Jun232021
Market Watch
First Advantage Upsized IPO Priced at Top of Views >FA
First Advantage Corp. said its upsized initial public offering of 25.5 million shares was priced at $15 each, the high end of the expected range of $13 to $15.
Jun222021
Reuters
Mister Spex listing price range points to $1 billion euro Frankfurt IPO
BERLIN (Reuters) - German online spectacles retailer Mister Spex on Tuesday set a price range of 23 to 27 euros per share for its stock market listing, putting a prospective value on the business of up to 895 million euros ($1.07 billion).
Jun212021
Private Equity Insider
GI Partners closes USD3.9bn Private Equity Fund VI
GI Partners has closed the GI Partners Fund VI, with USD3.9 billion in total commitments. The oversubscribed fund includes a broad group of global investors and surpassed its target of USD3.25 billion, as well as exceeded its prior Fund V raise of USD2.8 billion in 2017.
Jun162021
UK Tech Exits
Battery Ventures backed Learnosity acquires SaaS testing and assessment platform Questionmark
FPE Capital LLP (‘FPE’), the specialist software and services growth investor, is pleased to announce the successful sale of its investment in leading SaaS testing and assessment provider Questionmark, to Battery Ventures backed Learnosity. The terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
Jun032021
Forbes
It was only about ten years ago that Danish entrepreneur Heini Zachariassen co-founded Vivino, the world’s largest wine app. Fast-forward to today where the company has 50 million users in 17 different countries, with wine sales of more than $265 million in 2020, double their 2019 revenues.
Jun022021
Tech Crunch
Yieldstreet raises $100M as it mulls going public via SPAC, eyes acquisitions
Yieldstreet — which provides a platform for making alternative investments in areas like real estate, marine/shipping, legal finance, commercial loans and other opportunities that were previously only open to institutional investors — announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round.
Apr202021
Market Watch
FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services
FintechOS, which has built a low-code platform aimed at larger (older) banking and insurance companies to help them build new services and analytics on top of and around their existing infrastructure, has raised €51 million ($61.5 million at today’s rates, but $60 million at the time of the deal closing) in a Series B round of funding.
Feb232021
London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange welcomes Auction Technology Group to the Premium Segment of the Main Market
But insiders told Sky that the date was not yet set in stone and could change. Deliveroo declined to comment on the report. The eagerly anticipated float could easily be one of the largest London IPOs this year and has already been hailed as major victory for the City. The delivery platform is now valued at over $7bn (£5bn) after recently securing $180m in fresh funding...
Feb192021
Cint
Cint completes successful IPO, rings the Nasdaq bell and lights up Times Square
Today, we marked a significant milestone in Cint’s 23-year history when we rang the Nasdaq bell and became a public company on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange. Like many events this year, our listing ceremony was a combination of deft timing and technology, as we synced up from locations around the world via Zoom for the count down and the official ringing of the bell at 9:00 am CET. To further mark the occasion, the Cint logo lit up the iconic Nasdaq Tower at Times Square in New York as we joined the coveted Nasdaq family of companies...
Oct132020
PROBE Group Completes Acquisition of Leading Global Experience Provider, Stellar
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 2, 2020 — L Capital Fund I and Fund II portfolio company, PROBE Group, has completed the acquisition of their leading competitor, Stellar. PROBE is now the largest Australian-owned provider of customer contact and communication solutions (BPO) in Australia. Both organizations have long...