Deals
Eatron, a fast-growing scale-up with its unique ‘intelligent automotive software’ platform for the edge and the cloud, has raised USD11 million in a Series-A round led by MMC Ventures with participation from Aster Capital and Vinfast.
Eatron has a long-standing collaboration in different projects with Vinfast to explore and accelerate deployment of the company’s software platform into Vinfast’s rapidly expanding range of electric cars. Eatron entered into a similar strategic partnership with the Hirschvogel Group from Germany in the summer of 2020 when Hirschvogel also invested USD1.5 million-plus.
Eatron, which is headquartered in the UK with a world-class
North west-based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced it has led a GBP3 million investment into experience analytics platform, Uncrowd.
Created by retail and systems experts Richard Hammond and Rocky Howard, Uncrowd is a cutting-edge platform that allows global retailers and brands to measure customer experience through innovative methods of data collection. It was recognised as one of Silicon Valley’s best retail tech start-ups at this year’s Plug and Play Fall Summit and has earned a place on the Plug and Play accelerator programme.
Unlike traditional customer analytics, Uncrowd works by collecting objective data and observations to generate an
Global privateer equity investor Advent International (Advent) is to to acquire Caldic BV (Caldic), a global premium provider of value-added life sciences and specialty chemicals solutions, from Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Caldic will then merge with Advent portfolio company Grupo Transmerquim SA (GTM), one of the leading chemical distributors in Latin America.
Caldic’s product portfolio includes innovative food ingredients, natural products and functional solutions for a variety of life sciences and industrial end-market segments. With a leading presence in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, Caldic employs around 1,200 people across 35 locations. The business generated sales of about EUR1 billion
WSO2, a specialist in digital transformation technology, has closed USD90 million in financing from client vehicles advised by Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Credit (Goldman Sachs).
The flexible capital solution will be used to accelerate WSO2’s worldwide business expansion, drive growth of the company’s global partner network, and support rollout of its next-generation, cloud-native solutions for securely delivering APIs, applications, and digital services. The new solutions, powered by Ballerina, will offer a seamless blend of low code and pro code experience for enterprises and deliver the power of DevOps and modern SDLC practices including integrated reuse within the organisation and
OTA Insight, a specialist in cloud-based hospitality business intelligence, has raised USD80 million from Spectrum Equity, a growth equity firm focused on internet-enabled software and transformational data companies.
Spectrum Equity joins existing OTA Insight investors Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures. This latest investment will support the company in furthering its mission to enable smarter commercial decisions and outputs across the industry as it expands its global footprint.
OTA Insight delivers powerful data and analytics to optimise commercial decision-making across the hospitality industry. As the industry rebounds in the wake of the global pandemic, many hospitality operators are
Sound Point Capital Management (Sound Point) has acted as Administrative Agent on a first lien senior secured credit facility to Lindsay Precast (Lindsay) a North American concrete manufacturer specialising in precast concrete products.
Funding provided by Sound Point was used to support MiddleGround Capital’s (MiddleGround) acquisition of the Company.
Headquartered in Ohio and operating for 50-plus years, Lindsay Precast is a designer and manufacturer of engineered precast concrete structures for water/wastewater, utility, solar, transportation, and government end markets. Lindsay produces sanitary and storm sewer products, electrical and telecom utility products, solar inverter skids and ballast bases, box culverts and bridge
Solvay Ventures, the venture capital fund of Solvay, has invested in Sepion, a California-based start-up that specialises in developing batteries with Li-metal anodes and liquid electrolytes.
The USD16 million round was led by Fine Structure Ventures, and also includes other climate tech investors. The company raised funds to accelerate commercialisation of lithium metal batteries for long-range and low-cost electric vehicles.
Li-metal batteries enable high energy density and are strongly sought-after solutions for the electric vehicles market. However, the growth of dendrites can cause the batteries to fail and prevents them from having long life cycles. Sepion’s technology, which is based
Par Equity’s investments in high-growth technology businesses have smashed through the GBP100 million mark. The milestone was passed when the company completed five investments in a week earlier in October.
One of the highlights of Par’s recent activity was a multi-million-pound investment in Artus, a company seeking to revolutionise the HVAC (Heating, Air Conditioning and Air Conditioning) industry. A spin-out from engineering giant Arup, with offices in Edinburgh and London, it has developed technology that makes the heating and cooling of buildings more efficient and significantly reduces the amount of energy consumed and carbon generated
Par, from its headquarters in
KaMin LLC, a global performance minerals company owned by IMin Partners, is to acquires the BASF kaolin minerals business. Currently, the kaolin minerals business is part of BASF’s Performance Chemicals division.
The transaction includes production hub sites in Daveyville, Toddville, Edgar, Gordon and related mines, reserves and mills in Toomsboro and Sandersville in Georgia, USA. The co-located refinery catalysts operations will continue to be owned and operated by BASF’s refinery catalysts business and are not part of the divestiture.
“The acquisition of BASF’s kaolin business is a transformative step forward in KaMin’s strategy. The combination of these two complementary businesses
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the industrials, financial services, healthcare, and software industries, is to acquire Brook + Whittle, a provider of sustainable labelling solutions serving growth-oriented consumer end markets, from TruArc Partners.
Founded in 1995, Brook + Whittle is one of North America’s leading providers of premium prime labels. Brook + Whittle’s innovative, sustainable labelling solutions serve a broad range of growth-oriented consumer end-markets, including personal care, beverage, food, healthcare, and household products. The company is headquartered in Guilford, CT.
David Golde, Managing Director at Genstar Capital, says: “Brook +
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