November 2015

USA

Tyro Payments Secures A$100M in Funding

Tyro Payments Limited, a Sidney, Australia-based point-of-sale payment solutions provider, secured A$100m in funding.

USA

Healthjump Acquires DataTrade Solutions

Healthjump, Inc., a Pheonixville, PA-based medical record exchange and communication platform, acquired DataTrade Solutions Inc., a healthcare IT consulting, development and support company.

China

Flypro Raises $13M in Series A Funding

Flypro Aerospace Tech Co., Ltd., a Shenzen, China-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) company, raised $13m in Series A funding.

USA

Fintech Companies See Regulatory Issues as Hurdle to Growth, according to SVB Survey

According to a survey recently released by Silicon Valley Bank, fintech company founders and investors expect regulatory issues to be the biggest obstacle to their success in 2016. The survey of 101 company founders and investors in the financial technology space was conducted at Silicon Valley Bank’s Fintech Mashup on November 3 in New York […]

UK USA

Velocity Acquires Uncover

Velocity, a NYC- and London, UK-based provider of a mobile payments platform, acquired Uncover, a UK-based mobile reservations platform.

USA

Quala Acquires Gator Environmental & Rentals

An affiliate of QualaWash Holdings, LLC, a portfolio company of Roark Capital and North America’s leader in bulk transportation container cleaning, acquired Gator Environmental & Rentals, Inc., a Port Allen, LA-based provider of waste water collection, transportation and disposal services in the Gulf Coast region.

Bahrain

C5 Accelerate Launches Cloud Accelerator in Bahrain

C5 Accelerate Limited, a London- and Bahrain-based technology investment firm, launched the Cloud Accelerator in the Middle East and Africa, which will be located in Bahrain.

USA

Bill Gates and Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg Launch The Breakthrough Energy Coalition

Bill Gates and Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg are launching a new initiative to invest in new clean energy technologies.

Interviews USA

Ridgemont Equity Partners, Interview with Travis Hain and John Shimp

Since 1993, Charlotte-based Ridgemont Equity Partners has operated as a middle market buyout and growth equity investor committing approximately $3.5 billion in 124 companies in such industries as energy, healthcare, and telecommunications/media/technology. They have just closed a new fund at nearly 1 billion. In conjunction with the close, Ridgemont’s partners Travis Hain and John Shimp have […]

Germany Interviews

Bomedus, Interview with Tobias Weigl

German healthcare company Bomedus has just raised 2.5m in Series B round. Founded as a spin-off of the University Clinic of Bonn, the startup aims to treat chronic pain with a holistic approach. Tobias Weigl, co-founder of Bomedus along with his brother Johannes (CEO), answered our questions about the company, the products, the funding and future […]

USA

Sabre to Acquire Trust Group of Companies, for $154M

Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a Southlake, Texas, USA-based provider of software, data, mobile and distribution solutions to the global travel industry, is to acquire the Trust Group of Companies, a central reservations, revenue management and hotel marketing provider, for approximately $154m. The amount of the acquisition, which will include Trust International, InnLink and Nexus, was […]

USA

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