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The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, has released the second in a series of reports on culture and diversity – Beyond the Metrics: Demonstrating and Assessing Diversity in Smaller Asset Managers.
Allocator due diligence increasingly focuses on aspects of culture and diversity within asset managers. Being able to compare this data across managers is critical but doing this based solely on metrics can put smaller managers at a disadvantage. This report provides solutions for how smaller managers can make their culture and diversity strategies effective and how allocators
OMERS Ventures has lead a USD45 million Series C investment round in Medal.tv, a specialist in short-form gaming video clip.
The latest round follows a previously unannounced USD15 million Series B from Makers Fund, Horizon Ventures, Dune Ventures, and others.
Medal has used these funds to strategically acquire the technology, talent, and resources to change how players share and experience gaming moments together.
Nexa Equity LLC, a private equity firm focused on scaling lower middle market software and fintech businesses, has made a majority growth investment in Leap, a provider of home contractor sales enablement software.
Leap’s management team and founders will continue to be meaningful shareholders. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Leap is a purpose-built, on-demand software product developed by seasoned home improvement professionals that enables contractors to provide sales bids to potential clients on the spot. Leap’s proprietary application helps home contractors eliminate errors, increase profit margins and present professionally throughout the sales process. The company serves
NewSpring Franchise, private equity firm New Spring’s fifth and newest strategy focused on innovative franchise and multi-unit concepts, has completed a strategic investment partnership with Central Bark, a doggy day care provider.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
As part of the agreement, Central Bark Co-Founders Chris Gaba and Jackie Jordan will continue to oversee day-to-day operations of the brand while working with NewSpring to help fuel company growth and profitability. Together, they will continue to provide best-in-class franchisee support while making strategic investments in technology and operational efficiencies to maximise the network’s success.
DAI has acquired MicroVest Capital Management (MicroVest), a lender to responsible finance institutions. The deal expands the capabilities of DAI’s investment management arm, DAI Capital.
Founded in 2003, MicroVest allocates private investments to financial institutions that serve disadvantaged and underbanked enterprises in emerging markets. The company has disbursed more than USD1 billion to some 200 financial institutions across 60 countries to help create economic opportunities and facilitate financial inclusion.
The combination of DAI and MicroVest reflects the two firms’ shared commitment to mobilize private sector capital to create jobs, reduce poverty, and advance the UN Sustainable Development
Eruptr Holdings (Eruptr), a provider of ROI-focused digital marketing patient engagement and customer acquisition solutions for hospitals and healthcare systems, has completed the acquisition of the health risk assessment (HRA) business line of Medicom Health.
In March 2020, Eruptr acquired HealthAware, another market leader in the health risk assessment space. Medicom Health and HealthAware are highly complementary and the two solutions under Eruptr will allow the Company to offer hospital and health care systems a best-in-class suite of digital marketing solutions at scale.
In October 2018, Eruptr secured a strategic investment from HIG. Growth Partners, the dedicated growth capital investment
Apex Group Ltd (Apex) has been appointed to provide fund administration, investor reporting and investor portal services to RailField Partners (RailField), a multifamily investment and asset management firm.
Apex will support RailField’s fund accounting needs for their first institutional LP funds.
Based in Bethesda, Maryland, RailField has partnerships with a wide range of investors including family offices, pension funds and private equity firms. With a portfolio of 14 properties containing approximately 4,500 units in eight markets across the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Texas, RailField has transacted over USD215 billion in multifamily real estate.
Silver Lake, a specialist in technology investing, has made a EUR344 million investment in Software AG.
The deal represents the first ever German PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity) deal by a US technology investment firm.
Software AG will use the funds to accelerate growth, supported by its cloud-native product set, further strengthening and extending its position in North America, and executing a strategic programme of value-creating M&A.
Software investor Main Capital Partners (Main) has acquired majority stakes in ORIBI ID-Solutions (ORIBI) and Qics in The Netherlands. The combined deal size is in the region of EUR20 million.
These acquisitions represent the first two investments for its recently launched ‘Main Foundation I’ fund that targets smaller, high potential software companies delivering modern and highly capable technology platforms.
Software scale-up investor, Frog Capital has made a GBP12.25 million investment in insurance software solutions provider, Genasys.
The investment will see Frog take a significant stake in the business, with the Genasys management team retaining operational control.
Genasys’ dynamic SaaS platform provides modularised end-to-end policy administration and claims solutions for insurance business across the full spectrum of the industry.
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