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MAPAL and Flow Hospitality Announce Combination

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MAPAL and Flow Hospitality Announce Combination to Create a Leading Pan-European Provider of Technology Solutions for the Hospitality Sector

MADRID AND EDINBURGH – 20 December 2019 – MAPAL Software (“MAPAL”), a developer and supplier of workforce management, business analytics and back-of-house software for the hospitality sector, and Flow Hospitality Training (“Flow”), a learning management system for the hospitality sector, today announced a combination to create a leading provider of technology solutions for the European hospitality sector. MAPAL is backed by Providence Strategic Growth (“PSG”), the growth equity affiliate of Providence Equity Partners. Jorge Lurueña, Founder and CEO of MAPAL, will lead the combined entity with the support of the existing management teams of MAPAL and Flow. Ruth and David Wither, Founders of Flow, will step down from their day to day leadership responsibilities – but have reinvested in the combined entity, with David remaining as a Non-Executive Director.

“Today’s announcement is a testament of the hard work and commitment of the entire team at Flow since we launched over 10 years ago,” said David Wither, Co-Founder of Flow. “Together we have built an outstanding business that innovatively solves a major challenge faced by the industry: a need for relevant technology that accelerates employee training and development. We are confident that this combination with MAPAL – supported by the team at PSG – will enable the business to make an even greater impact going forward and Ruth and I have decided that now is the right time to transition the stewardship of Flow to new investors. We are excited for what the future holds – and we believe that Jorge, with the support of our current management team, is the ideal leader to help Flow and MAPAL transition to this next chapter.”

Flow delivers a suite of online training modules to over 400,000 unique users through FlowZone Manager – its flagship management system that allows employers to issue training, track results, plan and manage learning and development, competencies and appraisals. The benefits of this combination between two highly complementary businesses are significant. MAPAL’s advanced and user-friendly workforce management, analytics and back-of-house solution – and Flow’s learning and development solutions – will create a business that can offer stronger technical capabilities and a more robust end-to-end service to hospitality companies throughout Europe.

Jorge Lurueña, Founder and CEO of MAPAL, said: “We believe this alliance will create more opportunities for Flow and MAPAL. Ruth and David have built a tremendous business – offering a complete solution that brings real benefit to its loyal client base – and we are grateful for the trust they have placed in us. I look forward to working with my new colleagues and am thrilled to be leading this next phase of growth.”

Edward Hughes, Managing Director of PSG, said: “MAPAL and Flow are already established providers of tech-enabled solutions for a variety of global companies in the hospitality sector and we are confident that together they will create a significantly scaled-up business with a larger suite of capabilities and reach to provide essential solutions to customers.”

EY’s UK Corporate Finance team was sole financial adviser to the shareholders of Flow, and originated the transaction.

About MAPAL Software
MAPAL was founded in 2008 by Jorge Lurueña, an experienced restaurant operator, who recognised that restaurant businesses needed specialist tools to automate and optimise management processes. Bringing together industry experts, data scientists and software developers to create GIRnet, the management and business intelligence platform that key players in the sector use today, has driven MAPAL’s success. MAPAL boasts a large portfolio of clients operating well-known brands such as La Tagliatella, Burger King, Starbucks, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Grupo Areas or Five Guys, among others.

About Flow Hospitality Training
Founded in 2009 by David and Ruth Wither and based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Flow is a learning management system for the hospitality sector staffed by a team of over 55 people. Flow’s flagship FlowZone Manager platform enables employers to have direct and immediate visibility to all stages of employee development. FlowZone Manager can be integrated to employers’ HR and payroll systems – especially Fourth, Selima, S4 Labour, CoreHR, and TimeTarget – and is relied upon by leading hospitality brands, including Soho House, Firmdale Hotels, and Gleneagles.

About Providence Strategic Growth Capital Partners LLC
Providence Strategic Growth (“PSG”) is an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners (“Providence”). Established in 2014, PSG focuses on growth equity investments in lower middle market software and technology-enabled service companies. Providence is a premier global asset management firm that pioneered a sector-focused approach to private equity investing with the vision that a dedicated team of industry experts could build exceptional companies of enduring value. Since the firm’s inception in 1989, Providence has invested in more than 180 companies and is a leading equity investment firm focused on the media, communications, education and information industries. PSG is headquartered in Boston, MA, with offices in London. For more information on PSG, please visit www.provequity.com/private-equity/psg, and for more information on Providence, please visit www.provequity.com.

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Sard Verbinnen & Co
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Glovo grabs €150M SERIES E led by Mubadala for its ‘Deliver Everything’ APP

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The Spanish on-demand delivery start-up reaches unicorn status after securing €150M in Series E funding, led by Mubadala.

The latest round of investment sees Glovo consolidate its position in the market and cement its status as a global leader in the on-demand delivery sector, as it moves towards profitability.

