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Consulting company Silicom and e-learning SaaS platform Seela have announced their merger to create Pr0ph3cy Group (Pr0ph3cy), a provider of IT and cybersecurity services in France.
Pr0ph3cy will serve large private groups and government agencies to provide solutions for their critical security needs and will offer an e-learning platform aimed at upskilling or reskilling IT, network and cyber professionals.
By anchoring the Start-up mindset with a well-established SME in the French ecosystem, Silicom and Seela will demonstrate with this new group their ambition to actively participate in the emergence of European industrial sovereignty.
The Group has signed an
Filipino social entertainment platform Kumu has raised a Series C led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm with more than 40 years of experience scaling disruptive businesses internationally. Existing investors Openspace and SIG also participated.
This transaction marks the largest equity financing to date for a Filipino startup not founded as a subsidiary or spinoff of an established conglomerate. It also marks General Atlantic’s first investment in the Philippines.
“Kumu is rapidly emerging as a leading digital content community and social platform in the Philippines, as well as for the global Filipino diaspora,” says Sandeep Naik, Managing Director
Prophix, a specialist in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software, has acquired Brussels, Belgium-based Sigma Conso, a CPM software and services provider specialising in financial close management and financial planning and analysis.
Prophix has acquired Sigma Conso from Fortino Capital, a European B2B software investor. The acquisition will see Sigma Conso’s technology being added, and eventually integrated, into the Prophix solution. Similarly, their employees will now become part of the Prophix organisation.
As a specialist in cloud-based CPM, Prophix enables mid-market companies across multiple industries worldwide to improve their financial reporting capabilities, while also standardising and streamlining the budgeting process to
HelpSystems has acquired Digital Guardian, a SaaS provider of data loss prevention (DLP) solutions for large and mid-sized organisations.
Digital Guardian’s solutions give customers visibility and protection of their data across many operating systems and applications. The company also provides a popular managed service that operates as an extension of their customers’ security teams to protect sensitive data from threats originating inside and outside the organisation.
The team and solutions from Digital Guardian will fit into HelpSystems’ data security portfolio, and combine with powerful security solutions such as GoAnywhere, Clearswift, Agari, and Titus. In addition to extending HelpSystems’ DLP
InCloudCounsel, a specialist in Contract Automation and Intelligence, has secured USD200 million in Series B funding in a round led by funds managed by Blackstone, with participation from existing investor, Battery Ventures, and board member, Mike Paulus.
Berlin Packaging, a Hybrid Packaging Supplier, has signed a binding commitment with O-I France SAS by which Berlin Packaging France SAS would acquire the Le Parfait business and brands.
Founded in Reims, France, in the early 1930s, Le Parfait is known for its iconic glass jars and lids manufactured by O-I France SAS and its affiliates. The brand is popular in France, born from the tradition of homemade preserves, jams, honeys, and terrines that are delicious and long-lasting. Assembled with orange rubber seals, the jars are easily identifiable for consumers and ideal for preserving food while reducing waste. Both glass
Market research platform Attest has raised USD60 million in Series B funding bringing total funds invested in the company to over USD85 million.
Attest has achieved record revenue growth during the pandemic, driving the accelerated importance of customer and market understanding to organisations who are seeking competitive advantage and business growth. Attest has continued to support and grow its ever-expanding roster of clients, including Microsoft, Santander, Walgreens/Boots, Wise and Klarna.
This latest round will help further accelerate Attest’s already rapid expansion in both Europe and North America, as well as the company’s mission to make high quality research simple, fast
365 Response, a Wakefield-based digital transport management and eProcurement software provider, has acquired Redcar-based transport technology solutions business, Flexiroute, after securing follow-on funding from the founders and growth capital investor, BGF.
Just one year on from BGF’s initial GBP3 million investment, this new partnership brings together two providers of Home-to-School and NHS transport software in the UK, working with some of the largest councils and trusts in the country. A combined fifty years’ experience across the Group will drive rapid improvements in service by harmonising the best in sector technologies, for the benefit of over 200 public sector and private
Da Vinci Capital portfolio company Softline Holding plc (LSE: SFTL) has priced its initial public offering and listing on the London Stock Exchange of 53.3 million global depositary receipts (GDRs) representing newly issued Softline ordinary shares.
Admission of the GDRs to trading on the London Stock Exchange is expected to occur on 1 November, 2021.
Softline is a global provider of information technology solutions in the digital transformation and cybersecurity industries.
Softline’s final offering price was USD7.50 per GDR, resulting in IPO proceeds of approximately USD400 million, which the company expects to use to fund acquisitions and for general corporate
Palatine, the mid-market private equity investor, has made a successful partial exit from CET Group with the sale of its tech-enabled insurance claims management division to HomeServe plc for GBP53 million.
Based in Castle Donington, CET is a leading provider of outsourced home emergency, drainage and subsidence services to one in eight UK households.
Since Palatine’s initial investment in November 2018, revenues have grown by almost GBP12 million to GBP32 million and EBITDA has more than doubled. Its workforce has increased significantly too, rising from 190 to more than 300 in the last 12 months.
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