AlphaSense, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing an AI-powered search engine for market intelligence. Founded in 2007, AlphaSense provides a platform that enables research professionals to efficiently search, navigate, and analyze various data sources, including filings, research, news, and other disclosures. This technology utilizes artificial intelligence and natural language processing to identify relevant insights from diverse and fragmented data sets, helping users gain critical business insights quickly. The company serves over 1,000 enterprise clients across multiple industries and geographies. With a workforce exceeding 240 employees, a significant portion of whom are dedicated to product development, AlphaSense also has offices in London, Helsinki, Pune, and other locations in the United States.
MoEngage, Inc. provides a user analytics and engagement platform to improve customer retention and lifetime values. Its platform enables user intelligence, push notification, in-app messaging, and smart triggering aspects. The company serves e-commerce, telecom, travel and hospitality, and banking and finance industries. MoEngage, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Vidora, Inc. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in Bengaluru, India; Singapore; London, United Kingdom; Jakarta, Indonesia; Bangkok, Thailand; H? Chí Minh, Vietnam; and Berlin, Germany.
Starling Bank Limited is a digital-only bank headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2014 by Anne Boden. Originally known as Starling FS Limited, the institution rebranded in July 2016. Starling Bank specializes in providing personal and business banking services through its mobile banking application, which allows users to manage their finances efficiently. The platform offers features such as real-time spending intelligence, the ability to send money to friends, and tools for collaborative savings. Customers can conduct transactions in a paperless and branchless manner, ensuring a streamlined and personalized banking experience.
A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry topping course completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.
Selina Finance Limited, incorporated in 2018 and based in London, provides innovative digital finance services aimed at consumers and businesses. Recognizing the significant value tied up in UK homes and the reliance on costly consumer loans, credit cards, and overdrafts, the company offers flexible financing solutions that are designed to meet modern customer needs. Selina Finance enables individuals to assess their loan eligibility and provides credit facilities for property investors and businesses. By leveraging expertise in real estate, finance, and technology, Selina Finance aims to deliver a next-generation financing option that combines the flexibility of a current account, the affordability of a mortgage, and the ease of application typical of consumer loans.
Fever Labs, Inc. operates a mobile application that serves as a social discovery tool, offering users a curated list of local events in various cities, including New York, Madrid, and London. The app provides comprehensive information on a wide range of experiences, such as concerts, exhibitions, parties, comedy shows, and attractions, along with ticket booking options. With a focus on enhancing the Experience Economy, Fever connects over 40 million users monthly with the best local activities, while also empowering event organizers to create original content. Founded in 2011 and initially known as Kzemos, Inc., Fever has established itself as a leader in the digitization of experiences, helping individuals discover and enjoy diverse cultural and entertainment offerings.
AlphaSense, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing an AI-powered search engine for market intelligence. Founded in 2007, AlphaSense provides a platform that enables research professionals to efficiently search, navigate, and analyze various data sources, including filings, research, news, and other disclosures. This technology utilizes artificial intelligence and natural language processing to identify relevant insights from diverse and fragmented data sets, helping users gain critical business insights quickly. The company serves over 1,000 enterprise clients across multiple industries and geographies. With a workforce exceeding 240 employees, a significant portion of whom are dedicated to product development, AlphaSense also has offices in London, Helsinki, Pune, and other locations in the United States.
Form3 delivers cloud-based connectivity, payment processing, clearing and settlement services. It is a fully managed payment technology service combining a powerful AWS cloud processing platform, multiple-scheme payment gateways and a fully managed 24x7 service model. Form3's powerful micro-services architecture and API's provide a single point of simple access to the full universe of payment schemes. Its clients include a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks, non-bank financial institutions, and fintech companies (payment institutions, e-money providers, and pre-paid card providers). Form3 was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England.
Gelato is the world’s fastest, smartest and greenest one-stop-shop for customized print products on demand. Our solution enables entrepreneurs, creators, and global brands to sell their products globally and produce them locally in 30 countries, reaching up to 5 billion potential consumers overnight. Thousands of businesses of all sizes - from creators and startups to large enterprises - use Gelato’s software and APIs to scale their e-commerce business to new markets. We have offices in Boston, London, Moscow, Mumbai, Santiago, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tallinn, and Tokyo. Our headquarter is in Oslo, Norway.
