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Brentwood Associates partners with Z Gallerie

Private equity firm Brentwood Associates has partnered with Z Gallerie, a lifestyle retailer offering a variety of home goods, including furniture, artwork, lighting, tabletop items, textiles and decorative accessories. Z Gallerie is headquartered in Gardena, California, and led by its three founders, Joe Zeiden, Carole Malfatti and Mike Zeiden.  

Marketing

HIG invests in Boostability

HIG Growth Partners has made an investment in Boostability, a provider of search engine optimisation (SEO), local search, website creation, social and other digital marketing services. Headquartered in Lehi, Utah, Boostability uses its proprietary management software platform to perform thousands of marketing tasks each day.   The company’s founders started

Simplestream secures funding from Beringea

Simplestream, a provider of ‘Over the Top’ (OTT) live streaming services for broadcast TV channels, has secured substantial funding from Beringea, the manager of the ProVen VCTs. The investment will accelerate the expansion of TVPlayer, Simplestream’s B2C live TV streaming service, and facilitate the addition of more channel packs and

Dollars

BizEquity raises USD5.1m Series A capital investment from Frost Brooks

Frost Brooks, the London-based boutique private equity firm, has completed its second deal with a significant capital investment for BizEquity, an online provider of business valuation services. The new investment included commitments from Frost Brooks’ founders and also from the firm’s network of limited partners comprised of former leader of

White & Case advises Novator on African telecoms investment

Global law firm White & Case has advised Novator on its investment in MoDe, a technology company that provides mobile value added services to mobile network operators in emerging nations. Novator, an international investment firm, has been established for more than ten years and has a particular emphasis on emerging

Greater Manchester Loan Fund backs Unique Digital

The Greater Manchester Loan Fund (GMLF), which is managed by Maven Capital Partners, has invested in cinema software supplier Unique Digital, its eighth investment in just over a year. Funding from the GMLF will help the company to continue the UK roll out of its latest product MovieTransit, the first

Euros

LBO France-backed Averys completes EUR165 million refinancing

Averys, the French storage systems company specialised in shelving and metal furniture for industrial use, has completed a EUR165 million refinancing. Backed by LBO France since 2008, Averys completed a transformative build-up in 2013 with the acquisition of Stow, doubling the group’s revenue and EBITDA.   The group is now

Degree

Uniplaces secures GBP2.2m investment from Octopus

Uniplaces has secured GBP2.2 million in a second round of investment from venture capital firm Octopus Investments as it plans major expansion in key student cities worldwide. After previously investing over GBP700,000 in November 2013, Octopus Investments showed continued interest in the brand as it followed on into the latest

Money stack

Eversight raises USD9.7m in funding from Emergence Capital Partners

Eversight, a provider of cloud-based software, has received USD9.7 million in its Series A round of funding from Emergence Capital Partners, an enterprise cloud venture capital firm. Eversight is using the funding to scale its engineering, sales and marketing, and service and support teams to drive innovation and growth, and

Mercia invests GBP200,000 in Edge Case Games

Technology investor Mercia Fund Management has made a GBP200,000 investment in Edge Case Game, the team behind the space flight combat game Strike Suit Zero. Formed by two industry veterans, James Brooksby and Chris Mehers, and supported by a creative team based in Guildford, Edge Case Games is moving to

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