Deals
TrustedHousesitters, a house and pet sitting platform, has secured a significant investment from private equity firm Rockpool Investments.
Founded by Andy Peck and Rachel Martin in 2010, TrustedHousesitters is the world’s largest house and pet sitting community operating in over 130 countries. Since launch, the platform has facilitated more than two million nights of house sitting, saving its members over GBP170 million in accommodation and pet care costs.
The pet services industry, which is estimated to be worth USD180 billion globally, is experiencing unprecedented growth. Tim Lyons, Managing Director at TrustedHousesitters says: “This is an exciting development in the
UK Private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led the management buyout (MBO) of Acton Banks Limited (Acton Banks), a UK healthcare staffing business.
The transaction is Maven’s third investment from its buyout fund, having earlier this year led an investment in Manchester-based hardware designer and supplier UAP Limited and Glasgow-based John McGavigan Limited, a leader in decorative technology used in the automotive sector.
The transaction, which includes an investment of £9.65 million from Maven and a significant investment from the senior management team, will enable Acton Banks to continue to roll-out its highly efficient operating model, further
London-based babble cloud holdings limited, a UK provider of cloud-based communications technology, is strengthening its portfolio and doubling its industry footprint by acquiring Birmingham-based Arden Group for an undisclosed sum.
The deal will add strength in mobile and IT managed services to babble’s existing market-leadership in Unified Communication (UCaaS) and cloud-based Contact Centre solutions (CCaaS). It will also double babble’s revenue to nearly GBP20m and create a combined customer base of more than 1,200 customers.
The business has been backed by leading mid-market private equity firm LDC since October 2017 and this is the second acquisition babble has made this
ARX Equity Partners (ARX) has successfully completed the exit of its investment in Fincentrum, an independent financial advisory business operating in the Czech Republic and Slovakia respectively.
Fincentrum facilitates the sale of mortgages, life insurance and investment products and boasts more than 3,000 financial advisors and a turnover in excess of EUR60 million. It ranks as the largest, independent distribution partner, primarily for banks and insurance companies, in the Czech and Slovak markets.
The ARX exit was finalised via a 100 per cent sale to the Swiss Life Group, a European provider of comprehensive life, pension and financial solutions. This
Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Petershill programme has made a strategic minority investment in middle-market private equity firm Harvest Partners.
The passive investment, which represents 15 per cent of the firm, will allow Harvest Partners to expand the ownership of the firm and further develop its platform, building on the firm’s long history of investing in the middle-market in North America. As part of the transaction, Harvest Partners’ senior leadership has made long-term commitments to the business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Thomas Arenz, a Partner of Harvest Partners, says: “We are very pleased to be partnering with Goldman Sachs,
METRON, the France-based developer of an energy intelligence platform for industry, has completed a new EUR8 million fundraising.
The fundraising includes commitments from BNP Paribas, Financière Fonds Privés, which enables private investors to invest directly in high potential companies, and existing shareholder, Breed Reply, a leading active operational investor in early-stage Internet of Things businesses.
The funds will enable METRON to accelerate its international growth, and the further development of its AI-based energy optimisation solutions. Since its creation in 2013, METRON has raised nearly EUR12 million, including this round.
Vincent Sciandra, CEO and Co-founder of METRON, says: “We
Palatine Private Equity has exited its investment in the telecoms arm of MJ Quinn following the sale to Visabeira/Constructel.
MJ Quinn, which is headquartered in Liverpool, specialises in the provision of a variety of telecoms services including access network solutions, fibre roll out for businesses and households and provision of energy efficient cooling solutions. Palatine initially backed the secondary buyout of the business in 2008 from its maiden GBP100 million fund.
Visabeira/Constructel is headquartered in France and is a major provider of telecommunication network infrastructure engineering with operations throughout Europe and Africa. The acquisition of MJ Quinn’s telecoms business
Talis Capital, a London-based VC family office focussed on early-stage technology companies and one of the largest investors, has announced a USD20 million seed funding round into Oh My Green, a concierge-style provider of healthy food and wellness services for corporations of all sizes.
Other investors that participated in the round included Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Powerplant Ventures, Backed VC, ZhenFund, and Stanford-StartX Fund. The new capital will be used to further advance Oh My Green’s innovative wellness platform, which incorporates artificial intelligence and IoT technology to enhance supply chain management and improve personalization of the company’s food services. Additionally,
London-based investment fund, Fuel Ventures, has invested GBP500,000 in an on-demand manufacturing platform Manufacturingsource.com, which connects design and production engineers with suitable and trusted manufacturers to create custom parts.
The site, which has attracted a global network of engineers and manufacturers, allows customers to get instant quotes and place orders, from prototypes to full scale production, on a single platform.
Entrepreneurs Sam Al-Mukhtar and Will Hoyer Millar launched Manufacturingsource.com in 2017, after the pair realised there was a clear opportunity to address a known problem within the Manufacturing sector, which was last year estimated at GBP384.5 billion in the
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP1 million investment into Nottingham-based Alpkit Limited (Alpkit) on behalf of the Foresight Nottingham Fund, alongside bank funding provided by HSBC.
Alpkit is a fast-growing designer and retailer of outdoor clothing and equipment. Targeting the outdoor adventure enthusiast, Alpkit provides high quality clothing and equipment at an affordable price and offers over 500 lines across clothing, equipment and bikes. All products are designed at the Company’s HQ in Newthorpe, Nottingham, with a focus on technical performance, providing their customers with “gear that costs less but works harder.”
Alpkit was founded in 2004 by
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