Barcelona, 20 December 2019 — Glovo, one of the world’s fastest-growing on-demand delivery players, announced €150 million ($167 million) in Series E funding. The latest round of investment is being led by Mubadala, with further support from previous investors Drake Enterprises, Idinvest and Lakestar.

Following the close of its most recent investment round, the company has secured its status as a unicorn, making it only the second privately held business in Spain to surpass a $1 billion valuation.

The Barcelona based start-up — which delivers everything from food to groceries and pharmaceutical items —  has consolidated its position within its markets, which include Europe, Latin America and Africa. It is among the top two delivery players in 24 of the 26 countries in which it operates and has consolidated itself as a global leader in the on-demand delivery sector.

Fuelling technology talent across European tech hubs 

As Glovo scales globally, it is committed to taking its engineering capabilities and technology systems to the next level. The company recently entered the Polish market, acquiring Pizza Portal in a €35 million deal and investing in a second technology hub in Warsaw. It plans to expand its global tech team by hiring 300 additional engineers by mid-2020, with 40 dedicated engineers and 50 tech and product experts to be based in its new Warsaw office.

By channelling the new investment towards the expansion of its tech team, the start-up will continue to strengthen its tech offering by further streamlining its user experience, reducing the waiting time for couriers and customers, and opening new dark stores and cook rooms.

More focus on groceries and partnerships with leading retailers

Glovo will continue to innovate in the delivery sector and build out its multi-category offerings, delivering beverages, pharmaceutical products and other everyday items. To spur on the growth of its groceries category, Glovo will continue to seek strategic partnerships, similar to its deal with Carrefour, and invest in its own dark supermarkets.

The company currently operates seven dark stores in Europe and Latin America — with locations in Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Lima — and plans to open 100 by 2021.

Oscar Pierre, Co-founder and CEO of Glovo, said: “We’re very pleased to welcome Mubadala as an investor, as well as to further strengthen our position within the industry.

“To have achieved unicorn status is something truly exciting and a testament to the talent within the company, and its determination to keep innovating and disrupting the on-demand delivery space. Despite our rapid growth and new status, we still have the same vision we’ve always had: to make everything within the city instantly available to our customers.”

Frederic Lardieg, Partner in the Ventures Europe team at Mubadala Capital, said: “In June 2018, Mubadala launched a €400 million fund to invest in leading European technology companies like Glovo. Our investment is a testament to our commitment to the European tech market and we are excited to lead this Series E funding round to enable Glovo to grow its team and support the expansion of its offering.”

About Glovo 
Glovo is an app that allows you to buy, collect and send any product within the same city in under an hour. It has more than 1.8 million active users monthly and 25,000 associated partners. Glovo operates in 288 cities across 26 countries, including EMEA, LATAM, and most recently in Sub-Saharan Africa. Glovo currently employs over 1,500 people globally, with 600+ in the Barcelona HQ, and over 50,000 active Glovers make money from the platform.

About Mubadala Investment Company
Mubadala Investment Company is a sovereign investor managing a global portfolio, aimed at generating sustainable financial returns for its shareholder, the Government of Abu Dhabi.

Mubadala’s US $229 billion portfolio spans five continents with interests in multiple sectors including aerospace, ICT, semiconductors, metals and mining, renewable energy, oil and gas, petrochemicals, utilities, healthcare, real estate, pharmaceuticals and medical technology, agribusiness and a global portfolio of financial holdings across all asset classes. Mubadala has offices in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, New York and San Francisco, with a joint venture in Hong Kong.

Mubadala is a trusted partner, an engaged shareholder and a responsible global company that is committed to world-class standards of governance.

About Seaya Ventures
Based in Madrid, Seaya Ventures has been backing the best entrepreneurs and teams from Spain and Latin America since 2013. Seaya focuses on supporting founders in scaling their businesses enabling them to become global leaders.

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Median Technologies announces the signing of a € 35 million finance contract with the European Investment Bank (EIB)

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18 December 2019, Sophia Antipolis, France – Brussels, Belgium

Press release – For immediate release – 05:45pm CET

 Median Technologies announces the signing of a € 35 million finance contract with the European Investment Bank (EIB)

  • This finance contract will enable Median Technologies to accelerate its investment program for the iBiopsy® imaging phenomics platform
  • Median expects the disbursement of the first tranche of € 15 million during the first semester of 2020

Median Technologies, The Imaging Phenomics Company (Euronext Growth – ALMDT) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced today the signing of a € 35 million finance contract, supported by the European Strategic Investment Fund (EFSI) or “Juncker Plan”. News about ongoing negotiations for this loan was previously released on May 15, 2019.

