Cakesmiths, an independent manufacturer and supplier of artisan handmade cakes, has secured investment from leading mid-market private equity firm and cake afficionado LDC to support the next stage of its growth journey. Bristol-based Cakesmiths supplies its range to a number of independent customers across the UK through its direct-to-market online

Funds managed by KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have completed their acquisition CyrusOne in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD15 billion, including the assumption of debt. Trading of the company’s shares of common stock has been suspended on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”), and that CyrusOne has

Investcorp, a global manager of alternative investment products, has sold its majority stake in Agromillora (“the Company”) to the founders of Agromillora and to Edify, the investment holding company controlled by the Despature family. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Founded in Barcelona in 1986,

Global investment firms PAI Partners and Carlyle are to acquire Theramex, a global specialty pharmaceuticals company focused on women’s health, from CVC Capital Partners VI (CVC). Theramex was created following the carve-out of a portfolio of women’s health pharma products in 2018, and has subsequently developed into one of the

Alteryx, Inc (NYSE: AYX), an Analytics Automation company, has made a strategic investment in Vertis, a data-driven market intelligence platform. With Vertis, enterprises can instantly visualise and analyse their employee and real estate footprint to support critical growth and culture decisions. With this investment from Alteryx Ventures, Vertis will be

Bulgarian euShipments.com, leader in providing comprehensive courier, logistic, and fulfilment solutions for e-commerce players from Bulgaria and CEE, has closed its first round of external financing with private equity firm BlackPeak Capital, investing up to EUR7.5 million into the company via BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund, its second fund.

LPW Group, a Wynnchurch Capital (Wynnchurch) portfolio company and the parent company of Penn Machine and Western Flange, has acquired El Mar Ventures, (and its subsidiaries) and Advanced Industrial Technologies. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company provides specialty valves, pneumatic actuators and gears used in chemical, petrochemical, LNG, refining, renewable,

Causal, a collaborative platform for financial modelling, has raised a USD20 million Series A funding round led by Coatue and Accel. The investment round — which follows a USD4.2 million seed round in March — also included a number of high-profile angel investors including Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, FTX CEO

Unleash, the largest open source feature management platform, has raised USD14 million in a Series A round led by Spark Capital. Frontline Ventures, firstminute capital, Alliance Venture, and Arkwright X also participated in the round. The new capital will be used to expand in the United States and Europe and