Deals
Printful, an industry-leading print-on-demand drop shipping and fulfilment company has secured a USD130 million non-control investment from private equity firm Bregal Sagemount.
The financing establishes Printful as the first privately owned company with Latvian roots to achieve unicorn status with a valuation of above USD1 billion. The new partnership will support the launch of additional products and services and the expansion into new channels and geographies.
Printful gives merchants, artists, and other creators the opportunity to run successful ecommerce businesses without investing resources in production and logistics. The company takes care of everything related to printing, product storage, and
Beacons, a business platform for social media creators, has secured USD6 million in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Li Jin’s Atelier Ventures, The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Fund, Night Ventures, Brazilian esports organisation LOUD and Crush Music.
The new capital will fuel the company’s rapid growth by accelerating product development and hiring.
Beacons already supports more than a quarter of a million creative brands, with over 3,000 new accounts established daily. Creators and organisations using Beacons for link-in-bio include: Sia, Russell Brand, Green Day, Katie Thurston (the next Bachelorette), and Barstool Sports.
While social platforms have
Private equity firm Supernova Capital has fully acquired Player1 Events from GAME.
Craig Fletcher, the founder of Multiplay and the Insomnia Gaming Festival, will return to lead Insomnia operations following the acquisition. Fletcher will also join Supernova’s executive team and provide the driving force and entrepreneurial spirit behind Supernova’s future plans for live events and esports.
All existing P1E staff will be retained as part of the acquisition and will be potentially working on an Insomnia event in 2021 along with future events planned in the UK and internationally in 2022 and beyond.
Fletcher comments: “We’ve seen over the
Kirkland & Ellis advised Hg on an innovative GBP455 million NAV financing of the portfolio of Hg Saturn, a 2018-vintage fund with GBP1.5 billion in commitments.
Financial Services Capital (FSC), a private equity investor dedicated to the European financial services sector, has completed its acquisition of a stake in JZ Lending Ltd, which controls Spanish consumer finance specialist Unión Financiera Asturiana (Ufasa).
The Bank of Spain has approved FSC’s investment into this regulated financial services company.
Ufasa is an independent consumer finance specialist, founded in 1984 and headquartered in Oviedo, Asturias, that was initially partly acquired by JZ International in 2020. FSC’s investment is expected to accelerate the transformation and digitalisation of Ufasa’s business. FSC Co-Founders and Managing Partners Matthew Hansen and Miroslav Boublik, as
Browne Jacobson’s Corporate Technology team has advised Omega Crop, an agricultural modelling and remote sensing business, on its GBP1.2 million seed round by science business builder, Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI).
Omega Crop (formerly operating as Dark Horse Technologies) was set up by two MBA students from the University of Oxford and specialises in the supply of sustainable tech products, tools and services aimed at the agricultural industry.
The investment will support Omega Crop’s ambitions for further growth and advance its agricultural yield prediction and crop loss diagnosis technology product portfolio in a bid to support the production of food in
Leading mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in ID card printer and software business Magicard to listed international manufacturer Brady Corporation (BRC).
LDC invested in Magicard in May 2016 to support the business’ organic and international growth strategy. During LDC’s partnership with Magicard, the business invested heavily in new product development, releasing six innovative new products in the last two years alone. It has also further developed its printing software capabilities with patent protected IP.
With LDC’s support, the business, which was founded in 1992, expanded internationally, shipping tens of thousands of printers from its UK
Biotechnology company AlgaeCytes Limited is to build its first commercial plant in Dessau, Saxon-Anhalt, Germany. The plant will be owned and operated by the Company’s German subsidiary, AlgaeCytes Germany GmbH.
The production facility will be a state-of-the-art site housing AlgaCytes’s unique algae-based technology to produce natural, vegetarian, traceable high potency algal EPA, beta-carotene and agricultural crop biostimulant from sustainable sources to serve the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and food verticals.
Total Investment on this project is expected to exceed EUR50 million, of which more than EUR11 million is secured through Gemeinschaftsaufgabe, GRW. GRW is a major program issued by the Federal
By 2022, the level of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity involving technology providers will surpass previous highs recorded in 2018, according to Gartner, Inc.
Acquisitions of tech providers were briefly impacted in 2020 by the onset of the pandemic, but M&A activity quickly rebounded into 2021 as the economy began to recover.
“Market conditions for deal making will continue to improve as volatility stemming from Covid-19 subsides,” says Max Azaham, senior research director at Gartner. “Tech CEOs pursuing acquisitions should anticipate increased competition for targets and take steps to gain advantages over other acquirers to earn seller acceptance.”
OMERS Private Equity is to acquire a 25 per cent stake in International Schools Partnership (ISP) from Partners Group. OMERS Private Equity invests on behalf of OMERS, a defined benefit pension plan for municipal employees in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The transaction values ISP at an enterprise value of EUR1.9 billion.
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