Deals
Leading healthcare investors Avista Capital Partners (Avista Capital) and Nordic Capital are to o sell Acino, a Swiss pharmaceutical company headquartered in Zurich, to ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi’s diversified economy.
In partnership, Avista Capital and Nordic Capital acquired Acino in 2013 via a take-private transaction from the Swiss stock exchange (SIX: ACIN). Since that time, both investors supported Acino’s long-term growth strategy and transformed the business to become a high-growth emerging markets- focused pharmaceuticals platform with significant market presence in the Middle East,
Unigestion has led in the buyout of Home Instead Holding (Home Instead), a provider of home care services across Europe.
As part of the sale of Home Instead, Unigestion as lead investor has invested in the company, alongside the founder of Home Instead, Paul Fritz, who, together with Verium, continues to hold a majority stake in the company. With Unigestion’s investment, the shareholder base of Home Instead has been supplemented with an experienced institutional investor to support the successful implementation of the company’s ambitious growth plans.
Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of home care services, predominantly for the
Tyk, a London-based global tech company, has closed a USD35M growth equity funding round led by new investors Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), alongside existing investors MMC Ventures.
Tyk’s innovative API management solution helps to build mission-critical systems in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government. It is used by some of the world’s largest enterprises such as Societe Generale, Starbucks and Domino’s.
With businesses reinventing the way they work, software is now built across multiple clouds, locations, and teams. APIs are the backbone of this, and Tyk’s technology enables modern engineering teams to monitor, secure and manage
MyTutor, a UK-based trusted tutoring platform and a provider of in-school tuition in last year’s Government-backed National Tuition Programme, has raised GBP15 million in a funding round led by SEEK Investments, with support from existing investors including Mobeus Equity Partners.
The leading online tutor’s mission is to provide life changing tuition for all, regardless of background, and is unique in its offering by supporting both disadvantaged students through its schools programme and private tuition partnering directly with parents. With their base of 20,000 tutors they’ve supported over 1,000 Secondary Schools, hundreds of thousands of parents, and delivered over 2 million
AIM-listed Falanx Group (AIM:FLX), a global intelligence, security and cyber defence provider, has secured a substantial investment that will enable the Reading-based firm to strengthen its core cyber division, in addition to supporting its plans for organic growth. An initial GBP1 million growth loan from the alternative lender BOOST&Co is expected to rise to GBP2.5 million.
The business has a long track record of providing organisations with comprehensive cyber defence, intelligence and technology to deliver targeted threat prevention. With businesses subject to increasing cyber security and geopolitical threats, Falanx offers specialist services in areas around cyber security monitoring, cyber security
TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP), the dedicated real estate equity investment platform of alternative asset firm TPG, has signed an agreement to acquire a significant stake in Studio Babelsberg.
TREP will acquire the stake from Studio Babelsberg’s main shareholder, Filmbetriebe Berlin Brandenburg GmbH, which is controlled by Dr Carl L Woebcken and Christoph Fisser, CEO and COO of Studio Babelsberg, respectively. Woebcken and Fisser will maintain ownership in Studio Babelsberg. The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of several closing conditions.
As part of the transaction, TREP intends to launch a public tender offer to the shareholders of Studio Babelsberg
THG Ingenuity, the technology division of THG, has invested GBP1.4 million to acquire a minority stake in Civo, cloud native service provider.
Civo’s developer-focused Kubernetes platform will strengthen and accelerate development of the technology stack that underpins THG Ingenuity, its cutting-edge proprietary technology platform.
The deal is THG Ingenuity’s first strategic investment since it announced in May 2021 that Softbank Group had invested USD730 million in THG with an option for a further USD1.6 billion investment in THG Ingenuity, THG’s cutting-edge proprietary technology platform.
The funding comes at an important phase of growth for Civo as it creates
Sophie’s Kitchen, a specialist in the plant-based food industry, has secured a USD5.6 million investment in a funding round led by Billy Goat Brands, a publicly-listed venture capital platform with a focus on the blue economy.
Omaze, a social impact fundraising platform that offers the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime prizes to support charities around the world, has secured USD85 million in new capital.
EGYM, a global fitness technology developer, has received USD41 million in a Series E financing round from Mayfair Equity Partners, a tech and consumer growth investor.
Following the investment, Mayfair Equity Partners will own a minority stake, along with existing investors HPE Growth, Highland Capital Europe, Kreos, and others. Additional financial details have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2010, EGYM offers a range of products that create a digital, connected exercise experience for gyms and their members. Its EGYM Workouts are a range of proprietary Smart Strength and Smart Flex gym equipment that guide a user through connected strength
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