Investment

JMI Equity-Led Investment to Accelerate Strategic Growth Initiatives in Product Development and Customer Success, and Expand Lytics’ Team Lytics, the leading Customer Data Platform for marketers, announced the closing of a $35 million Series C investment round. The round was led by JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software companies, with participation from current investors Comcast Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Voyager Capital. This investment will…

Growth Spurred by 130 Percent Retention and Accelerated Overseas Momentum Seismic, the recognized leader in sales and marketing enablement, announced that the company exited 2018 with a run rate in excess of $100 million. Strong customer satisfaction and success with the product played a major factor in continued growth, with Seismic also reporting 130 percent customer retention to end 2018. "Crossing $100 million in revenue is a significant moment in any software company's history. Being the first sales enablement…

IST is proud to announce a strategic alliance and investment with BlueCrunch, a leading digital enabler software company that helps brands and corporates improve their digital interactions through mobile apps and portals with end-customers. The IST BlueCrunch alliance will bring together two leading Customer Experience (CX) innovators that will harmonise and simplify the delivery of innovative world-class CX solutions that will directly impact end-customers. BlueCrunch will add Mobile Apps and fully immersive web portals…

Strategic Investment Further Strengthens 3D Visualization Capabilities, Allowing Brands to Create More Interactive and Personalized Online Shopping Experiences Serial entrepreneur, Godard Abel, has led a $10 million seed round investment in ThreeKit, a 3D product configuration and visualization platform, to help the company further meet the demands of brands for more interactive and personalized e-commerce experiences. The investment will fund talent acquisition, and product and business development for the rapidly…

Dosh, the fastest growing fintech app, announced it has closed a $40 million Series B financing round, including $20 million in equity and $20 million in venture debt. The financing was led by Goodwater Capital and Western Technology Investment (WTI), with participation from investors PayPal, BAM Capital and Anthem Venture Partners. In 2019, much of the $231 billion advertising spend will be wasted due to no attribution. Dosh brings a dramatic shift in how merchants spend advertising dollars by giving them a new way to…

Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, announced an agreement to receive a $1.5 billion investment from shareholders Koch Equity Development, LLC (KED) and Golden Gate Capital. This investment builds on KED’s investment of more than $2 billion in early 2017, and it represents an important milestone as Infor considers a potential IPO in 2019 or 2020, subject to market conditions. “Koch and Golden Gate Capital have been phenomenal partners for Infor, and all of our 17,300…

New Investment Closes out Pebblepost’s $31 Million Series C Round PebblePost, the creator of Programmatic Direct Mail, announced Capital One Growth Ventures, Kickstart Seed Fund and other investors added funds to close out the company’s Series C round, which now totals $31 million. As previously announced, Advance Venture Partners (AVP) led PebblePost’s Series C round, which included prior investors RRE, Greycroft, Tribeca Venture Partners, strategic investors, and angels and pioneers in digital media. “PebblePost…

The Investment by Leading Tech Growth Fund IGP Will Accelerate SysAid's Growth in the ITSM Market and Beyond SysAid, a leading provider of service desk and IT service management (ITSM) solutions, announced the closing of a $30 million investment by IGP. The investment marks SysAid's first funding round, having operated as a bootstrap company since it was founded in 2002. For more than 15 years, SysAid has simplified on-going operations for IT Professionals and has empowered them to deliver exceptional service amid…

KED to Make $500 Million Preferred Equity Investment in the Leading Visual Media Company Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications, has reached an agreement with Koch Equity Development LLC (KED), the investment arm of Koch Industries, whereby KED will make a $500 million non-controlling preferred equity investment in the company. Under the transaction, the Getty family continues to retain control over Getty Images following its acquisition of controlling interest from the Carlyle Group earlier this year. …

Avedon Capital Partners Exits; Additional Capital to Accelerate Cyclomedia's Growth CycloMedia Technology, the leading provider of accurate geospatial imagery-data and data analytics, announces a significant new equity investment in the company by Volpi Capital to support CycloMedia's rapid international growth and the development of new market opportunities. Founded in 1980 and based in the Netherlands, CycloMedia provides a rich end-to-end B2B geo-data and software platform and has an established presence in the US,…