An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has agreed to sell the KidsFoundation Group (KidsFoundation), a Dutch specialist in childcare services, to Onex Corporation (Onex). Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Almere, the Netherlands, KidsFoundation provides childcare to nearly 30,000 children between the
A fast-growing South Wales fintech company has closed a GBP1.25million funding round backed by Mercia Fund Managers, Development Bank of Wales and TTI Angels. W2 Global Data, which is based in Newport and has doubled in size since the beginning of the year, is now planning to recruit a further
SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement has held the first closing of its fifth fund with capital commitments of over EUR90 million. The Tuebingen-based medical technology investor has now reached almost two thirds of the fund’s EUR150 million target. The fifth generation of SHS funds will focus on the life sciences
Giant Oak, a specialist in applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics for the security needs of government and industry, has secured a USD10 million investment from growth equity investor Edison Partners. Proceeds will be used to fuel Giant Oak’s continued growth through expanding sales and marketing, software
SANNE in Singapore has been appointed as Fund Administrator and Transaction Administrator for a new retail private equity bond issued by Astrea IV. The successful launch of Astrea IV marked the first time that a bond backed by cash flows from a diversified portfolio of quality private equity fund investments
Weinberg Capital Partners (WCP) has held the final close of its WCP#3 buyout fund on 295 million euros only 10 months after going to market with an initial target of EUR250 million. WCP#3 has received the support of its existing investors and new investors to almost double the size of
UCL Technology Fund’s first investment to IPO has seen MeiraGTx Holdings, a clinical stage gene therapy company, raise USD75 million of gross proceeds from a public offering on 12 June. MeiraGTx sold 5,000,000 shares at USD15.00 per share. The shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The UCL
Private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners (Insight) has held the close of its Fund X at USD6.3 billion, the firm’s largest to date. The oversubscribed fund will be used to further its leading growth equity technology investment engine. With the close of the new fund, Insight has
Scottish Biotech company Ryboquin has acquired Nanogenic Solutions, to form a new product and platform company, which, following acquisition will be named Nanogenics Limited. Ryboquin raised GBP4.45 million in its third funding round from new and existing share-holders to finance the deal. The combined company is set to revolutionise
Connect Managed Services (Connect) has announced record financial results for the year to December 2017 as the firm targets further growth. The LDC-backed business, which specialises in customer experience (CX), and unified communications (UC) technologies and services, achieved total revenues of GBP21 million in its latest financial year, up from
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