Database security startup jSonar raises $50M from Goldman Sachs

Database security startup jSonar raises $50M from Goldman Sachs

Database security startup jSonar has secured $50 million in new funding from Goldman Sachs . The company, with offices in Waltham, Mass. and Vancouver, B.C., will use the new funding to grow its database security offering. In return, Goldman Sachs executive David...
Private capital wants a ‘visionary plan’

Private capital wants a ‘visionary plan’

Australia needs a “visionary plan” to double the size and output of the local tech sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Innovation Council says The industry association for the private equity and venture capital sectors has distributed a report...
Swedish private equity firm EQT to increase French investments

Swedish private equity firm EQT to increase French investments

Swedish private equity firm EQT aims to step up investments in France in areas such as healthcare and energy infrastructure as it sets up a base in Paris despite the coronavirus crisis, executives at the group said on Wednesday. EQT, which has been expanding in...
GPs to extend the holding periods for PE assets

GPs to extend the holding periods for PE assets

The Covid-19 pandemic was an unprecedented challenge for private equity (PE), with the crisis affecting most companies and spanning human resources, supply chains, liquidity and finances. But StepStone Group partner, Suzanne Tavill, says the Covid-19 crisis has...
Where E, S and G collide in private equity…and implode

Where E, S and G collide in private equity…and implode

Wars are said to be accelerators of history. So are pandemics. Both unmask the fragility of our ways of life, notably our flimsy assumptions. The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the unresolved fundamental contradictions of sustainability. The environmental, social and...