Deals
BidX1, a European digital property investment platform, has secured strategic growth investments from doValue, a Servicer in Southern Europe for loan and real estate management services, and Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. Both acquire minority equity stakes in the Dublin-based PropTech company.
Oliver Wyman and doValue will join existing investor Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street), a London-based private equity firm, and BidX1’s Founder, Stephen McCarthy, as shareholders in the Company.
Pollen Street made a strategic investment in BidX1 in 2018 to accelerate the platform’s international expansion. Both Pollen Street and McCarthy maintain majority stakes in the business. The
Kerv, a cloud and digital transformation services provider, has acquired Gyrocom, a network and security integrator with a specialisation in SD-WAN.
In addition to SD-WAN, Kerv’s strategic acquisition brings skills in managed networks and network security, including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), the rapidly emerging cybersecurity solution. Gyrocom will operate as Kerv’s specialist networking and security division.
Gyrocom, headquartered in Surrey, was founded in 2006 by Graham Brown and Ryan Coombes, who had worked together previously at Nortel Networks; fellow director Jane Hamlyn joined the company in 2011. The company brings strategic technology relationships with VMWare Velocloud, Dell, Cisco,
Gamut Capital Management (Gamut), a New York-based middle market private equity firm, is to acquire Davis-Standard, LLC and its affiliates (Davis-Standard) from ONCAP, the middle-market private equity platform of Onex.
Davis-Standard is a supplier of extrusion and converting systems and related aftermarket products and services for the rigid packaging, flexible packaging and infrastructure end-markets with an installed base of approximately USD7.5 billion of equipment globally.
“We are excited to partner with the Gamut team during this next phase of Davis-Standard’s long history as a provider of highly engineered solutions to an extensive base of industry-leading customers. The resources Gamut brings
Core BTS, a technology consulting and managed services provider, today entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nomura Research Institute.
Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a Japanese research and consulting firm, is to acquire technology consulting and managed services provider Core VTS from Tailwind Capital.
NRI was established in 1965 and since its inception, the Company has been dedicated to assisting clients to confidently manage the complexity of modern markets. Core BTS is a US-based solution provider leveraging both the Microsoft and Cisco ecosystems to modernise business applications and maximise the value of the cloud. As an NRI Group
Novata, a new technology platform and public benefit corporation that provides the private markets with a cutting-edge Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) solution, has announced a Series A investment round of USD21 million.
The investment represents one of the largest initial funding rounds for a public benefit corporation.
Principal investors include members of the one-of-a-kind consortium that collaborated to launch Novata in October 2021, including the Ford Foundation, S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) and Omidyar Network. This significant funding enables Novata to meet the private markets’ critical and immediate need for an independent, unbiased and flexible
M2 Orthopedics (M2O), a specialist in modern practice management for orthopaedic surgeons, has secured significant funding to broaden its ability to support orthopaedic practices.
Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty (P&C) carriers, brokers, and MGAs has secured a strategic growth investment from global growth private equity firm TA Associates.
TA, along with Insurity’s current investor GI Partners, plan to further accelerate Insurity’s growth and expand the delivery of the P&C insurance industry’s most configurable, cloud-native, and intuitively analytical software platforms.
Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Hartford, CT, Insurity has built a team of nearly 1,500 team members globally. The team’s deep industry expertise and software offerings supporting the entire policy lifecycle have enabled it to build a strong
EQT is to acquire LSP (Life Sciences Partners), a European life sciences venture capital firm with approximately EUR2.2 billion of assets under management (AUM) and a team of 34 professionals.
LSP, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative companies with strong scientific and clinical rationale across several life sciences strategies. The Company was founded in 1998 and today is one of Europe’s largest and most experienced life sciences investment firms. LSP employs 34 professionals across its offices in Amsterdam, Munich, and Boston.
Over the past two decades, LSP has invested in over
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) portfolio company PestCo Holdings, LLC (PestCo), an acquisition company formed to consolidate the highly fragmented pest control industry, acquired the assets of Presto Pest Control, Inc (Presto).
Located in Telford, PA and founded in 1999, Presto is a provider of commercial pest control services in the middle Atlantic with a particular focus on serving the restaurant industry. Presto is PestCo’s first acquisition. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Jay Keating, CEO of PestCo, says: “Presto is an ideal starting point for our consolidation efforts at PestCo. Ken Fox has built a high-quality
Kudo Insurance (Kudo) has started fundraising for its Series A, as it launches its new app designed to radically change how insurance is typically consumed, priced and distributed.
The business has a five-year ambition of becoming the most profitable and popular insurer in the UK, notable given the sector’s recent struggle to deliver profit. The market Kudo is addressing is a sizeable one, with GBP16 billion of gross written premiums in 2019, but the sector is loss making and suffers significant reputation and trust issues. Kudo believes by being mobile first and harnessing great technology and product it can start
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