Weekly News: Week of 2/21/22

This Week’s Vendor News

NEW PRODUCTS & INTEGRATIONS

iCapital, a global fintech platform for alternative investments in the asset and wealth management industries, has announced a consortium with the goal of developing a distributed ledger-based solution for the alternative investment ecosystem.

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DEAL ACTIVITY

Quaestor has rebranded to Standard Metrics and has secured $23.7M Series A in order to pioneer the digitization of workflows and data in private markets.

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Grata has closed a $25 million round led by Craft Ventures.

The capital is intended to accelerate Grata's ability to help dealmakers unlock traditionally hard-to-access data on middle-market companies.

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HIRING & PERSONNEL

LemonEdge welcomes seven new members to their team including Sana Fatima, Human Resources Assistant, Kim Bryant, Pre Sales Engineer Lead, and Implementation Managers Robert Loomis, Kunaal Geraa, Pulkit Sharma, and Richard King.

LemonEdge is also currently hiring for multiple roles.

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SS&C Technologies is currently hiring for a Scrum Master in New York, NY.

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VENDOR WHITEPAPERS

Acuity Knowledge Partners has shared the results of their debut survey of private equity and venture capital (PE & VC) firms.

The survey gathered insights and opinions on a range of subjects and professional opinions on how they might fare in 2022 in terms of fundraising, dry powder, regulations, ESG considerations, PE operations, investing areas, strategies, outsourcing, valuations, and exits.

Read the report here.

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Preqin has released an analysis supported by Colmore data regarding the state of play when it comes to fees.

Read the analysis here.

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Preqin has released a 2021 Annual Private Fund Strategies Report.

The report also features Altvia’s CRO, Kjael Skaalerud.

Read it here.

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Allvue has released a piece on the private equity pacing model and explores three key challenges investors could possibly face.

Read it here.

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Altvia has released a piece on implementing a data strategy for firms.

Read it here.

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Valu8 has released a Twitter thread on the most read articles from their February newsletters.

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AWARDS

Quantium Global has been listed in the Top Graduate Employers 2022 rankings by the Australian Association of Graduate Employers (AAGE).

Find applications for their next intake here.


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