This financing, divided into three (3) tranches, will enable Median Technologies to enhance and accelerate its iBiopsy® imaging platform investment program for the coming years. Median is a cutting-edge AI and data sciences technology provider for precision medicine. Through its proprietary iBiopsy® platform, Median is developing non-invasive imaging biomarkers to enable the identification of certain chronic disease – including cancer- signatures, to dramatically enhance early detection, severity quantification and monitoring of diseases. The objective is on one hand to guide clinicians in their therapeutic decisions in the context of precision and predictive medicine and, on the other hand, to provide disruptive decision tools to foster medical innovations and new therapy development.

Median will request the disbursement of the first tranche of € 15 million during the first semester of 2020. The contract then provides for the disbursement of the second and third tranches (of € 10 million each) in the coming years, at Median Technologies’ discretion, subject to the completion of certain conditions precedents specified in the finance contract. The repayment of this financing will occur, in a single installment, at the end of a five -year period after the disbursement date. The finance contract is supplemented by the payment of various interests and fees and by a guarantee granted by Median Technologies, Inc. (Median Technologies’ US subsidiary).

Pursuant to the warrants issuance agreement, Median Technologies will issue 800,000 warrants for the benefit of the EIB on the date of disbursement of the first tranche and, where appropriate, 300,000 additional warrants on the date of disbursement of the second tranche, at a subscription price of € 0.01. The exercise price of these warrants  will be determined based on the price of one or more fundraising(s) of at least € 15 million carried out within 15 months after the subscription date to which an increasing discount will apply based on time, with a minimum of € 2 from the 16th month. The lifespan of these warrants is 15 years.

The warrants issuance agreement includes an exercise parity adjustment clause which could apply, under certain conditions,in case of capital increase. The EIB will be granted with the possibility, under certain conditions, to request Median Technologies to buy back its warrants for a maximum amount of € 50 million and, beyond that amount, to find a buyer and pay interests on the price of the remaining warrants. The total amount of warrants (for the two tranches) would represent up to 7.44 % of the share capital fully diluted.

The objective of this financing, granted by the EIB together with the European guarantee within the framework of the Juncker plan, is to support research and innovation projects developed by companies with substantial growth potential. Median Technologies meets these criteria as its technologies have the potential to impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide.

The agreement was signed by the European Investment Bank and Fredrik Brag, CEO and co-founder of Median Technologies on December 18, 2019.

“Through the Juncker Plan impulse, EIB has become a key player in financing innovative companies, in particular companies involved in the domains of Health and Artificial intelligence, which are the core activities developed by Median Technologies “, said EIB Vice-President, Mr. Ambroise Fayolle

Fredrik Brag, CEO and co-founder of Median Technologies added: “We are very pleased to announce the signing of the finance agreement with the European Investment Bank. The EIB financing will allow us to accelerate our investment in the development of our iBiopsy® platform with a strong focus in oncology and liver disease. We are the next generation precision medicine company focused on helping conquer cancer and other diseases through our proprietary routine imaging tests.  These novel non-invasive imaging tests could dramatically impact early detection, diagnosis and monitoring of diseases.  We leverage our capabilities in technology, artificial intelligence, clinical development, regulatory and reimbursement to drive the development and commercial adoption of our future iBiopsy® product line, improve patient clinical outcome and lower healthcare costs.”     

Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. These statements include projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions, statements regarding plans, objectives, intentions and expectations with respect to future financial results, events, operations, services, product development and potential, and statements regarding future performance. Forward-looking statements are generally identified by the words “expects”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”, “estimates”, “plans” and similar expressions. Although Median’s management believes that the expectations reflected in such forward looking statements are reasonable, investors are cautioned that forward-looking information and statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of Median, that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking information and statements. These risks and uncertainties include among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development, future clinical data and analysis, including post marketing, decisions by regulatory authorities such as the absence of guarantee that the service if approved will be commercially successful, the future approval, Median’s ability to benefit from external growth opportunities, to complete related transactions and/or obtain regulatory clearances, risks associated with intellectual property, trends in exchange rates and prevailing interest rates, volatile economic conditions, the impact of cost containment initiatives and subsequent changes thereto, the average number of shares  outstanding as well as those discussed or identified in the public filings with the AMF made by Median, other than as required by applicable law, Median does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information or statements.

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About Median Technologies

Median Technologies provides innovative imaging solutions and services to advance healthcare for everyone. We leverage the power of Imaging Phenomics to provide insights into novel therapies and treatment strategies. Our unique solutions for medical image analysis and management in oncology trials and iBiopsy® for imaging phenotyping, together with our global team of experts, are advancing the development of new drugs and diagnostic tools to monitor disease and assess response to therapy. Median Technologies supports biopharmaceutical sponsors and healthcare professionals around the world to quickly and precisely bring new treatments to patients in need. This is how we are helping to create a healthier world.

Founded in 2002, based in Sophia-Antipolis, France, with a subsidiary in the US and another one in Shanghai, Median has received the label “Innovative company” by the BPI and is listed on Euronext Growth market (ISIN: FR0011049824, ticker: ALMDT).

