Deals
Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) has acquired certain iconic RadioShack brands and related assets. “The RadioShack brands have resonated with consumers for nearly 100 years, and we are confident RadioShack’s relaunch as a cutting-edge ecommerce company will amplify the awareness of this iconic brand internationally,” says Alex Mehr, CEO of REV.
Tai Lopez, Executive Chairman of REV, adds: “We were impressed with both the strong existing sales and sales potential of the Radioshack.com and related websites across the globe, including the US, Canada, India, Australia, Europe and China. Our approach builds off the existing strength of extraordinary brands such as RadioShack and
Moulded Foams, one of the UK’s largest independent producers of moulded foam products, has expanded its manufacturing presence across Scotland by adding Stornoway to its portfolio of sites. Following an investment from BGF last year, the company, which has existing manufacturing sites in Cumbernauld and Peterhead as well as Lincolnshire and South Wales, has acquired Stornoway based Polybox Ltd.
Moulded Foams has already embarked on a reinvestment and renewal programme at the Western Isles based factory, investing in new machinery to support increased demand for fish farming in the Outer Hebrides. Family-owned Polybox Ltd saw Moulded Foams as the natural
Hams Hall Sustainable Energy Ltd (HHSE) has secured an GBP800,000 loan from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) Debt Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven). The company is set to use the funding to support the delivery of new contracts, including purchasing and installing a sustainable energy system for a Birmingham-based blue-chip customer.
HHSE forms part of a group of companies that have been set up by BasePower which utilises combined Heat and Power (“CHP”) technology to capture the heat formed during power generation. It is then put to productive use during the manufacturing process, resulting in reduced energy
Eurazeo PME, a subsidiary of Eurazeo that specialises in investing in medium-sized companies, is to acquire Altaïr group. The deal involves Eurazeo PME investing around EUR115 million in the Group. Eurazeo PME would hold a majority stake alongside Altaïr management and key executives.
Altaïr was founded in 1946 by the Brunel brothers, and is a leading European producer of household and home care products. Operating in a resilient sector that has demonstrated steady growth over the last 20 years, the Group generated around EUR105 million of revenue in 2019 and maintained its growth trajectory despite the ongoing sanitary crisis.
Hg has made an investment in The Septeo Group (Septeo), a European specialist in LegalTech. Hg will invest alongside founders Philippe Rivière, Jean-Luc Boixel, Hugues Galambrun and the management team, which will continue to be led by Hugues Galambrun.The terms of the transaction are not disclosed and closing of the transaction is conditional on customary anti-trust approvals.
Septeo is a leading LegalTech provider supporting professions including notaries, law firms, corporate legal departments and real estate property managers in France, Belgium, Canada and the US. Founded in 1988, Septeo now has over 12,000 clients and more than 120,000 users, served
Mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has agreed the sale of Giacom, a specialist cloud services marketplace which provides cloud services to SMEs via the Information Technology Consultants (ITCs) community. The investment was originally made from the Livingbridge six fund. The business has been acquired by Digital Wholesale Solutions.
The deal also marks an exit for minority shareholder, LDC which has been invested in Giacom since 2016.
Founded in Hull, UK in 1999 as an internet service provider, Giacom now offers a one-stop platform for all the cloud software, infrastructure and IT support services that an ITC might require to
SynOx Therapeutics Ltd (SynOx), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has closed a EUR37 million Series A financing co-led by HealthCap and Medicxi and joined by investors Forbion and Gimv. SynOx, a spin out of Celleron Therapeutics Ltd (Celleron), secured exclusive world-wide rights for the clinical development, manufacturing and commercialisation of emactuzumab under a licence agreement with Roche. The financing will enable SynOx to continue the development of emactuzumab, for the treatment of diffuse tenosynovial giant cell tumours (TGCT), also known as pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS), and other indications.
Emactuzumab is a clinical-stage humanised IgG1 CSF-1R targeted antibody designed to target and
Fireblocks has raised USD30 million in Series B funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to USD46 million. This round was led by Paradigm with participation from existing investors, Cyberstarts, Tenaya Capital, Swisscom, Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), and Cedar Hill Capital. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
DefiniGEN – a provider of human cell products and services – has closed a GBP3.25 million funding round to accelerate its next phase of growth. This includes GBP2 million from BGF, the UK’s most active investor, alongside its existing consortium of investors led by 24Haymarket.DefiniGEN is a spin-out from the University of Cambridge, creating highly predictive disease cell models for preclinical research and drug development. The process of bringing new drugs to market is arduous, expensive and blighted by a high failure rate. DefiniGEN’s models help the biopharma industry to respond to these challenges, enabling highly relevant information on potential
Cloud-based technology company Eleven has announced the beta release of new technology that transforms how investments in private equity funds and hedge funds are made.The technology was built in collaboration with Socium Fund Services, a leading provider of fund administration services for alternative investment funds, and moves the fund subscription process to a three-way digital workflow between the investor, fund administrator and fund manager that using each fund’s existing subscription documentation.
Importantly, the electronic transaction workflows are integrated in the same, all-in-one digital ecosystem General Partners use to securely and compliantly service investors and drive engagement with them throughout the
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