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Fast-growth web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired Euronic OY, which is headquartered in Finland. Founded in 2000, Euronic is an established Finnish web hosting business with around 12,500 customers. Alongside its core shared web hosting offering, Euronic provides services, such as website builds, domain names, and security certificates. Euronic has reported strong growth in recent years, hitting revenues of EUR2.4 million and EBITDA of EUR1.5 million in FY2019.   In February 2020, Perwyn acquired a majority position in Miss Group to support the growth ambitions of the business through international expansion and ongoing M&A. This deal is the first acquisition
Palatine Private Equity has backed Acora, a managed IT services provider, as it looks to expand its service capabilities through a buy-and-build strategy.Acora has traded for more than 25 years, providing a range of IT support and cloud solutions to help mid-market organisations modernise infrastructure and operate in the digital economy. It offers a full service suite, from service desk through to cloud transformation and ongoing managed service of cloud applications and infrastructure.   David Rabson, CEO of Acora, acquired the business through a management buyout in 2008. Since then, the business has developed from a traditional service desk provider
Cache Ventures has partnered with 360 Family Office to launch a private equity fund, kicking things off with its first acquisition, LeadOwl.Since 2013, Cache has been entirely self-funded. Founders Sean Heilweil and Jarrett Lusso began by building and launching Exit Monitor, which was acquired in August 2016 by Kaleidoscope Global. Their experience building, growing, and exiting the company inspired them to embark on a non-traditional route. As a venture studio, Cache set its sights on building an organisation that aimed to repeatedly build new ideas. Thanks to existing infrastructure and resources, Cache Ventures has been able to increase its chances of
Privitar, a data privacy platform provider, has completed an USD80 million Series C funding round led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from Accel, Partech, IQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures and ABN AMRO Ventures.The investment comes less than a year after a USD40 million Series B funding round led by Accel in June 2019. This raise enables Privitar to further accelerate the development of its data privacy platform, fuel continued innovation, and support key growth initiatives, with a focus on international expansion and increased hiring across sales, services, product development, and other areas of the business. “The Privitar platform enables our customers
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MMC Ventures and Forward Partners have co-invested USD7 million in a Series A round for London-based data streaming startup Ably. MMC Ventures invested from its GBP52 million MMC Greater London Fund, launched in May 2019, which forms part of the Mayor of London’s initiative – the Greater London Investment Fund. The capital injection will be used to scale, as demand for real-time around the world escalates.  Ably provides cloud infrastructure and APIs that enable developers to deliver live experiences to their users. Large enterprises and high-growth tech companies choose Ably to offload the technical and operational burden required to deliver
Substantive Research Limited, a provider of research analysis to asset managers, has secured a GBP800,000 growth capital investment from Foresight Group.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Harbert European Growth Capital Fund II, SCSp (HEGC) has funded Cubyn with venture debt capital. Cubyn is a Paris-based third-party, technology driven logistics and warehouse fulfilment provider for merchants, serving principally e-commerce marketplaces across Europe. The debt will be used to help Cubyn continue its expansion across France and help provide global merchants a means to selling into Europe. It will further help Cubyn accelerate its automation projects within their warehouses in France. Cubyn commits to being able to reduce logistics costs for merchants and marketplaces by up to 30 per cent while improving the quality of shipments. They are able
Franz B & Cie (Haniel) is to acquire 50.1 per cent of Emma – The Sleep Company (Bettzeit). Its two founders, Manuel Müller und Dr. Dennis Schmoltzi, will each retain a 24.95 per cent stake in the company and will continue to drive Emma’s international expansion as active CEOs.“With Emma, we are very pleased to have won a young, innovative and at the same time fast-growing company with many unique selling propositions for the further transformation of our portfolio,” says Haniel CEO Thomas Schmidt.  The founders also see a benefit for their company in the cooperation with Haniel, as Co-CEO Dr Dennis
Ironwood Capital has exited from its subordinated debt investment in Performance Team.  The company was purchased by AP Moller – Maersk and will integrate its services with Maersk Warehousing & Distribution’s regional network of 20-plus facilities in the United States and Canada.   Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Performance Team is an end-to-end third-party logistics and distribution provider, offering consolidation, warehousing, distribution and transportation services across the United States.   “Company management, led by CEO Craig Kaplan, has done an outstanding job building a national distribution and transportation powerhouse. Performance Team manages over 7 million square feet of warehouse space
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Abris Capital Partners-owned Green Group, the largest integrated recycling group in South-Eastern Europe, has acquired a 100 per cent stake in Romanian industrial waste management player Eltex Recycling. The two companies will join forces to expand Eltex Recycling’s position as a provider of waste management solutions in Romania, by “delivering high quality, cost efficient and sustainable services to its clients,” according to the company. “This acquisition is a part of our business strategy to consolidate the market position of Green Group as a leading integrated recycling business in Europe,” said Adrian Stanculescu, partner at Abris Capital Partners and head of

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