Contacts

Median Technologies

Emmanuelle Leygues
Head of Corporate Communications
+33 6 10 93 58 88
emmanuelle.leygues@mediantechnologies.com

Actifin  (Investors)

Ghislaine Gasparetto
+33 1 56 88 11 11
ggasparetto@actifin.fr

Alizé RP  (Press)

Caroline Carmagnol
+33 6 64 18 99 59
median@alizerp.com

About the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Juncker Plan

Created by the Treaty of Rome in 1958, the EIB is the EU bank, which, together with its dedicated SME support subsidiary the European Investment Fund (EIF), forms the EIB Group. The EIB Group provides its financing and know-how for sound and sustainable investment projects meeting EU objectives.

Supported by its expertise and the financial attractiveness lent by its AAA rating, the EIB Group is a key player in getting investment back on track in Europe. It supports the real economy while also attracting other investors by financing concrete projects with an impact on people’s lives. EUR 8.6bn of new financing was allocated to support high quality growth and job driving projects in France in 2017.

Website: www.eib.org/press

The Investment Plan for Europe:  the so-called Juncker Plan, is one of Jean-Claude Juncker’s top priorities. It focuses on boosting investments in Europe to create jobs and growth by making smarter use of new and existing financial resources, removing obstacles to investment and providing greater visibility and technical assistance to investment projects. The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), which is the central pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe, enables the EIB Group to invest in more, often riskier, projects with high added value. EFSI is already showing concrete results. The projects and agreements approved for financing under EFSI so far have mobilised EUR 408.4bn in investments, of which EUR 69bn is in France. The plan is supporting around 952 000 SMEs across all 28 Member States.

Contacts

Cyrille Lachèvre
+ 33 (0)6 20 42 12 08
c.lachevre@ext.eib.org

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K1 Sells Buildium, Category Leader in Property Management Software

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LOS ANGELES, December 18, 2019 — K1 Investment Management, LLC (“K1”), a leading investment firm focusing on high-growth enterprise software companies, today announced the sale of its portfolio company, Buildium LLC (“Buildium”), category leader in SaaS real estate property management software, to RealPage, Inc. (NASDAQ: RP), a global real estate technology platform.

K1 was the first institutional investor in Buildium, partnering alongside the company’s co-founders, Michael Monteiro and Dimitris Georgakopoulos. Since K1’s initial investment, Buildium’s revenues have grown more than 10x and its customer base has more than tripled.

“We decided to partner with K1 as our first investor after their team reached out to us directly and built a relationship with our business for more than a year,” said Michael Monteiro, co-founder of Buildium. “K1’s track record in building exceptional software companies gave us confidence that they were the right partner to help Buildium reach its next stage of growth.”

With K1’s partnership, Buildium made significant investments to grow its headcount, strengthen its go-to-market efforts and expand its product portfolio. Additionally, Buildium leveraged K1’s sector specialization, sourcing capabilities and operational expertise to complete and integrate two add-on acquisitions.

“We are proud of the market-leading product and customer experience that Buildium provides to property managers worldwide and are grateful for our longstanding partnership with K1 to help realize this vision,” said Dimitris Georgakopoulos, co-founder of Buildium. “The K1 team has been a trusted partner and advisor to Buildium as it has grown into a true category leader in real estate technology.”

Additionally, K1 is an active participant and proud sponsor of Buildium’s community causes, including its team’s participation in Bike MS, an annual bike ride from Boston to Provincetown which is organized by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to raise funds for MS treatment and awareness.

“When we first invested in Buildium in 2012, K1 saw a company with a mission-critical product and compelling fundamentals where we could help accelerate growth and solidify the company’s market leadership,” said Taylor Beaupain, Managing Partner at K1. “Since then, we have had the privilege to partner with an exceptional management team focused on delivering the best to its customers, employees, investors and community, and look forward to seeing what the team will accomplish next.”

About K1

K1 builds category-leading enterprise software companies. As a global investment firm, K1 assists high-growth businesses to achieve successful outcomes. K1 invests alongside strong management teams that continue to guide their organizations on a day-to-day basis. With over 85 professionals, K1 changes industry landscapes by assisting with operationally-focused growth strategies. Since inception of the firm, K1 has partnered with over 115 enterprise software companies including category leaders such as Apttus, Buildium, Checkmarx, ChiroTouch, Chrome River, Granicus, Rave Mobile Safety, RFPIO, Smarsh, WorkForce Software and Zapproved. For more information about K1, please visit http://www.k1capital.com or http://www.linkedin.com/company/k1im.

