Deals
Hydrofarm, a leading wholesaler and manufacturer of hydroponics equipment and horticultural products, has secured a significant equity investment led by Serruya Private Equity Partners (SPE), a family managed private equity group.
Additional institutional investors included Hawthorn Equity Partners and affiliates of Broadband Capital Investments.
“We are very pleased to partner with Serruya Private Equity, which has a proven track record and a history of successfully investing in and building businesses. SPE has worked with both public and private companies to accelerate their growth,” says Chief Executive Officer of Hydrofarm, Peter Wardenburg. “It is the ideal time to add financial
Hamburg-based private equity firm CEE has expanded its wind power portfolio with teh acquisition of an additional German wind farm in Lüdersdorf, Brandenburg from Danish company European Energy A/S.
The wind farm consists of two turbines (type Vestas V112). The hub height is 140m, the rotor diameter is 112m, and the wind farm’s overall capacity is 6.6 megawatts (MW). The turbines, which were commissioned in May, will deliver environmentally friendly power for about 5,000 households each year. CEE Operations, which manages the CEE Group’s power plant portfolio, is responsible for the commercial side. The seller of the wind farm is
North West UK-based Mowgli Street Food, an Indian restaurant street food chain, has successfully secured GBP3.45m in expansion funding from Foresight Group, an independent infrastructure, private equity and investment manager.
The M&A and private equity team at audit, tax and consulting firm RSM advised Mowgli Street Food.
Founded by Nisha Katona in Liverpool in 2014, Mowgli Street Food is a chain of Indian street food restaurants with sites in Bold Street and Water Street in Liverpool and at the Corn Exchange in Manchester.
The funding secured from Foresight will support the business’s roll-out of restaurants across the UK,
EnviroVac Holdings, LLC (“EnviroVac,” or the “Company”), a leading provider of mission-critical cleaning and maintenance services, and Audax Private Equity (Audax) has acquired cleaning and maintenance services provider EnviroVac from RLJ Equity Partners.
EnviroVac, headquartered in Savannah, GA, utilises a state-of-the-art fleet of highly technical, innovative, and specialised equipment to perform a broad suite of complementary, high-value added services, ranging from routine cleaning to plant outages. The Company often serves as an in-house provider with embedded equipment and personnel on-site at customer facilities. Led by a veteran management team, EnviroVac is differentiated by its dedication to the highest safety standards,
Creathor Venture is leading a financing round for Helsinki, Finland-based Blueprint Genetics, a provider of clinical genetic testing for the diagnosis of inherited diseases, leveraging a proprietary AI-enabled sequencing and interpretation platform.
The start-up will receive a total of up to EUR14 million from an international syndicate of investors including new investor MedTech Innovation Partners (MTIP), and existing investors Inventure and Pontos Group.
Blueprint covers the entire workflow from patient sample to automated clinical interpretation of the results provided in a ready-to-use report, using CLINT, its artificial intelligence platform, together with its proprietary targeted sequencing technology, OS-Seq, developed at
Foresight Group has made a GBP2.25 million growth capital investment in Cinelabs International on behalf of Foresight VCT.
Cinelabs is a leading post-production service provider to content creators and owners, with special expertise in film. Led by industry veterans Adrian Bull and John Mahtani, Cinelabs offers a full suite of services from film processing, scanning and distribution to digitisation, restoration and archive management of film and video content. The team’s reputation for quality and service draws customers from across the globe while the business experiences fast growth.
In the last 12 months the company has worked on a number
European SME lender iwoca, and Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo, are partnering to provide Intesa’s SME clients with new credit products to bridge the funding gap and support growth.
The partnership will leverage iwoca’s market leading SME lending platform and Intesa’s expertise in building banking operations across Italy, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The strategic partnership coincides with an investment in iwoca by Neva Finventures, Intesa Sanpaolo’s fintech venture capital arm.
Christoph Rieche, co-founder and CEO of iwoca, says: “To date, iwoca has been able to support over 10,000 small businesses with operations across the UK
Palatine Private Equity has invested in The Bunker, a provider of ultra-secure managed IT services to mid-market UK companies.
The transaction sees Palatine back the current management team, led by Phil Bindley, with Andy Hague joining the business as Group CEO. The deal is the fifth deal out of Palatine’s third fund.
The Bunker, which delivers mission critical cloud solutions via its ultra-secure data centres, was founded over 20 years ago and operates nationally from sites across the South of England. Palatine plan to use The Bunker as a buy and build platform to create a full service cyber security
Progressio Investimenti II Fund has completed its acquisition of Garda Plast. Garda Plast a producer of preforms in PET for mineral water, soft drinks and detergents.
Established in 1996 by the Tonoli Family, due to their extensive experience in the mineral water sector as bottlers, Garda Plast quickly emerged as a leading player in the domestic and European markets of preforms. The strong know-how built over the years and the high-tech production facilities guarantee a high quality level that represents one of the key success factors in such a competitive industry.
Progressio, established in 2005, is a private equity
Investors deployed USD21.78 billion to 1,958 US venture-backed companies during the second quarter, marking a significant uptick from the first quarter in capital invested while the number of companies receiving investment was stable, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor.
Through the first six months of the year, 3,876 companies received USD37.76 billion in financing, setting a pace to near or surpass the USD71 billion invested last year, and confirming that the industry has levelled off after peaking in 2015. Looking to the second half of the year, venture investors will continue to deploy capital to high-growth startups, having raised more than
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