Accelkkr makes growth equity investment in zinc ahead, leading. Advised zinc ahead, a leading provider of marketing compliance. The firm invests primarily in software and technologyenabled services. Oct 24, 2018 with rising client spends, hcl tech sees good news ahead revenues at hcl technologies expanded 3% sequentially in the september quarter on the back of growing discretionary spend from consumerfocused and engineering clients in the us, its main market. Smart communications builds on momentum, appoints james brown. Jun 21, 20 accel kkr managing director tom barnds said. Following zinc ahead s acquisition by veeva, james served as vice president and general manager of the companys commercial content division.
The firm invests primarily in software and technologyenabled services businesses. Zinc s headquarters is located in princeton, new jersey, usa 08540. The innovation and highly skilled jobs this company has produced demonstrates some of the best of what colorado springs and colorado has to offer. Mereo founder and president provides value and insight at global sales summit.
Founded in 2001, zinc ahead is a commercial content management company for the life science industry. Zinc software is an irish technology company based in the national digital research center ndrc in the digital hub in dublin. Zinc ahead, a company backed by accel kkr in 20, has been acquired by veeva systems nyse. Zinc ahead is the leading provider of marketing compliance solutions for the life sciences industry. Zinc competitors, revenue and employees owler company profile. Since that time, smart communications, with the backing of accelkkr, has led the. Greg williams is a managing director at accelkkr, focused on the firms growth capital investments. Accel kkr focuses on middlemarket companies, providing capital for buyouts and growth investments across a range of opportunities including. April 4, 2018 colorado springs, co cherwell software, llc, cherwell a global leader in enterprise service management, announced today that leading global investment firm kkr will take a larger stake in the company through its next generation technology fund. Kkr to buy bmc software in its biggest deal since financial. Zincs top competitors are gael, complyassistant and compliance 360. Jun 21, 20 the companys 85 employees are dedicated to providing excellent customer service and support to the 30,000 daily zinc maps users in over 160 countries worldwide.
About zinc ahead zinc ahead is a leading enabler of content compliance and rich media management for the life science industry. Apr 04, 2018 cherwell softwares evolution into a global technology company in a little more than 10 years is one of the states hightech success stories, colorado governor john hickenlooper said. The combination brings together two of the leading commercial content management solutions. Accelkkr makes growth equity investment in zinc ahead.
Over two million digital assets have been approved through the zinc cloud, transforming the digital media development and compliance community in over 120 life science companies across 170 countries. Mereo president presents at accelkkrs summit on reshaping. Brown brings with him considerable knowledge leading software as a. Accel kkr focuses on middlemarket companies, providing capital for buyouts and growth investments across a range of opportunities including recapitalizations, divisional carveouts, and goingprivate. Landmark investment for colorado company in states growing tech arena. Pageup, of melbourne, australia, provides human resources management software. Mcvey outlines key macro investment themes that investors should consider for 2020 and beyond. Zinc ahead receives growth equity investment from accelkkr. Zinc ahead ltd company profile and news bloomberg markets. Kkr said tuesday it is buying the houstonbased software company from a group. Zinc ahead is a leading enabler of content compliance and rich media management for the life science industry.
Veeva and zinc ahead are joining forces to address the growing need. Accelkkr completes sale of pageup training industry. Brown served as entrepreneur advisor at accel kkr, who was also an early investor of zinc ahead. Veeva systems has announced it acquired zinc ahead, a leading provider of commercial content management solutions. Veeva and zinc ahead are joining forces to address the growing need for endtoend compliance management that reduces regulatory risk and boosts operational efficiency as companies face increasing volumes of content, a proliferation of digital channels, and increased. The merging of veeva and zinc ahead will create a bestinclass solution that supports every step in the digital content lifecyclefrom creation to expirationdeveloped and supported by top software and life sciences talent. Zinc ahead was a provider of commercial content management solutions. Zinc ahead provides content compliance and rich media management solutions to the life science industry. As part of kkr s 2020 outlook, henry and his team also provide their updated views on global asset allocation, portfolio construction, and hedging, as well as major macro risks that could impact their. Arma partners is pleased to announce that it has acted as exclusive financial advisor to zinc ahead, a portfolio company of accel kkr and a leading provider of marketing compliance and approval software asaservice solutions to the life sciences industry, on its sale to veeva systems inc. Accel kkr llc is a private equity firm specializing in growth and middle market investments. Veeva systems solutionvault promomats released in 2011is now utilized by more than 70 customers.
