Deals
Colorcon, a specialist in pharmaceutical film coatings and specialty excipients, has acquired a majority share in Ideal Cures, a manufacturer of excipients and ready-to-use coating systems for solid oral dosage forms located in India.
The acquisition of Ideal Cures underscores the importance of India in the pharmaceutical sector by providing an expanded service network of manufacturing and technical capabilities, especially for the remotely located economic zones in North India.
Ideal Cures will operate as a fully independent entity within Colorcon. Their business complements Colorcon’s position in the Indian pharmaceutical market with a strong presence in the domestic generic
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to Eclipse Advantage, a provider of outsourced supply chain workforce solutions, on its acquisition by Two Sigma Impact.
Eclipse provides a comprehensive suite of labour services for warehouses and distribution centres that increase supply chain productivity and efficiency. Eclipse was a portfolio company of Longshore Capital Partners, a Chicago-based lower middle-market private equity firm. Two Sigma Impact is the impact investing business of Two Sigma.
Pete Westermann, chief executive officer of Eclipse, says: “The Citizens M&A Advisory team was terrific to work with. Citizens assisted us in articulating our complex
Abalos Therapeutics has completed its Series A funding round bringing the total raised in this round to EUR43 million (USD50 million).
The extension was led by Seventure Partners with support from Coparion, Ventura BioMed Investors and Hx Bio Ventures as well as contributions from existing investors from the initial Series A round including Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF), Gründerfonds Ruhr, NRW.BANK and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
The financing underscores the potential of Abalos’ differentiated immuno-virotherapy approach to generate a maximal immune response specifically targeted against a patient’s cancer and its metastases. The proceeds will enable the company to advance its first
Groove, the sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, has raised a USD45 million Series B round of funding, led by Viking Global Investors.
Existing investors Capital One Ventures, Level Equity, Quest Venture Partners, and Uncork Capital also participated in the round. Groove plans to use the funding to expand its international operations and accelerate its momentum in the enterprise segment of the market, having grown enterprise ARR 114 per cent in the past twelve months with new customers that include Activision, iHeartMedia, LexisNexis, New Relic, TIBCO, Veeva, and Wintrust.
The global shift to digital selling as a result of
LevelTen Energy, a provider of renewable transaction infrastructure, has joined Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure in a second close of LevelTen’s Series C funding.
This August, LevelTen announced its first Series C close led by NGP ETP, with participation from leading global technology, energy, and venture capital firms. LevelTen raised USD35 million in this latest round, bringing the company’s aggregate funding to USD62.3 million.
The LevelTen Platform connects the world’s largest group of utility-scale renewable energy buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers, and delivers the marketplaces, analytics and software these entities need to
C3 (Creating Culinary Communities), global food tech platform founded by Sam Nazarian, announces a USD10 million strategic investment from Lurra Capital AG.
Based in Switzerland, Lurra Capital is an invitation-only private capital investment firm overseeing USD5 billion from UHNW investors and leading family offices. Lurra Capital has a track record of sourcing the most desirable and strategic investment opportunities globally via a highly effective and powerful network with a particular focus on venture capital and real estate. The investment was led by founder and CEO Tyron Birkmeir and is also a strategic partnership that gives C3access to Lurra Capital’s highly
Precisis, a medical technology company that develops methods to relieve epilepsy patients from their symptoms, has acquired additional funding of EUR20 million. The additional funding will be used to support ongoing clinical studies and to further advance EASEE(R), an implantable bioelectric brain stimulation system that explores novel approaches to treating epilepsy.
The only treatments currently available for patients who show little or no response to medication are invasive surgical procedures – deep brain stimulation, responsive neurostimulation, vagus nerve stimulation or removal of the affected area of the brain.
EASEE(R) is the first low-risk and highly effective alternative. The EASEE(R) device
TRC, a, global consulting, engineering and construction firm, has secured a significant growth investment from Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor.
The investment will support the continuation of the Company’s growth initiatives including scaling the Company’s compliance focused engineering and consulting services as part of broader decarbonisation efforts. TRC and Warburg Pincus share a similar culture and entrepreneurial spirit, both are well positioned to, together, drive growth for their organisations. As part of this transaction, New Mountain Capital has successfully exited its investment in TRC after supporting a period of significant business building and growth investments to transform the
National Fire & Safety, an end-to-end fire protection and life safety solutions platform and a portfolio company of Highview Capital (Highview), has acquired Maxim Fire Systems, a multifaceted, full-service fire sprinkler and life safety systems company serving the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Founded in 2011, Maxim Fire Systems specialises in the design, build, installation, service and inspection of a wide variety of automatic fire sprinkler systems, fire alarms, extinguishers and backflow preventers. The company provides life safety systems and services to commercial customers of all sizes, with a specialty in multi-family apartments, high-rises and warehouses and a long track record of
Pario Ventures has continued to increase its investment into the Hospitality sector with an investment in Simply Hooked, which was originally launched in New York, and opened in London in September this year.
Simply Hooked’s modern take on seafood is fresh healthy and supremely tasty. They have a new approach to the fast-casual sector with everything from ceviche to Sri Lankan spiced fish and chips. Simply Hooked already has operations in Belgium and is looking to launch more franchises shortly.
The founders who include Noel Linehan have over 40 years collectively and have owned bars and restaurants across Belgium, New
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