Deals
Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity investors, has invested in Venatus, a global advertising technology platform targeting video gaming and entertainment audiences.
Co-founded in 2010 by CEO Rob Gay and COO Matt Cannon, Venatus is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Seoul. The firm connects advertisers and their agencies with video gaming content and community website owners (“publishers”), giving them access to the hard-to-reach and highly valuable global gaming audience.
Venatus’s commitment to excellence has enabled it to exclusively represent direct and programmatic ad sales for over 250 core publishers – including Rovio, EA,
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a multi-million-pound investment in Marmalade Game Studio (Marmalade), a UK market leading games developer and publisher, to support the management team’s ambitious organic growth strategy and future game launches.
Marmalade is the UK’s leading developer of mobile, console and PC board games. Its catalogue includes classics such as Monopoly, Cluedo and Game of Life, licensed by gaming giants such as Hasbro, with its most recent addition, Jumanji, inspired by the feature film.
LDC’s investment will support the existing management team, led by joint CEOs Michael Willis and Cristina Mereuta, as they invest
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) is to sell Trace3 to affiliates of American Securities.
Trace3 is a premier provider of IT solutions and services to over 2,500 commercial and enterprise clients across the U.S. Through elite engineering talent, dynamic leadership, an in-house research team, and unparalleled venture capital connections, Trace3 stays on the leading edge of the technology innovation curve and empowers its clients with the most advanced cloud technologies, data center designs, security strategies, and business intelligence solutions in the industry. The Company is headquartered in Irvine, CA with offices across the United States.
HIG invested in the
CGE Partners (CGE) has invested in Inspera, a high growth end-to-end e-assessment SaaS provider sold into universities, schools and professional awarding bodies.
CGE is partnering with Bjørn Rustberggaard (CEO) and Håkon Thaulow (CFO) to help Inspera’s international expansion. Inspera launched in the Nordics where the higher education (HE) market was an early adopter of e-assessment. This market is rapidly accelerating worldwide as countries recognise the benefits of saving teachers’ time, capturing and analysing data, and the ability to reach a wider pool of candidates. Covid-19 has contributed to the shift away from paper-based exams and schools, universities and awarding bodies
FLC Credit Partners’ private credit fund has provided a term loan and preferred equity to Goodnight Trail Resources (Goodnight Trail) to fund the purchase of its assets by existing operator RedBud E&P, Inc (RedBud).
Goodnight Trail Resources is an exploration and production company focused on producing, high cashflow conventional assets in the eastern shelf of the Midland Basin. This new financing will allow the existing operator of the assets, RedBud, to purchase the assets from their current owner to continue their low-decline production and pursue selected development opportunities that Goodnight believes are low cost and low risk.
“We have gained
Amulet Capital Partners (Amulet), a middle-market private equity investment firm based in Greenwich, Conneticut, focused exclusively on the healthcare sector, has acquired Remedy Health Media (Remedy), a digital health platform that serves patients, caregivers and healthcare providers through a family of trusted health information websites.
Amulet acquired Remedy from Topspin Consumer Partners, a private equity firm focused on the consumer sector. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Remedy delivers inspiring, authentic and action-oriented digital content to patients and healthcare professionals through its portfolio of digital brands, including healthcentral.com, thebody.com and patientpower.info. Pioneers in the space, Remedy’s brands build deep
Vision Innovation Partners, an eye care platform, has acquired See Clearly Vision, an eye care practice with locations in Tysons Corner and Arlington, Virginia.
The acquisition expands Vision Innovation Partners’ presence in the Washington DC metropolitan area and further enhances its growing network of ophthalmology practices and ambulatory surgery centres in the Mid-Atlantic region.
“For over two decades, See Clearly Vision has delivered world-class eye care by providing the most advanced medical and surgical technology and expertise. Partnering with Vision Innovation Partners will allow us to further our mission and continue growing our practice while providing extraordinary service for
Digital and tech start up investment network NorthInvest has extended its strategic partnership with law firm Gordons following a successful three-year relationship.
NorthEdge and The Belfield Group (‘Belfield’) have completed the sale of Usleep, a specialist mattress manufacturer, to The Vita Group (Vita) a manufacturer of premium foam products, for an undisclosed sum.
Usleep is a subsidiary of upholstery and home furnishings manufacturer Belfield, which secured private equity investment from NorthEdge in 2016. It provides an end-to-end service for its customers, from product design & development through to fulfilment, from two well-invested manufacturing sites in Ashton-under-Lyne and Castle Donnington.
Usleep is a zero waste to landfill business that works closely with its suppliers and customers to encourage sustainability and best-in-class business
New York-based private equity firm MFG Partners (MFG) has completed the acquisition of Mellott Company (Mellott).
The transaction was completed in partnership with Company management and PNC Mezzanine Capital. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1920 and headquartered in Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania, Mellott provides a full spectrum of integrated aggregates processing services and equipment, including equipment and parts distribution, service and repair, engineering and fabrication, as well as contract crushing. Mellott partners with a diverse range of top-tier customers and has become the trusted, go-to supplier of processing needs for the industry’s largest aggregates producers. The Company’s
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