eSolidar, which launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs on 27 June, has already raised over 50 per cent of its GBP200,000 target and is currently the most successful live foreign campaign on Seedrs. Portuguese venture capital firm Portugal Ventures has now committed a minimum of EUR50,000 to the company. eSolidar’s
Bretèche Industrie Group, a manufacturer of equipment for the international food and pharmaceutical industries, backed by Equistone Partners Europe and Cerea Capital since 2013, has acquired Shick, a US-based provider of ingredient automation systems. Founded in 1956 and located in Kansas City, Missouri, Shick is a family firm that specialises
Salveo Capital has re-launched Salveo Fund I with the addition of managing directors Michael Gruber and Jeffrey Howard and director of fund operations Achint Prabhat to the existing team of partners Alex Thiersch and John Dohm and director of communications Eric Atienza. Salveo is a venture capital fund with offices
Platte River Equity has acquired CTS Engines in partnership with the CTS senior management team. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, CTS provides a full spectrum of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for established engine platforms, specialising in the overhaul of the General Electric CF6-80C2, CF6-80A and CF6-50 engines, as
Inflexion portfolio company British Engineering Services, an engineering testing, inspection and certification business, has acquired material testing consultancy Nortest Limited. Inflexion says the deal will strengthen British Engineering Services’ ability to provide its customers with premium quality engineering testing, inspection and certification services throughout the UK and the Republic of
Clearwater International has advised the shareholders of Chase Search and Selection Limited (CHASE) on its recapitalisation with investment provided by Vespa Capital. The business, established in 1998 by Chris and Judy Phillips, started life as a permanent recruitment agency serving the pharmaceutical sector. Today, CHASE is the largest independent recruitment
European tech financings have cooled since early 2015, while European tech exits remain strong and M&A deal sizes are approaching US levels for the first time ever, according to Magister Advisors’ H1 report – The State of European Tech up to Brexit. The cooling of European late stage financings reverses
Discovery platform Taboola is to acquire ConvertMedia, a fast-growing native video advertising company. Following the acquisition, ConvertMedia's video technology will fully integrate with Taboola's data and personalisation engine, currently reaching over billion people a month, to help publishers deliver relevant and viewable experiences to the right user at the right
Noerr has advised Oddo Seydler Bank on the restructuring of a EUR60 million bond of Singulus Technologies as part of a debt-equity swap which involved issuing new shares and bonds. The lead partners were Frankfurt-based Dr Laurenz Wieneke and Dr Julian Schulze De la Cruz. In February 2016, the Singulus
Audax Private Equity has partnered with management to acquire RelaDyne from AEA Investors, a private equity firm based in New York. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. RelaDyne, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a lubricant, fuel and diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) distributor providing customers with integrated reliability
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