Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) specialty sealing supplier Marco Rubber & Plastics (Marco) has acquired Ipotec a provider of highly engineered rubber products serving a diverse set of end markets including industrial, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace and medical. As an ISO 9001 certified supplier, Ipotec specializes in silicone rubber-based technologies because of its outstanding thermal stability, mechanical properties and biocompatibility making the products ideal for sealing, fluid transport, insulation and other applications.    Ipotec services over 2,600 global customers through direct domestic and international supplier relationships.  Ipotec was founded and operated by Alan Randle who will remain involved to ensure a successful

Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally-driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare, and service sectors, has made a £3.5 million investment in fu3e., an adaptive management reporting software platform for the real estate sector. The fu3e. platform combines two leading digital products aimed at managing development risks and digitising management processes and is designed to sit above and integrate with existing management reporting software solutions. The platform is designed for real estate funds, assets owners, developers and professional consultants providing users with real-time data enabling them to operate with insight, manage risk effectively and make

3i Group (3i) and its co-investor Cathay Capital, have entered into exclusive negotiations for the sale of its investment in Havea Group (Havea) to funds advised by BC Partners, alongside Havea’s management team. Proceeds to 3i will be at a c50% uplift to its 31 March 2022 valuation.   Havea is a European natural healthcare player featuring a unique consumer/patient-centric approach centred on 5 strategic brands: Aragan, Biolane, Densmore, Dermovitamina and Vitavea. The Group and its brands help consumers prevent and treat common health issues with premium natural healthcare products. Powered by innovation and with a focus on sustainability –

Software investment firm Thoma Bravo has completed into acquisition of Anaplan Inc, provider of a leading cloud-native platform for orchestrating business performance, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $10.4 billion. The acquisition was previously announced on March 20, 2022 and approved by Anaplan stockholders at the Special Meeting of Stockholders held on 21 June, 2022. Under the terms of the amended merger agreement, Anaplan stockholders will receive $63.75 per share in cash, which represents a premium of approximately 41% to the volume weighted average price of Anaplan’s common stock for the five days ending 18 March, 2022, the last

Cinematic Health Education, a national leader in preparing allied health professionals for rewarding health care careers, has closed a $4.1 million funding round with investments from Education Technology leaders Rethink Education and Juvo Ventures. This Series A round will enable Cinematic Health Education to scale its management and sales teams and build additional courses following the principle that compassion is essential for caregivers and caregiving in the Home Health market. The company will replicate its highly differentiated and successful approach to training Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) candidates, which features a Hollywood-quality movie embedded in a 40-hour Federal and State approved

Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Fund III (Fund III) is to sell its stake in Facile.it (Facile), an Italian online price comparison platform, to Silver Lake. Fund III invested in Facile in 2018, alongside EQT Private Equity. During the course of the investment the business has continued to pioneer the Online Price Comparison market in Italy, developing innovative products that save its users hundreds of millions of euros every year. Over time, Facile has expanded its diversified product offering and unique omnichannel distribution proposition that underpin its long-term growth trajectory, allowing it to benefit from the continued market digitalisation and e-commerce

BotsAndUs, an intelligence and robotics company, has secured $13 million in seed funding to expand its logistics-disrupting solution globally. Lakestar leads the round, with participation from Maersk Growth, Kindred Capital, and Capnamic.    Efficient warehousing is a crucial part of global supply chains. The rapid increase in demand for near-instantaneous storage, dispatch, and delivery of goods is placing enormous time and cost pressures on companies, who now need to rethink and enhance their logistics and storage operations. Some 69% of companies are currently looking to improve their inventory control and lower costs. BotsAndUs collects real-time insights using fully autonomous, mobile

Kartesia, the European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has provided a senior financing package of up to €58 million, including a €10 million uncommitted incremental facility, to Spanish telecoms operator Excom. Established in 2001, Excom is a telecom operator in Spain, focused on smaller cities and rural areas, commercialising broadband and mobile services and making high speed internet available to regions with previously limited access to such services through the deployment of fibre to the home (FTTH) infrastructure. Since 2015, the Company has grown significantly through organic and inorganic growth, having completed 11 acquisitions between

European fintech, Hokodo, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, less than a year after completing a Series A fundraise. The funding, which comes on the back of a significant debt raise earlier this year, will fund the digital trade credit provider’s expansion into new European markets and the development of new products. Led by Notion Capital, who participated in Hokodo’s Series A, further investment came from continental European investors Korelya Capital (FR), Mundi Ventures (ES), and Opera Tech Ventures (FR), reflecting the enthusiasm for Hokodo’s product in a variety of markets. Additional funding came from existing

Hastings Equity Partners’ (Hastings) portfolio company, MKD Electric (MKD), a full-service industrial automation and electrical service platform, has invested in Bachelor Controls. This is the fourth investment MKD has completed since Hastings Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market businesses, acquired the business in January 2021. Bachelor Controls provides mission critical control and systems integration solutions for Fortune 500 clients primarily in the food and beverage, pet food, and specialty pharmaceutical industries. The company helps manufacturing plants achieve optimal production efficiency along with cutting-edge production automation.   The partnership between MKD and Bachelor Controls