After a bustling 2018, Q1 European PE deal activity softened, but several GPs seized opportunities to take companies private in the lower-priced public equity environment, according to the latest edition of PitchBook’s European PE Breakdown report. As well as highlighting a significant increase in software buyouts during the quarter’s, which
Alantra, an independent global investment banking and asset management firm, has advised Inflexion and Vivona Brands (Vivona) on the sale of the business to US based private equity firm, Webster Equity Partners. Vivona (formerly NPW) was founded in 1992 and aims to deliver on-trend beauty, wellbeing and lifestyle brands to
ETF Partners, Inventure, KPN Ventures, TESI (Finnish Industry Investment) and Vito Ventures have invested EUR14.4 million in Wirepas, a Finnish software company that has built a wireless connectivity platform solving the major challenges of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and enabling broad adoption of Massive IoT. The additional funding,
Sphera, a global provider of Integrated Risk Management software and information services with a focus on Environmental Health & Safety, Operational Risk and Product Stewardship, has acquired SiteHawk, a software and services provider for Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and chemical data management solutions. Sphera acquired  SiteHawk, a Smyrna, Tennessee-based software
Challenge TRG Group – a logistics recruitment and distribution company – has acquired training specialist, Phoenix Training Services, as it looks to tackle the HGV driver skills shortage in the UK. The company, which recently rebranded from Challenge Group following the acquisition of TRG Logistics earlier this month, completed the
How and what we eat in restaurants or on-the-go is changing thanks to new robotics startup Karakuri which has secured a GBP7million seed investment, led by Ocado. With growing demand for personalised nutrition as part of a healthy lifestyle, Karakuri uses the latest innovations in robotics, machine learning, optics and
Triple Point has announced nearly GBP1 million of funding to back the two latest companies in the firm’s Impact EIS Investment Fund. The fund targets fast-growing companies in the health, environment, youth and inequality sectors that are having a positive social impact, and are expected to generate significant capital growth.
Closed Loop Medicine (CLM) – a Cambridge-based health tech startup that helps doctors and healthcare providers to deliver personalised treatment regimens – has raised GBP2.1 million in venture capital funding, raised from Longwall Venture Partners, IQ Capital and Martlet, the investment arm of the Marshall of Cambridge group. Several leading
Osmosis Investment Management, a sustainable investment specialist with USD1.5 billion in client assets, has closed a significant equity investment from the Oxford Endowment Fund. The fresh injection of capital into the sustainable investment firm is a further endorsement of Osmosis’s systematic investment approach which targets superior risk-adjusted returns from companies
Omnes has completed the buyout of Camerus Group which it has invested in since 2013. Omnes becomes a minority shareholder alongside Bpifrance and Siparex Mezzanine. This refinancing deal allows Camerus Group to continue its ambitious organic development and external growth strategy. In this instance the Group has completed a build-up
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