Kainos Capital (Kainos), a food and consumer-focused private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company Ferraro Foods to funds managed by Kelso & Company. Headquartered in Piscataway, NJ, Ferraro Foods is a specialty foodservice distributor delivering quality food and supplies, primarily to the Italian restaurant and pizzeria segment in
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MPB on a USD70 million investment led by Vitruvian Partners, with participation from existing investor Acton Capital. Headquartered in Brighton, UK, MPB is the world’s largest reseller of photo and video kit. The used kit market is in a period of
European private equity firm Silverfleet has invested in the fast-growing, SaaS provider, OneStock, a European specialist in modern and agile OMS software for retail. Silverfleet will hold a significant minority stake in OneStock. Headquartered in Toulouse, France, and with offices in Paris and London, OneStock’s sector leading SaaS OMS platform
Gresham House Ventures – a growth equity investor specialised in software and digitally driven businesses in the healthcare, consumer and services sectors – has invested GBP2.25 million into Metrion Biosciences, a contract research organisation (CRO) catering to the drug discovery market. Metrion Biosciences (Metrion) is a specialist contract research company
Cyance, a provider of global, third-party intent data, has secured a new round of additional funding from existing investors — including Blackfinch Ventures and Nexus Investments — in the amount of GBP860,000. The funding follows a period of significant growth for the startup company with revenues increasing by 18 per
SK Capital Partners, LP, a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has completed its previously announced acquisition of IPACKCHEM Group SAS (IPACKCHEM), a specialist in sustainability-oriented barrier packaging. Founded in 1987 by Jean-Philippe Morvan as a division of Air Products Group, IPACKCHEM is a
Capital Alignment Partners, NewSpring, Petra Capital Partners, and Tecum Capital (the SBIC capital syndicate), in partnership with Silver Palm Capital Healthcare Partners, has acquired Aging With Comfort, a Philadelphia-based home care agency that provides personal care assistance for elderly and disabled clients. Aging With Comfort’s in-home care team works with
Mid-market private equity firm NorthEdge has acquired Correla, an technology and data services business that aims to help create a less complex and more sustainable energy sector. The acquisition will see NorthEdge acquire Correla, following the divestment of the subsidiary by the Gas Industry’s Central Data Service provider Xoserve. The
O’Melveny has advised rfXcel Corporation, a specialist in digital supply chain traceability solutions, on its acquisition by Antares Vision Group, an Italy-based global provider of intelligent track & trace, inspection and smart data management solutions for the life science and food & beverage sectors. The transaction closed on 31 March,
Scottish bio-tech company, BioCaptiva, has developed a novel next generation “liquid biopsy” technology device that could revolutionise the early diagnosis and monitoring of difficult to detect cancers. The University of Edinburgh spin-out has raised over GBP1 million in seed funding from Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate, Archangels, and Scottish Enterprise,
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