Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has exited from its investment in JT Holdings UK Limited (Just Trays) to Kartell UK Limited (Kartell), delivering a 2x return for its investors. Just Trays is a niche manufacturer of shower trays, selling its products into
Incline Equity Partners (Incline), a Pittsburgh-based private equity firm, has acquired Brown & Joseph (B&J), a provider of commercial accounts receivable management services primarily focused on insurance end markets. Based in Itasca, IL, B&J specialises in B2B third-party collection services while also providing first-party collections and insurance premium audits. The
Manchester-headquartered Miss Group has secured a GBP13m follow-on investment from BGF to support its international acquisition strategy. Founded in 2014, Miss Group is an international web hosting business that offers a range of services to the SME market, such as web hosting, domain registration, VPS and dedicated servers. Following BGF’s
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, has completed a majority growth investment in Riverpoint Medical (Riverpoint.) The investment in Riverpoint marks the first deal out of Arlington’s USD1.7 billion Fund V, which closed recently. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Riverpoint Medical is a developer, designer, and manufacturer
Investment firm Battery Ventures has launched a new index to track the stock performance of prominent consumer-marketplace companies, businesses that are becoming more and more embedded into the daily lives of consumers, and, increasingly, driving a new wave of initial-public stock offerings. The Battery Marketplace Index includes 39 companies that
The United States dominates the PE marketplace when it comes to size of AUM size. It is estimated that the top 300 global PE managers manage USD1.5 trillion in assets, of which US-based managers account for USD1 trillion; this compares to USD177 billion among UK-based managers.
WeGift, a digital rewards platform, has secured GBP4 million in Series A funding, led by Fred Destin at Stride.vc, who also joins the Board of Directors, and other high-profile investors including SAP.iO fund and Unilever Ventures. WeGift has also announced new angel investors including James Hind, founder of Carwow and Eamon Jubbawy at Onfido. WeGift says the investment
eSmart Systems, a Norwegian provider of AI-based analytics for infrastructure inspection and asset health monitoring, has completed a capital raise of USD 34.4 million. Energy Impact Partners (EIP), the US utility-backed investment fund, and innogy Ventures have joined the investment round initially closed by Equinor Energy Ventures, Nysnø Climate Investments,
Earth Capital (EC), a global investment group focused on sustainable and impact investments, has made a successful early exit of Inval Green Energy (IGE) from the European portfolio of the Nobel Sustainability Fund (NSF). IGE, which is managed by sub-manager Barcelona-based SI Capital (SiC), part of the Earth Capital Holdings
This week’s newsletter brings news of Private Equity Wire’s European Mid-Market Summit – Inside the mind of the modern mid-market/emerging PE manager – which was held at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, London on Tuesday, 26 June and provided 80 or so attendees with the opportunity to meet and
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