Deals
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.
Accelerant, a provider of risk exchange and data analytics to the, insurance sector has raised in excess of USD190 million at a USD2 billion pre-money valuation in a funding round led by Eldridge.
Deer Park, Marshall Wace, MS&AD Ventures, and others also participated along with existing majority investor Altamont Capital Partners.
Accelerant will deploy the capital to continue to rebuild the way that underwriters share and exchange risk to improve outcomes for program managers, primary issuing carriers, and ultimate risk-bearers.
Investment firm Cathay Capital has made a strategic investment in CPAP.com a specialist in the USD3.7 billion market for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) equipment.
Johnny Goodman and company CFO Carolyn Goodman will remain in their roles and sit on the Board of CPAP.com’s new holding company Somnum Bene Holdings, alongside members of the Cathay Capital team. TM Capital served as exclusive financial advisor to CPAP.com in connection with the transaction.
CPAP.com offers machines, supplies and accessories via its DTC e-commerce website to patients suffering from OSA.
Twin Brook Capital Partners (Twin Brook), the middle market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo Gordon, committed USD3.5 billion to private equity sponsors in support of healthcare transactions last year, completing 60 deals across 33 subsectors.
The Firm served as lead agent on nearly all the healthcare transactions it supported in 2021, which included 28 new platform financings and 32 add-on financings.
An experienced lender in the space, Twin Brook has deployed over USD6.5 billion across 169 middle market healthcare transactions since inception.
Twin Brook focuses on loans to private equity-owned companies with EBITDA between USD3 million and USD50
StarRez, a global provider of residential community and student housing software solutions, has secured a significant strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
StarRez and Vista will collaborate to accelerate StarRez’s global expansion and foster operational excellence to support sustainable growth, enhance the customer experience, and improve student and resident life globally.
Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, have not been disclosed.
Houlihan Lokey acted as exclusive financial advisor to StarRez in connection with the transaction. Kirkland
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