Deals
insightsoftware, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for the ‘Office of the CFO’, has secured an investment from Hg, a global software and services investor.
The Hg Saturn 2 Fund will make a cUSD1 billion equity investment in insightsoftware to become a significant minority shareholder alongside TA Associates (TA) in a transaction valuing the business at an Enterprise Value of around USD4 billion. TA and Hg will share joint control. As part of the transaction, insightsoftware will also continue to be supported by minority shareholders Genstar and ST6.
insightsoftware is a leading provider of financial reporting and enterprise
HelloFlow, a Danish FinTech startup, has closed a USD1.6 million Seed round led by a Danish VC PreSeed Ventures, and UK-based, Seedcamp. The company provides a no-code platform for client onboarding and identity verification in the financial industry which integrates with ID authentication services in local markets.
“Using the platform, you can set up a proper, sleek, and compliant onboarding process and share it with the clients, all inside a single day. This makes it possible to launch your service in new markets across the world within 10 minutes,” explains Mikkel Skarnager, the Co-Founder and CEO of HelloFlow.
With an
An overwhelming majority (91 per cent) of US private equity firms are planning to deploy capital in Latin America over the next five years, according to a new study, fuelled by attractive valuations and a growing appetite for cross-border deal flow as the global economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new study, ‘Recovery to Rediscovery: Capitalising on a Changed Private Equity Landscape’, was commissioned by Auxadi, a provider of accounting, tax and payroll services to private equity, real estate and multinationals, and was based on interviews with 100 senior-level private equity investors based in North America, the UK, and
IW Capital has invested in e-pharmacy company SimplyMeds, marking the first external investment in the highly scalable online platform.
SimplyMeds is an end-to-end digital pharmacy platform that provides a convenient method of ordering same day prescriptions and lifestyle products while empowering patients to have medical autonomy. While most online pharmacies are designed to service only one sector, SimplyMeds caters to both the private and NHS prescriptions market in what is believed to be a market first, having developed the distribution channels and a highly sophisticated platform to effectively serve both sectors.
Bootstrapped by two entrepreneurs with extensive experience in the
Ironwood Capital portfolio company The Facilities Group (TFG) has acquired Excel Building Services (Excel), a California-based janitorial services provider with a primary focus on retail and distribution customers.
Ironwood Capital Partner Roger Roche, says: “Excel serves customers in 40 states, significantly expanding the reach and market penetration of TFG. The overlap and fit with TFG are perfect, and the acquisition allows both TFG and Excel to better service their customers.” Paul Witinski, director at Ironwood Capital added, “Our investment thesis for The Facilities Group is to continue building a national leader within the janitorial services industry through both organic growth
E-commerce specialist detected has raised GBP900,000 in its latest funding round bringing total funding raise to GBP2 million.
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has agreed to sell AOC, a global producer of specialty resins, to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds (Lone Star).
The contemplated transaction is subject to AOC workers’ councils information and consultation and relevant regulatory authorities’ approval.
Headquartered in Schiphol, The Netherlands, AOC is a global CASE & Colorants leader, producing and formulating unsaturated polyester resins, vinyl ester resins, and other solutions for applications in Coatings & Protective Barriers, Colorants & Visual Effects, Adhesives, and Conventional Composite Resins.
AOC serves customers globally with specialty products for the automotive, marine, corrosion, construction, and infrastructure segments. The
Vaayu, a carbon tracking software company for retailers, has raised USD1.57 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by CapitalT, supported by a number of angel investors including Atomico’s Angel Program, Planet Positive LP, Saarbrücker 21, Expedite Ventures and NP-Hard Ventures.
This comes as the fashion industry is still responsible for 10 per cent of annual global carbon emissions – more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
Vaayu integrates seamlessly with various point-of-sale systems, such as Shopify and Webflow, to pull data on logistics, operations and packaging so retailers can monitor, measure and reduce their carbon
InfanDx AG (Cologne, Germany), a privately held diagnostics company focusing on the development and commercialisation of novel diagnostic solutions for newborns, has held the first closing of a Series A financing round raising EUR4 million from new and existing investors.
In the transaction, new investor Alluti GmbH – Smart Invest, the family office of entrepreneur and brand specialist Bert Bleicher, joined existing investors participating in the raise, such as serial entrepreneur Jochen Tschunke and the LSI Pre-Seed Fonds GmbH of Life Science Inkubator Bonn, among others.
The proceeds will fund the further development of the Company’s lead product, the HypoxE
Valuation Research Corporation (VRC), a global provider of independent valuation support and advisory services, has completed of three solvency opinions in connection with the recapitalisation of three private equity-backed health and cosmetic care companies.
VRC was engaged to provide solvency opinions by the boards of Milan Laser Holdings, a physician-owned permanent laser hair reduction provider operating in 20 states; OB Hospitalist Group, a provider of on-site, board-certified obstetric and gynaecology hospitalist programmes and related physician support services; and Soliant Health, a nationwide healthcare staffing company.
“We are pleased that these three leading healthcare organisations chose VRC to provide solvency evaluations
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