Over the course of his career, Mr. Kaushal has worked in senior roles with a number of Canadian investment banks, including Desjardins Securities Inc., Orion Securities Inc., Vengate
Capital Partners Company, HSBC Securities Inc., Medwell Capital Corp. and Gordon Capital, and has held various roles within the private equity / venture capital industry.
Not exact matches
• Vitruvian
Partners agreed to acquire a minority stake in Bitdefender, a Bucharest, Romania - based cybersecurity tech
company, from Axxess
Capital.
• Align
Capital Partners completed the majority acquisition of Barrow - Agee Laboratories, a Memphis, Tenn. - based
company in the food safety and testing industry.
The
company is backed by Social
Capital's Chamath Palihapitiya, and Osborne &
Partners» Ian Osborne.
According to Ed Quattlebaum, founding
partner at Polaris - Crux Group, a strategic advisement firm that focuses on helping early - stage innovation
companies with
capital raising and commercial scaling, one of the most effective strategies to better position you and your startup during negotiation is to acknowledge and address one anxiety that all investors loathe: risk.
For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf,
partner at venture
capital firm Accel
Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources
company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private
companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.
• Finnish
companies including Canatu OY, a maker of 3D formable and stretchable films; Grundium OY, a creator of a portable digital microscope scanner; and TactoTek OY, a injection molded structural electronics maker, have raised over 24 million euros ($ 28.5 million) from Ascend
Capital Partners.
• Align
Capital Partners acquired Lewellyn Technology, a Woodbury, Minn. - based workplace safety and training
company, from Evolution
Capital Partners.
• PeopleFacts, an SNH
Capital Partners I portfolio
company, acquired TRAK - 1, a Tulsa, Okla. - based screening platform with millions of criminal records that complement both platforms» suite of screening products.
Crestview GP and Reverence
Capital Partners back the
company.
Notably, it's only Sequoia's second investment in a blockchain - related
company in that venture
capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also partic
capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain
Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also partic
Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture
Partners also participated.
Alan Patricof, an early venture
capital investor in Apple and AOL, is grooming new
companies at Greycroft
Partners.
Lantern
Capital Partners is a private equity
company specializing in middle - market and buyouts investments in the automotive industry.
All of the
company's existing investors participated in the new round, including Benchmark
Capital, Greylock
Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Vulcan, Next World
Capital, Workday founder Dave Duffield and Salesforce chairman and CEO Marc Benioff.
• Omnicom Health Group acquired Snow
Companies, a Williamsburg, Va. - based patient engagement agency, from WestView
Capital Partners.
• NBK
Capital Partners, the Dubai - based private equity and real estate investment arm of Watani Investment
Company, raised $ 75 million for its real estate fund.
Company director and former WA attorney general Cheryl Edwardes has been appointed as the new chairperson for agribusiness CropLogic while St John of God Health Care has appointed Azure
Capital managing
partner Adrian Arundell to its board.
Some of the
company's venture investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture
Partners and FirstMark
Capital.
Failing to hit its projections in its first few quarters as a public
company would trigger shareholder lawsuits and cripple Spotify's ability to raise further
capital, said Steve London, a
partner in the securities practice of law firm Pepper Hamilton.
Pre-IPO, New Enterprise Associates owns 41 % of the
company, Pfizer owns 1.6 %, and F - Prime
Capital Partners owns 9.9 %.
• Marquis Software Solutions, a portfolio
company of Falfurrias
Capital Partners, acquired DocuMatix, a Draper, Utah - based provider of email marketing solutions used by credit unions and banks.
The
company has raised more than $ 230 million in venture
capital since its founding, from investors such as Sigma West and Ignition
Partners, and is using that money to rapidly expand its business outside the U.S.. It's well on its way: DocuSign is available in 43 languages.
In August 2006, the
company received $ 11 million in Series A funding from Novak Biddle Venture
Partners and Columbia
Capital.
The
company's other early - stage investors, Linse
Capital, Rho
Capital Partners, and Braemar Energy Ventures, are also contributing.
Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square
Capital — a business
partner with Valeant in its failed bid last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the
company in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours.
Sequoia
Capital China (17.6 % pre-offering) Lightspeed
Partners (16.7 %), and Pavilion
Capital International via Spring Bloom Investments (7.5 %) back the
company.
It just so happened Katz - Mayfield had a direct line to Raider, whom he had worked with at Bain &
Company a decade earlier, and then at Charlesbank
Capital Partners.
