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Inverness Graham acquires Catheter & Medical Design

Private investment firm Inverness Graham Investments has acquired Catheter & Medical Design (CMD).  Based in Roseville, MN, CMD develops and manufactures complex catheters and catheter shafts for a broad range of interventional and endosurgical applications. This is the third Inverness platform investment in the medical device outsourcing market, following Inverness’ successful ownership

Haven Cyber Technologies Group secures EUR5.7m investment from C5 Capital

Haven Cyber Technologies Group (Haven Group), has secured a further investment of EUR5.7 million from C5 Capital, A specialist investment firm investing in the secure data ecosystem. In addition, the Haven Group announced Andrew Miller had been appointed as Group Chief Financial Officer, and James Armstrong had been appointed Finance Director

KKR to acquire Roompot Group from PAI Partners

KKR is to acquire Roompot Group, a provider of holiday parks in Western Europe, from European private equity firm PAI Partners. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, having already received positive works council advice. Financial terms have not been disclosed. Founded in 1965 in the region of Zeeland (the

Livingbridge invests in Chill Insurance

Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has invested in Irish insurance and financial services group Chill Insurance (Chill).Headquartered in Dublin where it employs almost 250 staff, Chill was founded in 2006 by brothers Padraig and Seamus Lynch and has subsequently grown into one of the largest

SLAMcore raises USD5 million to meet growing demand for robotics 

SLAMcore, a UK company developing spatial AI algorithms for robots and drones, has secured USD5 million in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures and MMC Ventures, with participation from Amadeus Capital Partners and Toyota AI Ventures. The funding will allow SLAMcore to meet the increasing demand of the robotics market,

Akia secures funding from GSR Ventures

Akia, a Menlo Park-based start-up focused on transforming the way hotels engage with their guests, has secured a new round of funding from GSR Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with more than USD3 billion under management. Akia will utilise the capital to accelerate and expand implementation of its AI-enabled SaaS

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners portfolio company Trinity Consultants acquires Vision Environment

Trinity Consultants (Trinity), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired Vision Environment Australia Pty Ltd (Vision Environment). Vision Environment, based in Queensland, Australia, is a leading provider of water quality monitoring services to clients involved in commercial dredging and other industrial activities that impact the marine environment.

Investcorp portfolio company Calligo acquires Itomic Voice & Data

Investcorp’s portfolio company Calligo Limited (Calligo), an end-to-end managed data services provider, has acquired Itomic Voice & Data Ltd (Itomic). Itomic is a Cork- and Dublin-based IT managed services provider, specializing in IT solutions and maintenance and managed Microsoft 365 and Azure services.   Founded in 2012, Jersey-based Calligo puts data

Swappie raises USD40m in Series B funding round

Swappie, an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished smartphones, has raised a USD40.6 million (EUR35.8 million) Series B funding round. Participants in the round included TESI, alongside existing investors Lifeline Ventures, Reaktor Ventures, and Inventure – all of which participated in Swappie’s Series A in 2019 – bringing the total

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Buyout fundraising declined by over 70 per cent due to Corona Crisis

The CEPRES Private Capital Market Outlook for the first quarter of 2020 using the latest data from the CEPRES Platform shows how buyout fundraising in the US declined by almost 50 per cent QoQ and 20 per cent YoY, but is still substantially above volumes during the post-GFC era of 2009 -2012.

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