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Digital payments company Pomelo Pay (Pomelo) has raised USD10 million in a Series A round led by UK-based independent investment firm Inference Partners.
The investment will allow the company to expand its presence across global markets including Europe and Asia, starting with plans to double their workforce in London, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.
Launched in 2018 in UK and Singapore, Pomelo allows merchants to digitise their payment infrastructure and take payments from anyone, in any location (physical or digital), at near zero costs. The company provides an integration with over 30 payment networks globally. Its payments platform
Pixie, a UK-based startup creating a simpler approach to practice management and workflow automation for small accounting and bookkeeping firms, has raised GBP2.25 million in a seed funding round led by Triple Point Ventures, with the participation of Seedcamp, MMC Ventures, and serial entrepreneurs and angel investors including Duane Jackson (Kashflow, Staffology), Will Neale and Chris Adelsbach.
Pixie’s mission is to create the operating system for small firms around the world, who can centralise and automate their processes using the platform’s intuitive workflows to manage work more effectively, scale their firm, and leave clients delighted.
Pixie was founded in 2019
Yieldstreet, a multi-asset alternative investment platform, has closed a strategic USD50 million follow-on investment, led by London-based Mayfair Equity Partners, a technology and consumer growth investor.
The latest capital raise, following on from Yieldstreet’s Series C funding round, highlights the growing recognition of Yieldstreet’s transformational digital platform.
Yieldstreet was established to provide retail investors access to alternative investment opportunities previously reserved for institutions and ultra high-net worth individuals. Since its foundation, Yieldstreet has funded over USD2.5 billion investments to date and has over 325,000 members on its platform.
Mayfair Equity Partners will support Yieldstreet’s growth plans by enabling further investment
ACA Group (ACA) and Foreside Financial Group, LLC (Foreside), two providers of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to clients in the financial services industry, are to combine their two companies.
Genstar Capital (Genstar), a leading private equity firm, invested in Foreside earlier this year. Genstar will be the majority owner of the combined business as a result of acquiring a controlling interest in ACA from Starr Investment Holdings, LLC upon completion of the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2022.
The combination of ACA and Foreside will bring together the industry’s most
Deep Detection has secured EUR1 million funding to launch its PhotoAI technology, which is a next-generation X-ray camera with deep learning capability for continuous inspection across high-speed manufacturing and detailed security scans.
A member of The Collider, the tech accelerator of Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Deep Detection has secured investment from specialist photonics VC Vigo Ventures, Clave Capital (through Tech Transfer Agrifood), ESOM and public financing.
Founded in July 2020, Barcelona-based Deep Detection´s mission is to protect consumer safety by significantly enhancing the capabilities of inspection machine systems, where its technology can be used to simultaneously detect issues and measure
Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company serving the asset management industry, is to acquire the entire issued share capital of FDB Systems Limited, a specialist in the collection and structuring of financial market data for investors and other capital markets participants.
Integrating FDB Systems’ data ingestion and structuring technology with Insig AI’s storage, visualisation and machine learning optimisation capabilities will allow the Company to offer a complete end-to-end financial data solution to its customers. For more than 18 months, Insig AI has been a customer of FDB Systems and therefore has a close appreciation of its
Following the success of its groundbreaking online investor training course, the Newton Venture Program is now accepting applications for its first ever in-person course, due to start in April.
TA Associates, a growth private equity firm, and True Wind Capital, a technology focused private equity firm, has launched a strategic growth investment in e-Emphasys Technologies, a software and solutions provider to dealers and rental companies in the equipment distribution industry. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
e-Emphasys provides cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) and dealer management system (DMS) software to equipment dealerships and rental companies in the construction, mining, forestry, material handling, agriculture, heavy truck, aggregate and sanitation industries. The company’s fully-integrated software platform is designed to improve operational efficiency and customer service, and drive revenue growth
IQ-EQ, an Astorg portfolio company, has acquired Greyline Partners (Greyline), a US provider of governance and regulatory compliance solutions for PE, VC, hedge funds and investors.
Greyline is a fast-growing business with a strong commercial and cultural fit for IQ-EQ’s expanding operations in the US. Today, IQ-EQ U.S. employs 500-plus people with plans to significantly grow this number in 2022 thanks to its strong business performance in the US market. The combination of IQ-EQ and Greyline firmly positions IQ-EQ as the leading provider of outsourced business services to the alternative asset industry. This latest acquisition follows the successful acquisitions of
Revalize, a firm in sector-specific revenue operations software for manufacturers, their distributors, and their specifiers, has secured a significant minority investment into the business for Hg.
As part of the transaction, Revalize is planning to acquire three European software companies. The addition of PROCAD Group in Germany, SpecPage in Switzerland and TENADO, also in Germany, will extend the Revalize solution portfolio and its European operations.
Revalize is backed by TA Associates (TA), a global growth private equity firm, and ST6, a group of highly experienced software operating executives who specialize in accelerating transformational change. ST6 is led by Mark Friedman, a
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