Deals
ABRT VC has committed USD10 million to support startups providing solutions to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and has backed the Limpid platform in the fight against Covid-19.Limpid (limpid.vc) is a global startup sourcing and pipeline management platform that streamlines fundraising for both venture capital investors and startup companies. Limpid is designed to unify decision making for VC investors and shorten the time for startups to get funded.
“We see an emerging opportunity in supporting startups that address challenges brought about by COVID-19. That’s why we’ve backed Limpid to source the best COVID-related startups and co-invest in these companies
Next Century Spirits has completed a USD6 million Series C fundraising round led by private equity firm the Blue Hill Group. Since its inception in 2018, the Raleigh-based full-service spirits producer has raised capital from various private investors and angel networks including the Wolfpack Investor Network and Carolina Angel Network.
Next Century Spirits offers unmatched blending expertise to support private brands or labels and bulk suppliers interested in producing customised spirits concepts through its patented post-distillation finishing and filtering technology. Funding of Next Century Spirits follows industry recognition as “Best of Category Rum 2020” by the American Distilling Institute (ADI) for its
PharmaLex Group, a provider of specialised services for the pharma, biotech and medical device industries worldwide, has completed its legal merger with Regulis Consulting Limited (Regulis) in the United Kingdom, Regulis was supported by Consulting M&A throughout the transaction process.
Kim Wharton, the Founder and Managing Director of Regulis, says: “We are delighted with the support we had from CM&A. Their knowledge and expertise in corporate finance within the consulting sector helped us through the challenging moments of the process to achieve an outstanding outcome for staff, clients and shareholders.”
Regulis was founded in 2001 and is now a prominent consultancy
European private equity deal volume dipped in Q2 2020 to its lowest quarterly figure since Q3 2013 driven by the uncertainty caused by Covid-19, Pitchbook’s Q2 report shows.
The Q2 European Private Equity Breakdown report, published by Pitchbook, demonstrates that 650 transactions closed in the second quarter of the year for a total of EUR9.8 billion – representing a year on year decrease of 31.5 per cent and 18.7 per cent, respectively.
Pitchbook is a data company providing research and data on venture capital, private equity, M&A, and public companies. The company believes that deal activity will pick up in
Sumeru Equity Partners has led a USD100 million investment in SocialChorus, a workforce communications SaaS company, along with existing investors.
Private equity firms invested in 464 companies in Central and Eastern Europe in 2019 – a new record for the region – according to a new study by Investment Europe.
AST Private Company Solutions has formed a strategic partnership with Standish Management, a leading private equity fund administration provider to private equity with over USD130 billion in AUM.Users of PCS’s Astrella capitalisation (cap) table and ownership tracking platform will be able to integrate relevant ownership data from Astrella to Standish. Standish will use this data to support limited partner (LP) financial reporting and communications, capital calls and distributions and partnership accounting.
Astrella was built by AST PCS, the Silicon Valley-based business unit of ownership data management leader AST, as a new cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to manage private company
CenterOak Partners’ portfolio company Service Champions has acquired ABC Cooling Heating & Plumbing (ABC), a provider of residential air conditioning and plumbing repair services headquartered in Hayward, California. ABC has provided high quality service to homeowners across the greater East Bay metropolitan area for over 65 years.
This transaction marks Service Champion’s fifth acquisition since CenterOak completed a majority investment in May 2019 and expands Service Champion’s residential service agreement base to over 45,000 across the state of California.
“We are excited to expand our footprint into the East Bay and solidify our position as the largest residential services
Evertas, a cryptoasset insurance company, has completed a USD2.8 million seed stage funding round. The funding round was led by Morgan Creek, who were joined by Plug n Play, Kailash Ventures, RenGen, Vy Capital and Wavemaker Genesis. Mark Yusko, Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management & Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, has joined Evertas’ Board of Directors.
Evertas, which focuses on covering institutional holders of cryptoassets including exchanges, custodians, traditional financial institutions, funds, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals, will be using these funds to support its strong growth plans.
The market capitalisation of cryptoassets is around USD270 billion and growing rapidly, but because of the highly specialised nature of underwriting the risks
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has made a growth capital investment in WilliamsMarston, an accounting advisory and management consulting firm with offices in Boston and New York. Co-Founders Landen Williams and Jon Marston will continue to lead the Firm through its next phase of growth.
WilliamsMarston provides public, private equity-backed and pre-IPO companies with specialised consulting services including transaction support in M&A, divestitures, initial public offerings and restructuring as well as technical accounting, interim management and process improvement. “Jon and I founded WilliamsMarston on the premise that many companies, their investors, lenders and other stakeholders were underserved in the accounting advisory space,”
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