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Edge invests in Trint

Edge Investments (Edge), a growth investor in the UK creative economy, has invested GBP2 million in Trint, a market-leading AI-powered speech-to-text platform for content creation. 

CenterOak Partners sells FullSpeed Automotive

CenterOak Partners (CenterOak), a Dallas-based private equity firm, has soldn FullSpeed Automotive (FullSpeed), the fourth largest quick lube operator in the US, to MidOcean Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Based in Greenwood Village, CO, FullSpeed operates primarily under the Grease Monkey and SpeeDee brands and has

Paceline Equity Partners to acquire Quick Fitting

An affiliate of Paceline Equity Partners (Paceline), a Dallas-based private equity manager, is to acquire substantially all of the assets of Quick Fitting (Quick Fitting), as part of a receivership process involving the Company. Closing of the transaction is anticipated to occur on 16 December, 2020, subject to standard closing conditions

Vauban Infrastructure Partners acquires majority stake in Progeni

Vauban Infrastructure Partners (Vauban), an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has acquired a majority stake in Progeni, a special purpose vehicle that manages the concession contract for the provision of non-medical services for the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, Italy. The sellers were mostly composed of Italian industrial players (CMB, Gemmo, Coopservice,

NVM Private Equity exits Agilitas IT Solutions

NVM Private Equity (NVM) has sold its stake in Agilitas IT Solutions Limited (Agilitas) to international private equity investor Perwyn, providing NVM funds with an 8.4x return.  

E-bike specialist FFT competes GBP1.85m funding round

FreeFlow Technologies (FFT), the developers of what is claims is the world’s lightest power to weight e-Bike motor, has secured GBP1.85 million from a heavily over-subscribed funding round. The new investment will support a move to a new headquarters and R&D facility in East Kilbride and further strengthen the team

Ekimetrics raises EUR24 million in fresh capital from Tikehau Capital and Bpifrance

Ekimetrics, a European specialist in data science solutions, has secured fresh investment from two minority shareholders: Tikehau Capital – via its growth capital fund, which was recently awarded the “Relance” label – and Bpifrance – via its MidCap fund.  The founders of Ekimetrics, who will retain a controlling stake, hope to invest

Cinven and BCI to acquire Compre

Cinven, an international private equity firm, and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, are to acquire Compre, a specialist global consolidator of closed books of non-life insurance policies, from CBPE Capital LLP.  Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.  Compre is focused

Vauban raises GBP1.6 million seed round

Innovative investment technology platform Vauban, which has seen over 120 digital Funds launched on its platform, has raised GBP1.6 million in Seed funding from leading tech investors.  Europe’s most active proptech VC company, Pi Labs, is joined by Kima Ventures, Westloop Ventures, Argonautic Ventures and UFP Fintech, as Vauban leads

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