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BC Platforms Closes USD $15 million Series C Financing and Signs Partnership with IQVIA to extend Data Analytics in Genomics

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Investments in companies – 18.12.2019

BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management and analytics, today announced that it has closed a 15 million USD financing round alongside a new commercial partnership with IQVIA™ (NYSE: IQV). The round was led by IQVIA in conjunction with Debiopharm Innovation Fund and Tesi, a Finnish venture capital and private equity company. As part of the partnership, IQVIA and BC Platforms plan to launch new data driven technologies, integrating complex clinical and genomic data, to benefit transformational research.

IQVIA and BC Platforms have a shared vision to build a world leading analytics platform to enable the pharmaceutical industry’s advancement of precision medicine, improving the efficiency of drug development and patient outcomes. BC Platforms technology will enhance IQVIA’s E360™ Genomics – a scalable, privacy-preserving genotypic-phenotypic database solution – in supporting a federated data network of genomic related analytics while ensuring patient privacy.

BC Platforms will use the fundraising proceeds to expand its global network of clinical and genomics data, delivering novel automated solutions to pharmaceutical companies. To date, the company has established partnerships with approximately 100 enterprise level healthcare systems and biobanks globally in 25 countries and has recently established an entity in Singapore to spearhead its growing activities in Asia.

Tero Silvola, CEO at BC Platforms, said: “IQVIA and BC Platforms aim to combine genomic and clinical data assets around the world. IQVIA´s E360™ Genomics is built on patented techniques that allow us to build data access without compromising data privacy and security in any situation. Together with IQVIA´s deep healthcare expertise in managing and curating real-world data, we believe that we can accelerate precision medicine initiatives for patient benefits. This funding and commercial partnership will help accelerate our growth in serving healthcare and Life Science customers as well as connecting data partners in a global, interoperable federated network.’

Rob Kotchie, President, Real World Solution, IQVIA, said: “Drawing insights from integrated clinical-genomics data is a growing need of our life science and healthcare customers. Through the combination of BC Platforms technologies – which automates the workflow from genomic instruments to actionable insights – with IQVIAs leading real-world technologies platform we can enable customers to conduct novel research and discover new insights to advance healthcare.”

Tom Gibbs, Director at Debiopharm, commented: ‘We are dedicated supporters of innovation and believe that digital health and data accessibility are going to be key drivers of future healthcare research and development. We are delighted to be supporting BC Platforms, a leader in the field of genomic data management, in the next stage of their expansion and are excited by the potential of this collaboration with IQVIA.’

As part of its investment, IQVIA will have a designee on the BC Platforms’ Board of Directors.

Tesi’s Investment Manager Joni Karsikas comments: “The pharmaceutical industry and healthcare are operating in active partnership that is becoming ever closer. The pricing of pharmaceuticals, for instance, is more often being based on their impact. That requires genomic data to be combined with various clinical data registers. Patients will receive the most suitable and correctly-timed medications, and the system will charge for them according to the treatment results. We are very pleased that we can support BC Platforms, a pioneer in genomic data management, in the next stage of its expansion.”

Contact information:

BC Platforms, Tero Silvola, CEO, + 358 40 590 5733, tero.silvola@bcplatforms.com

IQVIA, Rob Kotchie, President Real World Solutions, + 44 20 3075 5705, Rob.Kotchie@iqvia.com

Tesi, Joni Karsikas, Investment Manager, +358 40 827 0395, joni.karsikas@tesi.fi 

 

About BC Platforms

BC Platforms is a world leader in providing powerful genomic data management and analysis solutions. Our high performing genomic data management platform enables flexible data integration, secure analysis and interpretation of molecular and clinical information. The company has launched and opened a global network of biobanks, known as BCRQUEST.COM, to provide genomic and clinical cohort data for pharmaceutical and medical research and development. BC Platforms’ vision is to build the world’s leading analytics platform for healthcare and industry by 2020, providing access to diverse genomic and clinical data and samples from more than 5 million subjects consolidated from a global network of biobanks.

Founded in 1997 from an MIT Whitehead project spinoff, the Company has a strong scientific heritage underpinned by over 20 years of working in close collaboration with a network of leading researchers, developers, manufacturers and vendors. BC Platforms has global operations with its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, research and development in Espoo, Finland, and sales and marketing in London, Boston, Vancouver and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.bcplatforms.com or follow us on Twitter @BCPlatforms.

About IQVIA

IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services to the life sciences industry. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA applies human data science — leveraging the analytic rigor and clarity of data science to the ever-expanding scope of human science — to enable companies to reimagine and develop new approaches to clinical development and commercialization, speed innovation and accelerate improvements in healthcare outcomes. Powered by the IQVIA CORE™, IQVIA delivers unique and actionable insights at the intersection of large-scale analytics, transformative technology and extensive domain expertise, as well as execution capabilities. With approximately 65,000 employees, IQVIA conducts operations in more than 100 countries.

IQVIA is a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. The company uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes. IQVIA’s insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com.