Zilch Technology Limited is a London-based company that specializes in a buy now, pay later platform. Founded in 2018, Zilch offers a six-week payment process that allows consumers to make purchases without incurring interest charges. The platform is designed to facilitate automated payments and includes options for refunds. Zilch aims to engage dormant customer bases and transform potential buyers into actual purchasers, enhancing the overall shopping experience.
ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology designed to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crimes. The company offers a global, real-time database that enables over 500 enterprises across 75 countries to assess the risk associated with their business relationships. By analyzing millions of structured and unstructured data points, ComplyAdvantage identifies tens of thousands of risk events daily, helping organizations mitigate potential threats and enhance their compliance measures.
Starling Bank Limited is a digital-only bank headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2014 by Anne Boden. Originally known as Starling FS Limited, the institution rebranded in July 2016. Starling Bank specializes in providing personal and business banking services through its mobile banking application, which allows users to manage their finances efficiently. The platform offers features such as real-time spending intelligence, the ability to send money to friends, and tools for collaborative savings. Customers can conduct transactions in a paperless and branchless manner, ensuring a streamlined and personalized banking experience.
Private Equity Round in 2020
Permira Advisers Ltd. is a prominent European private equity firm established in 1985, with its headquarters in London and additional offices across Asia, Europe, and North America. The firm focuses on long-term investments in medium to large companies, particularly in sectors such as consumer goods, financial services, healthcare, industrial products, and technology. Permira typically invests in companies with enterprise values up to €3 billion, favoring majority control and significant minority stakes. Its investment strategy encompasses a variety of approaches, including leveraged buyouts, growth capital, and restructuring. The firm is known for its commitment to transforming the performance of its portfolio companies and driving sustainable growth over an investment horizon of five to twelve years. Permira's global network and extensive experience have positioned it as a leading player in the private equity landscape, allowing it to target investments in regions including Europe, North America, the Middle East, and East Asia.
H4 is a digital platform transforming the documentation that underpins global financial markets and legal contracts. H4 is a utility for the marketplace to benefit investment banks, law firms, financial investors, issuers, and other market participants.
Hunter Boot Limited is a distinguished manufacturer of footwear and outerwear, specializing in rubber boots and accessories for men, women, and children. Founded in 1856 and headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, with additional offices in London, New York, and Düsseldorf, the company offers a diverse range of products, including boots, shoes, sandals, coats, jackets, ponchos, and various accessories such as boot socks, bags, umbrellas, and care products. Hunter Boot is recognized for its strong brand appeal and commitment to outdoor performance, catering to consumers in both rural and urban settings. The company's products are available through its online platform, stockists, and proprietary retail locations.
Minute Media is a global, digital, sports media company, powered by socially driven content created by the fans, for the fans. Their products let fans create, publish, share and distribute content to more than 85 million people per month. Their content fuses sports stories with everyday culture, creating a fresh new voice in the world of sports media.
Quintain Limited engages in property investment and development activities primarily in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands. The company’s property investment and development assets are located at Wembley Park, London. It manages commercial and residential investment portfolio; and provides asset management services. The company was formerly known as Quintain Estates & Development PLC and changed its name to Quintain Limited in February 2016. Quintain Limited was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Trussle Lab Ltd, based in London, operates as an online mortgage broker, specializing in providing mortgage advice to first-time buyers and homeowners. Established in 2015, Trussle aims to simplify the mortgage process by moving it online, significantly reducing the time, hassle, and costs typically associated with securing a mortgage. The service is free for customers, with Trussle earning fees from lenders once a mortgage is successfully completed. As a trading style of Trussle Lab Ltd, the company is an appointed representative of Mortgage Advice Bureau Limited and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Utilizing automation and mortgage monitoring, Trussle effectively compares and tracks various mortgage products to help borrowers secure the most suitable deals for financing their homes.
Eigen Technologies Limited specializes in developing software for data extraction and mining, utilizing machine learning algorithms to analyze and interpret text. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in New York, the company automates the extraction and classification of information from various types of documents, enabling clients in finance, law, and professional services to make informed decisions. By employing advanced natural language processing technology, Eigen recognizes patterns within text to provide accurate answers to specific queries and classify documents based on relevant attributes. This capability allows clients to meet regulatory requirements, assess risks, and make strategic decisions regarding asset portfolios. Eigen's solutions can be deployed on-premises or in cloud environments, integrating seamlessly into existing workflows and transforming unstructured qualitative data into actionable insights.
