by Sebastian | Jul 23, 2021 | News
Shares of Sema4 Holdings Corp, a genetic-testing and health-data analytics business spun out of the Mount Sinai Health System, are set to start trading Friday after the business combined with a blank-check company backed by Casdin Capital and Corvex Management....
by Sebastian | Jul 23, 2021 | News
Uber Technologies’s Freight unit is buying technology-focused logistics services provider Transplace in a cash and stock deal worth about $2.25bn that extends the ride-hailing giant’s reach into the U.S. domestic shipping sector. Uber reached an agreement to acquire...
by Sebastian | Jul 22, 2021 | News
Baird Capital, the global private equity and venture capital arm of Baird, has held the final close for its second Global Fund (Global Fund II) with over $340m in committed capital. The fund makes buyout and growth equity investments of 15m to 40m in Technology &...
by Sebastian | Jul 22, 2021 | News
Blackstone said its second quarter distributable earnings nearly doubled year on year driven by a surge in asset sales across its real estate, private equity, credit and insurance businesses. Distributable earnings, which represents the cash used to pay dividends to...
by Sebastian | Jul 22, 2021 | News
Thoma Bravo-owned Sophos has announced it’s acquiring Braintrace, a cybersecurity startup that provides organizations visibility into suspicious network traffic patterns. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Braintrace, which was founded in 2016 and has raised $10m...
