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Portobello Capital acquires majority stake in Legálitas

Portobello Capital has closed its acquisition of Legálitas, a tech-enabled legal services platform in Spain.  This deal constitutes the largest transaction in the consumer legal-tech segment in Spain in the recent years, and represents the consolidation of the expansion plan started by Legálitas three years ago. Luis Peñarrocha, Norberto Arrate

PE-backed Patriot partners with The Safegard Group

Patriot Growth Insurance Services (Patriot), a US national insurance agency backed by private equity firms GI Partners and Summit Partners, has added The Safegard Group (Safegard) to its platform. The partnership with Safegard strengthens Patriot’s existing property & casualty and employee benefits brokerage capabilities and expands the platform’s geographic presence

Oakley agrees sale of TechInsights

Oakley Capital Private Equity III is to sell its stake in TechInsights, an information services platform for the microelectronics sector.  The exit will generate a gross return on investment of c18.8x MM and c82 per cent IRR to Fund III. As part of the transaction, Oakley Capital Fund IV (Fund

JPIN participates in BioSapien’s USD1.8m investment round

Startup investment bank for the emerging markets JPIN Venture Catalysts (JPIN) has participated in a USD1.8 million investment round in BioSapien, a biotech that uses 3D Printed Biodegradable mesh designed to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumour sites with greater efficacy and reduced side effects.

Highland Europe leads USD50m Series D round in Signal AI

Highland Europe has led a USD50 million Series D funding round in Signal AI, bringing total funding to date to USD100 million.  Other investors in this round include abrdn, existing investors include Redline, MMC, Hearst and Guardian Media Group Ventures. Signal AI will use this new funding to further build

GREENPEAK Partners acquires DATA Corporation

GREENPEAK, through its holding group PARATUS, has acquired a majority stake in DATA Corporation Softwareentwicklungs (DATA) in Vienna.  DATA is a leading provider of RIS and PACS solutions servicing outpatient radiologists in Austria led by a strong management team. As the first investment by PARATUS, DATA is a building block

BluePoint makes platform investment in National OnDemand

Blue Point Capital Partners has made a platform investment in National OnDemand, a communication and utility infrastructure service provider to the US fibre, wireless, energy and technology sectors. Blue Point is the first institutional investor in National OnDemand, which, in the the four-plus years since its creation, has successfully completed

Basalt Infrastructure Partners makes GBP100m investment in Be Fibre

Basakt Infrastructure Parteners has invested GBP100 million in Be Fibre, an internet service provider on a mission to provide hypersonic broadband access to 1,000,000 premises, over the next six years. Be Fibre plans to reach 80 towns and cities by 2027, having already opened hubs in the Northwest of England

EIB-supported gender lens investment fund Alitheia IDF holds final close at USD100m

Alitheia IDF (AIF), Africa’s first women-led and women-focused private equity fund, has he’d it’s final close at USD100 million with European Investment Bank (EIB) joining as the closing investor with USD24.6 million.  With this final close, Alitheia IDF becomes the largest gender-lens private equity fund by value in Africa. Led

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