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Private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in Talkwalker, a global listening and analytics company.
The acquisition allows the software company to leverage Marlin’s operational resources and expertise in growing technology businesses. Talkwalker’s founders and management team will continue to lead the company during this exciting new stage of growth with a focus on accelerating product innovation and international expansion.
Utilised by over 1,000 clients, Talkwalker’s state-of-the-art multi-tenant cloud platform uses AI-powered technology to analyse images and text in 187 languages across social, online and traditional media. The company’s social listening and analytics software allows
Sheridan Capital Partners (SCP) is to invest in SpendMend (SpendMend), a provider of spend visibility and audit recovery services to the healthcare industry.
Sheridan has invested alongside SpendMend’s founders and management, who will retain a meaningful ownership stake in the business. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, SpendMend provides audit recovery, cost containment, and spend visibility services to leading healthcare providers nationwide. SpendMend’s services deliver tangible results, including monetary recoveries, cost reduction insights, and analytics and benchmarking tools to its customer base. SpendMend is an expert in its field, having specialised in spend
Waterland Private Equity is selling its interest in the A-ROSA river cruise group to Duke Street. The British company based in London is acquiring all the shares of the European rivers premium cruise specialist together with the existing management team.
“We are delighted to have found in Duke Street a new investor who will push ahead with growth of the A-ROSA river cruise group,” says Jörg Dreisow, Managing Partner at Waterland.
The independent private equity firm acquired a majority share in the leading German river cruise provider in 2009, and has since contributed significantly to the company’s growth and
Barings has sold its investment in Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) to 3i Infrastructure.
Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, WIG is an independent communications infrastructure provider. The Company operates a portfolio of over 2,000 communication towers and is the United Kingdom’s market leader for the deployment of neutral host distributed antenna system networks needed to deliver mobile signals to large public venues. Barings initially made its controlling investment in WIG in December 2012, and the transaction comes as the Company continues to scale up its deployment of high capacity, 5G-ready wireless infrastructure. This includes new communication towers serving rural communities, together with small
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, has invested USD3 million in US-based self-driving taxi service Voyage.
The backing will support Voyage in developing a global service, with the aim that anyone can summon an autonomous vehicle to their door and reach their destination safely. Voyage has already trialled its self-driving taxi service in a gated community in San Jose, California. The company is licensed to test self-driving cars on Californian roads in 2018 and is refining its technology and service with feedback from users.
In this funding round, InMotion Ventures invested alongside Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Initialized
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MeinAuto.de on its investment by Hg.
MeinAuto is a platform for online sales of new cars in Germany, with over 16 million visitors per year and more than 9,000 automotive dealerships connected. MeinAuto’s users are able to select from more than 600 models across 40 OEMs and importers, configure their chosen vehicle and complete their purchase with a prequalified automotive dealership.
The investment is an important development in Europe’s automotive distribution sector, which is experiencing fundamental change as consumers turn increasingly to the online channel to buy new cars. Hg, a
Whitecar, a UK-based electric vehicle car rental company, has secured funding of GBP1.29 million and is now focusing on European expansion to add to its existing outlets at Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Edinburgh airports.
Having launched in 2016, Whitecar has the largest fleet of white Tesla vehicles available to hire across the UK and has disrupted the car rental market by focusing on simplicity, ease and transparency.
Whitecar has simplified the sector by offering one make of car, in one colour, and most importantly, at one all-inclusive price. There is no additional charge for insurance or extra drivers, making
UK FinTech Delio, a specialist in white-label digital private market solutions, has raised a further GBP1 million in a further fund-raising round led by the Development Bank of Wales.
Together with participation from new and existing private investors the investment supports Delio’s ongoing expansion in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
The news comes as the company appoints two key signings to bolster its leadership team. Gareth Morgan, former Chief Risk Officer of HSBC Private Bank in Asia Pacific, joins Delio as Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, while Andy Samuel joins as Chief Technology Officer after holding a number
Funds managed by Searchlight Capital Partners have made a significant investment in EOLO SpA (EOLO) in partnership with the Company’s founder, President and CEO, Luca Spada.
Spada will remain the CEO and a significant shareholder of the Company, which he has led since 1999. Under his leadership, EOLO has a demonstrated track record of delivering high speed broadband connectivity to “digital divide” areas in Northern Italy.
“Our unique business model raised the interest of many investors over time and we are excited to partner with Searchlight, which has strong expertise and a deep relationship network in our industry and
Sodexo has taken a majority stake in French food-tech start-up FoodChéri. The move is in line with Sodexo’s strategy to continually adapt its offers to meet emerging consumer trends and reinvent the customer experience.
Sodexo’s investment enables FoodChéri to consolidate its strategic positioning as a “virtual restaurant” with a focus on serving businesses, and to expand nationally in France. FoodChéri will continue to be managed by its co-founders.
Founded in 2015, FoodChéri now has 70 staff and delivers over 12,000 fresh meals prepared by professional chefs every week, in the Paris metropolitan area. With a healthy, balanced and diversified
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