About Tesi

Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) is a state-owned investment company that wants to raise Finland to the front ranks of renewing economic growth by investing in funds and directly in companies. We invest profitably and responsibly, together with co-investors, to create the world’s new success stories. Our investments under management total 1.2 billion euros. Ambition for ownership and success www.tesi.fi | www.dtg.tesi.fi | @TesiFII

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Verto Analytics and Unacast announce Partnership

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Verto Analytics Expands in Location and POI Data Enrichment with a Single-Source Behavioral Panel, Selects Unacast’s Turbine Location Engine

Verto Analytics launches new research solutions to help understand the overlay of online usage and offline foot traffic with a panel-based measurement solution – Unacast will process Verto’s 1st-party location data to improve Verto’s data enrichment.

New York City, NY, USA

December 16, 2019, 9am NYC time

New York, NY – Unacast, an award-winning and industry-leading location data and strategic insights company, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Verto Analytics, a premier market research and behavioral research platform. Verto Analytics will use Turbine, Unacast’s Platform as a Service technology, as part of its new solutions built to process and turn location data into valuable information around place visitation in the offline world. In this collaboration, the parties process Verto’s 1st party location data to provide contextualized insights on how people move around in the physical world – without being dependent on any 3rd party sources, and solely based on Verto’s proprietary deterministic market research opt-in panel data.

 

Figure – Verto’s behavioral panel gives information on US commercial visits in the physical world for the purposes of advanced market research and media measurement.

 

Through this partnership, Verto is positioned to gain a competitive edge with improved accuracy and scope of their location data. Verto’s new solutions in this area are the first panel-based and opt-in based framework that assesses how people move around in the offline world around the clock, while being able to connect that information to insights/metrics around online usage. Further, the insights that can be derived from footfall patterns will provide a more comprehensive view of human mobility and contextualization of mobile and PC device usage across apps, web sites, e-commerce, shopping journeys, streaming media usage etc. Through this process, Verto’s data will more accurately reflect the depth of insights on consumer behavior by tying online behavior of offline actions, which will further solidify them as the trusted provider for cross-device behavioral information.

“We have a lot of passive location data collected with high cadence that we wanted to leverage to understand consumer behavior at a deeper level, so we searched for a company that has the expertise and experience to interpret all of this information,” says Dr. Hannu Verkasalo, Verto Analytics’ Founder and CEO. “Unacast is a pioneer in the location data space, and after testing the accuracy and quality of their data and the transparent insights they provided, we knew we had found the right fit – a data partner who can keep up with Verto’s evolving business challenges, and be able to expand from high level home/work/on-the move classification to detailed point of interest data to power stronger insights and newer capabilities in custom research and consumer journey analytics .

 

Figure – Verto’s panel data makes it possible to understand consumer visitation in commercial places. Eating out is one of the top categories in Verto’s day-to-day behavioral measurement

Turbine is Unacast’s platform for advanced data filtering and clustering. It enables clients to understand device activity and context for mobility patterns. This data is coupled with other signals to provide a transparent and complete picture of real world behavior while maintaining user privacy.

“We see a lot of companies who sit on petabytes of 1st party location, GPS, WiFi and cell tower data, but are not doing anything meaningful with it – that’s a lost opportunity to extract potential value and insights,” says Thomas Walle, CEO and Co-Founder at Unacast. “We built Turbine to allow companies to leverage the Unacast technology to provide them with location data insights. We are pleased to announce that one of the best known panel-based research companies, Verto Analytics, has started using our product as part of their research work!”

 

About Verto Analytics

Verto Analytics is a media measurement company that offers a holistic view of  consumers—their behavior, along with demographics, lifestyles, attitudes, and interests. Verto owns and operates single-source, passively metered panels in different countries; this gives us the power to measure behavioral changes over time across all media, second by second. Brands, publishers, and researchers can use Verto’s services to benchmark against competitors and the market, fill in the gaps in the consumer journey, and identify ways to increase engagement and loyalty. Verto’s behavioral research platform equips market researchers with deep, passive meter data solutions and the application of triggered surveys on top of the panel. Verto has been awarded in many categories over the years, in market research, including the Winner of Technology Breakthrough Award at Media Excellence Awards

 

About the Real World Graph®

The Real World Graph® is an interconnected system of data sets that understands human mobility in the physical world using a combination of map data, location data, and strategic insights. The Real World Graph® leverages a quality data set with the highest privacy standards and power multiple real estate developers, retailers, city planners and many other companies to build better products and make better decisions.

 

About Unacast

Unacast is an award-winning human mobility data company that harnesses anonymous device location data, map data, and strategic intelligence to tackle business challenges for the retail, real estate, tourism, transportation, and marketing industries. With its flagship product “The Real World Graph®”, it provides innovative solutions and insights to operational challenges for companies of any size or shape. Unacast was founded in 2014 with offices in New York and Oslo, Norway. In 2019, Unacast was awarded the #1 small company to work in NYC for by Built In NYC and received Street Fights’ Most Innovative Use of Geospatial Technology award.

