Deals
O2 Investment Partners has partnered with Capital Construction and its CEO, Andy Oakes, to support the company’s rapid growth. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Founded by Oakes in 2011, Capital Construction (Capital) is a provider of roof replacement and other exterior restoration services to single-family and multi-family residential customers. Capital focuses on restoring properties that have been damaged by hail and/or wind and guides its customers through the complex construction and insurance processes with a high-touch, tech-enabled approach that is a true differentiator in the fragmented roofing landscape.
Andy Oakes, CEO of Capital, says: “We have seen
Permutive, an audience platform for publishers and advertisers, which enables media to be traded in a privacy-safe way, has secured USD75 million in Series C from SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
It brings Permutive’s total funding raised to date to USD105 million, with previous investors EQT Ventures, Octopus Ventures, and ACE & Company also participating. The funding will enable Permutive to grow its patented on-device technology and scale its Audience Platform to create a global privacy-first infrastructure for programmatic advertising, now a USD155 billion industry.
Personal data has powered digital advertising for over ten years; its misuse has captured the attention
HIG Capital (HIG) portfolio company, USALCO has completed a merger with G2O Technologies (G2O), a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal). Ken Gayer, the current USALCO CEO, will lead the new company which will continue to bear the name USALCO.
The USALCO and G2O merger creates one of North America’s leading water treatment chemical producers with 27 sites extending from California to Puerto Rico. The combined company will have in-house transportation capabilities and offer a range of products, including aluminium and iron salts, organic polymers, and specialty blended formulations.
“This merger marks an exciting milestone for our customers, employees,
Fintso, the new age B2B2C WealthTech platform, has announced the acquisition of WealthMagic – a SaaS provider in the wealth management space.
The specific financials of the deal remain undisclosed although it is a part-equity and part-cash transaction. The acquisition by Fintso is aimed towards extending its platform to reach the next billion investors in India by equipping and providing multi-product solutions to the distributors who are key to this wave of financial inclusion.
WealthMagic is one of the largest SaaS providers to mutual fund distributors, transforming their back and front office operations. WealthMagic was launched in 2016 by Datacomp
Prepaid Technologies, a Birmingham, Alabama-based provider of prepaid digital payment solutions, has raised USD96 million in new growth financing in a funding round led by Edison Partners, a growth equity firm.
StepStone Group (which recently acquired venture capital platform Greenspring Associates) co-led, while Stifel Venture Bank, a Division of Stifel Bank, and Top Tier Capital Partners also participated. The company will use the proceeds to accelerate its market expansion and continue to advance its category-leading technology payments platform and customer-focused prepaid solutions.
Analysts estimate USD120 trillion in business payments are still check-based, and service providers are fragmented across multiple vendors
Len The Plumber (LTP), a full-service residential plumbing company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and a portfolio company of St Louis-based private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners, has completed the acquisition of Service Today, Heating & Cooling Company (Service Today).
Service Today is a full-service provider of residential HVAC, plumbing, electrical and indoor air quality services located in Federalsburg, Maryland. Service Today was founded in 2000 and serves the Eastern shore of Maryland and Delaware across 5 locations. Service Today’s founder, Ed Collier, currently spends several months away from the business and plans to fully retire after a 6-month transition.
Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a private equity firm specialising in building healthcare businesses, has acquired Guidemark Health (Guidemark), a healthcare marketing communications, training, and medical education agency. Guidemark is the third acquisition for Arsenal’s Value Demonstration organisation, following the acquisitions of BresMed Health Solutions and Cello Health plc (Cello Health) in 2020.
Arsenal has brought these companies together to create a unique combination of solutions to develop and communicate evidence of value to optimise patient access to new therapies.
US-based Guidemark enables biopharmaceutical companies to stay “One Need Ahead” through patient-centric healthcare marketing, education, and engagement. Its deep customer engagement
Palatine’s Impact Fund has made its first exit with the sale of Estio Training to global education provider BPP Education Group.
Estio is a specialist provider of NVQ level 3 and level 4 IT and digital apprenticeships, provided through its online delivery model. The Leeds-based company addresses a national, growing IT skills gap by making it easier for candidates to be successfully matched with funded industry training places, leading to excellent new or enhanced career prospects in the growing and sought after skill area of IT and digital technology.
The exit has generated an excellent return for Palatine, providing
Victory Capital Holdings’ wholly owned operating subsidiary Victory Capital Management has closed on its previously announced acquisition of New Energy Capital Partners (NEC). The transaction is immediately accretive to Victory Capital’s earnings.
David Brown, Chairman and CEO of Victory Capital, says “Closing on our first Investment Franchise exclusively managing alternative investments is a major milestone for our Company. This new platform creates additional growth opportunities in an attractive and expanding asset class and market sector. With multiple, well-established distribution channels, Victory Capital is ideally positioned to serve as a growth catalyst for high-quality alternative investment managers.”
NEC becomes Victory Capital’s
Alarm and event handling company Skyresponse has raised EUR5 million through a combination of investment from venture capital investor Nordic Eye and existing shareholders.
The additional capital will help drive the company’s success story from the Nordic markets into Europe.
Skyresponse is an established and trusted Swedish Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company which offers a 100 per cent cloud-based alarm management platform used by major international care and security organisations across the public and private sectors, offering a flexible, secure, and resilient alarm management platform solution for: Alarm response centres; technology enabled care; supported housing and retirement living; residential and domiciliary care;
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