Contentful, a new content management platform for web and mobile applications, has secured seed funding from Balderton Capital and Point Nine Capital. Contentful has also established a global advisory board of content and technology specialists including Alexander Bruehl, former partner at Atlas Capital; Francesco Cesarini, founder & technical director at Erlang Solutions; Daniel Heaf, chief digital officer at BBC Worldwide; Karen McGrane, CEO of Bond Art + Science; Todd Tran, head of advertising EMEA & APAC at Rovio and Michael Wolfe, serial entrepreneur and former EIR at Benchmark.
4 min read · 26 June 2013
Zenoss, a provider of unified IT monitoring and management solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, has appointed John Whitmarsh as chief financial officer. Whitmarsh comes to Zenoss with 20 years of financial management experience focused on growth stage private equity and venture-backed technology companies.
2 min read · 26 June 2013
McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision, a producer of music content, has entered into a multi-year partnership with private equity-backed LD Entertainment. The newly formed alliance will provide McG with the financial backing for Wonderland to independently develop, produce and finance its own slate of feature film, television and digital projects.
5 min read · 26 June 2013
BelHealth Investment Partners' portfolio company Qforma, a provider of healthcare data analytics focused on social network tools, stakeholder engagement insights, predictive modeling and launch optimization, has appointed Oern Stuge to the company’s board of directors. Ed Mendham has joined the company as CFO, effective immediately.
3 min read · 26 June 2013
UK mid-market firm Lyceum Capital has expanded its investment team with the appointments of Matthew Norrington and Thomas Alldred as the UK lower mid-market growth investor prepares to deploy its third fund. Norrington joins as an investment director from LDC where he spent over five years originating and executing buyouts. Alldred’s appointment as an investment executive follows a two and a half year spell as an executive in Deloitte’s transaction services team.
3 min read · 26 June 2013
Global telecoms investor Altimo has appointed minister Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov to its international advisory board. Ivanov is the president of the Russian International Affairs Council and a professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
2 min read · 26 June 2013
Juggernaut Capital Partners has made an investment in Ceuta Healthcare Group, a health and beauty products outsourcing firm in the UK. Ceuta provides outsourced sales, marketing and logistics services to consumer packaged goods companies, ranging from start-ups to large multinationals.
2 min read · 26 June 2013
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners has co-led the Series B financing round of Complix with GIMV. Complix, formed in 2008, was founded in Hasselt, Belgium. The funds will be invested in developing a first set of therapeutic Alphabodies(TM) to treat cancer and autoimmune indications and to further develop and validate the company's unique Alphabody platform.
4 min read · 26 June 2013
In First Read this morning read all about the pressing issues affecting bio-venture, the most competitive cities of the future, an incubator that wants to take start-ups to China and back and more.
1 min read · 26 June 2013
On the jobs board this week are openings at renewable energy-focused private equity firm Greenlake Capital, distressed and turnaround investor Patriach Partners, private equity lending partner Fifth Street and buyout veteran TPG Capital.
1 min read · 25 June 2013
