Deals
Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), have announced a GBP1.45 million follow-on investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Inovo Robotics (Inovo).This investment will allow the Company to grow sales internationally and brings the total invested by the Fund to GBP2.95 million, having originally invested GBP1.5 million in October 2018 to support the Company’s first product to market.
Inovo was founded in 2016 by Henry Wood and Jonathan Cheung, both former senior engineers at defence technology company, Northrup Grumman. The Company is developing a competitively priced “cobot”, a
Council Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, and co-investor DW Healthcare Partners, a Toronto-based healthcare-focused private equity firm, have sold their stakes in Caregiver to WindRose Health Investors (WindRose), while retaining a small equity ownership. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Caregiver, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a provider of long-term care services and support to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Caregiver’s professional staff members are dedicated to improving each client’s quality of life with the design, delivery, and management of personalised treatment plans. Caregiver and its branded affiliates provide
The Riverside Company has financed Modern Hire’s acquisition of Sonru, an Ireland-based provider of automated video interviewing technology. The investment is an add on to Riverside’s portfolio company Modern Hire, the all-in-one enterprise hiring platform that enables organisations to continuously improve hiring experiences and outcomes with trusted science and technology.
The combined organisation offers the most comprehensive enterprise hiring technology product suite in the global marketplace, extending Modern Hire’s team, reach and expertise and providing enhanced value to Sonru’s clients.
“Adding Sonru to the Modern Hire organisation was vital to growing its client-facing reach to include offices in Europe, the Middle
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, and Francisco Partners, a global technology-focused private equity firm, have a made a significant growth investment in Edifecs, a global health information technology solutions company. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2020, have not been disclosed.
Founded by Gurpreet (Sunny) Singh in 1996, Edifecs is a premier technology company in the US healthcare market with solutions focused on interoperability, workflows, value-based care payments and analytics. Since its inception, Edifecs has provided a full range of capabilities to support most healthcare entities (ie, payers,
Laybuy, a spcialist ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ (BNPL) technology, has secured a GBP80 million debt facility from Victory Park Capital (VPC), a global alternative investment firm. With plans for continued international expansion, the funding from VPC will fuel Laybuy’s growth in the UK.
“Laybuy has grown exponentially since we launched three years ago and we would not be able to continue to scale without our investors’ support and confidence in our vision,” says Gary Rohloff, co-founder and CEO of Laybuy. “In addition to increasing our customer base in our established geographies and sectors, our expansion in the UK is a
Funds advised by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, and DTCP, an investment management group specialised in technology growth equity and digital infrastructure, are to acquire a majority stake in Community Fibre Limited, London’s fastest and most competitively priced 100 per cent full-fibre broadband provider, alongside its existing investors Amber Infrastructure and RPMI Railpen. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Community Fibre is future-proofing London communities by delivering 1 Gbps of full-fibre broadband to households and up to 10 Gbps of full-fibre broadband to businesses, at the most competitive prices on the market. Their mission is to empower communities
Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a UK SME private equity firm that specialises in partnering with owner-managers, has realised its investment in The DMW Group (DMW), a leading independent technology consultancy. DMW is being acquired by Credera, a subsidiary of Omnicom Group. GCP invested in DMW in October 2017 alongside the CEO, Chris Dean and the founding management team. Over the period of GCP’s investment, DMW has doubled revenue, profit and headcount to become a leading UK specialist in the design, delivery, and implementation of data-rich digital transformation programmes.
Founded over 30 years ago and headquartered in London, DMW employs technology
Funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital), a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, is to acquire the specialty polymers business from Baker Hughes. The specialty polymers business, with manufacturing operations in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, produces specialty low molecular weight olefin polymers, including a range of differentiated functional polymers and premium, high melting point polyethylene waxes. Over its 85-year history, the business has been dedicated to innovation and has developed a strong reputation as a premium specialty supplier and solutions provider to its diverse customer base.
Mario Toukan, a Managing Director of SK
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has completed the sale of Analytical Lab Group (ALG), a microbiology and viral lab, to Element Materials Technology (Element), one of the world’s largest providers of materials and product qualification testing, inspection and certification services to the global aerospace, transportation & industrials, connected technologies, energy, and fire & building products sectors.ALG’s team of 130 scientists and experts operates a number of FDA and EPA compliance focused laboratories in San Francisco, Minneapolis and Boston and has built a strong reputation in the infection prevention market, offering comprehensive testing
Eurazeo has completed a EUR80 million investment from its China Acceleration Fund in DORC (Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center), a specialist in the area of vitreoretinal surgery.
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