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View, a specialist in dynamic glass, has completed a financing round of over USD200 million, including a USD70 million investment from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
“We are delighted to be supported by BlackRock, who recognizes View’s potential to transform the real estate industry,” says View CEO Rao Mulpuri. “View is now installed across 20 million square feet of buildings and continues to experience tremendous growth across commercial offices, healthcare, education, multi-family residential, and airports. This investment enables us to scale our operations to meet rapidly growing demand.”
View enables building owners to improve people’s comfort and productivity
Kirkland & Ellis and Sidley Austin have advised Accuride Corporation, a US-based supplier of components to the commercial vehicle industry, on the acquisition of Mefro Wheels. The transaction is still subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities.
The addition of Mefro Wheels will strengthen Accuride’s position for future growth as a supplier of wheel end solutions to the global commercial vehicle industry. The combination will create a global supplier of commercial vehicle wheels and wheel end components for commercial vehicles with a total of around 5,000 employees at 15 manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, Russia and the Asia-Pacific
Kent-based Unity Media and its sister company, Unity Exhibitions, have been acquired by Mark Allen Group (MAG) for an undisclosed sum.
Unity Media publishes a number of market leading brands in the built environment. They include: Roofing, Cladding & Insulation (RCI), Glass & Glazing, Heating & Plumbing Monthly, Building Products and Your Build.
At the same time, Unity Exhibitions Ltd organises the successful annual RCI Show, to be next held in November at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
This is the second acquisition MAG has made this year and follows the purchase two months ago of the largest special educational
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD30 million asset-based facility for general corporate purposes and working capital for Arhaus.
Based in Boston Heights, Ohio, Arhaus, LLC is a home furnishings retailer offering slipcovered, leather and custom-order seating, dining tables and chairs, bedroom furniture, outdoor and office furniture, seasonal accessories and bedding.
The retailer currently operates 68 stores across the United States.
Realza Capital, a private equity group focused on the middle market segment, has sold its investment in GTT in a secondary buyout to a group formed by GED, Oquendo and the company’s management team.
Realza Capital had acquired GTT in November 2012 through its fund Realza Capital I. It made a cash on cash return of 3.2x and an IRR of 35.3 per cent on this investment.
Founded in February 1998, Gestión Tributaria Territorial provides expert advisory, consulting, collaboration in management, training services and development of IT systems in the area of tax management for local public entities. It
BioGeneration Ventures (BGV), a early stage life sciences venture capital firm, has secured investments from the European Investment Fund (EIF) and other new investors in BGV III, taking the fund’s total capital commitments to EUR66 million.
The Fund is supported by the “InnovFin – EU Finance for Innovators” initiative under Horizon 2020 and the European Fund for Strategic Investments.
The new fund will build on the track record of the first two BGV funds which yielded major successes including Dezima Pharma and Acerta Pharma. BGV was founding investor in both companies which were sold within three years at multi-billion
MUSO has raised GBP2.5 million in Series A funding from Harwell Capital. The investment will be used to expand the company’s current capabilities around sales and marketing, as well as bolster its technology and operations infrastructure and support.
MUSO tracked more than 191 billion global visits to websites hosting unlicensed content in 2016 alone. It is a problem that the entertainment and publishing industries have struggled to solve as traditional solutions have focused on a small proportion of the market. MUSO’s approach is unique as it provides an all-encompassing overview of the entire piracy market, ensuring content protection strategies are
NewAlpha Asset Management (NewAlpha) has closed its first venture capital fund with capital commitments of EUR56 million including an EUR15 million investment by the French Tech Acceleration fund, managed by Bpifrance as part of the French Tech initiative and financed by the Investments for the Future Programme (PIA).
The fund, targeted at French institutional investors (banks, insurers, pension funds), aims to build and develop a diversified portfolio of innovative FinTech and InsurTech startups. Additionally, it allows limited partners to keep a close eye on the technological changes affecting banking, insurance and asset management.
Primarily invested in un-listed French FinTechs,
Consumer product brand JML has acquired health and beauty goods start-up Brand Evangelists in a deal worth GBP2.3 million.
JML, which was founded in 1986, is a UK-based company specialising in retail promotions, TV home shopping and e-commerce. A spokesperson said today that it had acquired a 51 per cent stake in Brand Evangelists, who specialise in health and beauty products aimed at a young demographic.
“This acquisition is complementary to JML in that we share the core principle of products that require demonstrations and have mass appeal. However, the key differentiator is that Brand Evangelists market their products
Satori Capital has made a USD10 million investment in The Lovesac Company.
Satori, a Dallas/Fort Worth multi-strategy investment firm committed to the principles of conscious capitalism, served as the anchor investor in the current bridge round of financing. Mistral Equity Partners, which has provided growth capital to Lovesac since 2010, also invested in this bridge round.
Lovesac is a “new economy” e-commerce furniture retailer and high-end lifestyle brand whose most popular products include modular couches (Sactionals) and durafoam bean bags (Sacs). Lovesac’s Sactionals and Sacs are flexible, durable, washable, and shippable on short notice by FedEx and UPS.
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