Solutions
Permira’s growth fund has led a USD350 million Series G funding round in Sysdig, Inc, a unified container and cloud security specialist, at a valuation of USD2.5 billion. The round brings total funding to USD744 million and sees the company’s valuation more than double in eight months.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, is to invest in iCEV, a developer of SaaS-based digital curriculum, instructional materials and industry certifications for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) market.
Riverside has invested in more than 80 education and training companies, including those specialising in pre-K, K-12, post-secondary education, certifications and lifelong learning.
Patriot Growth Insurance Services (Patriot), a US national insurance agency backed by private equity firms GI Partners and Summit Partners, has added The Safegard Group (Safegard) to its platform.
The partnership with Safegard strengthens Patriot’s existing property & casualty and employee benefits brokerage capabilities and expands the platform’s geographic presence into the critical Philadelphia region.
Highland Europe has led a USD50 million Series D funding round in Signal AI, bringing total funding to date to USD100 million.
Other investors in this round include abrdn, existing investors include Redline, MMC, Hearst and Guardian Media Group Ventures.
Signal AI will use this new funding to further build out its innovative decision augmentation solution.
Alitheia IDF (AIF), Africa’s first women-led and women-focused private equity fund, has he’d it’s final close at USD100 million with European Investment Bank (EIB) joining as the closing investor with USD24.6 million.
With this final close, Alitheia IDF becomes the largest gender-lens private equity fund by value in Africa.
Led by principal partners Polo Leteka and Tokunboh Ishmael, Alitheia IDF invests in growth-stage companies across six African countries: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Zambia. The fund has a mandate to plug the over USD42 billion investment gap between male and female entrepreneurs as a means of catalysing the
BB Capital Investments has completed the sale of childcare software provider KidsKonnect to Five Arrows Growth Capital.
BB Capital initially took a majority interest in Flexkids in 2018 and subsequently formed KidsKonnect following a merger between Flexkids and Konnect. The childcare software provider, with headquarters in Haarlem, offers fully integrated software solutions for daycare centres, out-of-school care, childminder organisations and primary education centres.
KidsKonnect today serves more than one million children in the 0-12 year age group with childcare software solutions in the Netherlands and Belgium via its integrated platform, and has established itself as a market leader in the
Hypi, the London-based SaaS platform that makes no-code app development accessible to everyone, has secured GBP150,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital.
The funding will support the growth of Hypi platform and push their new no-code solution out to users who want a simpler, more visual way of developing and launching their app ideas.
Hypi’s low-code platform allows non-technical people to create their own ready-to-launch professional web and mobile apps in minutes, using a visual tool that aims to be as simple and easy to use as a standard word processor.
CONET an IT consulting firm backed by private equity firm IK Investment Partners is to acquire Karlsruhe-based ISB AG.
Having both been successful individually in the IT services market for more than 30 years, the two companies will now benefit from complementary services and customer relationships, particularly in the public and automotive sectors. The acquisition of ISB AG was supported by IK Partners, CONET Group’s majority investor.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is subject to legal and regulatory approvals, have not been disclosed.
Bregal Sagemount (Sagemount), a global private equity firm that specialises in backing growing companies to the Board and investor base, has made a significant equity investment in Transflo, a provider of mobile business intelligence and payments facilitation tools to the transportation sector, backed by tech-focused private equity firm True Wind Capital (True Wind).
Funds managed by Blackstone GP Stakes have acquired a minority ownership interest in Nautic Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on investments in the healthcare, industrials, and services sectors.
Blackstone GP Stakes specialises in value-added, long-term investments in the management companies of leading private equity firms.
Nautic recently closed on the firm’s tenth private equity fund at a hard cap of USD3.0 billion with strong support from both existing and new institutional investors. Nautic closed its previous fund, Nautic Partners IX, in 2019 with USD1.5 billion of committed limited partner capital.
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