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Céréa Capital II has acquired, from Azulis Capital, Store Novation (with its two main subsidiaries Sitour and Caractères), a French leader in point-of-sale advertising solutions (signage, price labelling, merchandising, and in-store theatre material), mainly for large-scale food retailers.
With sales of nearly EUR40 million and roughly 150 employees, Store Novation offers a wide range of over 3 500 products to more than 7 500 clients (distributers and advertisers). Specialised to accompany large food business brands and their distributors, the group is active in France and exports to more than 50 countries.
Store Novation has seen strong organic growth since the management
China Everbright and Walden International Group have launched Walden CEL Global Fund I, a specially designed private equity fund that will invest in companies operating in the semiconductor and industrial information technology sectors.
Chen Shuang, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of CEL, and Mr Hing Wong, Managing Director of Walden International Group, attended the launch ceremony.
Walden CEL Global Fund I will concentrate on investing in business entities along the semiconductor and electronic information supply chain including but not limited to microchips, artificial intelligence, as well as hardware and software integration. With a target size of USD500 million,
Kayne Partners has held the final close of its latest growth private equity fund, Kayne Partners Fund IV at its hard cap of USD385 million.
The fund maintains the same focus as its three predecessor funds in providing growth capital to exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams of high growth enterprise software and technology-enabled businesses, and is primarily focused on companies serving the security & compliance, supply chain & logistics, business & financial services, industrials, healthcare and media & telecom industries.
Kayne Partners’ total cumulative commitments have now reached over USD740 million since inception.
“We are thrilled by the
LoHi Merchant Bank, a middle market investment bank, has completed the acquisition of Andrews Securities, a FINRA registered broker dealer with over 20 licensed representatives in 10 states.
The acquisition now brings together the two synergistic firms under the management of LoHi Merchant Bank co-founders Bobbi Babitz and Brett Story. The business, to be renamed LoHi Securities, offers tailored compliance services for independent investment bankers, banking teams and alternative investment funds.
The acquisition will further fuel LoHi Securities’ growth across the country and allow it to attract larger investment banking teams as well as top-tier placement agents working with
NewAlpha Asset Management, via its dedicated fintech venture capital fund, has acted as the lead investor in the Wiztopic’s USD4.4 million fund raising round – its first investment in a Franco-American company.
Created in Paris in 2014 by Jérôme Lascombe and Raphaël Labbé, Wiztopic is the publisher of an SaaS solution dedicated to corporate and financial communication executives. Wiztopic’s platform helps them to streamline content management, SEO, social and multichannel distribution, stakeholder relationships and performance assessment, in full compliance with their sectors’ constraints.
Alongside NewAlpha Asset Management, business angels from the financial sector also participated, namely Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier (Saxo
MMC Ventures’ MMC London Fund has secured more than GBP100 million of investment into a portfolio of 19 fast growing London businesses in the five years since its launch.
The MMC London Fund focuses on early-stage London-based businesses that can generate significant levels of economic growth and create jobs in the capital. The GBP14 million technology co-investment fund – of which GBP9 million was provided by the Mayor of London – was designed to be matched by private investors ensuring at least GBP28 million would be channelled into high-growth SMEs in London.
To date the Fund has directly invested GBP12.5
One Equity Partners’ portfolio company Lutech, a Italian IT system integration and solutions provider, has completed its acquisition of Milan-based system integration and IT infrastructure provider Sinergy.
Headquartered in Segrate, Milan, Sinergy focuses on data centres and providing complete solutions for the design, development and management of business-critical ICT infrastructure. Founded in 1994, the company has more than 20 years of experience and is among the leading system integration players in the Italian market. With its unique positioning concentrated entirely around data cetres, Sinergy offers vast expertise to help its customers prepare for the challenges facing modern IT systems.
United PF Partners (United PF), the largest Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) franchisee, has completed two add-on acquisitions of Planet Fitness franchisees in the Phoenix and New Orleans markets, increasing its operating club count by 11 clubs to 78 across 10 states.
In November 2016, JLM Financial Partners (JLM) and Eagle Merchant Partners (Eagle) created United PF with 59 operating clubs.
Founded in 1992 in Dover, NH, Planet Fitness, home of the Judgement Free Zone, is one of the largest and fastest growing franchisors and operators of fitness clubs with more than 1,400 clubs and over 10 million members. Planet
Tesi, in co-operation with Finnish institutional investors Ilmarinen, Keva, VER, Elo, LähiTapiola and Fennia, has established a new fund-of-funds KRR III.
Similar to its predecessors, KRR III invests in Finnish venture capital and small buyout funds. Its total capital is EUR150 million.
”KRR is a great example of collaboration between Tesi and Finnish pension and insurance companies to ensure that Finnish companies are able to raise capital to grow on international markets. KRR plays a significant role in accelerating the growth of these companies,” says Mika Lintilä, Minister of Economic Affairs.
In 2009-2017, KRR I and KRR II invested
NewAlpha has teamed with Societe Generale, Crédit Municipal de Paris and Exton Consulting to launch of Swave, the first physical incubator, entirely dedicated to fintech firms and managed by Paris&Co with the support of the French government.
This new platform, fostering “innovation”, will offer 2,500 sq m of office space in the Grande Arche, in the heart of La Défense. The objective is not only to create an innovation-friendly business environment but to attract European FinTech firms to La Défense which is Paris’ main financial district.
Swave will work closely with the research and higher education bodies (Institut Louis
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