State Street Global Advisors

State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, has been dedicated to assisting clients in achieving financial security for almost four decades. They collaborate with major investors and financial intermediaries globally, employing a research-driven investment process that covers both indexing and active strategies. With trillions in assets under management, their extensive scale and global presence provide clients with unparalleled market access and innovative solutions. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Massachusetts, State Street Global Advisors offers a diverse investment portfolio tailored to businesses, governments, institutions, and financial advisors worldwide.

Lynn S. Blake

Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Global Equity Beta Solutions

Nicholas Bonn

MD and Principal

Lochiel Crafter

Executive Vice President and Head of Global Institutional Group

Olivia Engel

Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, Active Quantitative Equity

Daniel P. Farley

Chief Investments Officer, Investment Solutions Group

Marie-Anne Heeren

Senior Managing Director and Head of Continental Europe

Lori Miller Heinel

Executive Vice President, Deputy Global Chief Investment Officer

Emmanuel Laurina

Managing Director and Head of Middle East and North Africa

James Macnevin

Senior Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific

David McDonough

MD

Michael Solecki

Senior Managing Director at State Street Global Advisors and Chief Investment Officer for Fundamenta

Cyrus Russi Taraporevala

President and Chief Executive Officer

Rory Tobin

Executive Vice President and Head of Global SPDR

David William Wiederecht

Executive Vice President and Head of the Global Outsourced Chief Investment Officer

June Wong

Senior Managing Director and Head of Asia Ex-Japan

18 past transactions

Guide to Iceland

Venture Round in 2018
Guide to Iceland is the official travel information provider for the City of Reykjavík. They receive visitors in their travel headquarters in Reykjavík’s city hall, where they tirelessly work towards making the capital the most accessible and travel-friendly cities in the world while preserving its cultural and environmental heritage. They consider ourselves extremely fortunate for the opportunity of welcoming visitors from across the world to this tremendous land, in this tremendous time, and they will continue to provide you with everything needed for the magnificent journey that is ahead.

EdCast

Private Placement in 2018
EdCast is an AI-powered knowledge cloud for unified discovery, knowledge management, and personalized learning. EdCast aggregates all learning content including those from LMS, intranet, external providers, subject matter experts, and preferred resources on the web. The company's machine learning curation engine ensures that only the highest quality, most relevant, and contextual content is presented to your team. EdCast’s AI-based targeting engine learns about your team and makes continuous learning recommendations directly to where they are working – including Slack and Salesforce.

Office Block at 7 and 8 Wilton Terrace in Dublin

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Office Block at 7 and 8 Wilton Terrace in Dublin comprises an office building. The asset is located in Ireland.

Pepperfry

Series E in 2018
Pepperfry is an online home and lifestyle shopping store selling products with cash on delivery facilities. The company's aim is to be a one-stop shop for customers seeking to spice up their home. Pepperfry was founded in 2012 by Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Directa Plus

Venture Round in 2009
Directa Plus Plc manufactures and sells graphene-based products for industrial and commercial applications in Italy and internationally. It operates through Textile, Environmental, and Others segments. The company offers its products under the G+ brand name. Its products are used in elastomers, textiles, composite materials, wastewater treatment, oil-spill recovery, golf balls, and foot wear. The company is based in Lomazzo, Italy.

Pepperfry

Series F in 2020
Pepperfry is an online home and lifestyle shopping store selling products with cash on delivery facilities. The company's aim is to be a one-stop shop for customers seeking to spice up their home. Pepperfry was founded in 2012 by Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Luminex Trading & Analytics

Venture Round in 2015
Focused on helping the IM community efficiently source block liquidity through transparent trading protocols.

EdCast

Private Placement in 2019
EdCast is an AI-powered knowledge cloud for unified discovery, knowledge management, and personalized learning. EdCast aggregates all learning content including those from LMS, intranet, external providers, subject matter experts, and preferred resources on the web. The company's machine learning curation engine ensures that only the highest quality, most relevant, and contextual content is presented to your team. EdCast’s AI-based targeting engine learns about your team and makes continuous learning recommendations directly to where they are working – including Slack and Salesforce.

GE Asset Management Incorporated

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
As of July 1, 2016, GE Asset Management Incorporated was acquired State Street Global Advisors, Inc. GE Asset Management Incorporated is acquired. The firm is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and insurance companies. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. It also manages hedge funds, private equity, commingled trusts, partnerships, and real estate products. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, emerging, and alternative markets across the globe. For its fixed income securities, it invests in high yield securities, short term duration securities, emerging markets debt, tax exempt securities, and structured products including collateralized debt obligations. For its emerging markets debt, the firm invests in corporate credit, quasi-sovereign, and sovereign securities issued within emerging countries. For its alternative investments, it invests in REITs. The firm primarily invests in growth and value stocks of mid-cap and large-cap companies. It typically employs a top-down approach to select its sectors and a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its equity portfolios. The firm employs a fundamental and quantitative analysis to make its investments. It employs a disciplined approach to investing. The firm benchmarks the performance of its fixed income portfolios against the Lehman Brothers 1-3 Year Government Bond Index and Barclays Aggregate Bond Index. It benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolio against S&P 500. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments. It was founded in 1988 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Los Angeles, California; Norwalk, Connecticut; Singapore, Singapore; Shanghai, China; Tokyo, Japan; Irvine, California; and Oslo, Norway.

