudent became Europe’s first EdTech unicorn, raising a Series C round of EUR205 million in June 2021. Since the company was founded in 2016, it has raised a total of +EUR590 million, and this new round strengthens its position as the highest valued K12 EdTech company in Europe with a EUR3
True Wind Capital (True Wind), a San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on investing in technology companies, has made a strategic growth investment in W Energy Software.
M33 Growth, LLC, a Boston-based venture and growth-stage investment firm that previously invested in W Energy Software, along with the Company’s founders and other shareholders, are rolling a meaningful portion of their investment into the transaction.
Based in Tulsa, OK, W Energy Software is a provider of cloud-based accounting and ERP software to enterprise and mid-market customers across the energy and commodities value chain.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP served as legal
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Signal Vine, a higher education-focused text messaging platform.
The investment is an add-on to Riverside’s Modern Campus, a learner engagement platform for higher education institutions. The investment will enable colleges and universities to modernise learner engagement with personalisation at scale, supporting optimal enrolment, completion and student success.
Security awareness platform vendor SoSafe has raised USD73 million in a Series B funding round led by expansion-stage specialists Highland Europe.
Existing investors Acton Capital and Global Founders Capital were joined by SAP Hybris founder and Celonis Advisory Board member Carsten Thoma together with La Famiglia as well as Adjust founder Christian Henschel as participants.
With its agile and human-centric security awareness platform, SoSafe takes a uniquely user-centered approach to cyber security.
With 85 per cent of security attacks traced back to a human factor, the SoSafe awareness platform uses insights from behavioural science to drive sustainable behavioural change.
Private equity firm Nile Capital Group Holdings has acquired a minority stake in hedge fund manager Welton Investment Partners, according to a report in Pensions & Investments.
Terms of the transaction, which was completed on 15 December, have not been disclosed.
Nile Capital specialises in taking general partners stakes in boutique, niche and diverse money managers, while Welton runs multi-strategy global macro and ESG strategies, as well as systematic trend-following funds for an institutional client base.
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