Remitly Global, Inc. is a digital remittance company that facilitates international money transfers through its extensive global network, serving regions such as Africa, Asia, Central Europe, and South America. The company offers a mobile payment service that allows users to send money from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom using various digital devices. Remitly aims to disrupt the traditional money transfer industry, which is valued at $588 billion annually, by employing advanced technology to streamline the process and reduce fees. As a licensed money transmitter, Remitly operates in 49 states and Washington, D.C., generating revenue primarily from transaction fees and foreign exchange spreads. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Remitly also maintains offices in London, Manila, and Nicaragua.
Minute Media is a global, digital, sports media company, powered by socially driven content created by the fans, for the fans. Their products let fans create, publish, share and distribute content to more than 85 million people per month. Their content fuses sports stories with everyday culture, creating a fresh new voice in the world of sports media.
TopHat Corporate Limited designs, develops, and manufactures modular housing products. The company offers end-to-end service, including design and delivery. TopHat Corporate Limited was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Whilst many may be aware of the digital disruption on banking, few are aware to what extent; the open data API recently made available to developers, paired with smart phone
technology has the potential to transform more than how they simply view their bank balance.
Bud is using this innovation to bring a new perspective and experience to banking, using data to understand it’s community and provide them with a platform focused on connecting them with the things they love; with the belief that together they can do more.
Second Home Ltd. is a workspace provider that leases and operates office spaces tailored for entrepreneurs, innovators, and social enterprises. Founded in 2014 by Rohan Silva, Samuel Aldenton, and Robin Klein, the company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. In addition to its London base, Second Home has expanded its presence to Lisbon and Los Angeles, offering unique environments designed to foster creativity and collaboration among its members. The company's commitment to supporting entrepreneurs and creative businesses is reflected in its innovative workspace solutions.
Private Equity Round in 2018
Westbrook Partners is a privately-owned real estate investment management firm that was founded in April 1994 and is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in various major cities including Boston, Washington, DC, Palm Beach, San Francisco, London, Munich, Paris, and Tokyo. The firm specializes in value-add investment opportunities and manages a diverse portfolio that includes office, multi-family residential, hotel, retail, industrial, and single-family residential properties. Westbrook's team is involved in all aspects of real estate investment, including acquisition, value enhancement, financial accounting, and risk management. With extensive experience in the real estate sector, Westbrook Partners focuses on enhancing property value and optimizing investment returns.
Prodigy Finance Limited operates an online platform that facilitates education loans for international postgraduate and MBA students, enabling access to higher education that may otherwise be financially unattainable. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in London, the platform connects student borrowers with a community of lenders, which includes alumni, institutional investors, qualified private investors, and banks. These lenders collectively fund the loans, offering financial and social returns on their investments. The company utilizes localized lending templates and historical earnings data to assess cross-border risk, allowing it to serve students from over 150 nationalities. Through this innovative approach, Prodigy Finance aims to bridge the funding gap for aspiring international students.
IHS Markit Ltd. provides critical information, analytics, and solutions for various industries and markets worldwide. The company’s information, analytics, and solutions enhance operational efficiency and offer deep insights for customers in business, finance, and government. Its Financial Services segment offers pricing and reference data, indices, valuation and trading services, trade processing, enterprise software, and managed services to traders, portfolio managers, risk managers, research professionals, and other financial market participants, as well as operations, compliance, and enterprise data managers. The company’s Transportation segment provides authoritative analysis; sales and production forecasts for light vehicles, medium and heavy commercial vehicles, powertrains, components, and technology systems; and predictive analytics and marketing automation software. It also offers comprehensive data on ships, and monthly import and export statistics. The company’s Resources segment provides upstream services, including technical information, analytical tools, and market forecasting and consulting for the upstream industry; and downstream information, such as market forecasting, midstream market analysis and supply chain data, refining and marketing economics, and oil product pricing information for the chemical, refined products, agriculture, and power industries. It also offers data for manufacturing processes; and capital expenditure, cost, price, production, trade, demand, and capacity industry analysis and forecasts. The company’s Consolidated Markets & Solutions segment provides discovery technologies, research tools, and software-based engineering decision engines; performance and analysis for technology, media, and telecom industries; and economic and risk data, forecast, and analytic tools. It has strategic partnership with QUODD Financial Information Services. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Minute Media is a global, digital, sports media company, powered by socially driven content created by the fans, for the fans. Their products let fans create, publish, share and distribute content to more than 85 million people per month. Their content fuses sports stories with everyday culture, creating a fresh new voice in the world of sports media.
