Deals
Investment group RD Capital Partners (RDCP) continues on its buy-and-build strategy in the construction sector with the acquisition of hydro-demolition firm Buxton Water.The deal marks RDCP’s second acquisition this month following its recent purchase of Su-Fix Precast and its fifth this year following earlier acquisitions of Killingley, Macair and Chilango. Established in 2015 by Sameer Rizvi and Iryna Dubylovska, RDCP is headquartered in London and is one of the fastest growing private companies in the UK. This recent deal increases RDCP’s group run rate revenue to over GBP55 million.
Headquartered in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, Buxton Water is one of the
American Pacific Group (APG), a San Francisco-based private equity firm, together with Northstar Capital, has partnered with a team led by veteran software CEO Stephen Woodard to acquire Fresche Solutions (Fresche), a provider of digital transformation and application modernisation solutions.Fresche, a Montreal-based company, provides a suite of software and service solutions that help modernise and transform IT applications and systems. Founded in 1976, and further established through a series of acquisitions, Fresche has developed leading technology and transformation processes. Fresche has served over 22,000 clients globally across financial services, manufacturing, retail, technology, consulting, among other industries.
Stephen Woodard, incoming
HVD Partners is to sell Solifos to NBG GmbH. Carved out of Brugg Cables in 2018 and based in Windisch, Switzerland, Solifos is the leading supplier of high performance, specialty fiber optic cables for distributed sensing and mission-critical defence applications.Solifos supplies essential components for remote and distributed sensing systems monitoring structural integrity of bridges, dams, pipelines and other critical infrastructure. The firm also supplies specialty fibre optic cables for high-reliability defense communications applications.
Private equity specialist adviser Humatica supported HVD Partners and the Solifos AG management with the successful carve-out and transformation of the company.
Jouni Heinonen, Managing Partner of
Cleo, a financial assistant designed for Gen-Z, has raised USD44 million in a Series B funding round led by EQT Ventures with participation from existing investors Balderton Capital, LocalGlobe and SBI. They join an existing roster of world class angel investors including Taavet Hinrikus, Matt Robinson, Errol Damelin, Niklas Zennstrom, Alex Chesterman and Ian Hogarth.
“We’re building Cleo to become the financial advisor that a billion people need. One that talks to you like a real person, able to build trust and relationships like a bank never could,” says Cleo CEO, Barney Hussey-Yeo. “The work we do at Cleo has
Smart addressing startup, OkHi is launching in Africa’s largest market, Nigeria, with its strategic partner, Interswitch Group. The Nairobi based company tackles a problem that costs Nigerian businesses an estimated USD2 billion a year – the lack of postal addressing infrastructure. The announcement stems from a new investment round that will accelerate the company’s growth following its success in Kenya.
The investment from one of Africa’s largest fintech & digital commerce companies, Interswitch, provides OkHi with a key strategic partner for its Nigerian expansion. The USD1.5 million Seed-plus round was also led by Founders Factory Africa and Asian VC, Betatron.
Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has teamed with Kurt Reisenberg to form Datos Acquisitions, a new platform to invest in information services companies, with a focus on long-term equity value creation. Pamlico has committed up to USD150 million of equity to help Datos Acquisitions pursue investments in companies that provide data, insights and advisory services, including those that serve key corporate functions (eg, Finance, Human Resources, Sales, or Legal & Compliance).
Reisenberg says: “In an increasingly data-driven world, firms that provide analysis, benchmarks, and insights – along with the advice and decision support tools to make them actionable – will become even more
Lukka, a crypto asset software and data provider, has completed its Series C funding led by State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) with participation from S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), and CPA.com, the business and technology subsidiary of the AICPA. Lukka’s Series C investors further signify the growing importance of crypto assets in the traditional financial industry.
With this raise, Lukka will continue to expand its existing institutional grade software and data products to traditional businesses and funds as they rapidly adopt crypto assets into their businesses and portfolios. Lukka’s software and data solutions turn complex blockchain and crypto asset data into easy-to-use
The number and value of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals announced in the consumer sector since the start of the year has declined significantly, according to research by Stock Apps.The number of M&A deals in the global consumer sector dropped from 2,922 to 2,244 in the first nine months of 2020. Deal value also dropped by 50.3 per cent during the period, going from $278 billion to $138 billion.
Overall M&A activity in APAC has, however, shown resilience during the pandemic. Some sectors in its economy actually experienced growth during Q1 to Q3 2020. These are the telecommunication (19 per
Orbex, a European space launch company, has secured USD24 million in a funding round led by BGF and Octopus Ventures, one of the largest VCs in Europe.BGF and Octopus Ventures have joined existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Heartcore Capital and Elecnor SA – parent company of the multi-national space firm Deimos Space – in a new funding round for the orbital launch services company. The new investments secure the roadmap to the first launch from the Space Hub Sutherland spaceport in Scotland.
“Orbex is an impressive UK company which is developing a strongly differentiated and innovative launch solution for the
Modularbank has secured EUR4 million in a late Seed Funding round led by Karma Ventures and BlackFin Capital Partners, with additional support from Plug and Play Ventures, Siena Capital and angel investor Ott Kaukver, who is the ex-CTO of Twilio and Skype. The funding will enable the company to bolster its engineering and commercial teams, and further invest in its technology platform.
Modularbank’s cloud-agnostic core banking platform, built with an API-first approach, allows banks, financial services companies and any other business such as retailers, utility companies or telemedicine providers, to seamlessly integrate its modular banking technology into their existing infrastructure.
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