Deals
Irving Place Capital (IPC), a middle-market private equity firm is to sell Alpha Packaging (Alpha), a leading provider of bottles and jars serving the health & wellness markets as well as other attractive, growing markets, to Pretium Packaging, a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital Group, LP.
“It has been a pleasure to work with the team at IPC, who has supported Alpha and our growth strategy,” says Terry Moody, CEO of Alpha. “We are excited to merge with Pretium and leverage our highly complementary product portfolios and process technologies to better serve our customers, while simultaneously continuing to provide a
GigaIO, a creator of data centre rack-scale architecture for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, has completed a Series B round of funding totalling USD14.7 million.
Impact Venture Capital led the funding round, which was oversubscribed by 50 per cent and included participation from Mark IV Capital, Lagomaj Capital, SK Hynix, and Four Palms Ventures.
GigaIO has fundamentally changed the HPC and AI landscape by creating the world’s only enterprise-class, universal composable fabric―an open standards solution with limitless flexibility, cloudlike agility, and an added layer of security. This enables faster time to achieve results as workloads run as
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a GBP1.75 million growth capital investment into Previsico Limited (Previsico), developers of an accurate flood forecasting and warning system.
The investment is jointly funded by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund and Foresight Williams Technology and will enable the Loughborough University spin-out to further develop the Previsico platform, allowing it to be used in more cities, and support the creation of new jobs in Loughborough. The aim is to increase the headcount from 17 to 70 by 2024.
Flooding is currently one of the most damaging natural
Coinfirm, the global leader in RegTech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem, has closed its USD8 million Series A funding round.
The company has also appointed Mircea Mihaescu as its new Chief Executive Officer.
The investment will enable Coinfirm to continue its rapid growth trajectory and strengthen its market-leading position in the EU as well as enabling the company to expand its offering to the Asian and US markets. The funding will especially strengthen the firm’s enterprise and financial institution offering, to complement its strong offering for crypto market participants.
The Series A is co-led by SIX Fintech
Growth capital investor BGF has invested GBP8.5 million in Birmingham-headquartered Antser, an innovator in social care.
Antser delivers transformational solutions to the social care, health, and education sectors, in partnership with local authority and independent providers. The investment will allow the company to continue to scale its business within the children’s social care sector, as well as increase its reach across adult social care and the adjacent markets. Antser employs 150 people across four UK offices.
With a presence across all 152 Local Authorities in England, as well as a host of public sector bodies and independent care providers,
Global investment firm Capria Ventures is partnering with Indonesian venture capital firm AC Ventures to invest in investing in the next generation of technology entrepreneurs.
AC Ventures manages a total AUM of USD300 million and plans to complete the final close of a USD120 million target fund by this year. The partnership is in line with Capria’s commitment to invest and impact the lives of millions across the Global South including Southeast Asia, India, Latin America and Africa.
Jakarta based AC Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology enabled solutions addressing billion dollar market opportunities in
Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that it represented NatWest Markets on its role as lead arranger and facility agent for Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) on a EUR2.3 billion environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-linked credit facility for its European private equity and real estate platform.
The facility was formed to support Carlyle’s 30 per cent board diversity target, to tackle climate change by having more accurate and comprehensive measurements of greenhouse gas emissions across all portfolio companies, and to improve ESG outcomes through better governance by providing ESG-competent board training for all Carlyle board directors.
The Reed Smith team
Vision Innovation Partners, a leading eye care platform backed by Centre Partners, has acquired Ophthalmic Associates, a provider of integrated eye care services with five locations in Western Pennsylvania.
The acquisition adds to Vision Innovation Partners’ significant presence in Pennsylvania and further strengthens its growing network of ophthalmology practices and ambulatory surgery centres in the Mid-Atlantic region.
“We are delighted that the paths of Ophthalmic Associates and Vision Innovation Partners have aligned. Since its founding in 1905, Ophthalmic Associates has been the trusted vision care provider to communities across six counties in Western Pennsylvania. Our partnership with Vision Innovation Partners
Apex Group Ltd has entered into a joint venture with VCP Advisors, a provider of financial, advisory and capital raising services for corporate and fund manager clients.
VCP Advisors works with companies as well as closed-ended and open-ended funds across the private equity, private credit, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate and hedge fund asset classes, to provide advisory, capital raising and restructuring services to the institutional and family office investor community.
As part of this strategic partnership, VCP Advisors will re-brand as Apex VCP, enabling clients to benefit from VCP’s impressive track record in alternative asset management advisory, in
JTC, a global professional services business, has acquired Segue Partners (Segue), a fund services provider head-quartered in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
The initial consideration will be settled in cash and JTC equity. A further consideration is available on the achievement of performance targets in 2022 and 2023.
Michelle Murray, Managing Director and Founder of Segue Partners, created the business in 2010 and has led its successful growth since. Murray is a highly respected financial services professional and entrepreneur with over 28 years’ experience in venture capital and public accounting industries.
Segue differentiates its offering based on quality of service and
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