Deals
Matillion, the makers of cloud data integration tools Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake and Matillion ETL for Google BigQuery, has closed a USD20 million Series B round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures, existing investor Funds advised and managed by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), and new investor Scale Venture Partners.
The company, based in Altrincham, (Manchester, UK) and Manhattan (New York, US), was founded by Matthew Scullion in 2011, alongside Chief Technology Officer Ed Thompson and Commercial Director Peter McCord. Matillion has developed leading-edge software focused on allowing its customers to extract, load and transform data
Averys, a European manufacturer of industrial storage systems, racking and metal furniture, backed by private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe since 2015, has acquired Storax from Ramada Aços Group SA.
Founded over 50 years ago in Porto, Storax is a leading provider of industrial racking and shelving systems and is a well-known and active brand in the materials handling sector. As well as its home market in Portugal, Storax has significant activities in Belgium, France and the UK. The Group generated total revenues of circa EUR80 million in 2017.
The acquisition provides Averys with a complementary industrial base in
Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX: COIN), an investor in early-stage blockchain technology companies, has exercised its option to acquire a further 3.5 per cent of the share capital of Indorse, a Singapore-based company developing a blockchain-powered decentralised social network for professionals, which puts users in charge of their own data.
The Indorse platform uniquely enables its users to monetise their data and verify their profiles through a token-centric reward system. This functionality introduces a disruptive new paradigm into the multi-billion-dollar global social network industry, thus providing greater transparency and data security to an industry increasingly plagued by privacy breaches and data
Asian healthcare company Columbia Asia has raised a new round of investment of USD210 million to help in its aggressive expansion strategy.
Columbia Asia, part of Seattle-based Columbia Pacific Management, has 29 hospitals and two clinics in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Kenya, built with an innovative business model focused on serving Asia’s rapidly growing middle class with modern and efficient multi-specialty hospitals located close to where patients live and work. The company has about 10,000 employees serving more than 2.5 million patients a year, with 2,600 beds across all its facilities.
The company last year opened
Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its ownership stake in Consilio, a specialist in eDiscovery, document review, and legal consulting services to private equity firm, GI Partners.
As part of the transaction, Consilio announced a definitive agreement to combine its operations with eDiscovery and risk management provider, Advanced Discovery, creating one of the largest and most capable legal solutions and services providers in the world. The transaction is expected to close late in the second quarter of 2018, subject to usual and customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The combined company will consist of
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the technology and healthcare industries, is to acquire a majority equity interest in Avetta, a provider of cloud-based supply chain risk management solutions.
In addition, TCV, a leading provider of capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry, will acquire a minority equity interest in Avetta, while Norwest Venture Partners (Norwest), a multi-stage investment firm that partnered with Avetta in 2012, intends to retain a portion of its investment in the company, alongside the founders and management.
Avetta provides cloud-based supplier risk management
Wastequip has been acquired by an affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital from Centerbridge Partners, its owner since 2012.
Marty Bryant, chief executive officer of Wastequip, says: “We want to thank Centerbridge Partners for their invaluable partnership over the last five years. Centerbridge’s support has been instrumental in strengthening Wastequip’s position as the largest and most trusted supplier in the waste equipment industry with leading brands, top quality products and world-class customer service.”
Kyle Cruz, senior managing director at Centerbridge, says: “Over the past five years, we partnered with Marty and his team to improve the performance and
Renephra, a medical device company, has raised GBP231,000 from Deepbridge Capital and the GM&C Life Sciences Fund, managed by Catapult Ventures.
Renephra, spun out of The University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust by UMI3 Ltd, is developing an innovative medical device to treat patients with chronic oedema and fluid overload. Renephra’s Transdermal Fluid Removal (TFR) technology enables the extraction of excess fluid through the skin using disposable micro-needle patches and overcomes many of the issues with current treatments.
The investment will enable Renephra to support a research study to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology in
Sheffield-headquartered Independent Forgings & Alloys (IFA) has secured a GBP8.5m capital investment from BGF to support its growth plans.
The funding will help fuel a number of investment initiatives designed to enhance IFA’s manufacturing and testing capabilities, delivering new commercial opportunities.
Operating from a 250,000 sq ft facility in Sheffield, IFA manufactures high-integrity, open-die forged components for OEMs and tier-one suppliers within the aerospace, nuclear, power generation, marine and oil and gas sectors. Using materials such as nickel alloy, titanium, stainless steel and carbon alloys, the company primarily forges rings and bars for use in a range of end
The Duncan & Todd Group, the leading optical provider in Scotland, has secured a GBP15 million investment from the Scottish office of LDC, the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investor, to accelerate its growth strategy.
As part of the deal, Duncan & Todd’s existing backer, BGF, will exit its minority stake.
Founded in 1972, the business operates through three divisions – retail, manufacturing and corporate – and employs more than 250 people across its national branch network and at its state-of-the-art ophthalmic lens laboratory, Caledonian Optical in Aberdeen. It also provides outsourced corporate eye care services to more than
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