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White Oak Global Advisors funded over USD2.5 billion in loans in 2018, providing flexible capital to small and middle market businesses globally.
“Over the past decade, White Oak has honed a specialised expertise in developing bespoke lending solutions to small- and mid-sized enterprises that keep our economy running. Our landmark year in 2018 demonstrates the growing need for such flexible capital,” says Andre Hakkak, CEO and Co-Founder of White Oak. “In addition to developing new financing structures and solutions, we expanded our highly experienced team of originators across the US and the UK, with a commitment to deepening expertise in
Paragon Group, one of Europe’s leading providers of Customer Communications, Identification, and Graphics services is pleased to announce the acquisition of the logistic, Co-packing and direct marketing activities of Asf with the acquisition of the Asf’s site and business of Noyelles-sous-Lens (EUR30m turnover and 300 employees), from Arvato Services France.
With highly complementary activities and customers, the acquisition of Asf Noyelles will contribute to Paragon’s continuing organic and external growth strategy.
Paragon will make Noyelles (Arcania SAS) a centre of excellence in its direct marketing and marketing logistics services, owing to the expertise of the management and the outstanding
Circularity Capital, a specialist private equity firm supporting growth stage European SMEs in the circular economy, has led a multi-million growth funding round in ZigZag Global, a software solution for retailers to optimally manage the return, repacking and resale of products.
Circularity Capital’s investment will further accelerate the rollout of the solution to bluechip retailers.
E-commerce return volumes are growing at 10-20 per cent per annum. In the US market alone, 2.5 million tons of returned goods end up in landfill, the equivalent of the volume of waste produced by 5 million Americans.
ZigZag’s multi-award winning SaaS platform
Private equity firm Apposite Capital’s portfolio company Swanton Care and Community Ltd, a national provider of specialist residential care and supported living services for adults, has acquired Courtyard Care Ltd.
Courtyard Care operates a group of leading children’s specialist residential homes with an excellent reputation providing services for children with complex medical and mental healthcare needs.
Located in the North West of England and with a combined registration for up to 20, the settings provide specialist care for children and young adults up to 18 years old.
Established in 2003, the group has grown as a result of
A Northumberland business which has found a new way to deliver superfast broadband to remote sites has secured a GBP300,000 investment from the North East Venture Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia Fund Managers.
Trench Networks, which is based in Blyth, has developed a device which aggregates mobile phone signals from all major networks and combines them to achieve superfast broadband speeds. Its product, Outpost, was designed with construction firms in mind, which often work on outlying sites with no existing infrastructure.
Outpost provides instant access to internet and mobile communications without the
MEDIAN, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity Investments since 2011 and Germany’s largest private operator of rehabilitation clinics, is acquiring the two clinics run by Kliniken Wied GmbH & Co in Wied and Steimel, in the region between Bonn and Koblenz.
The company is specialised in providing residential rehabilitation for addicts since 1974, a field that is one of MEDIAN’s main specialities. Kliniken Wied provides more than 210 hospital beds, managed by 166 employees. The focus is on residential and out-patient treatments for alcohol, medication and drug dependency, including the parallel treatment of somatic and psychosomatic diseases together with
QuadSAT, a drone-enabled antenna testing company, has closed its GBP700,000 seed round, led by the Danish Growth Fund, VF with participation from Seraphim Capital and existing investors.
The investment will enable QuadSAT to bring its innovative drone platform to the satellite communications industry, initially focusing on maritime and aeronautical applications. QuadSAT’s platform uses drone technology to test and calibrate satellite and VSAT antennas autonomously, mimicking an orbiting satellite that can simulate a ship or aircraft’s motion. This method enables highly accurate testing while drastically reducing downtime.
Having started as a University project, QuadSAT is an innovative startup company. Based
Seldon, the machine learning deployment specialist, has closed a GBP2.7m seed funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners alongside Global Brain Corporation, Techstars and other existing investors.
Seldon is a pioneering global technology business focused on the fast-growing machine intelligence market. Its open-source machine learning deployment platform makes it easier and quicker to manage, serve and optimise machine learning models at scale. The platform is built on cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes.
Since its inception in 2014, Seldon has built a global community of loyal users who leverage their diverse industry backgrounds to provide validation and feedback. Seldon’s initial product offering,
Bain Capital Private Equity is to acquire a majority stake in Brillio, a global digital technology consulting and solutions company, to further scale its digital transformation offerings.
Brillio will continue to be led by the current management team, headed by Chief Executive Officer Raj Mamodia. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
“We are honoured to collaborate with Bain Capital Private Equity as we continue to establish Brillio as the preferred transformation services partner for our customers. In order to realise our goal of being one of the world’s leading provider of digital solutions over the
AVORA, an enterprise analytics platform powered by native machine learning technology, has raised USD6.5m (GBP5.1m) in a Series A funding round led by Albion VC and existing investor Crane.
A number of previous backers also followed on including Dr Steve Garnett, former Chairman EMEA Salesforce.com, and Stephen Kelly.
AVORA has already built an impressive client base, including Telefonica, OMD, NPR, HBO LatAm and Ocado. The UK start-up will use the funds raised to expand its leadership and sales teams, launch in the US market and continue to evolve its technology by enhancing its in-platform machine learning algorithms. The financing
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