Deals
Curb, a Nordic dark kitchen startup which uses technology and data in order to improve customer experience, has secured EUR20 million in funding by Point72 Ventures, with participation from its existing investor EQT Ventures.
Trulioo, a specialist in global identity verification, has secured USD394 million in funding at a USD1.75 billion valuation. The Series D round was led by TCV, one of the largest growth equity firms, with participation from existing investors Citi Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Mouro Capital and American Express Ventures. TCV General Partner, Jake Reynolds, and Principal Amol Helekar will join Trulioo’s Board of Directors.
One Rock Capital Partners, LLC (One Rock) has entered into a definitive agreement to make a significant investment in ArchKey Solutions (ArchKey) alongside the Company’s management team. ArchKey is North America’s premier electrical and technologies contracting and services provider. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to be completed in the summer of 2021.
ArchKey is an industry-leading specialty services contractor providing scalable electrical and technologies solutions nationally. The Company operates across a broad set of end markets including data center, commercial, industrial, renewables and healthcare, providing services to general contractors and owner-operators of new and
Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation and KKR have signed a definitive agreement for MIC to sell its Atlantic Aviation business to KKR for USD4.475 billion in cash and assumed debt and reorganisation obligations. Atlantic Aviation operates one of the largest networks of fixed base operations (FBOs) in the US providing a full suite of critical services to the private aviation sector.
The purchase price implies a multiple of Atlantic Aviation’s 2019 Earnings Before Interest Taxes and Depreciation (EBITDA) of 16.2 times.
MIC expects to receive USD3.525 billion at closing following the reorganisation of MIC into a limited liability company, Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings
Connection Capital, the specialist private client investment business, has raised GBP4.3million from private investors keen to invest in a portfolio of unquoted stocks acquired by investment firm, Hambro Perks, from global fund manager, Invesco.
QTS Realty Trust (QTS) and Blackstone, have entered into a definitive agreement under which Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc and other long-term perpetual capital vehicles managed by Blackstone will acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of QTS Realty Trust for USD78.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD10 billion, including the assumption of debt.
The purchase price represents a premium of 21 per cent to QTS’ closing share price as of June 4, 2021 and a 24 per cent premium to the volume weighted average share price over the last 90
airfocus, the world’s first modular product management platform, has raised USD5 million in series A funding, led by XAnge with participation from Nauta Capital.
GRANT Thornton UK’s Corporate Finance team has advised Milton Keynes-based software company, Celaton on an investment deal with serial investor and technology entrepreneur, Vin Murria OBE.
Founded in 2004 by Andrew Anderson and Gary Grant, Celaton’s Intelligent Document Processing platform, inSTREAM, delivers consistent and measurable business technologies to processes such as accounts payable, sales order processing, customer correspondence and claims.
The company, which has a team of more than 20, has a number of bluechip customers including e-commerce brand ASOS, retailer Dixons Carphone, telecoms group TalkTalk and consulting firm Capgemini.
Delivered as software as service, inSTREAM comprises multiple
Foresight Group (Foresight), a UK-listed infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has agreed the conditional sale of Ixaris Group Holdings Limited (Ixaris), a specialist in travel payment technology, to Nium Pte Limited (Nium), a global B2B payments platform based in Singapore.
Ixaris’ main product is a pre-paid debit card providing flexible funding and payment methods. It was the first to be introduced across Europe in 2003 and revolutionised the travel payments industry. Ixaris has clients in over 50 countries, ranging from the World’s largest travel brands to independent travel agencies. Its products enable clients to manage spend and
Innovative Molecules, a German, Munich-based drug development company focused on developing next-generation treatments for Herpes simplex-induced diseases, has closed a EUR20 million Series A equity financing round led by LSP (Life Sciences Partners).
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