Dow Schofield Watts Angels – the Northern angel network – has completed its second deal, with a GBP300,000 investment in Miribase Limited, the company behind the Shopblocks e-commerce platform. Over 25 angel investors took part in the funding round, which will be used to accelerate Shopblocks’ revenues by investment in
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has added Applied Logic to its Censis Technologies platform. Headquartered in St Louis, Applied Logic provides software and third-party hardware used in the sterile processing department (SPD) of hospitals and medical facilities. The company’s products assist with SPD workflows, tracking surgical inventory and alerting
Dallas-based private equity firm CenterOak Partners’ portfolio company Aakash Chemicals & Dye-Stuffs has acquired Sandream Impact, a supplier of colourants and other specialty chemicals to the cosmetic, personal care, and nutritional markets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Sandream Impact serves a broad base of customers across the United
The Nobel Sustainability Growth Fund, which makes UK sustainable private equity investments to build technology, manufacturing, services and asset development and is managed by Jim Totty and Nick Curtis, is close to its first close. Launched in partnership with the Nobel Sustainability Trust ,which was founded by members of the
IW Capital has today announced senior loan funding of GBP1.1 million to assist in the acquisition of Troika Systems, a specialist supplier to the printing and packaging industry, by Fresh Equity Limited. Troika Systems Ltd is a long-established and award-winning UK manufacturer and distributor of 2D and 3D microscope scanning
Corviglia Capital Fund, a global fintech growth equity investor, has launched with a target of raising USD500 million in capital commitments. The fund has been established in Luxembourg by two experienced entrepreneurs and executives – Petr Å mÃda and Cezary Smorszczewski – who each managed financial institutions valued at USD10 billion.
Syncron, a provider of cloud-based after-sales service solutions, has secured a USD67 million minority investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners. The partnership with Summit Partners will support Syncron’s continued development of its category-leading enterprise SaaS solutions and further expansion of its global operations. Servitisation – where organisations
LBO performance has fallen for three straight quarters from its 10-year high in 2017, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report. LBO funds have enjoyed almost a decade of increasing performance since the financial crisis, reaching an all-time high in the third quarter of 2017, with an all-time
Assets under management at the Edmond de Rothschild Group’s infrastructure debt platform have quadrupled to EUR1.6 billion since the BRIDGE I fund had its first EUR400 million closing in 2014. The first closing of BRIDGE IV at the end of July 2018 has so far raised more than EUR250 million.
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised Deep Sea Electronics (DSE) on the sale of a majority stake to Caledonia Investments plc (Caledonia), for a consideration of GBP162 million. Investment trust company Caledonia, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, has acquired a majority stake in DSE, a manufacturer
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