Trilantic North America has completed a substantial growth investment in TSC Miami (TSC), a tech-enabled provider of on-demand and screen print and fulfilment services for merchandise selling into ecommerce, retail and creator end markets.  The investment is being made in partnership with TSC’s founding team, namely Billy Koorse, his son Evan Koorse, and their partner Scott Valancy, which retains a meaningful equity stake and continues to run the business post-close.   Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Miami, Florida, TSC provides customers with a comprehensive merchandise fulfilment offering, including direct-to-garment printing services through its Monster Digital division and screen printing

MUSO, a London-based data company that provides a complete and trusted view of global piracy and unlicensed media consumption, has secured a £3.2 million investment from Puma Private Equity. MUSO has seen a 25% increase in general digital piracy year-on-year, when comparing H1 of 2021 to H1 of 2022. Its data is fast becoming a must have data-currency for entertainment companies and is already used by the likes of Amazon Studios, National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), NOS, Lionsgate, MNRK (formally eOne Music), Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe, and more. MUSO’s technology measures hundreds of billions of visits to piracy websites

Tandym Group (Tandym), a US recruitment, contract staffing, consulting, and workforce solutions company backed by by Mill Rock Capital, a growth and operations-oriented private investment firm, has acquired Longford & Company (Longford), a Boston-based technology consulting and executive search company.  Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.  Longford provides technology consulting and executive search services, primarily to clients in the Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, and other industries. The acquisition further enhances the scale and scope of Tandym Tech, Tandym’s technology vertical, and comes shortly after Tandym’s acquisition of Metro Systems.  As a result of this partnership with Tandym, Longford’s clients

JC Flowers & Co has completed fundraising for its fifth private equity fund, JC Flowers V LP, with more than $1.1 billion in commitments. Limited partners in JCF V represent a diverse group of corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, and family offices. JCF V received strong support from existing longtime investors as well as highly respected new investors, with institutional investors  located across Asia, Europe, Middle East, and North and South America.   JC Flowers targets investments across all sub-sectors of the financial services industry, including banks, insurance and reinsurance, specialty and consumer finance,

ClearCourse, a group of technology brands providing software solutions and an integrated payments platform, has acquired Pursuit Software, an established provider of jewellery management and point-of-sale (POS) software. 

Apis Growth Fund I, a private equity fund managed by Apis Partners (Apis), is to sell the whole of its interest in South African SME Financing company Retail Capital Proprietary Holdings (Retail Capital) to TymeBank Holdings Limited (TymeBank). The fund invested in Retail Capital in October 2018, acquiring a c11.7% shareholding in the company. Over the investment, Retail Capital has lowered the barriers to funding for SMEs through an easy, three-step online application process. This has led to Retail Capital providing more than 43,000 business owners in South Africa with over ZAR5.5 billion in working capital over the last 10

Despite continued turmoil in the public equity markets, the global software saw a total of 628 M&A deals in Q2 at a disclosed value of $130 billion, equaling the record set just two quarters earlier, according to Kroll, a provider of data, technology and insights related to risk, governance and growth.

Highview Capital (Highview) has acquired Jobbers Meat Packing Co, doing business as WilMar, a protein processor specialising in ground beef solutions. Highview plans to merge WilMar with portfolio company Randall Foods (Randall), to create one of the leading protein providers in the US. Randall Foods partners with grocery customers to provide all types of processed and value-added case-ready meats, including a variety of fresh prepared meals and marinated, ready-to-cook offerings. Since Highview acquired Randall in February 2021, the company has maintained its strong customer-centric culture while also scaling for further growth through expanding its exceptional management team and investing in capital

DigitalBridge Investment Management (DigitalBridge), the investment management arm of DigitalBridge Group, and funds affiliated with Columbia Capital have formed Xenith Infrastructure Group (Xenith IG), a new fibre platform serving hyperscalers, data centre operators, carriers and enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region.  Xenith IG’s initial assets comprise conduit and fibre assets in Singapore and Hong Kong, which it acquired from Superloop (ASX: SLC). Xenith IG will be led by Clement Goh, who was appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 August, 2022. Goh brings more than 20 years of digital infrastructure and technology sector experience in the Asia-Pacific market to Xenith IG. He

SYN Ventures has lead a $20 million Series A funding round in RegScale, a continuous compliance automation software company. SineWave Ventures, VIPC’s Virginia Venture Partners, SecureOctane and several strategic investors also participated in the round. The funding will primarily be used to drive sales and marketing initiatives initially targeted in the company’s three primary markets — government, financial institutions, and energy and utilities — and accelerate product development to meet the needs of customers globally. Since the company launched eight months ago, RegScale has recorded triple digit revenue growth with nearly 8,000 downloads of its freemium Community Edition platform and