Micruity

Venture Round in 2024
The most important thing in there lives is there physical and mental health, and unfortunately many people suffer from the stress associated with finances. In retirement, these same concerns exist. They are supporting innovative companies who want to change this for their employees by creating a secure future.
Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) is a leading investment management firm and is an asset management arm of Bank of Ireland Group.

STARZ PLAY

Venture Round in 2016
Stream thousands of blockbuster Hollywood movies, TV shows, documentaries, kid's entertainment and same-day-as-the-US series – plus dedicated Arabic and Bollywood content – to 19 countries across the Middle East and North Africa. Sign up today at www.starzplay.com for your 30-day free trial. STARZ PLAY utilizes advanced technology to provide a premium viewing experience with full HD and 4K content sourced from some of the most important studios in the entertainment business, such as 20th Century Fox, CBS, Disney, Lionsgate, Paramount, Showtime, Sony, Starz, Universal and Warner Bros. STARZ PLAY also delivers amazing value – for a low monthly fee subscribers can enjoy unlimited ad-free access to a wide choice of entertainment. Developed exclusively for the MENA region, STARZ PLAY features one-click Arabic subtitling plus Arabic and French audio options. STARZ PLAY allows you to watch anytime, anywhere on an iOS or Android device, supports Mac and Windows browsers, and streams via Apple TV, Chromecast, a PS4 console or directly to a Samsung and LG smart TVs. The service is available on regional IPTV services, is continually adding support for numerous other gaming and smart devices, and allows downloads for offline playback. STARZ PLAY is aligned with STARZ, the flagship brand of one of its lead investors, Starz, a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B). The company also has investment relationships with State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the world’s third largest asset manager, and media and technology investment firms SEQ Capital Partners and Delta Partners. STARZ PLAY is headquartered in Dubai, UAE, with fully-fledged development offices in Madrid, Spain and Lahore, Pakistan. The company is managed by a select team of highly experienced media and entertainment executives and now comprises a triple-digit strong team of sales, marketing and media technology professionals.

Luminus Devices

Series A in 2002
Luminus Devices develops and manufactures high performance, solid state lighting solutions for a variety of illumination applications previously thought impossible for solid state lighting. Its patented PhlatLight® LEDs products are the brightest and most versatile solid state light sources available today, redefining the solid state lighting landscape by enabling the creation of innovative new products and applications. PhlatLight LED technology is used today in products from leading global mass market consumer and specialty products companies.

Dialectica

Series A in 2006
Dialectica is a biotechnological company that produces neuronal cellular models. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Milan, Italy.

EdCast

Series D in 2019
EdCast is an AI-powered knowledge cloud for unified discovery, knowledge management, and personalized learning. EdCast aggregates all learning content including those from LMS, intranet, external providers, subject matter experts, and preferred resources on the web. The company's machine learning curation engine ensures that only the highest quality, most relevant, and contextual content is presented to your team. EdCast’s AI-based targeting engine learns about your team and makes continuous learning recommendations directly to where they are working – including Slack and Salesforce.

Boliden Group

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
Boliden AB (publ) engages in exploring, extracting, and processing base metals and precious metals. It operates in two segments, Business Area Mines and Business Area Smelters. The company explores for mineral deposits, such as zinc, copper, lead, nickel, gold, palladium, platinum, and silver. It operates the Aitik, the Boliden Area, and Garpenberg mines in Sweden; the Tara mine in Ireland; and the Kylylahti and Kevitsa mines in Finland. The company’s smelters produce mainly zinc ingots, copper cathodes, lead ingots, gold and silver granules, and other products, such as sulphuric acid, zinc clinker, sulphur dioxide, and palladium concentrate. The company sells its metals primarily to industrial customers, as well as to construction, electronics and automotive industries; and lead to battery manufacturers. It operates in Sweden, other Nordic region, Germany, the United Kingdom, other European countries, North America, and internationally. The company has a strategic collaboration agreement with Luleå University of Technology to develop technology and strengthening competence in mining and smelting operations. Boliden AB (publ) was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

PensionBee

Venture Round in 2017
PensionBee combines all your old pensions into one new online plan. The application enables its users to create profiles including information on past and present pension and personal information. It allows them to track the pension progress and features a pension calculator to set retirement goals and add new contributions. PensionBee was launched in 2014 by Romi Savova and is based in London. PensionBee is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. With pensions, your capital is at risk.

EdCast

Series C in 2018
EdCast is an AI-powered knowledge cloud for unified discovery, knowledge management, and personalized learning. EdCast aggregates all learning content including those from LMS, intranet, external providers, subject matter experts, and preferred resources on the web. The company's machine learning curation engine ensures that only the highest quality, most relevant, and contextual content is presented to your team. EdCast’s AI-based targeting engine learns about your team and makes continuous learning recommendations directly to where they are working – including Slack and Salesforce.