Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity investor, has closed an investment in Backstage, a global platform that enables productions, brands, marketing agencies, and businesses to discover and work with creative talent. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. “Ridgemont is focussed on identifying data, information,
Insight Venture Partners (Insight), a global venture capital and private equity firm based in New York City, has acquired the majority of Israeli Venture Capital Fund’s Genesis Partners IV (Genesis Partners) portfolio. Dr Eyal Kishon, Eddy Shalev, Jonathan Saacks and Gary Gannot of Genesis Partners will continue to serve on
Private equity (PE) funds produced another impressive surge in investment value in 2018, capping the strongest five-year stretch in the industry’s history with USD2.5 trillion in disclosed buyout deal value. Limited partners (LPs) remained highly enthusiastic and continued to flood the market with fresh capital. For general partners (GPs), putting record
Summa Equity has closed the Summa Equity Fund II at its hard cap with investor commitments of SEK6.5 billion (circa EUR610 million). With Fund I and II, Summa Equity now manages aggregated capital commitments of SEK11 billion (circa EUR1 billion). Summa Equity was amongst the first Private Equity firms to
LBO France has acquired a stake in Moustache Bikes, a company that specialises in designing, assembling and distributing electric bikes. The private equity firm Initiative & Finance is selling its 55 per cent stake held since 2015, and the company’s founding managers, Emmanuel Antonot and Grégory Sand, who hitherto owned
Palamon Capital Partners’ (Palamon) portfolio company Simplify Group (Simplify) is to acquire My Home Move. The businesses will be combined under the group name Simplify to become one of the largest conveyancing services business in the UK. My Home Move owners Smedvig Capital will continue to hold a significant minority
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is serving as administrative agent on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Worksoft by Marlin Equity Partners. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Worksoft is the industry’s leading continuous robotic test automation platform for enterprise packaged applications, offering a diverse ecosystem of service providers,
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM), in separate transactions undertaken on behalf of clients, has disposed of two properties for a combined total of GBP77 million. The properties are at 21 Wilson Street, EC2M, and 158-164 Bishopsgate, EC2M, in the City of London. 21 Wilson
Tantalum, a specialist in connected car software and payments, has sold Tracker, its UK stolen vehicle recovery business, to CalAmp. The sale follows swiftly on Tantalum’s acquisition of Springworks, a Stockholm-based connected car software house. The sale of Tracker and Tantalum’s restructuring enables the enlarged group to deliver global connected
Souter Investments has invested in the fintech interest-free-only credit provider, DivideBuy. The investment from Souter Investments and Jon Moulton through his family office Perscitus, alongside debt funding from Shawbrook Bank and Paragon Bank, will enable DivideBuy to grow further and offer many more UK retailers access to its market leading technology. DivideBuy
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