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Insider has launched its Growth Management Platform (GMP), which raised USD11 million in a Series B investment round led by Sequoia.
Primarily, GMP helps marketers create more intelligent interactions with their customers through exposing them to the most relevant content on their preferred channels, delivering fuss-free experiences. The platform offers digital marketers a full suite of features across the entire growth funnel, from Acquisition to Activation, Retention and Revenue. Powered by deep AI and Machine Learning capabilities, the Insider platform delivers real-time insights and personalisation across web, mobile web, mobile app and ad channels.
The main cost for startups,
Renovus Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on education, training and human capital sectors, has sold its controlling interests in TPC Training (TPC) and Jade Learning (Jade) to Frontenac, a Chicago-based private equity firm.
Headquartered outside Chicago, IL, TPC Training is the leader in maintenance, repair, and operator training solutions that enable businesses to develop a more efficient, capable and safe workforce. Sister company Jade Learning is a provider of continuing education training, serving the electrical code, electrical safety and security alarm segments.
Renovus first invested in TPC in 2014 by sourcing and financing its transformative acquisition of American
Five Point Energy, a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments within the midstream and energy infrastructure sector, has closed Five Point Energy Fund II at its hard cap of USD750 million.
The fund was oversubscribed, exceeding its original target of USD650 million.
In deploying the Fund, Five Point will continue to leverage its direct operating approach to actively support management teams, midstream companies and E&Ps in building world-class midstream businesses. Five Point is uniquely equipped to add value as a strategic partner given the deep industry experience of its team. Led by David Capobianco, CEO and Managing Partner, and Matthew Morrow,
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, has made an investment in ICR, a strategic communications and advisory firm.
Investcorp is partnering with ICR, whose senior team will retain a significant ownership stake in the Company. The new partnership will focus on accelerating the Company’s organic growth, identifying complementary acquisitions and expanding the business globally.
Founded in 1998, ICR helps companies manage credibility and reputational risk to optimize shareholder value. Ranked as a top 5 independent communications firm in 2018 by O’Dwyer’s, ICR specializes in investor relations, public relations, crisis and special situations communications, digital/social media, and
Tikehau Capital today announced it has supported Apax Partners in its acquisition of Business Integration Partners (“Bip”), an Italian consulting firm with international presence.
Headquartered in Milan, Bip is a primary Italian management consulting firm providing business integration and IT / digital transformation services to support international blue chip companies in the research and adoption of technological innovation. The company, founded in 2003, has delivered strong growth over the year and posted revenues of EUR160 million in 2017. Bip has over 1,800 employees and is present in more than 11 countries.
Tikehau Capital provided Apax Partners with bespoke debt
Prince International Corporation and Prince Erachem International Corporation (Prince) have been acquired by affiliates of private equity firm American Securities. Since 2003, Prince has been majority owned by affiliates of Palladium Equity Partners (Palladium).
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Prince serves a diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets by developing, manufacturing and marketing performance-critical additives. Many of the Company’s products are custom developed for specific customer applications in a variety of industries, including construction, electronics, consumer products, agriculture, battery, automotive, oil & gas, and heavy equipment.
Under Palladium’s ownership, Prince has grown from a small, regional processor of
Online, self-storage marketplace SpareFoot is to acquire SiteLink, a provider of cloud-based software solutions for the self-storage industry.
The deal will bring together two dynamic companies and allow the combined business to accelerate investment, drive innovation and generate value for both consumers and facility operators in the USD38 billion self-storage industry.
Cove Hill Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston, will acquire a majority stake in both businesses. SpareFoot CEO Chuck Gordon will become CEO of the combined company, and Ross Lampe will remain President of SiteLink with his team continuing to serve self-storage customers. The transactions are expected to
bfinance is to conduct the manager search and selection for a new GBP250 million private debt allocation from the pension schemes of five London Boroughs – Ealing, Havering, Lambeth, Wandsworth and Merton (Five Boroughs).
This will be the Five Boroughs’ first investment in private debt, with the Ealing-led search for an asset manager commencing on 29 March 2018. All five boroughs are part of the London Pension Collective Investment Vehicle (London CIV) pool, which has not yet launched a private debt investment programme.
Specialist investment consultant bfinance is conducting the manager search and selection for this new private debt
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has PAI Partners on the structuring and fundraising of its seventh pan-European fund, PAI Europe VII, which was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap of EUR5 billion in less than six months.
PAI Partners is a major European private equity firm and is one of the largest private equity investors headquartered in Europe. PAI Europe VII will pursue investments in upper middle-market continental European companies, with a focus on PAI’s core sectors: business services, food & consumer goods, general industrials, healthcare and retail & distribution.
The Fund Formation team in Paris has previously advised PAI Partners
Selkirk-based Oregon Timber Frame Limited (Oregon) has completed a buy-out of its non-management shareholders, including the 15 per cent stake in the business held by its largest external shareholder group, Archangel Investors (Archangels).
The move brings to a close a near 20 year relationship between Oregon – one of the UK’s largest independent timber frame house manufacturers – and Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate.
Oregon, which was established in 1998, specialises in the design, manufacture and erection of structural timber frame packages to volume house builders and developers. The business is trading strongly and in its most recent
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