Meati Foods, the creator of Eat Meati alternative whole-food proteins made from mushroom root, has raised $150 million in a Series C investment round led by Revolution growth.   Existing and new investors, including Grosvenor Food & AgTech, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Wellington Management, and Cultivate Next, Chipotle Mexican Grill’s new venture fund which includes Meati Foods in its first cohort of investments. The funding will be used to help the company expand production and the accessibility of its products as its aims to become the US market share leader in plant-based ‘meat’ by 2025. The company’s

KKR has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in apexanalytix (apex), a provider of supply chain risk management software and services. Following the purchase, apex’s largest prior shareholder, Carousel Capital (Carousel), a private investment firm that invests in companies located in the Southeastern United States, continues to hold a significant minority stake in the Company alongside KKR.

European buyout house BC Partners is said to be closing in on a deal to acquire Italian paper manufacturer Fedrigoni at a €3 billion valuation from Bain Capital, with BC Partners set to reinvest in the company through its latest fund, according to report by Reuters. Bain Capital originally invested €600 million in the company, which produces papers for packaging, graphics, brand protection and art, as well as self-adhesive papers and films for clients in the visual communication and other tailor-made sectors, back in 2018.  BC Partners reportedly fell short it the €8.5 billion goal for set its new flagship

Palisade Real Assets has acquired Eco2 Management Services Limited (EMSL), a UK-based renewable energy asset management and development company. The acquisition accelerates Palisade Real Assets’ energy transition investment ambitions in the United Kingdom and Europe and will underpin a dedicated Bioenergy Platform focused on anaerobic digestion assets and adjacent infrastructure.    The Bioenergy Platform will own and operate anaerobic digestion assets that capture and convert energy from organic waste into efficient heat, electricity and transport solutions. It will aggregate bioenergy infrastructure assets – in what is currently a fragmented sector – to build a bioenergy enterprise.

HRL Morrison & Co (Morrison & Co), a specialist infrastructure asset management firm, has acquired a 33.3% stake in Spanish open access wholesale fibre operator, Lyntia Networks (Lyntia). Lyntia operates an extensive metro and long-haul fibre network in Spain spanning more than 43,000 km, providing B2B connectivity services on a wholesale basis to telcos and carriers, cloud providers and data centres, amongst other businesses. Lyntia offers coverage across Spain, with the second largest market share in the dark fibre market. It is the only national carrier-neutral operator operating in both lit and dark fibre markets.    Morrison & Co’s investment

DeciBio Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in and advising precision medicine start-ups, has invested in a $55 million seed funding round for Replay, led by KKR & Co Inc and OMX Ventures. Additional participants included ARTIS Ventures, Lansdowne Partners, SALT, and Axial. As part of DeciBio Ventures’ strategy-heavy and supportive VC model, DeciBio Ventures is also providing Replay with ongoing strategic support. Replay’s portfolio of next-generation genomic medicine technologies aims to solve the key challenges currently limiting clinical progress, including the need for increased payload capacity and off-the-shelf cell therapies that substantially reduce cost of goods, improve production speed,

Coller Capital and Hahn & Company (Hahn & Co) have closed the largest GP-led transaction in Asia. The transaction is for Ssangyong C&E Co, Ltd (Ssangyong), a Korean cement manufacturer actively expanding into waste management businesses. The transaction’s total size is approximately $1.5 billion. Coller Capital and its co-investors were the largest investor group and co-led the transaction alongside another leading global secondary player, while Hahn & Co, deploying funds into the company for the third time, is committing a significant amount of capital. The mix of investors in the continuation vehicle formed for this GP-led transaction is intended to

Atwater Capital (Atwater), a media and entertainment-focused private equity firm, has completed an additional investment of an undisclosed sum in the independent US studio wiip, a leading producer of premium episodic content. Launched in 2018, wiip has quickly established a reputation as an independent entertainment company focused on delivering outstanding storytelling in TV and film. Atwater first invested in wiip in 2020, with Vania Schlogel, Atwater’s Founder and Managing Partner, joining wiip’s advisory board at the time.   Atwater further supported the company with a debt facility in that same year.  In June 2021, leading South Korean content producer behind

Altruistic has raised £15 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm, Molten.

One Rock Capital Partners, LLC (One Rock), has successfully completed the acquisition of Prefere Resins Group (Prefere) from Silverfleet Capital.