Moonfare, the digital private equity investment platform for individual investors, has announced that it has raised $125 million in Series C funding, led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners. Moonfare will use the funding to continue to develop investment solutions and accelerate its international expansion. The company has raised…
Lever, a Talent Acquisition Suite, has completed a $50 million Series D funding round with the Apax Digital Fund. As part of this partnership, Apax Digital’s Mia Hegazy will join Lever’s board of directors. “The talent acquisition market is an exciting sector benefiting from several tailwinds and, having tracked the space for some time, Lever…
HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) has announced the appointment of Daniel Ng as Senior Vice President of Corporate Business. In this new role, Daniel will spearhead the growth of the Corporate Business unit, taking responsibility for its strategic direction and overseeing day-to-day operations. Andrew Kwok, Chief Executive Officer of HGC, said, “HGC is committed to…
Yes Bank announced that Sharad Sharma has been co-opted as Non-Executive Director on the Board, effective November 01, 2021. According to the Bank’s exchange filing, “This is to inform you that as permitted under Clause 5(5) of the ‘Yes Bank Limited Reconstruction Scheme, 2020’ notified by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India vide notification…
Global investment firm KKR and Biosynth Carbosynth, a life sciences reagents and custom synthesis and manufacturing services company, announced that KKR has agreed to acquire Biosynth Carbosynth from Armira and CEO Dr. Urs Spitz. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Dr. Spitz and senior managers of the company will retain a significant ownership…
Yum! Brands and Decoded announced their partnership to build an in-house Data Academy in the UK for the international restaurant business. KFC employees will be given the opportunity to gain qualifications in data analytics, learning cutting-edge data science techniques such as machine learning, data visualization and programming in Python, the statement said. By partnering with…
TricorBraun announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of premium glass packaging supplier Vetroelite. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition grows TricorBraun’s European presence and continues the company’s global expansion, a statement said. “We are pleased to expand our services to customers in Europe, while supporting Vetroelite’s growth,” said Court Carruthers,…
TeamLease Services, a human capital and staffing firm, announced increasing their stake in Avantis Regtech, the industry leader in digitization of Compliance Management to 61.5%. Along with this equity infusion, the strategic partnership will be expanded by changing the name of the company and brand to TeamLease Regtech. TeamLease Regtech will offer a state-of-art web…
Yezdi Nagporewalla has been appointed as the new CEO of KPMG in India for a term commencing February 7, 2022 and ending on December 31, 2026. He was nominated by the KPMG India Board and approved by the India Partners. The firm executed the governance process for the selection of the CEO. Yezdi succeeds Arun…
OYO has announced the elevation of Ankit Gupta to Chief Executive Officer, Franchise & Frontier – India. As a part of his expanded responsibilities, Ankit will be leading its flagship Hotels & Homes business as well as other verticals. He will continue reporting to Rohit Kapoor, CEO, OYO India & South-East Asia. Ankit will focus…
Amazon Pay and MakeMyTrip India, a fully owned subsidiary of MakeMyTrip Limited, India’s travel group, have announced a strategic long-term partnership to offer travel services on Amazon.in which includes its suite of mobile apps and websites. Commenting on the partnership, Rajesh Magow, Co-founder & Group CEO of MakeMyTrip, said, “We are excited to partner with…
CleverTap, the engagement and retention platform, has added a new dimension to its core leadership team with the appointment of Vikrant Chowdhary as Chief Growth Officer (CGO). Chowdhary will lead CleverTap’s integrated go-to-market (GTM) strategy globally across all commercial and enterprise segments. “We are thrilled to have Vikrant join us as our partner for growth…
Robocorp, an open-source process automation platform, has announced that it has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Dave Dabbah as its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). “In addition to his experience building, leading, and scaling marketing teams, Dave brings a bold vision to Robocorp,” said Antti Karjalainen, co-founder and CEO of Robocorp. “We’re gaining…
Surya Roshni, a steel pipes, lighting and consumer durables company in India, announced the appointment of Vinay Surya, the Whole Time Director as Managing Director, effective from 26 October 2021. Vinay Surya has done an MBA from Swinburne University, Australia and has contributed majorly to the vision and strategy of the Company. With his long-term…
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, announced it is expanding its partnership with Celcom Axiata Berhad (Celcom), a telecommunications provider in Malaysia, to transform the latter’s core business support systems (BSS) using TCS HOBS and TCS TwinX hosted on Microsoft Azure. With the new core platforms transformation project,…