Private equity
Beeston's Startup VC Illuminate Ups Focus on Data, FinTech Vendors; Gets Funding Infusion from Capsicum
Additional investment will allow VC to accelerate funding of data and financial technology providers.
Private Equity Firm Invests in AIM Software
Company Looks to Majority Investment to Help Fuel US Growth
Silver Lake Sells IPC to Centerbridge for $1.2Bn
Private equity firm Centerbridge Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire data network and trading telephony provider IPC from current owners Silver Lake Partners for about $1.2 billion.
Ipreo Buys Shareholder InSite to Build Private Company Dataset for Private Equity Markets
New York-based information and technology vendor Ipreo has acquired shareholder workflow tools provider Shareholder InSite for an undisclosed sum to provide investors in privately held companies with data and analytics tools to support valuations and…
Celoxica Gets £1.5M Funding to Grow Global Presence, Segments
Celoxica, a London-based provider of FPGA-accelerated low-latency data, trading and risk technologies, has raised £1.5 million in funding from Beringea Growth Finance, a private equity firm specializing in asset-based and working capital finance.
Credit Benchmark Raises $7M, Unveils Consensus Ratings Service
London-based Credit Benchmark, a startup provider of consensus credit rating data, has raised $7 million to support the ongoing production rollout of its data service by funding new hires and the opening of a new office in New York.
Startup Trendrating Gets $1M Funding Boost
Switzerland-based Trendrating, a provider of price trend and momentum ratings for equities, exchange-traded funds, indexes and currencies, has raised $1 million in seed funding--including an undisclosed sum from the investment fund run by former Thomson…
Tradier Gets $3M Funding to Expand API, Developer Base
Cloud-based brokerage platform and supporting data, trading and analytics application hosting environment provider Tradier has raised $3 million in new funding from Devonshire Investors-the private investment arm of Fidelity Investments' owners, the…
SunGard Introduces Upgrades For Investran 7
New features from the firm's private equity (PE) business unit, which is based in Miami, Fl., will include Data Exchange and Insight tools for better transparency and reporting, as well as customizable interfaces for flexible delivery of information to…
Mexico's Intangible Investments Live on iLevel
The Mexico City-based venture capital firm will be the first in the country using iLevel's Private Capital Data platform, and third in Latin America after Colombia's Tribeca Asset Management and Brazil's Patria Investimentos.
KKR's Colorful Personality: CIO Ed Brandman
Ed Brandman’s friendly quirks don’t conjure the conventional image of an IT chief, especially at KKR, one of the more white-shoe firms in a space famous for them. But don’t let the CIO’s charms fool you. He effectively redefined enterprise-grade…
GPs Pursuing Data-Driven Business Intelligence, Study Finds
A recent study of private equity general partners (GPs) uncovered consistently greater expectations around data management in the space. But progress in meeting those expectations appears to be more uneven.
Industry Group Publishes Private Equity Data Standard
AltExchange's Group One data standard includes data on capital accounts, schedules of investments and cashflow activity, and is intended to replace the guidelines the private equity industry currently relies on when exchanging data
AltExchange Publishes PE Data Standard
The alliance of more than 45 private equity general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs) says it has wrapped up work on the Group One standard, a detailed template for exchange of capital account, investment schedule, and cash flow activity data.
BerchWood Partners, iLevel Team Up
The software provider for private investment firms has arranged to partner with BerchWood, which will introduce iLevel's private data platform to its fund management clientele.
Symphony Technology Group Live on iLevel
The Palo Alto-based $2.0 billion specialist private equity firm, known as STG, invests in midsize enterprise software and services companies, and is set to use iLevel's private capital data platform.
Dow Jones Taps Crowdnetic for Private Issues Data
Dow Jones' MarketWatch finance news portal is to begin carrying crowdfunding data provider Crowdnetic's information about companies publicly raising capital.
eFront Expands PE Coverage with AnalytX Acquisition
eFront, which provides technology to private equity (PE) and alternative investment firms, has acquired AnalytX in a move to expand its coverage to small and mid-sized firms.
Buyout Specialist TowerBrook Capital Live on iLevel
TowerBrook Capital Partners, which pursues complex, control-oriented investments in large and middle market companies, is using the cloud-based software provider's private capital data platform.
In the Public Interest: Tech Critical as Public Investors Seek More Active Approach
A small but influential set of private equity’s limited partners, many of them quasi-public entities like pension plans and sovereign wealth funds, are considering co-investment strategies with their general partners, or even arranging deals directly…
Private Equity Data Alliance AltExchange Grows Membership
The consortium of general (GPs), limited partners (LPs), industry groups, as well as technology provider eFront, which officially launched in May, has seen significant interest across private equity, but especially from larger GPs.
Linedata Adds Private Equity Capabilities
Linedata has added private equity administration functionality to its back office platform.
Estimize Adds Private Company Estimates
Revenue estimates for pre-IPO companies will provide additional guidance for investors.