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Agilitas, a pan-European private equity firm, has completed the buyout of Danoffice IT, a global value-added reseller of Information Technology and Information Systems to international organisations and businesses operating worldwide. Consideration on the transaction is not being disclosed.
Danoffice IT is headquartered in Svendborg, Denmark, with offices in several locations across the globe, providing high-value support to a wide range of international clients with significant cross-border operations and exposure to developing countries. Danoffice IT offers a one-stop-shopping platform with an array of products, services and logistical solutions, backed by professional and certified personnel ready to assist its client’s headquarters or
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has acquired workplace safety and training company Lewellyn Technology from Evolution Capital Partners (Evolution).
This is ACP ’s first platform investment from the business-to-business training and certification thesis ACP launched earlier this year.
Lewellyn is a market leader providing critical, high impact electrical safety training and inspection services such as Arc Flash, Combustible Dust and Lockout/Tagout risk assessments. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Company provides onsite training, hazard assessments, and mitigation for Fortune 1000 companies nationwide through its highly skilled in-house network of engineers and technicians.
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Blue Water Energy has held the final closing of Blue Water Energy Fund II (BWE Fund II), with total commitments over USD1.1 billion, surpassing its target of USD1 billion after securing further commitments from a number of new limited partners.
Blue Water Energy, founded in 2011 by Jerker Johansson, Tom Sikorski and Graeme Sword, closed its inaugural Fund I in May 2013 with USD862 million of commitments and now has a portfolio of eleven companies in this fund. BWE Fund II’s investment strategy will be the same as BWE Fund I; a buy and build strategy focused exclusively on opportunities
Tikehau Capital is to sell its stake in the real-estate promoter Nafilyan & Partners in three stages to the Belgian property developer Immobel.
Tikehau Capital invested a total of approximately EUR8.9 million (including EUR7.7 million in bonds and EUR1.2 million in capital) in Nafilyan & Partners between July 2014 and May 2016 and currently owns a 15 per cent stake in the company before capital increase.
The sale is scheduled to take place in three stages. Following a capital increase by Nafilyan & Partners on 2nd December, Immobel now holds 15 per cent of the company. Immobel will acquire
The days of thinking about single jurisdictions are long gone. When structuring a large private equity fund, for example, it is likely going to contain international investors (the US, Europe, Asia) and is, in effect, a commercial deal between all interested parties to draw down the money. The reality is, different investors have different preferences.
As James Bermingham (pictured), counsel at Ogier (Luxembourg) explains: “Sovereign wealth funds want the most efficient funds possible and are prepared to have no tax leakage. When you start talking to European investors, say German insurance groups who are subject to Solvency II, they want
Chinese business accelerator COMB+ and the Beijing Institute of Collaborative Innovation (BICI) have launched a new Artificial Intelligence Fund with a target size of EUR65 million. The fund will focus on international technology startups entering the Chinese market.
The fund is part of the COMB+ Sino Track accelerator program, which was launched a year ago. Already 19 Nordic startups have participated in the program, which is now expanding globally.
The pitching competition at the event included 10 finalists; the jury selected children’s franchise Dibidogs as the winner, opening a shortcut to the Sino Track program.
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Ascend Capital Partners has made an investment of over EUR24 million in four early stage Finnish technology companies. This investment round is part of Ascend’s major investment in European markets and follows its previous investing success in the auto sector in Luxembourg.
Ascend is in the midst of negotiating additional investments with Finnish and German technology companies which it plans to complete before the end of the year.
This investment round in high-tech companies in Finland focuses on the healthcare and automotive industries. In the healthcare sector, Ascend has invested in Grundium OY, a digital imaging technology company producing
EagleTree Capital (EagleTree), on behalf of its private equity fund EagleTree Partners IV, has acquired a majority stake in WaterFleet, a specialist in mobile water and wastewater treatment solutions, from several existing shareholders, including founders Alan R Pyle and Allison C Pyle.
As part of the transaction, the existing shareholders will retain a significant minority stake in WaterFleet, and the entire management team, including both founders, will continue to lead the Company. Co-investors, including Stars Investment Management Co., are also investing alongside EagleTree. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed
WaterFleet is an industry-leading, full-service provider of mobile water
Envisagenics, a biotechnology company that applies Artificial Intelligence to the genetic sequence of patients to discover new therapies, has raised USD2.35 million in a seed funding round.
The investors include Third Kind Venture Capital (3KVC), Cosine, LLC (NYC biotech investors), Dolby Family Ventures, Dynamk Capital, NY Empire State Development (ESD), and SV Angel.
Envisagenics’ proprietary discovery platform, SpliceCoreTM, can identify new ribonucleic acid (RNA) targets and design new drugs to correct RNA splicing errors in cancer and genetic diseases. Envisagenics launched their commercial product, SpliceCore, at Unboxing on 19 October, 2017, featuring pitches and demos from Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs
Healthcare-focused Venture capital firm Flare Capital Partners has made an investment in VisitPay, the provider of a technology solution used by major US healthcare systems with total net patient revenue of USD30 billion.
Gary Gottlieb, an Executive Partner at Flare Capital and former CEO at Partners HealthCare, commented: “As the consumer share of payments skyrockets, VisitPay provides a uniquely patient and provider centred solution to engagement and billing.”
With origins in consumer finance, VisitPay equips hospital systems with powerful segmentation and analytics tools while empowering patient consumers with an easy to use solution for managing their healthcare bills. The
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