Deals
Dubin Clark, a private equity firm with offices in Boston, MA and Jacksonville Beach, Florida, has invested in a new portfolio company, iROCKER, Inc (iROCKER).
iROCKER is a watersports lifestyle company focused on designing and innovating outdoor recreation products, including inflatable stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) and other watersport accessories. Since launching its flagship iROCKER SUP brand in 2013, the company has introduced its Nautical and Blackfin brands to capture the full needs of SUP enthusiasts. In addition, the company has expanded into accessory offerings, including wave mats, floating docks, coolers, speakers, kayak conversion kits, backpacks, leashes, paddles, SUP anchors, and pumps. iROCKER
Cavendish Corporate Finance (Cavendish), part of finnCap Group, has closed a deal for the sale of Datrix Limited (Datrix), a supplier of cloud-based networking, communications, and cyber security solutions, to AdEPT Technology Group (AdEPT), one of the UK’s independent providers of managed services for IT, connectivity, unified communications solutions, and cloud services.
Based in London since 1994, Datrix boasts considerable expertise in the growing market for Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN), having designed, delivered, and managed end-to-end enterprise solutions for a number of multisite, mission-critical environments. With 63 per cent of total revenue generated from public sector clients, Datrix’s
Global private investor The Riverside Company has invested in PPM Advisory Group and OrtleyBio (collectively PPM).
PPM provides scientific operations and communications services to global biopharmaceutical companies with a focus on oncology and haematology therapeutic areas. The company leverages its deep scientific expertise to support customers across various stages of the drug life cycle to better educate and inform healthcare professionals, medical science liaisons and commercial sales representatives.
PPM is an add-on investment to Riverside’s platform Red Nucleus (RN), a premier provider of learning, performance and process solutions for the life sciences industry. This is RN’s fifth add-on acquisition since
UserZoom, a specialist in Experience Insights Management (XIM), has raised USD100 million in a funding round led by Owl Rock.
UserZoom will use the funding to build out the company’s proven XIM solution that helps businesses join the dots between their user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX) strategies and get an org-wide view on their digital experience.
In today’s digital economy, designing great product experiences is a critical competitive differentiator. Unfortunately, businesses often silo their data in separate user and customer buckets, resulting in increased technical, process and data debt, and a fragmented end experience for customers and users.
LFM Capital, a private equity firm focused on lower middle market manufacturing and industrial services businesses, has sold Medix Specialty Vehicles (Medix) to Demers Braun Crestline (DBC), a subsidiary of Demers Braun Ambulance Manufacturer.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Medix, based in Elkhart, Indiana, designs and manufactures ambulances that are utilised to provide essential services such as emergency response and patient transport. Medix offers Type I, Type II, and Type III ambulances that are crafted and designed to offer exceptional comfort, quality, and convenience at a reasonable price. Medix primarily sells ambulances through dealers that
Global software investor Hg has made an investment in AUVESY, a global provider of version control and change management software solutions for automated industrial environments.
As part of the transaction, the AUVESY management team will maintain a significant investment in the business whilst the former majority owner Brockhaus Private Equity has fully exited its position. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed and the transaction is subject to completion.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Germany, AUVESY is a provider of version control software for smart production machinery and other industrial Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices. AUVESY
A human resources software platform which helps companies to manage remote workers has raised a further GBP1,275,000 to fund its rapid expansion.
StaffCircle has secured a further GBP1 million from Blackfinch Investments, with the additional funding coming from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and private investors.
The Leicester-based company has tripled its revenue since the first lockdown a year ago and begun to expand its customer base into the US and Middle East. The funding will allow it to further enhance its
Pronovias Group, a specialist in luxury bridal wear, has partnered with global fashion icon, Vera Wang to add a new brand to its portfolio, Vera Wang Bride.
The move will consolidate Pronovias Group’s position as world leader in the bridal industry, expanding its portfolio of brands and supporting its continued growth in the US and Chinese markets, while making Vera Wang gowns more accessible to a wider audience.
Under the terms of the deal, Pronovias Group and Vera Wang have signed a 10-year licensing agreement whereby the Pronovias Group will manufacture, distribute, and market the Vera Wang Bride designs.
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active investors in growth businesses, has invested GBP2.5 million in Cardinality Ltd, a software and service provider which has developed a data ingestion and analytics platform called ‘Perception’, that enables its customers to run, manage and derive value from datasets in real time and at massive scale.
Cardinality’s proprietary system utilises Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to enable its customers to address the growing challenges of analysing Big Data and extracting the hidden value in that data to provide powerful insights.
Demand for this technology is expected to continue to grow against
Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has completed a growth investment in Canadian Orthodontic Partners (COP) alongside current shareholders and management.
Headquartered in Toronto, COP is the largest orthodontics-focused specialty dental support organisation (SDSO) in Canada and actively serves more than 30,000 patients across over 60 clinics in eight provinces.
“We are excited to partner with Pamlico as we look to enter our next phase of rapid growth,” says Anthony Milonas, CEO of COP. “We value Pamlico’s commitment to our mission of delivering the highest quality of care centred around outstanding doctors, superior technology, and unsurpassed patient satisfaction. This collaboration with Pamlico gives
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