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Pure Harvest Smart Farms (Pure Harvest), a tech-enabled arid climate agribusiness based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has secured seed investment of USD4.5 million in a financing round that was significantly oversubscribed.
This follows an earlier USD1.1 million pre-seed round led by Abu Dhabi-based Shorooq Investments.
Venture financing was provided by a leading federal government-backed fund, the Company’s technology partners, and a consortium of Angel investors from around the world, all of whom were strongly aligned with the Company’s mission – to offer a true & tangible food security solution to the region by deploying advanced
Trilantic Europe, a private equity firm focused on mid-market transactions in Europe, has acquired Oberberg Group, an operator of psychotherapy, psychiatry and psychosomatic acute clinics in Germany, with a focus on treatments for depression and addictions.
The transaction allows Trilantic Europe to invest in a leading and specialised healthcare operator in the German private psychotherapy market based on an attractive portfolio of clinics and a unique therapy concept.
Oberberg Group operates nine clinics at eight locations with approximately 560 beds focused on privately insured patients. The clinics operate under different brands including Oberberg Kliniken, SOMNIA Privatkliniken, Rhein-Jura Klinik and
Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services to alternative investment managers, is to acquire Cortland Capital Markets Services (Cortland) in the US. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Chicago and with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Austin, Indianapolis, and China, Cortland is a leading independent investment servicing company providing third – party fund administration and middle and back – office outsourcing to financial institutions, including alternative investment managers, real estate private equity firms and cred it funds. It currently has over USD180 billion of assets under administration. The firm was founded
Sixth Element Capital (6EC), a UK based fund manager established to manage investments for the GBP70 million CRT Pioneer Fund, has made a GBP3 million investment in NeoPhore Ltd, a spin out from Cambridge, UK based PhoreMost Ltd.
NeoPhore is focused on the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapies to treat cancer through stimulation of the immune system. The investment will be used to build on the discoveries already made by PhoreMost and its collaborators. NeoPhore’s drug target rationale is highly validated by genetic evidence in cancer patients and cellular models.
NeoPhore aims to exploit novel biological
Actic International, a holding company owned by the IK 2007 Fund, is to sell 6,647,078 shares in Actic Group AB (Actic) to nine high quality Swedish investors, including Athanase Industrial Partner (Athanase).
As a result, Athanase, a cornerstone investor in the listing of Actic, will increase its holding in Actic from approximately 7.9 per cent to 15.4 per cent of the total number of shares outstanding. The IK 2007 Fund, meanwhile, advised by IK Investment Partners, will no longer own any shares in Actic.
SEB acted as Sole Bookrunner in the transaction.
Funds managed by Inflexion Private Equity have acquired Atcore Group (Atcore), a leading travel technology company which provides specialist software platforms for the global leisure travel sector.
With clients such as TUI, Thomas Cook and Mark Warner, Atcore comprises of two principal platforms, Atcom and Tigerbay. Atcom designs, builds and maintains reservation software for leading global tour operators. Its proprietary reservation system is highly complex, and supports sophisticated business models which allow clients to manage large volumes of search requests, optimise customer experience and enhance profitability. Tigerbay serves specialist travel companies. It operates a dynamic, flexible, end to end platform
Italmatch Chemicals Group (Italmatch) is to acquire Detrex for USD27 a share in cash following the agreement of a merger deal between the two companies.
Under the terms of the Merger Agreement dated 10 November, 2017, each share of Detrex common stock outstanding immediately prior to the merger will be converted into and exchanged for the right to receive USD27.00 in cash. The merger consideration represents an 8 per cent premium over the closing bid price of Detrex’s common stock as quoted on the website of OTC Markets Group on 9 November, 2017, and a 9 per cent premium over
OMERS Private Equity, the private equity investment arm of the OMERS pension plan has entered into an agreement with Ardian to acquire a majority stake in Trescal, a specialist in calibration services.
The proposed transaction, which values the Company at approximately EUR670 million, is fully supported by Trescal’s management team headed by its CEO Olivier Delrieu. The proposed transaction will see the senior management make an equity reinvestment into Trescal alongside OMERS Private Equity.
The proposed transaction remains subject to several conditions including customary approvals by the antitrust authorities and signing of a definitive agreement. Headquartered in Paris, France Trescal operates across more than 110
Roynat Equity Partners has sold internet access business NetSet to Xplornet Communications (Xplornet). Based in Brandon, Manitoba, NetSet provides next generation broadband services throughout the province of Manitoba.
Xplornet will maintain the NetSet Communications trade name and will retain virtually all of NetSet’s employees and business operations in both Brandon and Winnipeg.
Roynat Equity Partners has been a shareholder of NetSet since 2014, providing value-added capital to help the company rapidly grow its geographic footprint and subscriber base throughout the province.
Rosewood Private Investments (RPI) has acquired a majority equity in ProTec Laboratory (ProTec), a provider of contract manufacturing services to consumer brands in the dietary supplements, sports nutrition, functional foods, and pet care products industries.
The investment in ProTec represents the third within RPI’s holding company, International Nutrition & Wellness Holdings (INW Holdings), and the second this year under INW Holdings CEO Paul Richardson. In July, INW acquired Irving, Texas-based contract manufacturer, Healthy Natural, Inc. (Healthy Natural), from Rice-Bran Technologies. INW also holds an ownership stake in United I International Laboratories (“United I”), a Carrollton, Texas-based manufacturer of dietary supplements, sports nutrition and personal care products. Together the companies offer an array of manufacturing capabilities and serve
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