Deals
Private equity firm Silverfleet Capital is to acquire Pumpenfabrik Wangen (Wangen), a designer and manufacturer of high quality progressing cavity and twin-screw pumps.
Silverfleet will acquire a majority stake from the Company’s individual private shareholders. Completion is subject to regulatory approval and the terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1969 and based in Wangen, Germany, the Company is a market leader in the manufacture of screw pumps that are suitable for highly viscous or abrasive substances as well as solid-fluid composites. Wangen offers a broad range of standard as well as customised pumps designed and manufactured
InfoSum has added USD5 million to its seed funding, taking the total raised to date to USD8 million.
Joining existing investors Mark Suster (Upfront Ventures) and Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures), are Saul Klein (LocalGlobe), and Mike Chalfen (Mosaic Ventures). The additional investment will be used to build the company’s senior management team and bring the company’s first products to market.
InfoSum’s goal is to equip every company with the ability to unlock the commercial potential of thousands of siloed datasets sitting in numerous companies. In doing so it will give every organisation access to the same breadth and depth
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation is to sell certain neurosurgery assets to Natus Medical for USD47.5 million. The divestiture is contingent on the consummation of Integra’s proposed acquisition of Codman Neurosurgery from Johnson & Johnson.
As part of this divestiture, Integra will sell the global Camino® ICP monitoring product line, including its San Diego manufacturing facility, to Natus Medical. The divestiture package also includes certain assets and the US rights relating to Integra’s fixed pressure shunts, as well as US rights to Codman’s DURAFORM®, standard EVD catheters and CSF collection systems.
“This agreement is an important step toward the completion
Clessidra is to sell Acetum, a manufacturer and distributor of Balsamic Vinegar of Modena, a PGI-certified specialty vinegar, to Associated British Foods (ABF).
Clessidra acquired an 80 per cent stake in Acetum in 2015 with the remaining 20 per cent retained by the founding shareholders, Cesare Mazzetti and Marco Bombarda. During the investment period, Clessidra and the other shareholders have made significant investments to strengthen the management structure and to support the product offering.
Matteo Ricatti, Managing Director at Clessidra, says: “We are delighted to have reached this agreement. We also feel privileged to have accompanied Acetum in its
Luxembourg special fund FP Lux Investments is expanding its wind power portfolio with the acquisition of two wind farms, in Dahlem, North Rhine-Westphalia, and in Zagelsdorf, Brandenburg.
The new additions brings the firm’s Wind Infrastructure I sub-fund portfolio to 17 wind farms in total located in Germany, France and Finland, with a total output of 242 megawatts.
With an investment volume in excess of EUR150 million in equity and a total investment volume of some EUR500 million, Wind Infrastructure I is thus one of the biggest onshore wind funds in Europe.
Hobs Group has secured a further GBP4 million investment from BGF to continue the expansion of its 3D printing, reprographics, facilities management and legal support services businesses in the UK. This brings BGF’s total investment in Hobs to more than GBP11 million.
The Liverpool-headquartered group has experienced growth across each of its businesses – Hobs Studio, Hobs Repro, Hobs On-Site and Anexsys – since partnering with BGF in 2014.
Hobs Studio – which offers state-of-the-art 3D printing, terrestrial scanning and digital visualisations for architectural, engineering, construction and product designers – operates from London, Manchester, Bristol and Glasgow. A larger
Funds managed by Inflexion Private Equity have completed the buyout of Virgin Experience Days, the UK’s leading experiences business.
Virgin Experience Days offers curated experiences to consumers and corporates, from flying Spitfires to short luxury breaks, selling over 750,000 experiences annually. A high-growth business, revenue has doubled to GBP50 million in three years, driven by a seamless tech-enabled customer experience and the ongoing consumer shift to sharing experiences over tangible goods. Virgin Experience Days operates B2C and B2B divisions. Virgin Incentives, the B2B division, offers experience days for employee rewards and recognition programmes, with clients such as Barclaycard and Samsung.
Data analytics company Peak has secured GBP2.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by London-based Venture Capital firm, MMC Ventures. Peak’s data analytics-as-a-service model helps companies of all sizes use data, machine learning and AI technologies to drive growth.
This latest funding round comes just over a year after Peak secured seed investment led by Manchester-based Praetura Capital. These funds were used to commercialise Peak’s data analytics-as-a-service offering and to expand its operations; growing the internal team and opening development centres in both Manchester, UK, and Jaipur, India.
This latest injection of capital brings the total
Sn-ap, an on-demand intercity coach travel service has raised GBP2m in equity funding led by early stage VC fund Kindred Capital.
The investment, which is supported by a number of private investors from the travel and finance sectors, will be used to expand its current service into new parts of the UK.
Using its crowdsourced online booking system, Sn-ap connects people making similar trips and matches them with the highest quality local coach operators. The concept is anywhere to anywhere, anytime. Trips go direct, point-to-point, without detours or drop-offs on the way and operate on an on-demand basis: trips
Petsky Prunier has advised Allconnect, a technology-enabled sales and marketing solutions company that partners with utility and energy companies to help customers in more than 50 million households compare and purchase home services, on its sale to Red Ventures, a digital consumer choice platform.
Allconnect was a portfolio company of Covestco and Maveron, among other investors.
Founded in 1998, Allconnect offers customers a convenient single source to compare and connect integrated media, broadband, home protection, energy, and green products. Through more than 20 million annual consumer touch points, the company acquires customers, increases revenue, and generates higher customer satisfaction
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