Neyber is revolutionising personal finance because they’re giving people options to support their plans for the future. With Neyber, everyone can get more value from their pay cheque through access to better rates and realistic terms, tailored individually. Hand in hand with employers, they’re part of a fresh approach that’s set to change the way everyone looks at borrowing and saving. Together, they will be creating opportunities for employees to borrow and save within their community — that’s why they’re called Neyber
Tottenham Hotspur is a professional football club in London, competing in the Premier League. The team, which was founded in 1882, has held a number of cup championship such as the FA Charity Shield with 7 championships, the Football League Division with 2 championships, the UEFA Cup with 2 championships, the European Cup-Winners Cup, the Football League Cup with 4 championships, The FA Cup with and 8 championships, and the Football League with 2 championships.
Tottenham Hotspur has global partnerships across the world that support the development of the club's global appeal.
Private Equity Round in 2017
Accel-KKR LLC is a private equity firm founded in 2000 and based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Atlanta and London. The firm specializes in growth capital and middle market investments, primarily focusing on the technology sector, including software and IT-enabled services. Accel-KKR targets buyouts of non-core assets from larger companies, acquisitions and recapitalizations of privately held firms, and going-private transactions of small public companies. The firm typically invests in companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $200 million, committing capital ranging from less than $10 million to over $100 million. It prefers to acquire majority ownership positions but also considers minority growth investments. Accel-KKR is affiliated with Accel Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., and it aims to invest globally in sectors such as enterprise software, telecommunications, and professional services.
Dropbox provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions. It aims to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. 500 million registered users around the world use Dropbox to work the way they want, on any device, wherever they go.
Founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Moreover, the company has more than 12 offices around the world, with locations in San Francisco, Austin, Dublin, Herzliya, London, New York, Paris, Seattle, Sydney, Hamburg, Washington DC, and Tokyo.
Persado Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-generated marketing language solutions designed to enhance brand engagement and marketing effectiveness. The company offers a range of products, including Pro Email, which optimizes email subject lines through emotional language, and Pro Social, which creates compelling paid social ads. Its flagship product, Persado Enterprise, generates personalized emotional language tailored to individual consumers, facilitating both immediate sales and long-term relationships. Additionally, Persado One provides a cloud-based solution for multi-channel consumer engagement. The company's Marketing Language Cloud analyzes a vast database of words and phrases to identify language that resonates with audiences, ultimately driving improved engagement and business outcomes. Persado serves various industries, including retail, financial services, travel, and telecommunications, and maintains strategic partnerships with organizations such as Emarsys and Listrak. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company has additional locations in San Francisco, Chicago, Milan, Rome, Neo Irakleio, and London.
Qubit Digital Limited specializes in developing software solutions that manage and analyze large data sets to enhance online customer experiences. The company offers a range of products, including tag management, marketing attribution, customer intelligence, and web personalization solutions. Its notable offerings include OpenTag, an open-source tag management system that streamlines the management of third-party technologies, and Qubit Pro, a platform for personalizing user experiences based on visitor data. Additionally, Qubit provides solutions for customer analytics, web testing, and product discovery, catering primarily to e-commerce, publishing, and lead generation sectors. By leveraging rich customer data and advanced technology, Qubit aims to help businesses improve marketing efficiency and increase revenue through personalized customer interactions. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, Qubit has expanded its presence with offices in major cities including New York and Paris, serving prominent brands in the global market.
Private Equity Round in 2016
HighQ Solutions Limited specializes in cloud-based enterprise collaboration and content management software, catering primarily to professional services organizations such as law firms, financial institutions, and government entities. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in London, the company offers a range of products, including HighQ Collaborate, a platform for secure team collaboration and productivity, and HighQ Publisher, which simplifies content management for tailored digital experiences. Additionally, HighQ Appliance facilitates integration with major document and client relationship management systems. With a client base that includes over 40% of the global top 100 law firms, HighQ combines secure, enterprise-grade technology with a user-friendly experience to enhance the way businesses communicate and share information in the cloud. The company maintains a global presence with offices in New York, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Sydney, and a development center in Ahmedabad, India. HighQ Solutions Limited operates as a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters Corporation.
