Venture capital secondaries in top-tier, tech-enabled companies

Alicorn is pleased to announce that portfolio company, Anodot, has acquired cloud cost management platform Pileus. The combined offering will enable Anodot to accurately manage and forecast cloud costs, as part of its comprehensive autonomous monitoring solution, powered by artificial intelligence. Pileus provides personalised cloud cost optimisation strategies for businesses, allowing them to cut their cloud costs by up to 40%. With an increasing trend...

Investors have set their sights on the world’s innovation capitals. Silicon Valley continues to set the gold standard for technology hubs around the world, consistently ranking #1 across different subsectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and life sciences. The region has an ecosystem value of US$677bn, according to research firm Startup Genome. Global venture capital, however, is fuelling the growth of start-ups and scale-ups outside...

Digital experience analytics firm Glassbox raised US$100m in its initial public offering on the TASE – the latest in a series of debuts in Tel Aviv signalling the region’s emerging public markets strength.  Israel is renowned as one of the world’s leading technology hubs; a thriving ecosystem of start-ups, high calibre of talent, and support from a broad base of investors, but of late it has been seen to enter a new phase in its evolution as an international market.  From a “start-up nation” that emerged in the 1990s, Israel and Tel Aviv...