Deals
Weinberg Capital has acquired shares in the Bourdoncle group, a key player in the French bistro-catering industry. This is the fifth acquisition of Weinberg Capital’s fund LBO WCP#3.
Led by catering specialist Thierry Bourdoncle, the group currently owns 16 establishments in Paris (Durand Dupont in Neuilly, Le Dôme de Villiers in the 17th arrondissement, Le Hibou, Le Mabillon in the sixth arrondissement, the hotel-restaurant le Central in Trouville sur Mer) and is in the process of acquiring five other restaurants.
The transaction reflects the buy-and-build strategy of the LBO WCP#3 fund. Weinberg Capital is aiming for a net
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP250,000 in Boiler Plan to support the company’s growth and training centre in Featherstone, West Yorkshire.
The transaction also includes a GBP500,000 investment from the North East Development Capital Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund also managed by Maven, and a further GBP750,000 was invested on behalf of the Government’s Future Fund.
The funding will support Boiler Plan’s long-term strategy to invest in its new operating platform to streamline efficiencies and infrastructure. This will allow the
Investcorp has invested in Heritage Foods, a buy-and-build platform of condiments and sauces brands with long-standing heritage in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.
The transaction was in partnership with China Resources and Fung Strategic Holdings Limited and concluded through the Asia Food Growth Fund I, a dedicated private equity fund investing in a diversified portfolio of food related companies in Asia.
Heritage Foods was established in 2015 and is principally involved in the investment and reorganisation of food businesses in the fast-moving consumer goods market in Asia, in addition to the acquisition of food brands with a strong Asian
The Project Finance Exchange (PFX), a ‘closed’ marketplace where capital-raising construction and infrastructure projects can connect and engage seamlessly with private fund managers, has grown to over USD30 billion aggregate capital available within its first three months of opening in April.
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Thymia has raised a GBP780k/USD1.1 million in a pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression.
The Thymia technology removes the subjectivity from mental health assessments: instead of answering questionnaires, patients play specially designed video games which use cutting-edge Neuropsychology, Linguistics and Machine Learning to detect signs of depression, as well as monitor whether symptoms are improving or worsening over time.
Through its online platform, Thymia is aiming to empower clinicians to make faster and more accurate clinical decisions by making mental illness as objectively measurable as visible physical conditions.
Kodori AG and Calm/Storm co-led this
CAPZA has acquired a majority stake in Web Geo Services, a French API platform publisher and Google Maps’ partner operating in the booming “Location Based Services (LBS)” market.
Founded in 2009, Web Geo Services has built its reputation by becoming the Google Maps No1 Partner and reseller of Google Maps Platform in Europe. The company focuses on five sectors: Retail, Finance, e-business, Smart Mobility, and Travel & Hospitality.
Web Geo Services has also developed its own proprietary platform, “Woosmap”, a set of independent APIs dedicated to B2B2C business use cases: store locator, geofencing, data search, payment transaction cleaning, etc.
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Digital training platform Virti has raised USD10 million in a Series A to further its goal of improving human performance using world-class interactive technology. The round was led by deeptech investors IQ Capital and joined by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a new, UK-based learning technology VC fund.
Launched in 2018 by Dr Alexander Young – an NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon – Virti helps organisations optimise learning, training and performance using interactive simulations and AI-powered data analysis. The technology turns traditionally subjectively-assessed skills (such as communication, teamwork and decision-making under pressure) into objective and measurable data to improve performance. The
Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, is selling its ownership stake in Mobilitie, the largest privately-held wireless infrastructure firm in the nation, to global communications infrastructure provider, BAI Communications (BAI).
BAI’s acquisition of Mobilitie is a significant move towards becoming one of the leading connected infrastructure 5G players in North America, and globally. The deal combines Mobilitie’s extensive assets and operations across 5G outdoor and indoor wireless infrastructure, proven experience in small cell deployment, and work with transit operators across major US cities with BAI’s long-standing proven expertise in delivering communications infrastructure in dense urban and transit environments.
Primal Strength (Primal), a provider of performance strength products for the commercial and home fitness markets, has secured a multi-million-pound investment from Flywheel Partners (Flywheel) to accelerate its growth plans.
Primal, whose customers include leading professional sports teams, like Celtic Football Club, and an array of celebrity clientele, will utilise the investment and partnership with Flywheel to scale up the business and capture opportunities arising from the growth of strength training and post-lockdown health and wellness trends.
Primal has benefitted from the soaring spend in home workout equipment in the past year, with this set to continue alongside the
London based Fintech Traydstream Limited has raised USD8 million as part of a Series A funding round from institutional and private investors.
gunnercooke Corporate Partner Kyri Papantoniou led the legal side of the investment process, which began in summer last year.
Traydstream is a global provider of an AI powered platform to digitalise and automate trade finance document checking and is now live across four continents and 17 markets.
Traydstream CEO Sameer Sehgal, says: “The pandemic has caused a high level of disruption in trade finance and highlighted the weaknesses in existing models, which has led to a growing interest
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