Verdant Leisure has acquired ts ninth leisure park. Queensberry Bay Holiday Park & Spa, on the Dumfries and Galloway coastline in south west Scotland is the fifth holiday park purchase in the last 28 months for the bespoke leisure park operator. The purchase brings Verdant Leisure’s portfolio to nine parks
Seasoned private equity executives Jeremy Hand, Simon Hitchcock, Luke Kingston, Adam Lewis and Martin Squier have launched a new private equity firm, Horizon Capital a sector-focused investor, targeting Technology and Business Service deals. The new firm will make equity investments of between GBP10 – GBP50 million in high growth businesses
Foresight Group has, via the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, made a GBP1.7 million investment into FreeFlow Technologies Limited (FreeFlow). FreeFlow is developing a patented e-bike system technology that promises to be lightweight and compact, providing a higher power density than existing solutions. The Company’s novel design will improve the
Global technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners has added two UK-based partners, Nick Kingsbury and Volker Hirsch, to its team of early stage venture capital investors. Kingsbury’s investment focus will be on cyber security, AI and B2B software businesses while Volker’s expertise is in artificial intelligence & machine learning, human-machine interfaces, enterprise SaaS, autonomous
Private capital adviser Campbell Lutyens’ US team has advised on USD18 billion in fundraisings and secondary transactions for US clients since 2017. Campbell Lutyens’ fund placement team has completed fundraisings for leading US private equity, infrastructure and private debt managers in the past 18 months. In mid-market private equity, Campbell
IBA Group, an international aviation consultancy, has launched a new online market intelligence and analysis platform IBA iQ Trends, for investors, lessors, airlines and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Unlike other static aviation and airline data sets, IBA iQ Trends combines key economic data and world events in real time, with
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) has entered into an agreement to acquire Orion Business Innovation (Orion), a fast-growing global digital transformation firm. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Edison, NJ and New York, Orion provides digital transformation and automation services
GP Bullhound has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Namics, a specialist in digital transformation in Switzerland and Germany, on its sale to Merkle. Namics provides further scale and depth to Merkle’s people-based marketing capabilities, in particular in the areas of business transformation strategy, digital consulting and technology implementation across
Innovative staffing app, ROTA, has closed its latest funding round with an additional GBP1.8 million in investment. Headquartered in London, the tech focused firm has revolutionised recruitment processes, through the supply of high-quality staff to leading venues in five major cities across the UK. This latest funding round saw ROTA
TrustedHousesitters, a house and pet sitting platform, has secured a significant investment from private equity firm Rockpool Investments. Founded by Andy Peck and Rachel Martin in 2010, TrustedHousesitters is the world’s largest house and pet sitting community operating in over 130 countries. Since launch, the platform has facilitated more than
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