BioCatch Acquires AimBrain

Bain Capital Tech Opportunities Leads $145M Series C Investment in BioCatch

April 15, 2020

Cybersecurity

BioCatch, a leader in behavioral biometrics for fraud detection, closed a $145 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities with participation from Industry Ventures, American Express Ventures, CreditEase, Maverick Ventures, OurCrowd and others. The growth capital will accelerate BioCatch’s expansion, broaden product offerings and support entry into new verticals and geographies.

Permira Growth Opportunities Acquires Majority Stake in BioCatch at $1.3bn Valuation

May 2, 2024

Cybersecurity

Permira Growth Opportunities II, advised by Permira, agreed to acquire a majority stake in behavioral-biometric fraud-detection firm BioCatch in a secondary transaction valuing the company at $1.3 billion. Existing investors Sapphire Ventures and Macquarie Capital are increasing their investments, while shares were bought primarily from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities and Maverick Ventures to support BioCatch's global expansion, product roadmap and continued growth.

SparkCognition Acquires AIM2 from Brevan Howard and Nomura

February 23, 2021

AI & Machine Learning

SparkCognition has entered into an agreement to acquire AIM2, a financial-technology company focused on AI-driven market-making and quantitative trading products, from Brevan Howard and Nomura. The deal brings AIM2 products (including ORCA/AI Trader, Alpha Cycles, and Alpha Waves) and its team into SparkCognition to expand the company's AI capabilities and offerings for the financial services vertical.

Bigtincan Acquires Brainshark

August 23, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Bigtincan (ASX:BTH) has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Brainshark, adding enterprise-grade sales readiness, course authoring, AI-powered coaching and readiness scorecards to its sales enablement platform. The deal combines the two vendors' capabilities to create a more complete, end-to-end Sales Enablement and Readiness solution for large B2B customers across financial services, life sciences, technology and manufacturing.

BrowserStack Acquires Bird Eats Bug and Launches Bug Capture

August 27, 2024

Software

BrowserStack has acquired Bird Eats Bug and integrated its bug-reporting technology into a new offering called Bug Capture to accelerate BrowserStack's developer-first end-to-end test platform vision. The acquisition brings Bird Eats Bug's mature product (30,000+ users) and capabilities such as instant replay and auto-captured technical logs into BrowserStack's cloud testing ecosystem.

BPEA EQT Mid-Market Growth Acquires Majority Stake in HRBrain

November 27, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

BPEA EQT Mid-Market Growth has agreed to acquire a majority stake in HRBrain, a Tokyo-based HR software provider, from existing shareholders. The founder Hiroki Hori will remain a significant minority shareholder and CEO; the fund will support HRBrain's product development, customer base expansion and further organic and inorganic growth.