Archivio Categoria: equity

USA – Houwzer, a Philadelphia, PA-based end-to-end real estate brokerage and homeownership platform, closed a $118m financing round. The funding includes $18M in Series B equity and a $100M warehouse line of credit. The round was led by Edison Partners with participation from follow-on investors Admiral Capital Group, GOPhilly, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. This brings Houwzer’s total equity […]

USA – The Equity Alliance, a New York City-based investment fund run by CEO Claude Grunitzky, closed Fund I, at $28m. Original investors Dick Parsons, Ronald S. Lauder, Eric Zinterhofer, Scott Kapnick, Michael Novogratz, and Lerer Hippeau are joined by a group of limited partners including Schusterman Family Investments, Bank of America, Ford Foundation, LionTree, […]

USA – withco, a NYC-based commercial property ownership platform for small businesses, raised over $30 million in equity funding. Lead investors are Canaan, Founders Fund, Initialized Capital, and NFX. Participants included Danny Meyer’s Enlightened Hospitality Investments, LENX (Lennar’s venture arm), Ken Chenault, Thirty Five Ventures, Venus Williams, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC, BoxGroup, Not Boring Capital, Quiet Capital, and the founders and CEOs of Affirm, Carta, […]

USA – BigTime Software, Inc., a Chicago, IL- and Phoenix, AZ-based provider of cloud-based software for professional services firms, received a $100 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners. Existing BigTime investor Wavecrest Growth Partners will retain a stake in the Company, alongside the Company’s founder, Brian Saunders, and a small number of additional stakeholders.The […]

USA – Hyperscience, a NYC-based human centered automation company, raised $100m in Series E funding. The round was led by existing investors Global Founders Capital, Tiger, Stripes, and Bessemer. The company intends to use the funds to to further invest in talent and R&D, both organically and through acquisition.Led by Peter Brodsky, CEO, Hyperscience aims […]

USA – Transflo, a Tampa, Florida-based provider of mobile business intelligence and payments facilitation tools to the transportation sector, received a new equity investment from True Wind Capital and Bregal Sagemount. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Carousel Capital, Transflo’s first institutional investor, remains a significant minority investor.The company intends to use the […]

USA – Ayla Networks, a Milpitas, Calif.-based leader in enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platforms that accelerate digital transformation for consumer brands and Internet service providers (ISPs), raised $20m in financing. The round was led by Arrowroot Capital with participation from existing investors Trinity Power Limited, Voyager Capital and SJF Ventures. The company intends to […]

USA – Gemini, a NYC-based cryptocurrency platform, raised $400m in first equity funding. The round, which brought the valuation to $7.1 billion, was led by Morgan Creek Digital with participation from 10T, ParaFi, Newflow Partners, Marcy Venture Partners, and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, among others. Launched in 2015 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Gemini […]

UK – Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm, closed Marlin Heritage Europe II, L.P., at €675m. The fund closed over its target with strong support from existing limited partners and significant interest from new global investors.The vehicle will target investments in middle-market companies generally located in Europe, where the firm has been active since 2006 […]

USA – Detroit, MI-based Rockbridge Growth Equity Management, L.P., closed RB Equity Fund II, L.P, and RB Equity Fund II-A, L.P., collectively “Fund II”, at $345m. Fund II, which follows Rockbridge’s Fund I, a secondary vehicle that was raised in 2019, received support from include fund-of-funds, corporate and public pensions, financial institutions, consultants, multi-family offices, […]