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BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made a significant, growth-oriented investment in EMS Management & Consultants (EMS|MC), in partnership with the existing management team.
EMS|MC is the leading provider of revenue cycle management and technology solutions for the emergency medical services (EMS) industry.
EMS|MC, founded in 1996 and based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is one of the nation’s largest revenue cycle management providers focused exclusively on EMS, serving over 260 public, private, hospital-affiliated and non-profit EMS agencies across 24 states. The Company’s proprietary
Thought Machine, a cloud native core banking technology firm, has closed its series C funding round, bringing USD200 million into the business from new and existing investors. This new round sees Thought Machine achieve unicorn status.
This round was led by Nyca Partners, a New York and San Francisco-based venture capital firm, with investment also coming from the investment arms of some of Thought Machine’s global tier one banking clients – ING Ventures, JPMorgan Chase, and Standard Chartered Ventures. Existing investors Lloyds Banking Group, British Patient Capital, Eurazeo, SEB, Molten Ventures (formerly Draper Esprit), Backed, and IQ Capital have all
Raycast, a platform that provides developers with quick access to their tools, has raised USD15 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel and Coatue.
Also participating in the round were angel investors Johnny Boufarhat, CEO and founder of Hopin; Jeff Weinstein, Product at Stripe; Jason Warner, former CTO of GitHub and Ott Kaukver, CTO of Checkout.com and ex-CTO of Twilio, among others. The investment will be used to double down on building Raycast’s community of developers and tools, accelerate platform growth and, for the first time, bring Raycast to teams.
Raycast was founded in 2020 by
IK Partners’ (IK) IK IX Fund is to acquire Renta Group Oy (Renta Group) from Intera Partners (Intera), alongside management and employees who will be reinvesting. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Renta Group is a full-service machine and equipment rental services company with more than 100 depots across Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. The equipment offered meets a broad range of customer needs across construction, infrastructure and industrial markets. The Company also offers modern site facilities, scaffolding and weather protection services in addition to other site services such as temporary plumbing and heating, ventilation and
Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider, has been appointed to provide Fund Administration and Middle Office Services to the life insurance company of Azimut Group (Azimut), an Italy-based, independent asset management operator with over EUR80 billion in assets (as of end of October 2021).
Following a competitive process, Apex has been appointed provide Fund Administration and Middle Office services to Azimut Life dac (Azimut Life), a life insurance company registered in Ireland.
Apex’s fund administration services are the foundation of its single-source solution and ensure the delivery of timely, accurate and independent portfolio accounting, fund and investor
FYLD, a London-based, AI-driven digital platform designed to ensure the safety and efficiency of field teams, has completed completed a GBP10 million Series A funding round.
The funding was provided by Koru, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s venture incubator, and corporate partner SGN, a leading UK gas distribution network operator. To date, FYLD has raised a total of GBP14.4 million.
Both participating investors have committed to following their initial seed funding investments based on the results achieved since FYLD was supported with validation and launch in 2020 by world-leading venture foundry Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures (BCGDV).
FYLD will use
Cerbos, a new open source software startup helping tech scaleups and other companies manage user permissions more efficiently, has raised a USD3.5 million seed round.
Investment in the funding round was led by Crane with support from Earlybird Digital East, Seedcamp, 8-Bit Capital, Connect Ventures, OSS Capital, Acequia Capital, HelloWorld, Tiny, and a roster of prestigious angel investors including Guillaume Pousaz, Paul Forster, Mike Stoppelman, Jeff Trudeau, Chris Barchak, and Pete Koomen.
Cerbos serves a vast addressable global market of companies with growing software stacks and exponentially more complex levels of user permissions to manage them.
In particular,
Vidrio Financial, a provider of managed data services and software for institutional alternative allocators globally, has made significant updates to its services and platform to supports the unique needs of institutional investors who allocate to external alternative asset funds, including hedge fund and private equity managers.
“As we continue to build on our long-term vision to become the de facto solution for institutional allocators, over the last 12 months we have made a series of updates to the Vidrio offering. These enhancements enable our clients to better manage their complex alternative investments and external manager relationships through deeper insights and
Skaylink, a recently formed cloud service provider that operates throughout Europe, has acquired a majority stake in cVation with support from Waterland Private Equity (Waterland).
The Danish company is a leading cloud service provider in the Northern European region. This strategic partnership seeks to further diversify and professionalise the Skaylink cloud service portfolio and to use synergy effects to strengthen the companies’ common market position in Europe.
cVation was formed in Copenhagen in 2014. The company is considered one of Denmark’s leading cloud service providers. cVation’s service portfolio is positioned in an especially diversified way in the area of managed
Bolt has acquired Tipser, a Swedish-based tech company enabling commerce on any digital surface.
Some 84 per cent of shoppers look for insights on at least one social media platform before purchasing, according to Pew Research Center, and 52 per cent of socially-engaged shoppers have initiated a purchase through a social platform, according to Inmar Intelligence. Meanwhile, the creator economy is a booming USD104 billion market, according to CB Insights, and demands better monetisation tools to further accelerate growth. While social commerce is still nascent in the history of ecommerce, its adoption has ramped up over the past year—and solutions
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