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Warburg Pincus leads $62 mln follow-on financing of eSentireCambridge, Ontario-based managed security services platform eSentire Inc has raised about $62 million (US$47 million) in follow-on financing. U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus, the company's majority investor since 2017 /canada/2017/08/3468379/ led the deal. It was joined by minority investors Georgian Partners and Edison Partners. The funds raised will allow eSentire to further develop its managed detection and response technology through the application of artificial intelligence methodology for threat hunting and advanced automation. The company said the innovation will enable its security experts to "operate at machine scale." ESentire is led by CEO Kerry Bailey and President and COO J. Paul Haynes.
Warburg Pincus leads $47 mln for eSentireeSentire, a provider of managed detection and response solutions, has raised $47 million in funding. Warburg Pincus led the round with participation from Georgian Partners and Edison Partners.
PEI Awards 2018: Global winnersEnergy, healthcare, technology, consumer, long-term, frontier markets and impact investment firms of the year.
- PEI Awards 2018: Asia-Pacific winners
Who won what in Asia-Pacific, including awards for China, Australasia and Japan.
- Warburg Pincus leads Series D round for Contrast Security
Los Angeles-based Contrast Security, which embeds vulnerability analysis and exploit prevention directly into modern software, has raised $65 million in Series D funding. Warburg Pincus led the round.
Bears spotted in APAC private equitySome 14% of global professionals expect private equity activity to deteriorate over the next 12 months, compared with only 1% last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Cambridge: Tech deals drive PE outperformance in H1 2018The recent dip in public-market tech companies is likely to affect future valuations, according to Cambridge Associates.
Growth investing set to take off in 2019Blackstone is the latest manager to launch a strategy targeting companies that are still in the growth stage.
- Owl Ventures wraps up third fund at $315 mln
Owl Ventures has closed its third fund at $315 million. The fund will make early and growth-stage investments in education technology companies.
- Canadian VC climbs to 18-year high in 2018 as top deals raise $1.4 bln
Canada’s venture capital market broke records in 2018, its ninth straight year of growth. The milestones included the most financings sized $100 million or more – ever. That made the market’s top 10 VC financings especially cash-intensive. In all, they drew $1.4 billion from investors, up 17 percent from the $1.2 billion raised by the top 10 deals in 2017. The number is based on PE Hub Canada’s list of the largest financings announced in 2018, supplemented by preliminary data from Refinitiv. It points to the considerable influence of late-stage rounds in technology investment activity, which reached a total of $4.3 billion last year, a nearly two-decade high.