Deals
Flipdish, an international online ordering and digital experience platform for hospitality, has received a cUS100 million investment led by Tencent.
The funding values the company at over USD1.25 billion and follows a USD48.5m investment from Tiger Global Management in February 2021.
Tencent join other existing Flipdish investors Global Founders Capital, Elkstone, Enterprise Ireland and Growing Capital.
Founded by brothers Conor and James McCarthy in 2015, Flipdish provides technology that powers QR code ordering & payment at the table, online ordering for pick-up and delivery, self-service kiosks, customer loyalty programs, and digital marketing.
Private markets firm Partners Group has agreed, on behalf of its clients, to acquire North Star, an operator of specialised vessels that offer emergency response and rescue and essential offshore wind maintenance services, from Basalt Infrastructure Partners.
Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, North Star is an established infrastructure company with a fleet of 48 Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRVs) and Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) and around 1,400 employees.
Partners Group aims to transform North Star into a leading next-generation offshore wind infrastructure services company, which reflects the firm’s focus on investing with sustainability factors in mind. Partners Group will work
Northstar Capital (Northstar), a provider of junior capital for middle market private equity transactions, has invested in Rustic Bakery, a portfolio company of San Francisco Equity Partners (SFEP).
Northstar provided a co-investment to help SFEP finance the transaction. The Northstar team remains committed to partnering with experienced management teams and private equity sponsors. Rustic Bakery is the nineteenth platform investment for Fund VII, a USD500 million committed parallel fund strategy consisting of Northstar Mezzanine Partners VII LP and Northstar Mezzanine Partners SBIC LP.
Founded in 2005, Rustic Bakery is a specialty foods company that manufacturers and markets a growing portfolio
Eureka, an Israeli startup offering holistic security across cloud data stores, has secured USD8 million in a seed funding round led by YL Ventures with participation from renowned security executives and serial entrepreneurs.
Industry leaders and security luminaries who participated in Eureka’s seed round include Edna Conway (VP, Security & Risk Officer, Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure at Microsoft), David Hannigan (Director of Product Security Assurance at Google Cloud), Andy Ellis (Former CSO at Akamai Technologies), Maarten Van Horenbeeck (CISO at Zendesk), Assaf Rappaport (CEO at Wiz) and Ben Bernstein (Former CEO at Twistlock, acquired by PANW).
Founded by Palo
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested in Bramble Foods (Bramble), a manufacturer and distributor of more than 2,000 products, ranging from preserves, pickles, chutneys and sauces, to cakes, biscuits, confectionery, hampers and seasonal goods.
LDC is backing the existing management team, led by founder and CEO Tony Foster, alongside Finance Director Chris Neville and Sales Director Ken Osborne. As part of the transaction, co-founder Nigel Foster will retire to pursue other interests.
The investment was led by Rob Schofield, Partner in LDC’s Midlands team alongside Investment Director Phil Hinson. A team from Orbis Partners, led by Partner Gary
Jet Edge International, an Ohio-based private aviation company, has raised an additional USD75 million of funding from credit funds and accounts managed by KKR.
The new funding expands KKR’s total credit and equity investments in Jet Edge to approximately USD265 million over the past year.
Following the initial USD150 million credit facility announced in June 2021, KKR has continued investing in Jet Edge amidst historic demand for its direct-to-consumer Reserve Membership programme. Jet Edge will utilise the funding to further expand the company’s extensive Gulfstream and Challenger fleet.
Jet Edge has 20 additional Gulfstream & Challenger aircraft slated to be
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and SME investment manager, has made a GBP4 million investment in Newsflare Limited (Newsflare) from its VCT funds, together with an additional GBP1 million investment from existing investor, Edge Investments.
Newsflare is a marketplace for the monetisation of user generated video (“UGV”) and has one of the largest fully-rights cleared video libraries in the world, with over 244,000 licensable videos currently on its platform.
This funding round will enable Newsflare to grow the number of fully licensed UGV clips on its platform and accelerate growth. The business’ proprietary technology and Trust Algorithm authenticates
Amsterdam-headquartered global financial institution ING, has become the first financial institution shareholder in EIT InnoEnergy, an innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe supported by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
The investment in EIT InnoEnergy underlines ING’s commitment to support the energy transition. ING joins other leading companies actively involved in the energy transition as an EIT InnoEnergy shareholder, including Volkswagen, TotalEnergies, Naturgy, and EDF.
Since 2010, EIT InnoEnergy has invested EUR560 million in over 380 companies with a combined forecasted turnover of over EUR16 billion by 2026. Standout successful
Fan Controlled Football (FCF), a professional sports league that empowers fans to make the key decisions for their favourite team, has closed a USD40 million Series A investment round led by Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital.
Along with Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital, other investors include Gemini Frontier Fund, 6th Man Ventures, Jump Crypto, Red Beard Ventures, Spartan Capital, NGC Ventures, executives at GoldenTree Asset Management, and Sebastian Borget, co-founder of The Sandbox. Additionally, all of the league’s initial Seed investors participated, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Talis Capital, Verizon Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and Basecamp Fund.
FCF made its debut
SEBA Bank, a fully integrated, FINMA licensed digital assets banking platform, has secured CHF110 million in a Series C funding round co-led by a consortium of specialised blockchain and fintech investors, comprised of Altive, Ordway Selections, and Summer Capital, as well as DeFi Technologies, a NEO listed leader in decentralised finance.
Alameda Research, a global cryptocurrency quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider, as well as core partner of FTX, also participated in the round, which was significantly oversubscribed, with demand far exceeding the initial funding target. Existing investors, including Julius Baer, increased their positions in the funding round.
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