Deals
Kraken Resources II (Kraken II) has received an equity commitment in excess of USD400 million from funds managed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors (Kayne Anderson), including Kayne Anderson Energy Fund VIII (KAEF VIII) and Kayne Private Energy Income Fund II (KPEIF II), along with Kraken II’s management team.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Kraken II is a private oil and gas company formed to pursue large, oil-weighted acquisitions with an initial focus in the Williston Basin. The Company will target assets that have a significant existing production component and a multi-year inventory of development locations the Kraken II team can exploit.
Six months after raising USD7 million in seed funding, Paris-based data-centric AI training platform Kili Technology has raised USD25 million in Series A financing from London-based venture capital fund Balderton Capital and further commitment from initial investors, Serena Capital and Headline.
“Managing and transforming unstructured data into training-ready data involves complex workflows and collaboration between business users and data teams. Kili’s data infrastructure platform simplifies this by managing the entire data lifecycle, helping companies to save time and money. We were impressed by the combination of technical experience from Kili’s team and their capacity to execute at a fast pace,”
UK mid-market private equity firm Graphite Capital has acquired Wonderbly, a publishing platform for personalised children’s books. The company is also developing personalised products for third-party clients.
As a digital, direct-to-consumer publisher, Wonderbly sells its books in more than 150 countries, with international sales accounting for over 85 per cent of its revenues. The company sold more than one million books in 2020 and, in May this year, won ‘Children’s Publisher of the Year’ at the British Book Awards.
At the heart of Wonderbly’s success and growth is its unique operating model – a fully integrated approach to creating,
Alva, a stakeholder intelligence platform has partnered with Ballast Research and Hamilton Place Strategies (HPS). The partnership was supported by a majority investment in alva by Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP), formalising the relationship between the leaders across corporate stakeholder management. The partnership and investment follows FCP’s earlier majority investments in Ballast Research and HPS.
Headquartered in London, UK, alva is a stakeholder intelligence platform that provides data-rich, real-time technology to companies across industries, including financial services, consumer, healthcare, and professional services. Built on award-winning Natural Language Processing technology, alva delivers the richest and most accurate insights based on the analysis
Ardian has arranged a unitranche facility with the participation of a wholly-owned subsidiary division of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), to support the investment of Naxicap Partners in Lagarrigue, a global specialist in large scale external orthopaedic devices for the treatment of disabilities, alongside the Company’s management.
Headquartered in Toulouse and founded in 1976, the French-based Group has extended its presence since 2016 into neighbouring countries, such as Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. This development was enabled by an active acquisition strategy, which now results in over 30 per cent of its sales being achieved internationally.
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Artios Pharma Limited (Artios), a DNA Damage Response (DDR) company exploiting a broad DDR-based platform and small molecule drug discovery capabilities to develop a diverse pipeline of product candidates for the treatment of cancer, has completed a USD153 million (GBP110 million) Series C financing to fund further development of its clinical-stage pipeline.
The oversubscribed financing was co-led by Omega Funds and TCG X. Additional investors include Avidity Partners, Invus, Deep Track Capital, Sofinnova Partners, Tetragon Financial Group, RTW Investments LP, Soleus Capital, Piper Heartland Healthcare Capital, CaaS Capital Management, and Schroders Capital. These new investors join existing investors Arix Bioscience
SEDNA, an intelligent communications system for high-performance teams at leading companies like Glencore, Norden, and Bunge, has secured USD34 million in Series B funding.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company FlexXray Holdings, LLC (FlexXray) to Warburg Pincus and Tilia Holdings. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
FlexXray is a leading provider of x-ray inspection services focused on food safety. The Company assists Fortune 100 food manufacturers with regulatory compliance and food safety issues by identifying and removing foreign contaminants. Hundreds of manufacturing plants throughout North America rely on FlexXray’s expertise and customer service to salvage valuable products when contamination events occur in the normal course of the food manufacturing process. FlexXray
Zenput, a specialist in operations execution solutions, has secured USD27 million in a Series C financing round led by Golub Capital with participation by existing investors, including Jackson Square Ventures, MHS Capital, and Goldcrest Capital.
This brings the company’s total funding to over USD47 million, on the heels of approximately 100 per cent revenue growth over the past year.
Founded in 2012, Zenput’s cloud-based operations execution platform is now used in over 60,000 locations across 100-plus countries by regional and global multi-unit operators, including Chipotle, Domino’s, PF Chang’s, Five Guys, Smart & Final, and 7-Eleven, to automate how operating
Sproutl, a UK gardening tech start-up that aims to open up gardening to a whole new generation of gardeners and get everyone to plant something, has today launched a curated online marketplace that celebrates the best brands and businesses in the gardening industry, having raised USD9 million in a seed funding round led by Index Ventures with participation from Ada Ventures.
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