Deals
Signature Brands, a North American manufacturer of dessert decorating products and a portfolio company of Traub Capita Partners, has acquired Brand Castle, a manufacturer and distributor of branded and private label baking & decorating kits, dessert decorating products, premium baking mixes and seasonal beverages.
Brand Castle also and designs and bakes its own gingerbread house line.
Carolyn Resar, President of Brand Castle, will lead the business and report to Signature Brands CEO Jared Konstanty; and founders Andrea and Jimmy Zeilinger will remain with the company. Brand Castle is based in Bedford Heights, Ohio.
Sygnum, a digital asset technology group with a Swiss banking license and a Singapore asset management licence, has raised USD90 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Sun Hung Kai & Co Limited, plus a a raft of new and existing strategic investors.
The round values Sygnum at USD800 million on a post-money basis.
As with all prior fundraising rounds, the Series B also saw the participation of a large group of employees as personal investors. These team members have now joined the co-founders, board members and management team as shareholders of the firm, and this group
CORL Technologies, a provider of vendor risk management solutions for the healthcare industry, has secured a strategic growth investment from Primus Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in healthcare, software, and technology-enabled services companies.
The partnership will allow CORL to accelerate its growth trajectory and continue its strong performance as the healthcare industry’s dominant vendor risk management solution.
Since its founding in 2012, CORL has delivered healthcare vendor and information security, compliance, and privacy solutions that harness vendor data intelligence, technology, and managed services to achieve measurable cybersecurity risk reduction at scale. CORL’s platform and tech-enabled services
UpCurve Energy Partners II has secured an equity commitment from Post Oak Energy Capital.
In addition to the new equity commitment, UpCurve II has completed an initial acquisition in the Delaware Basin. The Company will use the remaining equity commitment to continue to pursue an “acquire and exploit” strategy, focused on value creation via best-in-class execution.
UpCurve II is led by executives Zach Fenton, Steve Escaler and Dave Kyte, who have worked together for years in their existing partnership with Post Oak, UpCurve Energy Partners, LLC (UpCurve I). Both UpCurve I and II represent a highly economic acreage position in
Meditology Services, a provider of information risk management, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance services for the healthcare industry, has secured a strategic growth investment from Primus Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in healthcare, software, and technology-enabled services companies.
Founded in 2010, Meditology provides a broad array of services to healthcare entities including cybersecurity and privacy risk assessments, HITRUST and SOC 2 assurance services, PCI-DSS ASV and QSA services, HIPAA & OCR compliance support, penetration testing, cloud security services, and other related services.
Future Fertility, a fertility technology company developing AI-enabled and non-invasive fertility solutions to optimise clinical decision making in fertility care and in vitro fertilisation (IVF), has closed a Series A financing round led by M Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a global fertility leader).
Whitecap Venture Partners also participated in the round.
Future Fertility was co-founded in 2017 by Dr Dan Nayot, internationally renowned and practicing reproductive endocrinologist. The company’s mission is to harness the power of AI to improve fertility care and IVF outcomes, lower its costs, and alleviate emotional stress of the
RoadSafe Traffic Systems, a us-based provider of traffic control and pavement marking services backed by Investcorp, has acquired Clark Pavement Markings (CPM).
Based in Apex, North Carolina, CPM is a supplier of pavement marking products and services in the North Carolina market.
PayFit, a payroll and HR management solution for SMEs, has raised EUR254 million in a Series E funding round led by growth equity firm General Atlantic.
Existing investors Eurazeo, Bpifrance and Accel Ventures also participated.
PayFit plans to use the funds to recruit additional top talent, accelerate the development of innovative new products, and increase its market share across Europe.
Since its founding in 2015, PayFit has gained over 6,000 clients, and has raised EUR179 million to date, prior to this funding round. Its EUR90 million Series D funding round, which closed in March, supported the company in the
CryptoSlam, a provider of data and transparency for the NFT industry, has closed an oversubscribed USD9 million seed capital round.
The round was led by Animoca Brands, the company driving digital property rights via NFTs and gaming to build the open metaverse, with participation from CryptoSlam pre-seed investors Mark Cuban and Sound Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary.
Other investors in the round include OKEx Blockdream Ventures, the venture arm of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, blockchain protocols Binance Smart Chain and Polygon, KCRise Fund, PKO Investments, Stocktwits, Forte, Twenty5Twenty and Red Beard Ventures.
The round
Symplr, a specialist in enterprise healthcare operations including governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, and Charlesbank Capital Partners has raised new capital via a Clearlake-managed dedicated fund, Icon Partners V (Icon V).
In addition to broadening symplr’s investor base, the transaction provides new and follow-on capital at a significantly larger scale to support the Company’s accelerated organic growth and acquisition strategy.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The funding from the dedicated Clearlake investment vehicle provides symplr with access to approximately USD1.6 billion in equity capital, including rollover from
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