 

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https://www.vertoanalytics.com

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Cegeka reinforces international position by acquiring KPN Consulting

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Cegeka and telco company KPN have agreed to sell KPN Consulting to Cegeka. KPN Consulting, which comprises all activities of KPN ICT Consulting and Call2, offers a wide array of bespoke ICT advice and support services regarding, among other things, ICT strategy, cloud services, and data analysis. The transaction fits into Cegeka’s Northern Europe growth strategy. This acquisition will see the Hasselt-based IT company double its turnover in the Netherlands, making it one of the country’s biggest IT service providers. KPN Consulting employs 750 staff and 250 contractors.

As part of the transaction, KPN and Cegeka will partner up to ensure services to KPN customers continue without interruption. According to the terms of this partnership, Cegeka will continue to provide advice and support services to KPN as its preferred provider.

Karim Henkens

“KPN Consulting’s services integrate seamlessly into the portfolio of Cegeka’s Dutch branch, presenting us with a strategic advantage. Customers can count on Cegeka as a reliable IT partner helping them to remain relevant in a quickly evolving digital world. The operation lets us strengthen our market position in the Netherlands, allowing us to keep on growing.”

Karim Henkens, Managing Director Netherlands, DACH and Nordics.

KPN Consulting’s services will be continued under the Cegeka name. For KPN, this transaction is in line with its strategy to speed up corporate simplification and to focus on its most important ICT services in the B2B market.

“This is an important step for Cegeka in our continuing international growth. Thanks to this acquisition, our activities in the Netherlands are now the same size as those in Belgium, dovetailing perfectly with our strategy. Also, local embeddedness is a strategic means for us to be closer to our customers, with additional presence in the north and west of the Netherlands.”

Stijn Bijnens, CEO Cegeka Group.

 

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Oakly Capital agrees sale of WebPros to CVC Fund VII

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Oakley Capital (“Oakley”) is pleased to announce that, along with other co-investors, it has reached an agreement to sell its stake in WebPros Group (“WebPros”), a leading provider of web hosting automation software, to CVC Fund VII, generating overall gross returns to Fund III of 6.7x MM and c.140% IRR including previous distributions in under three years of ownership. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals.

As part of the transaction, Oakley Capital IV (“Fund IV”) will invest $200 million alongside CVC Fund VII as a minority partner to benefit from long-term growth opportunities and new product developments.

Fund III originally invested in WebPros in 2017 and completed six acquisitions to create a product portfolio that addresses the full end-to-end customer lifecycle for shared hosting providers. The group now employs over 450 people across four continents and supports customers across the globe.

Fund IV’s investment in WebPros provides an opportunity for Oakley to continue its partnership with the management team and co-investors, and to benefit from the significant long-term growth potential in WebPros, through its extensive product roadmap. CVC Capital Partners brings a complementary skillset and deep relevant expertise to support the strategic vision of the business.

Arma Partners acted as WebPros’ financial adviser in connection with this transaction. Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP acted as legal advisers to Oakley in connection with this transaction.

Peter Dubens, Managing Partner of Oakley Capital, commented:

“The success of WebPros to date is the result of many features that are typical of an Oakley investment. A partnership with entrepreneurs we have backed before, a buy-and-build strategy which tackled a high degree of complexity and a sector in which we have deep experience. We would like to thank the team for all their hard work in bringing the group together and look forward to supporting the business in its next phase of growth alongside CVC.”

Leif Lindbäck, Senior Managing Director at CVC Capital Partners, added:

“CVC has a proven track record of teaming up with entrepreneurs and like-minded investors to support and build better businesses. WebPros brings critical automation and security tools to hosting providers, web agencies and their customers. We look forward to partnering with Oakley Capital and working closely with the management team to continue building the leading global SaaS hosting platform for server management.”

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Oakley Capital agrees sale of WebPros to CVC Fund VII

WebPros brings critical automation and security tools to hosting providers, web agencies and their customers.

Oakley Capital has announced that, along with other co-investors, it has reached an agreement to sell its stake in WebPros Group (“WebPros”), a leading provider of web hosting automation software, to CVC Fund VII. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals.

As part of the transaction, Oakley Capital IV will invest $200 million alongside CVC Fund VII as a minority partner to benefit from long-term growth opportunities and new product developments.

Arma Partners acted as WebPros’ financial adviser in connection with this transaction. Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP acted as legal advisers to Oakley in connection with this transaction.

