Portfolio News
Picasso Labs
Our investment into Picasso Labs, the B2B software helping multinational brands analyse their ad content. Picasso Labs was founded in 2015 by Anastasia Leng who previously worked at Google and has vast amounts of experience in the ad tech and analytics space. Picasso Labs was created as a result of a happy accident; Anastasia and…
Read MoreHullabalook
Our investment into Hullabalook, the disruptive customer experience platform for online retailers. Deemed the next generation of e-commerce 2.0 by the founders, Hullabalook (HB) provides online retailers with a Customer Experience (CX) platform that makes shopping their websites seamless and fun. The disruptive CX platform builds dynamic web applications to enhance consumers’ online shopping experience…
Read MoreDegreed Acquires Adepto to Enable Businesses to Sense and Respond to Shifting Demand for Skills
Acquisition will add enhanced skills inventories, on-the-job development experiences, and career mobility to industry-leading learning experience platform. Employee turnover due to lack of future career opportunities costs the typical large organization $49 million per year. PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Degreed, the workforce upskilling platform for one-in-three Fortune 50 companies, has acquired Adepto, a…
Read MoreConviction Investment Partners leads Adepto investment
Conviction Investment Partners (CIP) has led a £2 million investment round, alongside Triple Point and other investors, in Adepto – a skills-based Total Talent SaaS platform.
Read MoreThe Top Exits of 2019 So Far
Akkroo (HQ’d in the same building as Beauhurst!) comes fourth in our list of the top exits of 2019 so far.
Read MoreShowpad Secures $70 Million in Series D Funding
Investment will accelerate global expansion and drive continued platform innovation by the world’s largest sales enablement software provider
Read MoreConviction Investment Partners facilitates secondary market opportunities
The syndicate led the £1.75m Series A round of funding in June 2018 with CIP investing £1.5m and existing investors the remaining £0.25m Integrate acquired Akkroo as part of its expansion plans in Europe. The merger is expected to deliver significant synergies to both companies facilitating numerous cross-selling opportunities and respective global roll outs.
Read MoreIntegrate acquires London-based Akkroo for $34m to modernise B2B event marketing
I’m thrilled to announce our acquisition of the market-leader in mobile event lead capture and management, Akkroo. This is Integrate’s second acquisition in the last three months as we continue to deliver a smarter, more scalable approach to unifying the data, channels, technology and human processes required to generate demand for B2B companies. The pursuit of finding the right…
Read MoreZumper raises $46M more to take on Zillow and the rest with its apartment rental platform
While the property market in the US appears headed for a slowdown, a startup that’s honing in on rentals is doubling down on growth. Zumper, a San Francisco-based startup that has built an end-to-end platform to source, rent out and help service apartments across the US, has raised another $46 million in funding — money it plans…
Read MoreEvent lead capture firm Akkroo raises £1.75m
London-based event lead capture company Akkroo has received a £1.75m cash injection in a round led by Conviction Investment Partners (CIP). Existing private investors also participated in the Series A round, with the business having access to potential further capital of an equal, or greater amount, in a year’s time. Akkroo, based in Brixton, will use the cash…
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