Perseus, Inc. specializes in providing connectivity, managed hosting, market data, and time-as-a-service to a diverse clientele that includes finance, media, eCommerce, and iGaming sectors. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, the company operates as a subsidiary of GTT Communications. Perseus is known for its high-speed global networks, colocation services, and trading technologies, catering to a range of clients from market makers and banks to exchanges and Fortune 500 companies. The company offers some of the fastest and most precise market-to-market routes across major financial hubs such as Chicago, New York, London, Frankfurt, São Paulo, Mexico City, Tokyo, Singapore, and Johannesburg. Perseus has received multiple accolades for its innovative products and services, including recognition on the FinTech 50 Watchlist and placements in the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies.
OneTwoTrip.com is a new and innovative travel booking web site with a patented method of ticketing that saves the travel booker money and time. Launched in 2011, the web site already has millions of users globally, and presently has a team of just under 100 employees based in Europe, the USA and Russia. The OneTwoTrip team believes that there is a lot more to be done to help travelers across the world to travel smarter, easier and faster. The best flight booking experience is just the start. The site is currently available in English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Russian and Ukrainian.
WorldStores Limited is the largest online retailer of home and garden products in the United Kingdom. Established in 2008 and based in Twickenham, the company specializes in a diverse range of offerings, including bedroom furniture, living room and dining room furnishings, homewares, outdoor products, and DIY items. Their product selection encompasses everything from beds and mattresses to garden furniture, appliances, and decorative items like wallpapers and lighting. WorldStores also caters to families with a variety of children's products, including nursery items and outdoor play equipment. The company is part of the Worldstores Group, which includes ACHICA, a luxury flash-sale site, and Kiddicare, a baby specialist, both of which contribute to WorldStores' ambition to become a leading name in the home and garden sector. WorldStores is recognized for its extensive choice, competitive pricing, customer service, and flexible delivery options.
Persado Inc. specializes in artificial intelligence-generated marketing language solutions designed to enhance brand engagement and marketing effectiveness. The company offers a range of products, including Pro Email, which optimizes email subject lines through emotional language, and Pro Social, which creates compelling paid social ads. Its flagship product, Persado Enterprise, generates personalized emotional language tailored to individual consumers, facilitating both immediate sales and long-term relationships. Additionally, Persado One provides a cloud-based solution for multi-channel consumer engagement. The company's Marketing Language Cloud analyzes a vast database of words and phrases to identify language that resonates with audiences, ultimately driving improved engagement and business outcomes. Persado serves various industries, including retail, financial services, travel, and telecommunications, and maintains strategic partnerships with organizations such as Emarsys and Listrak. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company has additional locations in San Francisco, Chicago, Milan, Rome, Neo Irakleio, and London.
Lookout is a cybersecurity company that predicts and stops mobile attacks before harm is done to an individual or an enterprise. Lookout’s cloud-based technology is fueled by a global sensor network of more than 60 million users and tens of thousands of apps that are added daily. With this dataset of virtually all the mobile code in the world and the predictive machine intelligence to analyze and make sense of the data, Lookout can identify connections that would otherwise go unseen and stop cybercriminals from attacking mobile devices.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Boston, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C.
SugarCRM Inc. provides customer relationship management (CRM) solutions tailored for both small businesses and large enterprises across various sectors, including manufacturing, financial services, and insurance. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company has additional offices in major cities such as New York, London, and Sydney, and operates in numerous countries across Europe and Latin America. SugarCRM's platform is designed to enhance customer interactions by offering a suite of applications that facilitate sales, marketing, and customer support. With over 1.5 million users in 120 countries, the company emphasizes an individualized and intuitive user experience that combines simplicity and mobility with effective business process management. This approach allows organizations to optimize their customer engagement and decision-making capabilities.
