Deals
OJ Brands’ sleep brand, Kally Sleep has acquired the fast-growing online home textiles marketplace, Woven, in a bid to capitalise on the UK’s burgeoning homewares market.
Led by CEO Ori Leslau aims to expand OJ Brands group into a leading European brand house. Today, the firm generates revenue in excess of USD20million.
“Never before have we invested in our home quite like we do today,” says OJ Brands’ CEO, Ori Leslau.
“Our intention is for Woven to become the UK’s leading soft furnishings destination online, simplifying the shopping journey for users and offering an unparalleled catalogue of the
Kindred Group has completed the previously announced acquisition of the remaining outstanding shares in Relax Gaming, a growing B2B iGaming supplier.
Kindred Group announced on 2 July 2021 that it had entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining 66.6 per cent of the outstanding shares in Relax Gaming. Relax Gaming is a market leading B2B iGaming software supplier that designs and develops online casino games, supported by an open distribution platform for third party aggregation as well as proprietary poker and bingo products. Relax Gaming was founded in 2010 and has today c240 full-time employees with four main hubs
London-based Fintech Crezco, a UK open banking payment solution designed to make B2B invoice payments as convenient as B2C card payments without the costs collected by companies like Visa and MasterCard, has raised GBP3 million in a seed funding round.
Founded in 2020 by Ralph Rogge and Igor Pikovsky of Rogge Global Partners – a USD60 billion bond fund which was sold to Allianz in 2016 – Crezco has already established unique partnerships with Xero, QuickBooks and other B2B platforms for invoice payments for millions of SMEs across the UK and Europe.
Rogge brings his previous experience of successfully building
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse), a group of technology companies providing useful, integrated software solutions, is to acquire EKM, a leading provider of e-commerce and online retail software.
The acquisition strengthens ClearCourse’s e-commerce and online retail capabilities and sees the Company join the Group’s Business Services division.
Founded in 2002, EKM provides the UK’s leading independent e-commerce platform, delivering software that powers over GBP350 million of transactions annually for its customer base of SME online retailers. EKM’s system offers a full suite of e-commerce solutions, with capabilities including online shop design and visitor conversion tools. Following the acquisition, EKM and its
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist mid-market investor, has closed two performing loan transactions in Spain from of its fourth Credit Opportunities fund.
The first investment is a portfolio of ~55,000 point-of-sale originated consumer loans, with a significant portion originating from the health and dental sector. The second investment is a non-core disposal of point-of-sale-originated auto and consumer loans from one of Spain’s largest banks, believed to be the first non-core bank disposal of performing auto loans in the Spanish market.
Both deals represent ~EUR200 million face value in seasoned, granular performing portfolios, where AnaCap has a long-standing track record
Global Fund Media Ltd is pleased to announce the editorial buy out of ETF Express and Wealth Adviser. As of 1 October 2021, Beverly Chandler and her team will be responsible for the continued evolution of the two titles.
The respected ETF Express ETF awards in the US and Europe will continue as a partnership between Global Fund Media and ETF Express. The US ETF awards have just enjoyed their third and largest outing, while next March will see the twelfth outing for the much-loved ETF Express European ETF awards.
Chandler says: “I am very excited at the opportunities that lie
KKR is to acquire a majority stake in Probe CX alongside existing management from Quadrant Private Equity, Five V Capital, Rodney Kagan and other shareholders of the company.
The investment will be used to further fuel Probe’s robust growth and strengthen its digital capabilities to enhance its service offering to customers.
Probe is a leading provider of customer experience (CX) and business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions based in Australia. Probe was founded by Co-chairman Rodney Kagan in 1979 and is now the largest provider of outsourced CX and BPO services in Australia and New Zealand, with more than 600 clients
Login VSI, a company dedicated to maximising the end-user experience, has secured a significant growth investment from Wavecrest Growth Partners. The funding will be used to expand all aspects of the business, specifically sales, marketing, and product innovation.
Today’s modern enterprises need a continuous understanding of the application experience delivered to their corporate users, a need that has grown given the increase in remote work caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Business-critical applications are being deployed in enterprise data centres (on-premises) and the cloud, further increasing performance variability and driving the need for multi-environment digital workspace testing. Login VSI’s flagship product,
SWEN Capital Partners, a provider of unlisted sustainable investment solutions, has, through the SWEN Impact Fund for Transition (SWIFT), invested in Lhyfe, a pioneer and pure player in renewable green hydrogen.
It is SWEN’s first deal in hydrogen. Since its creation in 2019, SWIFT has mostly targeted projects related to methanisation in renewable gas stations (130 to 150 methanation units supported).
SWEN Capital Partners participated in Lhyfe second funds series, which allowed the company to secure 50 million euros from SWEN Capital Partners and Banque des Territoires onboard alongside original investors. The announcement comes as Lhyfe inaugurated on Thursday September
SEEIT, the first UK listed investment company of its kind to invest exclusively in the energy efficiency sector, has acquired the remaining 35 per cent equity interest that it did not already own in Primary Energy, a portfolio of recycled energy and cogeneration projects servicing the steel industry, located in Indiana, USA.
The interest was acquired from a consortium led by Fortistar LLC for a cash consideration of approximately USD92 million. The acquisition was identified as part of SEEIT’s near term pipeline in its recent equity issue.
SEEIT acquired an initial 50 per cent interest in Primary Energy in
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