Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has invested GBP4 million into MR Machine Knives Limited (MRMK), providing equity release and growth capital to the business. The investment and Foresight’s involvement will support founder and Managing Director Michael Bailey in the continuing growth of the business, leveraging

NewSpring, a family of private equity strategies, has completed 16 separate investments in lower-middle-market companies to date in 2020. This deal flow pace is ahead of prior years and demonstrates the firm’s unique ability to invest through all economic periods with its proven, flexible, multi-strategy approach.   “NewSpring’s multi-strategy approach was

The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Bonnie & Don Flavours (B&D), a Canadian-based manufacturer of natural and organic flavours and extracts.  B&D is the second add-on to Riverside’s Flavor Platform, following the initial platform investment of National

Growth private equity firmTA Associates has completed a significant growth investment in The Benecon Group (Benecon), a developer and manager of self-funded medical benefit programs. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Founded in 1991 by Samuel Lombardo and headquartered in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Benecon helps design and implement

Whirli, a toy sharing subscription service, has raised GBP4 million in a seed funding round led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from MMC Ventures.The toy industry is a giant sector with annual global retail sales of ~GBP70 billion. It has however faced a decade of challenges and stagnation, culminating with

FSN Capital has signed an agreement to acquire a 45 per cent stake in Obton Group and enter into a partnership with the founders and management. Obton Group is a specialised alternative investment provider developing, structuring, and managing solar photovoltaic “solar PV” projects on-behalf of high net worth investors.Obton Group

Alderley Park-based proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, has secured GBP3.9 million in funding for pioneering technology that could prove integral to the development of new drug treatments.  

Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has led the GBP17 million management buyout (MBO) of Envitia Group (Envitia), an established data and geospatial technology and services provider to the defence and public sectors. The transaction has been fully funded by Maven’s maiden institutional fund

German venture capital investor MIG AG’s MIG Fonds 8 und 16 has invested in GBS German Bionic Systems, Augsburg, Germany, in a Series A financing. Both participating MIG Funds are each investing EUR2 million in the USD20 round, a total EUR4 million (USD4.8 million) from MIG. Besides MIG Fonds, Samsung Catalyst,