• Crossroads Holding, a portfolio
company of Revelstoke
Capital Partners, acquired Center of HOPE of Myrtle Beach, a Myrtle Beach, S.C. provider of substance abuse treatment services.
• Stevenswood Trade Centres, a portfolio
company of Cairngorm
Capital Partners, acquired Sameday Holdings, a U.K. - based window and door supplier.
The
company, whose shareholders include Insight Venture
Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Toba
Capital, plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol «AYX.»
• Arsenal
Capital Partners agreed to sell its portfolio
company, Certara, a Princeton, N.J. - based provider of technology - driven decision support solutions for drug development, to EQT VII Fund for an enterprise value of $ 850 million.
Energy Impact
Partners, Southern
Company and DBL
Partners led the round, and were joined by investors including GE Ventures, AGL Energy Limited, and Macquarie
Capital.
• FirstLight Fiber, an Albany, N.Y. maker of fiber - based communication networks backed by Oak Hill
Capital Partners, agreed to acquire Finger Lakes Technologies Group, a Victor, N.Y. telecommunications
company.
• ArcLight
Capital Partners acquired a 30 % stake in the
company that owns the Olympic Pipeline, a refined products pipeline system that runs across the states of Washington and Oregon.
• On Location Experiences, a portfolio
company of RedBird
Capital Partners, Bruin Sports
Capital, and 32 Equity, acquired PrimeSport, a Atlanta - based firm providing direct access to sports and entertainment events.
The founder and managing
partner of private family office Jericho
Capital had one of the harshest presentations of the day, announcing that he is shorting telecom
company Frontier Communications (ftr).
• The Riverside
Company sold G&H Orthodontics, a Franklin, Ind. - based company, that supplies clinical solutions for the orthodontic community, to Altaris Capital Pa
Company sold G&H Orthodontics, a Franklin, Ind. - based
company, that supplies clinical solutions for the orthodontic community, to Altaris Capital Pa
company, that supplies clinical solutions for the orthodontic community, to Altaris
Capital Partners.
• Neptune Energy Group, which is backed by Carlyle Group and CVC
Capital Partners, agreed to acquire ENGIE E&P International, a Paris - based oil and gas exploration
company, for $ 3.9 billion.
• An AGIC
Capital - led consortium agreed to acquire The Ritedose Corporation, a Columbia, S.C. - based pharmaceutical
company, from Olympus
Partners.
Investors include Western Technology Investment, Social
Capital, Vy
Capital, Picus
Capital, Ace &
Company, Lynett
Capital Partners, Zeno Ventures, Michael Seibel, and Gabriel Hammond.
The
company is backed by Longitude
Capital (11.9 % pre-IPO), OrbiMed (11.9 %), Polaris
Partners (10.9 %), Wellington Management (10 %), Third Rock Ventures (9.6 %), and RA
Capital Management (9.1 %).
The
company previously raised Series A funding from Toba
Capital, Frost Data
Capital and Miramar Venture
Partners.
Corporate venture -
capital efforts also have the advantage of involvement with startups at the early stages, when they can most benefit from access to a large, established customer base, credibility through brand association and a larger network of
partner companies and advisors.
The troubled
company will sell itself to an affiliate of Dallas - based Lantern
Capital Partners.
Pamplona
Capital Management has acquired British locomotive leasing
company Beacon Rail Leasing from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial for approximately $ 450 million. www.beaconrail.com Park Place International LLC, a Marlborough, Mass. — based cloud services provider and systems integrator for medical IT software, has secured a minority growth investment from WestView
Capital Partners.
Attila Szigeti, COO of Drukka Startup Studio, recently crunched the numbers on 42 of the biggest and best
companies to emerge from startup studios and accelerators: He discovered that startups that had
partnered with accelerators raised more
capital and employed more people than their studio brethren.
Avista
Capital Partners has formed a new
company to fund a portion of the equity required to design and build three 50,000 deadweight ton product carriers, which Seacor Holdings (NYSE: CKH) has contracted to build at General Dynamic's National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. shipyard in San Diego.
• ProPetro Holding, a Midland, Texas - based oilfield services
company backed by Energy
Capital Partners, raised $ 350 million in an IPO by offering 25 million shares at $ 14 per share, below its expected range of $ 16 to $ 19.
Gapstow
Capital Partners» CJA Private Equity Financial Restructuring Master Fund I, LP holds 9.8 % of the
company pre-offering, and Wolfson Equities holds about 6.3 %.
Elie Wurtman, managing
partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture
capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.