Deals
Kayne Partners Fund, the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, has led a USD50 million Series B Funding round in KlearNow, a smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) specialist founded in 2018.
Existing investors including GreatPoint Ventures, Argean Capital, and Autotech Ventures also participated along with new investor Activate Capital.
Since its USD16 million Series A funding round led by GreatPoint Ventures in January 2020, KlearNow has grown exponentially, increasing its customer base tenfold and its monthly revenue run rate by more than 50 times. During this time, US-based KlearNow has expanded into Canada, and launched its
MidOcean Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on the business services and consumer sectors, has acquired GHR Healthcare (GHR) from Platform Partners and other investors.
GHR is a provider of healthcare staffing services offering travel nursing, local nursing, per diem nursing, allied health, behavioural health, education, information technology, revenue cycle, managed services provider, interim leadership and permanent placement services to healthcare facilities nationwide. The Company operates three national divisions across a broad geographic footprint of 11 locations built through acquisition and organic expansion. MidOcean Partners plans to continue the Company’s aggressive growth plan through comprehensive organic initiatives
SCF Partners (SCF) has invested in Powerstar EMSc (UK) Ltd (Powerstar), a provider of power resiliency, microgrids, and energy efficiency equipment to customers worldwide.
Dr Alex Mardapittas, Powerstar’s founder and CEO, will continue to serve in his current role as the company enters its next phase of growth.
Powerstar, headquartered in Sheffield, United Kingdom, designs and manufactures behind-the-meter hardware and software technologies that help commercial and industrial customers reach their net zero carbon goals. It has provided voltage optimization, power resiliency, energy storage, EV charging, and transformer equipment to customers on five continents worldwide.
QueryLayer, a no-code privacy operations platform for digital enterprises, has raised EUR2 million in seed funding in a round led by Nauta Capital.
The company, which was founded last year in Valencia (Spain), has previously raised a pre-seed round from Seedcamp and Martin Henk, the co-founder of Pipedrive. During 2020, QueryLayer built the platform working closely with privacy and security executives of several scale-ups and now plans to use the seed funding to finance product, sales and marketing.
QueryLayer helps businesses to become “Good Data Brands”, leveraging automated workflows and PrivacyUX to build customer loyalty based on the transparent
O2 Investment Partners portfolio company Capital Construction, a provider of roof replacement and other exterior restoration services to residential customers in the Midwest USA, has partnered with Irish Roofing & Exteriors (www.irishroofs.com).
Irish Roofing & Exteriors (Irish) is a provider of roof replacement and repair and other exterior restoration services to customers in West Michigan. Irish is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan and earlier in 2021 opened its second branch location in Portage, Michigan.
Forterro, a European provider of ERP software solutions to nearly 8,000 mid-market manufacturing and production companies, has acquired myfactory, a provider of cloud-based ERP software to more than 2,000 wholesalers and manufacturers in DACH.
The acquisition expands Forterro’s total addressable market in DACH, and nearly doubles the number of customers served by the group in the region.
myfactory will operate as a standalone business within Forterro. David Lauchenauer, CEO of myfactory, will continue overseeing the business in the role of general manager with the support of his existing management team.
Clearlake Capital Group is to sell Proven Brands and KTB Foods to The Hain Celestial Group (Hain Celestial) for approximately USD259 million.
The sale includes the flagship ParmCrisps and Thinsters brands out of Clearlake’s Better For You Holdings food platform, which sponsors leading providers of high quality, branded, better-for-you snacks and beverages.
Clearlake acquired the Company in 2014 and subsequently completed the successful acquisition of Kitchen Table Bakers, the makers of ParmCrisps, in 2016.
Global venture capital firm 83North has led aa EUR14.5 million Series A funding round in Samotics, a provider of real-time actionable insights to eliminate industrial energy waste and unplanned downtime.
83North has a proven track record in building category leaders across multiple domains including Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
Circularity Capital has continued to build its portfolio of European growth-stage businesses enabling the circular economy, with an GBP8 million investment in P2i – a global leader in liquid repellent nanotechnology products.
Founded in 2004, P2i works with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to enhance devices by making them liquid resistant, providing waterproof protection, improving their reliability and enabling them to survive liquid exposure from everyday accidents. P2i’s range of innovative coating solutions delivers up to IPX8 lifetime protection without the need for mechanical seals or gaskets.
More than 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, the P2i coating
Perseus Group SA (Perseus) has secured senior and mezzanine facilities totalling EUR93 million. The loans, from funds managed and advised by Cheyne Capital (Cheyne), will be used to finance the conversion of the Hôtel du Couvent in Nice and refinance the existing debt of the Hotel Le Pigalle in Paris.
The financing has enabled the successful exit of Platina International (Platina), Perseus’s long-term investor, which has been supporting the group since 2011. Valéry Grégo, Perseus’s founder and CEO, becomes majority shareholder.
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