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Traeger Grills (Traeger), a specialist in wood-pellet grills, has acquired MEATER, a global leader in wireless meat thermometers for all cooking and preparation methods. Traeger has been at the forefront of outdoor cooking innovation since the late ’80s when it blazed a trail for the wood-pellet grill category. But what started with an auger feeding wood-pellets into a fire pot has morphed into an integrated connected cooking platform thanks to Traeger’s WiFIRE technology. WiFIRE provides the ability to control the grill through a mobile app, allowing you to monitor, change and receive real-time updates on your grill from your smart phone
FSN Capital VI (FSNC) is to invest in MEGABAD, an e-commerce retailer of sanitary products and accessories in the DACH region, during its next growth phase. The founding family and investor VR Equitypartner will retain significant ownership in the company.  Originally founded as the Gottfried Stiller, a specialist retailer for sanitary products by the Stiller family in 1973, the MEGABAD web shop was launched in 2003 as the first specialist e-commerce retail shop for sanitary products in Germany. MEGABAD offers a wide range of products to a broad customer group primarily in the DACH region. With its industry-leading product assortment
Cebile Capital advised Westward Partners (Westward), a private equity firm investing exclusively in middle market companies in the Pacific Northwest, on the acquisition of Superfeet Inc, a global insole specialist. Westward acquired the Company through funds raised from a sophisticated group of limited partners, led by Montana Capital Partners and Headway Capital Partners. Cebile Capital acted as sole placement agent for the opportunity. Headquartered just outside Seattle, Washington, and in business for over 40 years, Superfeet is a leading manufacturer of premium insoles for consumers seeking everyday comfort or peak athletic performance, supported by decades of podiatric expertise and is
Bullish, a technology company focused on developing financial services for the digital assets sector, is to go public through a merger with Far Peak Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: FPAC), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Bullish plans to launch a revolutionary, regulated cryptocurrency exchange that offers deep, predictable liquidity for investors to generate yield from their digital assets. The business combination of Bullish and Far Peak has a pro forma equity value at signing of approximately USD9.0 billion at USD10 per share, to be adjusted at transaction closing based on crypto asset prices around that time. Proceeds include net cash in
Abry Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, is to sell Sentry Data Systems, a specialist in pharmacy procurement, compliance and utilisation management, to Craneware plc (AIM: CRW.L), a provider of  Value Cycle solutions for the US healthcare market, for USD400 million.
Warburg Pincus has invested in Food Safety Net Services (FSNS), a provider of laboratory testing services for customers in the food & beverage end-markets.  The company serves a broad range of product categories within the broader food & beverage sector (eg, meat, dairy, produce, dietary supplements, pet food, nutraceuticals, restaurant, ready-to-eat). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. As part of the investment, FSNS will merge with Certified Group, a leading North American platform provider of testing and regulatory consulting services. Certified Group provides mission critical and time sensitive testing and regulatory consulting services to the food & beverage,
Novo Holdings, a global life science investor, has co-led the Series A financing of its portfolio company, Muna Therapeutics (Muna), which is pioneering the development of first-in-class small molecule therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.  The financing also includes Sofinnova Partners, Droia Ventures and LSP Dementia Fund with participation from Polaris Partners, Polaris Innovation Fund, Sanofi Ventures, V-Bio Ventures and VIB.   Muna was founded in 2020 by progranulin pathway thought leader Professor Simon Glerup and his team from Aarhus University, Denmark, in collaboration with Novo Seeds, the early-stage investment team of Novo Holdings. Muna emerged as a result of Novo Seeds’
Nordstjernan has invested in the rapidly expanding insurtech company Insurello and will become a partner to the founders and existing shareholders. Insurello is a Swedish insurtech company formed in 2016 and headquartered in Stockholm. The company helps private individuals to receive their fair compensation following an accident. Through a scalable and automated process, Insurello helps individuals with the entire claims management process towards insurance companies, and can also identify unknown insurance policies that the individual is unaware of. Insurello has built a scalable platform for claims management, enabling the customer to gain an overall view of their insurance policies, as
KKR, a global investment firm, has agreed to acquire Neighborly, the world’s largest provider and franchisor of home service brands, from Harvest Partners. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 1981, Neighborly is a home services platform that connects more than 10 million residential and commercial customers with a community of professional services focused on repairing, maintaining and enhancing consumers’ homes and properties. Through a portfolio of 28 brands, the Company offers a wide array of services including plumbing, pest control, restoration, electrical, cleaning, HVAC, home inspection and many more. As one of the largest franchisors
Europe’s leading clean energy fund manager Glennmont Partners (Glennmont) and PGGM Infrastructure Fund (PGGM) have agreed the sale of one of the largest operating onshore wind projects platform in Italy to Eni. The portfolio of onshore wind assets being acquired by Eni is made up of 13 plants spread across mainland Italy and Sicily, with a total installed capacity of c315 MW, majority-owned by Glennmont. GEMS, the Italian asset manager is also part of the transaction.   The divestment portfolio includes SER, SER 1 and GEMS, jointly owned by Glennmont and PGGM, as well as Finpower and Eolica Lucana, which

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