Allocations
The Riverside Company has sold Kyjen (Outward Hound), a designer and distributor of interactive pet toys which promote mental and physical wellbeing of pets, in addition to pet accessories such as travel gear, games and life jackets.
Its products are sold under the Outward Hound, Petstages, Dublin Dog, Bionic and Nina Ottosson brands.
Riverside helped Outward Hound expand in a number of ways during its roughly four year hold, including investing in sales, marketing, and branding initiatives. Also key to the growth were the add-on acquisitions of Petstages, Dublin Dog, Bionic Pet Products and Zoo Active, which delivered new
Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle-market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co, has committed over USD1 billion to private equity sponsors in support of healthcare sector transactions in the middle market. Since inception, Twin Brook has closed on 42 healthcare transactions.
Trevor Clark and Chris Williams, Co-Heads of Twin Brook, says: “We are thrilled to support our private equity sponsor clients investing in U.S. middle market healthcare companies. Deploying more than USD1 billion in the healthcare sector is a significant milestone and we look forward to putting more capital to work over the long-term.”
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WorldQuant Ventures has made an investment in Sequentum, a web data extraction and web automation software development company.
WorldQuant Ventures’ investment will allow Sequentum to scale its business operations in the United States and expedite the launch of new technologies including a cloud version of “Content Grabber,” the company’s data extraction software.
“We believe that Sequentum’s Content Grabber technology is best in class and separates Sequentum from its competitors,” said Steven Lau, Managing Director of WorldQuant Ventures. “Our investment will drive the company’s growth as it reaches a critical inflection point in its development trajectory.” WorldQuant Ventures is joined
LSP has held the first and final closing at EUR280 million (USD 330 million) of its new medical technology fund, the LSP Health Economics Fund 2 (LSP HEF 2).
The fund was oversubscribed and exceeded both its target size and its original ‘hard cap’, making LSP HEF 2 the largest fund in Europe dedicated to medical technology. The investment strategy of LSP HEF 2 follows on from the first LSP Health Economics Fund, to fund innovation that has the potential to both improve the quality of patient care while also keeping healthcare costs under control, thus helping to make healthcare
Synopsys has completed its acquisition of Black Duck Software, a privately held leader in automated solutions for securing and managing open source software, in a deal worth USD547 million.
Software development is undergoing sweeping and rapid change, including the increasing use of open source software (OSS), which makes up 60 per cent or more of the code in today’s applications. While the use of open source code lowers development costs and speeds time to market, it has been accompanied by significant security and license-compliance challenges, because most organisations lack visibility into the OSS in use.
Black Duck’s industry-leading products
IntelliShop AG, a software and solution provider for B2B eCommerce, will be supported by a new lead investor.
An investor consortium advised by IMCap has acquired the majority IntelliShop AG, a software and solution provider for B2B eCommerce.
The transaction will also make additional growth capital available to the Karlsruhe-based software company. The successful management team led by CEO Thomas Mondelli will remain on board. The parties involved have agreed to not disclose any information on the purchase price or further terms of the transaction.
The company will keep its focus on development and marketing of the IntelliShop
Alternative investment manager FS Investments is to create a joint venture with EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG), a global alternative investment firm focused on energy and energy-related infrastructure.
The joint venture is expected to create a platform with the scale, flexibility and energy industry expertise to offer energy and infrastructure companies flexible financing solutions across the capital structure. As a result, following the formation of the venture, the FS Investments/EIG team expects to generate enhanced deal flow – particularly directly originated deals – that positions the portfolio to create long term value for FS Energy and Power Fund (FSEP) investors.
Senseye Limited has raised GBP3.5 million at the close of a Series A funding round led by MMC Ventures, a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high growth companies. The round was also supported by existing investors Breed Reply, IQ Capital and Momenta Partners.
Named NMI Emerging Tech Company of the Year 2016, and highly commended for ‘Tech Business of the Year’ in the 2016 startups.co.uk awards, the company will use the capital to meet fast-growing customer demand for its Senseye automated condition monitoring diagnostics and prognostics product – the leading-edge software solution that enables industrial companies to easily predict the failure of machines months in advance.
Senseye’s cloud-based
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has exited its investment in SPS (EU) Holdings Limited (SPS), delivering a 3x return on funds invested in 2014.
This transaction is the second profitable exit for Maven investors in as many months, following the sale of Crawford Scientific for 4.7x the initial investment in October.
SPS is the UK’s largest provider of promotional merchandise, supplying over 2,000 independent distributors in the UK and Europe. The Company operates out of a 90,000ft 2 site in Blackpool with manufacturing, branding and storage facilities, with two additional sites in Oxfordshire and Derbyshire. SPS
HIG Growth Partners (HIG), a dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has completed a strategic investment in Carlton One Engagement (Carlton), a global technology company specialising in the development of SaaS based solutions for global engagement, sales incentive, loyalty and reward management.
The Company’s two business segments include Power2Motivate (P2M), a SaaS enterprise engagement software for motivating, measuring, and rewarding desired behaviour, and Global Reward Solutions (GRS), a global reward platform with over 600 suppliers across more than 180 countries and territories.
“We are very excited to partner with HIG, whose domain expertise, extensive global resource base
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