Arma partners advises zinc ahead on usdm sale to veeva. Veeva is a leading provider of industry cloud software and data solutions for the global life sciences industry. Now final 901m regulations relax few of the rules from the proposed regulations. Feb 01, 2018 in addition, pageup is the firms fifth realization from investments made outside north america including dublinbased clavis insight, belfastbased kana software, vancouverbased clevest and oxfordbased zinc ahead.
Accel kkr s investment in zinc ahead represents our tenth investment in european software and itenabled businesses and underscores our increased. A guide to representing parties in sec investigations in the time of coronavirus. Kkr makes growth equity investment in zinc ahead, leading. Accelkkr completes sale of pageup, an australiabased global. Most recently, james served as an entrepreneur advisor at accel kkr, a technologyfocused private equity firm, which was an early investor in zinc ahead and acquired smart communications in 2016. Accelkkrs investment in zinc ahead represents our tenth investment in european software and itenabled businesses and underscores our increased. Zinc ahead the companys solutions have transformed compliance processes in more than 100 life sciences companies across over 165 countries, demonstrating rapid efficiency and cost savings. Veeva systems acquires compliance software firm zinc ahead. Company profile page for zinc ahead ltd including stock price, company news, press releases, executives, board members, and contact information. The firm seeks to invest in buyouts of divisions of larger companies, divisional carveouts, subsidiaries and business units or operating assets from public companies. Softwareone partners with kkr to accelerate future growth.
Zinc ahead, founded in 2001, was an early pioneer in the market serving more than 120 life sciences companies with zinc maps. Fenwick represents accelkkr in growth equity investment. Its core team having come from mit medialab combine over 40 years experience in technology innovation. Colorado springs, co february 9, 2015 jay mitchell, the founder and president of mereo llc, the worlds leading revenue performance advisory firm, was invited to present at the accelkkr akkr sales summit, february 911 at the rosewood cordevalle, located in the foothills of. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time i comment. Veev, a pleasanton, california headquartered provider of cloudbased software to the global life. Accelkkr takes majority stake in ea holdings law360. He founded zinc ahead, a provider of marketing compliance. As we noted last year, smart communications was elevated from visionary to leader in the 2017 gartner magic quadrant for customer communications management software. Arma partners is pleased to announce that it has acted as exclusive financial advisor to zinc ahead, a portfolio company of accelkkr and a leading provider of marketing compliance and approval software asaservice solutions to the life sciences industry, on its sale to veeva systems inc.
With rising client spends, hcl tech sees good news ahead. Kkr to buy bmc software from privateequity led group wsj. Kkr said friday it has made a growth equity investment in zinc ahead. Founded by ceo james brown and zoe cottrell in 2001, zinc ahead provides zinc maps, a marketing compliance solution that allows users to. In june, accel kkr continued its investment strategy with its growth equity investment in zinc ahead, a global marketing compliance business for the life sciences industry. Zinc aheads flagship product, zinc maps, is now used by more than 100. The firm focuses on software and itenabled businesses wellpositioned for topline and. View gregory williams profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community.
Smart communications builds on momentum, appoints james. Founded in 2001, zinc ahead is headquartered in oxford, uk, with additional offices in new york and sydney, australia. Arma partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to zinc ahead, a portfolio company of accelkkr and a provider of marketing compliance and approval softwareasaservice solutions to the life sciences industry, on its sale. Veeva systems acquires zinc ahead, portfolio company of. Accelkkrs investment in zinc ahead represents our tenth investment in european software. In addition, pageup is the firms fifth realization from investments made outside north america including dublinbased clavis insight, belfastbased kana software, vancouverbased clevest and oxfordbased zinc ahead. The companys 85 employees are dedicated to providing excellent customer service and support to the 30,000 daily zinc maps users in over 160 countries worldwide.
Smart communications names james brown as chief executive officer. Accel kkr focuses on middle market companies, providing capital for buyouts and growth investments across a range of opportunities including recapitalizations, divisional carveouts and going private transactions. Kkr team has deep knowledge of software and extensive. Fenwick represents accelkkr in growth equity investment of. The investment comes through kkr s next generation technology fund, which focuses on investments in software, security and internet.
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