Deals
ContentSquare, a fully-automated SaaS digital experience insights platform, has raised over GBP45 million (USD60 million) in a Series C funding round led by Eurazeo.
This new capital will help ContentSquare increase research and development, focussed on AI and predictive analytics, and also to continue to expand its business across EMEA and America. All the previous investors in the company, including Highland Europe, also participated in the round.
“Now more than ever, enterprises understand that improving the digital customer experience is a matter of great importance,” says Jonathan Cherki, Founder and CEO of ContentSquare. “With this new funding we are
Cairngorm Capital Partners has supported MJ Wilson Group’s acquisition of Support Instrumentation Limited (SIL). MJ Wilson says the deal will accelerate its strategic ambitions for growth and strengthen its position within the process and instrumentation market.
Established in 1992, SIL is a process instrumentation company, with expertise in bespoke instrumentation implementation. Headquartered in Edenbridge, Kent, SIL provides a comprehensive single-source instrumentation solution from design, product selection and project management, to automation and process control. It operates across a number of sectors, including chemicals, food and beverage, power generation and aggregates. An authorised Siemens technology partner, the company is highly regarded
Investment manager Downing has sold Osprey Green Power Limited, the fifth exit by its funds from a series of seven hydro investments based in Scotland and managed by Gilkes Energy Limited.
Downing has worked closely with Gilkes Energy, a specialist hydro developer, since September 2013, investing some GBP20 million of EIS equity across seven projects. These seven projects are now fully operational, all having been built on time and to budget.
Downing has exited five of these projects to GHI Holdings Limited – a company which owns and operates a portfolio of operational hydro projects. Gilkes Energy will continue
Private equity firm Key Capital Partners (KCP) enjoyed a successful end to 2018 following the exit of three portfolio companies in the last quarter of the year, generating a combined return of three times the initial investment, and with a total value of over GBP50 million.
In October, the firm sold its interest in glass processor MI Glass, based in Smethwick in the West Midlands, to the management team in a multi-million pound deal backed by Clydesdale Bank. The following month saw Oldbury school meals business Alliance in Partnership acquired by French catering company Sodexo. In December, Siamo Group, an
Maples and Calder and MaplesFS which together comprise Maples Fiduciary and Maples Fund Services, have consolidated their offerings under a single brand, now called the Maples Group.
This composite of collective services includes an international law firm, advising on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg and global fund administration and fiduciary services.
The rebranding initiative, which includes a new corporate logo and website, highlights the strength of the Maples Group as a comprehensive solution for legal, fiduciary, fund, entity formation and management services, as well as regulatory and compliance services.
Rand Capital Corporation (RAND) has entered into a stock purchase agreement to sell approximately 8.3 million shares of common stock to East Asset Management (EAM) for USD25 million in cash and assets.
The purchase price of USD3.00 per share represents a 33 per cent premium over the 24 January, 2019 closing price of USD2.26 per share. The sale and issuance of common stock pursuant to this stock purchase agreement is subject to shareholder approval and receipt of required regulatory approval from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
Erland (Erkie) Kailbourne, Chairman of the Board of Rand Capital, says: “We
Waterland Private Equity is acquiring a majority holding in Rehacon, a provider of physiotherapy services in Germany.
Rehacon is headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, from where it runs more than 100 therapy centres, making it one of the largest providers on the market in continental Europe. The vast majority of Rehacon’s over 600 employees work directly with patients in the local therapy centres, helping the group to generate annual turnover of around 36 million euros. The shares are being sold by Reeder Invest GmbH, whose Managing Director Michael Reeder will retain a significant stake in Rehacon.
Reeder, the company’s founder, will
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has acquired SK AeroSafety from SK FireSafety, a portfolio company of Paris-based Apax Partners. The Company’s management team, headed by CEO Chris Wright, will invest alongside LLCP.
SK AeroSafety specialises in the inspection, testing, maintenance and repair of critical passenger safety equipment found on all commercial and private aircraft worldwide. Equipment serviced by the Company includes life vests, fire extinguishers, oxygen masks, oxygen cylinders, evacuation slides and life rafts. SK AeroSafety supports a diversified and global customer base of over 700 airlines, component service providers, maintenance and repair organisations (MRO) and OEMs, and has locations in
SkenarioLabs, a Finnish start-up that provides Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based data services to the real estate industry, has secured an undisclosed sum in a seed funding round led by innogy Innovation Hub.
The innogy Innovation Hub is the Accelerator and Venture Capital arm of innogy SE, a German energy company, with revenues of around EUR43 billion (2017), more than 42,000 employees and activities in 16 countries.
SkenarioLabs’ AI powered web-based data analytics service provides detailed and reliable diagnostics on property portfolios to enable effective management and maximise return on investment. The company’s platform can be used to plan maintenance and
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP2.15 million growth capital investment into Sportlabs Technology Limited, trading as ClubSpark, a specialist software company serving participants, sports providers, National Governing Bodies and International Federations.
Founded in 2012 by CEO Dave Ward and CTO Nathan Flood, ClubSpark provides a comprehensive software platform which provides easy access to sports and events for participants, simple to use tools for sports providers, whilst giving National Governing Bodies and International Federations insight into participation and activity levels.
The software platform allows sports providers to manage all operational activities, including resource booking, membership, CRM, competitions/tournaments, courses, holiday
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