Private Equity Round in 2013
APT is the world’s largest purely cloud-based predictive analytics software company. APT’s Test & Learn software is revolutionizing the way Global 2000 companies harness their Big Data to accurately measure the profit impact of pricing, marketing, merchandising, operations, and capital initiatives, tailoring investments in these areas to maximize ROI. APT’s client portfolio includes Walmart, Staples, Lowe’s, SunTrust, Hilton Hotels, and others. APT has offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, London, Taipei and Tokyo. Visit www.predictivetechnologies.com to learn more.
The Present.Co is an intelligent gifting site for web and mobile, designed for the busy shopper. With a few short clicks and the help of social media, ThePresent.Co offers a shortlist of gift ideas tailored to the person you're buying for. Gifts are then wrapped and delivered - it's gifting made so simple.
Based in London, United Kingdom, Celoxica delivers latency market data access and order execution solutions to the advanced trading community. The company’s solutions include a full range of market data feed handlers for the main U.S. and European equities, options, futures exchanges, and FX. With clients that include trading firms who co-locate their strategic applications in high frequency trading environments, market making, liquidity provision, algorithmic trading, and smart order routing, the company also offers a single access point for brokers and their clients by handling inbound FIX, credit check, and outbound native protocol to the execution venues. Celoxica was founded in 1996.
The Present.Co is an intelligent gifting site for web and mobile, designed for the busy shopper. With a few short clicks and the help of social media, ThePresent.Co offers a shortlist of gift ideas tailored to the person you're buying for. Gifts are then wrapped and delivered - it's gifting made so simple.
Dropbox provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions. It aims to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. 500 million registered users around the world use Dropbox to work the way they want, on any device, wherever they go.
Founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Moreover, the company has more than 12 offices around the world, with locations in San Francisco, Austin, Dublin, Herzliya, London, New York, Paris, Seattle, Sydney, Hamburg, Washington DC, and Tokyo.
Based in London, United Kingdom, Celoxica delivers latency market data access and order execution solutions to the advanced trading community. The company’s solutions include a full range of market data feed handlers for the main U.S. and European equities, options, futures exchanges, and FX. With clients that include trading firms who co-locate their strategic applications in high frequency trading environments, market making, liquidity provision, algorithmic trading, and smart order routing, the company also offers a single access point for brokers and their clients by handling inbound FIX, credit check, and outbound native protocol to the execution venues. Celoxica was founded in 1996.
Private Equity Round in 2008
Datapipe is a global provider of security and cloud storage solutions, specializing in managing and securing mission-critical IT services. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes cloud computing, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, colocation, and data center management. Datapipe operates in key financial and technical markets, including New York metro, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. It serves a diverse range of industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, government, publishing, media, and technology. Recognized for its expertise, Datapipe was included in Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting.
Blyk is a messaging media that works with mobile operators to link young people with brands and other stuff they like. Blyk launched its innovative mobile service in he UK in 2007, and quickly became known as a leader in mobile advertising, audience engagement and for its ability to drive unprecedented response rates and return on investment for advertisers. Blyk pioneered the use of interactive text and multi-media messaging as an advertising format, leveraging the most predominant, everyday behaviour of young people (sending and receiving messages on their phones) and enabling young people to communicate with brands in the same way they do with everyone else. Blyk is a private company, with offices in Helsinki, London, Amsterdam and Delhi. It’s current strategic partners include Orange and Vodafone. www.blyk.com
APX b.V. operates an exchange for electricity and natural gas markets in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Belgium. It offers market data and a range of indices for use by traders, energy suppliers, and energy-intensive industries, as well as provides trading and clearing services for power and natural gas futures. The company also provides trading, clearing, and notification of within-day and day-ahead gas contracts at the title transfer facility, as well as trading of secondary storage capacity and gas in store at Rough. In addition, it offers third-party services for the clearing and delivery of energy or energy-related products, such as carbon trading and auctioning, as well as over-the-counter clearing services and auction results. Further, the company provides a trading platform for the trading of cleared futures contracts, as well as publishes price and volume indices on a daily basis.
The company was founded in 1999 as Amsterdam Power Exchange and later changed its name to APX b.V. in 2004. The company is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in London and Nottingham, the United Kingdom. APX b.V. is a subsidiary of TenneT BV.
