Deals
Fondo Agroalimentare Italiano (FAI) has successfully completed its first exit with the sale of its stake in Sfoglia Torino.FAI’s 2017 investment in the company, alongside CEO Enzo Perrino and his family, enabled Sfoglia Torino to carry out an external growth strategy with the aim of consolidating the Italian frozen puff pastry sector and becoming an Italian market leader.
The successive acquisitions of Righi and Idea Quick reinforced Sfoglia Torino’s product range and distribution channels and tripled the group’s sales to nearly EUR30 million. The Group’s operational profile was also enhanced with a strengthened management team and investments to expand
US-based Private equity investor Advent International (Advent) has completed its controversial GBP4 billion takeover of UK defence and aerospace company Cobham plc. Founded by Sir Alan Cobham in 1934, Cobham has approximately 10,000 employees around the world, and operations in North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa.
The Cobham investment is made by Advent’s USD17.5 billion private equity fund raised in 2019. Advent is a global firm, with a track record of more than 350 investments across 41 countries. Since the firm opened its London office in 1989, it has invested almost GBP4.6 billion in 40 British businesses. Cobham is the firm’s third
Demica, a working capital fintechs, has successfully closed a USD30 million Series C financing round led by Simcah Management LLC.Over the past five years, Demica has built a rapidly growing Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to manage working capital for over 500 large corporate multinationals financed by 50 global financial institutions. During this time the company has grown funded programmes from USD3 billion to USD16 billion, established a commercial presence across Europe and North America and expanded its development centres in UK, India and Poland.
Uniquely in the market, Demica’s vision is to give treasurers access to the
The trend for dedicated funds targeting GP equity stakes is likely to remain strong as investors seek out opportunities in early stage and middle-market PE groups.
Just as private equity provides strategic capital investment to help global businesses grow, likewise PE groups need growth capital to expand and evolve. And with investors only too keen to deepen relationships with GPs, over the last five or six years it has led to a vibrant market for acquiring GP equity stakes.
Home, a Berlin-based company dedicated to creating a better housing experience, has raised an EUR11million Series A round from Capnamic, the EQT Ventures fund (EQT Ventures), FJ Labs and Redalpine. The latest round of investment will be used to increase product innovation, particularly on the tenant side, as well as drive the expansion of Home’s offering into new cities.
Anyone who has either rented a home or been a landlord knows that it can be time-consuming, stressful and complicated for everyone involved. For owners, there is the barrier of having to become an expert in many different areas – from what
Brand Velocity Partners (BVP), a private equity (PE) firm focused on acquiring lower-middle market consumer businesses in search of marketing muscle, has purchased Original Footwear Inc. Original Footwear, with its Altama and Original SWAT brands, is globally known for its military and law enforcement footwear and, to be announced tomorrow, an expanded line of consumer active and fashion footwear.
This is the first deal consummated by BVP, a firm founded in 2019 and run by partners with deep experience in both PE and brand marketing.
Kevin Cole, founder and CEO of Original Footwear, says: “Over the past 50 years, Original Footwear’s
FeedStock, an AI-driven SaaS business that leverages the latest natural language processing technologies to enable financial services companies to meet both their compliance requirements and commercial goals, has secured a GBP2.5 million investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures.
CDC Group, the UK’s publicly owned impact investor, is to commit a further GBP2 billion into African businesses over the next two years, as it looks to double the size of its portfolio on the continent.The company, the world’s largest bilateral development investor in Africa, today unveiled at the UK-Africa Investment Summit (AIS) in London a string of new partnerships totalling nearly $400m. The bulk of funds will be to provide African banks with greater liquidity to support SMEs, entrepreneurs and microbusinesses in their regions.
Nick O’Donohoe, Chief Executive of CDC, says: “Investors have a real opportunity to embrace the
Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC), the award-winning UK fund manager and social enterprise, has invested GBP2.5 million from its Social and Sustainable Housing (SASH) fund into Valley House, a charity that supports vulnerable young parents and victims of domestic abuse in and around Coventry.This is SASC’s 4th investment from its SASH fund, which has so far committed over GBP16 million. SASC aims to grow the fund to GBP100 million to support 30 organisations to house 10,000 people over the next 10 years.
Valley House offers accommodation services to young parents aged 16 to 24 years old and individuals and
Elder Ltd has raised another GBP8.2 million funding round as its technology-enabled live-in care service gains nationwide popularity, bringing the total raised to GBP16.5 million. The round was led by Acton Capital, a leading growth venture capital investor from Munich, Germany and participated by existing investors.
Elder is one of the UK’s fastest-growing startups and has delivered more than 350,000 days of care in more than 300 towns and cities across the UK since 2016 – with the Outer Hebrides being the only remaining area where care is yet to be delivered.
By allowing the customer to stay in their own
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