The Riverside Company, a global private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has acquired the backflow and gauge divisions of Heffernan Enterprises, Inc (Water Metrics) as the ninth add-on to its fire and life safety platform, Performance Systems Integration (PSI). Based in Portland, Oregon, PSI
Perwyn has appointed Liam Coleman as an associate. Coleman will be based in Perwyn’s London office and will work primarily in the firm’s private equity team. This is the fifth hire Perwyn has made this year as the business continues to expand its operations in both London and Europe. Coleman
LLR Partners has promoted Ryan Goldenberg, Michael Pantilione and Zack Sigal to partner. The trio has a combined 30-plus years as members of the LLR team. Goldenberg has helped build LLR’s fintech and payments investment practice since joining in 2016. His current and former boards include Archer, Celero Commerce, DaySmart,
Zitara, a physics and machine-learning powered battery management software company, has closed a $12 million Series A round led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP). Existing investors NextView Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Trucks VC also participated in the round. Based in San Francisco, Zitara builds cloud and embedded software for optimising
BPOC, a pure-play healthcare investor, has formed a new partnership with experienced pharmaceutical executive, Mark Scullion, to build a clinical research site platform serving the pharmaceutical market. Scullion has spent more than 15 years in the clinical research industry and brings a unique understanding of the site selection process and
Blackford Capital (Blackford), a lower middle market private equity firm, has exited its investment in Quality Aluminum Products (QAP) through a sale to Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (Gibraltar), a publicly-traded manufacturer and provider of products and services for the renewable energy, residential, agtech and infrastructure markets. Acquired by Blackford Capital in
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed the sale of WellSpring Consumer Healthcare (WellSpring) to Avista Capital Partners. Established in 1999 and headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, WellSpring is a marketer of over-the-counter brands primarily in the skin care and gastrointestinal care categories. WellSpring’s product portfolio includes long-standing brands such as Bactine,
Alpine Investors (Alpine) has completed sale of its portfolio company, Mindful (formerly known as VHT), a specialist in callback automation, to Medallia, a customer and employee experience business. Terms of the sale have not been disclosed. Mindful is a provider of callback technology for nearly 400 of the world’s leading
SPORT BUFF – a specialist in gamification and on-screen engagement – has attracted a further $2.5million of global investment in its seed round of funding, following successful pre-seed funding in February 2021. Among the fresh investors in SPORT BUFF are Sport Republic (UK), Longboard Capital (US), Calvert Drive (NZ) and
Stockholm-based sustainability platform Worldfavor has secured €10.2 million in a Series A funding round led by SEB Private Equity. The funding will be used to fuel growth and and finance the firm’s expansion plans. Existing investors Brightly Ventures and Spintop Ventures also participated in the round which brings the total
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