Ellacoya Networks is a provider of carrier-grade Broadband Service Optimization solutions that leverage deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to give broadband service providers the visibility and control necessary to optimize Internet services for their subscribers. The Ellacoya e30 and e100 hardware platforms and rich suite of software applications identify subscribers, classify and control applications on a per-subscriber basis, improve performance and customer satisfaction, and deliver revenue-generating IP services. Deployed in some of the world’s largest carrier IP networks, it is the only company that provides the scalability and functionality necessary to enable more compelling applications and competitive service offerings -- and to profit from them. Ellacoya Networks is privately held and based in Merrimack, New Hampshire with offices in London, Tokyo and Singapore.
Ellacoya Networks is a provider of carrier-grade Broadband Service Optimization solutions that leverage deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to give broadband service providers the visibility and control necessary to optimize Internet services for their subscribers. The Ellacoya e30 and e100 hardware platforms and rich suite of software applications identify subscribers, classify and control applications on a per-subscriber basis, improve performance and customer satisfaction, and deliver revenue-generating IP services. Deployed in some of the world’s largest carrier IP networks, it is the only company that provides the scalability and functionality necessary to enable more compelling applications and competitive service offerings -- and to profit from them. Ellacoya Networks is privately held and based in Merrimack, New Hampshire with offices in London, Tokyo and Singapore.
Ellacoya Networks is a provider of carrier-grade Broadband Service Optimization solutions that leverage deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to give broadband service providers the visibility and control necessary to optimize Internet services for their subscribers. The Ellacoya e30 and e100 hardware platforms and rich suite of software applications identify subscribers, classify and control applications on a per-subscriber basis, improve performance and customer satisfaction, and deliver revenue-generating IP services. Deployed in some of the world’s largest carrier IP networks, it is the only company that provides the scalability and functionality necessary to enable more compelling applications and competitive service offerings -- and to profit from them. Ellacoya Networks is privately held and based in Merrimack, New Hampshire with offices in London, Tokyo and Singapore.
CCBN provides Web-based investor communications solutions for the investment community. It offers services that transform the way companies communicate and meet disclosure requirements while assisting investors in managing and leveraging this information. CCBN's investor relations website hosting, webcasting, and disclosure services are utilized by corporate communications professionals at over 3,000 companies to deliver critical information via interactive and multi-media solutions. CCBN's StreetEvents service offers institutional and individual investors a one-stop solution for managing corporate disclosure information by aggregating conference calls, webcasts, transcripts, call summaries, and other financial information into a time-saving, efficiency tool subscribed to by over 15,000 Wall Street professionals. Headquartered in Boston, MA, CCBN has additional offices in San Francisco and London. As of March 12, 2004, CCBN.com, Inc. was acquired by Thomson Financial.
Private Equity Round in 2000
LNG Holdings S.A. offers local loop, national and international managed bandwidth services plus a new generation of telephony, Internet and online IT solution bundles for commercial businesses and operators. The company's service spectrum ranges from fiber-optic transmission circuits to high bit-rate IP services and even co-location services at all its PoPs. LNG Holdings S.A aims to become a pre-eminent provider of managed bandwidth services throughout Europe, and has rapidly established itself as a leader in Europe's largest telecommunications market, Germany, as well as building extensive networks in France and Spain and links to other major European cities, including Amsterdam, Brussels and London.
Magex, Ltd. provides electronic payments services for financial services institutions, telecommunication operators, and e-commerce companies. The company offers person to person, person to merchant payments, electronic funds transfers, cross-border remittance services, mobile payments, and end-to-end stored-value card services across the Internet, mobile networks, and point of sale services. Its clients include international banks and retailers in the United States. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom with additional offices in San Francisco and Phoenix. Magex, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Magex Holdings, Ltd.
Build-Online.com is an online business-to-business e-commerce site for the European construction industry. The company's management team combines extensive construction industry and e-commerce expertise. Brian Moran, President, has over 13 years of experience in the construction sector, including commercial contracting, project financing, project development and architecture. He has worked on major construction projects throughout Europe, most recently with global developer Hines, including a $100 million investment in Moscow. CEO Mark Suster joined Build-Online.com in November 1999 and was formerly one of Andersen Consulting's most senior e-commerce strategists working in US, Japanese and European markets for clients including Sony Corporation, Lucent Technologies, BT and Marconi.
Quidnunc offers businesses and brands with consulting services and support to create e-businesses. It offers tools and solutions that enable its customers to measure the performance of their e-commerce websites. Quidnunc was founded by Laurence Holt in 1988.