Deals
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,”
IQ Capital has led a GBP 5.5 million series A funding round in CyberSmart, which helps small to medium-sized businesses combat cyber-attacks.
The fresh capital will be used to fund CyberSmart’s growth, which has seen an increase in demand with a revenue increase of 300 per cent over the past 12 months, as the lockdown accelerated the use of its cloud-based technology, according to the company.
“We are delighted to have closed our Series A funding round with GBP 5.5 million to fund our next stage of growth. Our investors have seen that we have built a great technology and
iOnctura SA, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, developing a pipeline of next generation molecules targeting cancer and fibrosis, has raised an additional EUR5.1 million bringing its total Series A financing to EUR20.1 million. New investor 3B Future Health Fund, previously known as Helsinn Investment Fund, SICAR joins the existing blue chip investor syndicate of M Ventures, INKEF Capital, VI Partners, and Schroder Adveq, which all participated in the extension.
The funding will enable iOnctura to accelerate development of its next generation dual immune and tumour targeting therapies. Data emerging from early clinical evaluation of its lead molecule IOA-244, a highly selective
Mid-market private equity investor LDC says there are signs transaction activity had started to rebound as more companies looked beyond the impact of the pandemic to long-term growth and diversification strategies.In a half-year update, the firm announced it had backed a total of 18 investments in the first half of 2020. The majority completed since the onset of the pandemic, with momentum increasing as eight deals closed in the past four weeks alone, and its pipeline for the second half of the year building quickly.
LDC, which plans to invest GBP1.2 billion of capital over the next three years, says
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