Deals
Private equity firm August Equity has completed a strategic investment in Integrity360, one of the UK and Ireland’s fastest growing cyber security specialists, as part of a significant growth and expansion plan.
In addition to the investment funding, Integrity360 founder and CEO Eoin Goulding is partnering with Ian Brown, who joins the company as Executive Chairman, with Goulding taking on the new role of President. Brown, an established entrepreneur and industry veteran has been running technology businesses for over 25 years, including most recently SecureData, the leading UK cyber security services business acquired by Orange in 2019.
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MetaProp, the New York-based PropTech venture capital firm, today announced the closing of its latest real estate technology seed fund. The oversubscribed USD100 million MetaProp Ventures III, LP (Fund III) is more than two and a half times the size of MetaProp’s second fund, which closed at USD40 million in 2018.
Founded in 2015, MetaProp’s investment team has invested in 130+ early-stage technology companies across the property value chain. MetaProp’s portfolio comprises some of the world’s highest-profile innovation leaders, including Side, Attentive, Spruce, Bowery, Briq, HqO, VergeSense, and Morty. Initial Fund III investments include fast-growing PropTech startups Proper.ai, Ergeon, GoFor,
Foresight Group, a leading sustainable infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has appointed technology company Sennen to digitise its entire portfolio of sustainable infrastructure, worth around GBP6.1 billion.
Foresight started the digitalisation process with Sennen 12 months ago, beginning with its sustainable energy assets which are located globally.
Following that success, Sennen’s remit has been expanded to include forestry assets, social projects, and sustainable transport infrastructure, including a compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station in Bristol that will be the largest in the UK.
As a sustainability-led investment manager, Foresight focuses on financing projects that support clean
Alter Domus, a fully integrated provider of fund administration, debt capital markets and corporate services backed by the Permira funds, has acquired Investors Economic Assurance (IEA), a global provider of technology solutions and services to alternative investment managers. The Manhattan-based firm specialises in capital administration solutions including Limited Partners’ waterfall calculations and General Partners’ carried-interest allocations.
This strategic acquisition represents another milestone in the firm’s growth strategy focused on providing high-quality, vertically integrated solutions to the most demanding private equity, venture capital, real estate, and credit investors. IEA’s proprietary technology platforms, CapAssure and CapAdministration, will complement Alter Domus’ technology
Milton Keynes-based adam HTT, which facilitates the delivery of public sector contracts, has secured a GBP5 million investment from alternative lender BOOST&Co.
The business plans to use the GBP5 million term loan to accelerate the roll-out of its in-house “early payment” facility, which will support the 2,000 suppliers already on the adam HTT platform, by giving them easier access to working capital.
Primarily active in the health and social care sectors, adam HTT helps its public sector customers automate their supply chain management processes, centralise supplier payment functions and ensure a smoother supply process. With chief executive Chris Wilson
An affiliate of Sun European Partners is to sell Sharps, a specialist in fitted bedroom and home office storage solutions, to funds advised by Epiris LLP.
Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Bilston, West Midlands, Sharps operates a strong omnichannel model, reaching its customers primarily through its robust digital channels with a complementary and supporting showroom footprint across the UK.
Kevin Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Sharps, says: “Our partnership with the Sun European team has been a great success. We are extremely proud that, today, Sharps is the number one market player in the bespoke fitted bedroom furniture
Palatine Private Equity has acquired a majority stake in Routes Healthcare, one of the North’s leading providers of specialist person-centred health and homecare services. Headquartered in the North-West, the business operates from 14 service centres, employing 120 operational and management staff, along with 1,000 carers.
The business provides specialist complex care packages for people with long-term health conditions, clinically led enhanced homecare packages and end of life care, enabling people to spend their final days at home.
Routes’ fully integrated offering has become prized by its customers, as the health and social care space evolves to enable people to receive
Tesseract, an institutional digital asset lending company in Europe and emerging markets which provides digital asset lending solutions to institutional clients, such as hedge funds and retail trading platforms, globally, has raised USD25 million in its Series A funding round.
The first funding round in Europe focusing on the sector is led by Augmentum Fintech, a London-based leader in FinTech investments. Other participants in the round include global venture capital firms BlackFin Capital Partners, Concentric, DN Capital, Jabre Capital Partners Family Office, LeadBlock Partners, and Sapphire Ventures. Industry participants Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute, and Woorton also subscribed to the round along
An affiliate of funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital) is to sell Niacet Corp (Niacet) to Kerry Group plc, the global taste and nutrition company, for USD1,015 million (EUR853 million) on a cash-free, debt-free basis, subject to customary closing adjustments.
Following the acquisition, Niacet will be integrated into Kerry’s global food protection and preservation platform.
Jack Norris, Managing Director at SK Capital, says: “SK Capital is privileged to have partnered with Kelly Brannen and the entire Niacet team. We are proud and appreciative of Niacet’s accomplishments over the last four years leveraging the strong foundation the Brannen family
Oxwash, the UK-based green laundry startup backed by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has raised GBP2.08 million (USD3 million) in seed expansion investment, to clean up the traditional and environmentally costly washing and dry cleaning sector with its space-age technology.
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