Peter Dubens, Managing Partner of Oakley Capital, commented: “The success of WebPros to date is the result of many features that are typical of an Oakley investment. A partnership with entrepreneurs we have backed before, a buy-and-build strategy which tackled a high degree of complexity and a sector in which we have deep experience. We would like to thank the team for all their hard work in bringing the group together and look forward to supporting the business in its next phase of growth alongside CVC.”

Leif Lindbäck, Senior Managing Director at CVC Capital Partners, added: “CVC has a proven track record of teaming up with entrepreneurs and like-minded investors to support and build better businesses. WebPros brings critical automation and security tools to hosting providers, web agencies and their customers. We look forward to partnering with Oakley Capital and working closely with the management team to continue building the leading global SaaS hosting platform for server management.”

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Nuvei raises US$270 million at US$2 billion valuation

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Capital positions company to accelerate continued global growth

Nuvei, a leading global payment technology provider announced today it has completed a US$270 million (CA$358 million) common equity financing, valuing the company at US$2 billion (CA$2.65 billion). The investment comes primarily from Nuvei’s existing shareholders: leading Canadian private equity firm Novacap, supported by some of its key limited partners, and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), one of the largest Canadian institutional investors. This financing allows Nuvei to further bolster both its organic and acquisition growth plans.

Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec and having offices across the globe, Nuvei delivers omnichannel, end-to-end payment acceptance solutions, streamlined payouts, foreign exchange services, local acquiring, risk management, and value-added business services in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Nuvei empowers businesses and organizations to grow locally and globally, delivering these capabilities through a single, unified platform.

Through one integration, Nuvei’s proprietary native platform makes it easy to connect with the global economy and begin transacting with clients in over 150 currencies worldwide. With support for over 180 alternative payment methods, this makes Nuvei one of the few established payment processors with truly global acquiring capabilities.

“I’d like to thank our partners for helping us continue to expand the breadth and reach of our fintech solutions around the world,” said Philip Fayer, Nuvei’s chairman and CEO. “It further reinforces our strategy of growing organically and through complementary M&A activities, including technology partnerships, that will make a significant impact to the markets and businesses in which we operate.”

“We are extremely thankful for our LPs’ continued trust and support,” said Pascal Tremblay, president and CEO of Novacap (TMT). “This encourages us to continue our efforts to become even more performant at creating meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs and management to build world-class companies.”

“We are proud to support and accompany Nuvei through this exciting part of its history,” said David Lewin, partner at Novacap (TMT). “This new raise gives the company flexibility to continue executing on its successful growth strategy.”

“Our partnership continues ahead to support the global expansion of a leading Quebec tech firm” said Charles Émond, Executive Vice-President, Québec, Private Equity and Strategic Planning, at CDPQ. “Since this initial investment, CDPQ and its partners are proud to have sustained Nuvei’s growth, especially through the transformational acquisition of SafeCharge, and to have supported the emergence of a world-class, global player in its field.”

The equity raise concludes an active and successful year for Nuvei. It completed several acquisitions including the transformational acquisition of SafeCharge International Group Limited. Nuvei was also nominated one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies by Deloitte Canada, while Philip Fayer won the EY Entrepreneur of The Year® 2019 Award in the Fintech category.

ABOUT NUVEI

We are Nuvei, the first-ever community of payment experts. We provide fully-supported omnichannel payments to large-scale merchants, SMBs and distribution partners, powered by our broad suite of proprietary technologies. We also equip ISOs, ISVs, payment facilitators, developers, and eCommerce platforms with the technology, expertise and customer service they need to stand out. Backed by our full-service, globally connected platform, our vision is to build a network in which our merchants and partners can truly thrive. Our goal is to create bigger and better payment opportunities for all, paving the way to great partnerships. Learn more at www.nuvei.com.

ABOUT NOVACAP

Founded in 1981, Novacap is a leading Canadian private equity firm with $3.6 billion of assets under management. Its distinct investment approach, based on deep operational expertise and an active partnership with entrepreneurs, has helped accelerate growth and create long-term value for its numerous portfolio companies. With an experienced management team and substantial financial resources, Novacap is well-positioned to continue building world-class businesses. Backed by leading global institutional investors, Novacap’s deals typically include leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, add-on acquisitions, IPOs, and privatizations. Over the last 38 years, Novacap has invested in more than 90 companies and completed more than 130 add-on acquisitions. The company has offices in Toronto, Ontario and Brossard, Quebec. For more information, please visit www.novacap.ca.

 

ABOUT CAISSE DE DÉPÔT ET PLACEMENT DU QUÉBEC

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) is a long-term institutional investor that manages funds primarily for public and parapublic pension and insurance plans. As at June 30, 2019, it held CAD 326.7 billion in net assets. As one of Canada’s leading institutional fund managers, CDPQ invests globally in major financial markets, private equity, infrastructure, real estate and private debt. For more information, visit cdpq.com, follow us on Twitter @LaCDPQ or consult our Facebook or LinkedIn pages.

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