Deals
TA Associate’s portfolio company RLDatix, a global provider of intelligent patient safety solutions, has acquired Verge Health, a credentialing software provider.
Edison Partners, a growth equity firm, has co-led a USD7.8 million investment in Budderfly, a Shelton, Connecticut-based energy efficiency as a service (EEaaS) provider. The funds will enable Budderfly to accelerate sales amid higher demand for energy savings in the Covid-19 environment. Edison Partners co-led the round with Balance Point Capital, with additional participation from Connecticut Innovations.
Budderfly provides energy savings and utility expense management services for quick service restaurants (QSRs), convenience stores, healthcare, retail, office and other enterprises that are highly focused on energy cost savings. The company’s advanced software and Internet of Things (IoT) energy measurement and control devices
Mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has agreed the sale of Ten10, a leading independent quality engineering and software testing consultancy, to Graphite Capital. The investment was originally made from Livingbridge’s Enterprise 1 fund.
Livingbridge established Ten10 in 2015, having identified the potential to create a market leader in the sector by acquiring and merging two existing companies, Centre4Testing and The Test People. Since then, Ten10 has become one of the fastest-growing software testing companies, with over 250 employees and offices in London, Leeds and Raleigh, North Carolina. Its portfolio of blue-chip clients spans the financial, legal, retail, and public sectors.
STX Next, a European software house specialising in Python software development, which supports international clients in their digital transformation, has acquired a new investor – a private equity fund advised by Innova Capital. The parties have not revealed the transaction value.
“The global market for new generation IT services is large, and its growth is driven by the increasing number and complexity of customers’ needs associated with their digital transformation,” says Michał Wojdyła, Managing Director at Innova Capital. “In such an ecosystem, success on a bigger scale can be achieved by businesses and teams that are able to differentiate themselves,
Omnes, through its Omnes Mezzanis 3 fund, has completed its 8th sponsorless deal through its reinvestment in Biosyl, following its previous sponsorless deal with the company in 2019.Biosyl is a leading industrial player in France in manufacturing wood pellets. Omnes, already a shareholder in the group, has reinvested alongside the company founder. Minority investors 123 IM, SOFIMAC as well as the forestry cooperative Unisylva complete the funding round.
Debt was provided by BPI and a banking consortium led by BNP Paribas, comprising La Banque Postale, HSBC, Banque Populaire Bourgogne and Banque Populaire Auvergne.
Founded in 2010, Biosyl transforms
Tarrytown Expocare (Tarrytown), a portfolio company of Sheridan Capital Partners, has completed acquisitions of Long’s Drugs, located in Thomson, Georgia, Long’s Closed-Door Pharmacy, located in Columbia, South Carolina, and Adler’s Pharmacy LTC, located in Cherry Hill, NJ. These acquisitions are the latest completed by Tarrytown as the Company continues expanding into new states in order to provide quality care to the Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled populations. The Company now serves individuals in 13 states.
“We are thrilled to announce our acquisitions of leading providers that expand our ability to serve individuals across the U.S. These pharmacies are representative of the cultures
LearnUpon, a leading cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS), has secured USD56 million minority investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners. This funding represents LearnUpon’s first major capital raise and will be used to fuel hiring, support continued execution of the company’s product roadmap and meet accelerating customer demand.
LearnUpon was founded in 2012 on the belief that a learning management system should be intuitive for users, quick and seamless to set up, and delivered with industry-leading customer support. Combining powerful functionality with unparalleled ease of use for both learners and administrators, LearnUpon helps enterprises democratise learning by dramatically increasing
CRUX, a British-Israeli startup that has developed the world’s first Knowledge Quantification platform, has announced a GBP1 million seed investment round led by WENVEST Capital, the B2B SaaS venture capital firm, and includes A-Round Capital and Founders Factory. With an overwhelming volume of information on both publisher and corporate platforms, CRUX’s groundbreaking deep tech supports digital media companies, financial services firms and management consultancies in helping users become more informed and more engaged. CRUX creates unique knowledge journeys around any topic, by measuring users’ knowledge build-up in real time, and directing users to the most valuable content for them.
CRUX uses
The Private Equity Team has advised long-standing client GTT Communications, a specialist in the provision of cloud networking services, on the sale of its infrastructure business to I Squared Capital for USD2.15 billion. The acquisition is expected to close, subject to satisfying all required regulatory approvals and contingencies included in the agreement, during the first half of 2021.
The infrastructure division of GTT Communications consists of the business and activities of providing Pan-European, North American, sub-sea and trans-Atlantic fiber network and data center infrastructure services to customers.
I Squared Capital is an independent global infrastructure investment management firm focusing on energy,
BHI, a full-service commercial bank, says its Specialty and Sponsor Finance Group continued to maintain a high level of activity for new and existing clients during the peak of the global pandemic.
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