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Black Swan Data has closed its Series B funding, raising a total of GBP6.2 million. The round sees Albion Ventures join initial institutional investors Blackstone and Mitsui, to help further accelerate Black Swan’s international growth and expansion of its product platform, ‘The Nest’.
Founded in 2011 by Steve King (CEO) and Hugo Amos (CSO), Black Swan has achieved outstanding growth based on its unique capability of applying big data and predictive data science techniques to consumer marketing.
It works with many of the world's leading consumer-focused brands including PepsiCo, Vodafone, Samsung, Disney and Panasonic, to help them think differently
Less than a year after the creation of its buy-and-build platform, Alliance Etiquettes has acquired Imprimerie D3, its fourth build-up acquisition.
Founded in 1987, Imprimerie D3 is located in Cépie, in the Languedoc-Roussillon Midi-Pyrénées region, in the department of Aude.
Led by Anthony Gleize, the company has 16 professionals.
Imprimerie D3 joins the Alliance Etiquettes Group, chaired by Olivier Laulan and hitherto composed of Groupe Laulan, Groupe Enes and Maumy Impression.
Laulan says: "We are delighted to welcome the Imprimerie D3 team to the Alliance Etiquettes Group thereby strengthening our presence in this important French wine region.
HIG Bayside Capital, the distressed debt and special situation affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital (HIG), has closed the HIG Bayside Loan Opportunity Fund IV with aggregate capital commitments of USD1.1 billion, exceeding its USD1.0 billion target.
The fund will continue HIG’s investment strategy of focusing on investments in small-cap special situation credit opportunities in the US.
Sami Mnaymneh (pictured) and Tony Tamer, co-chief executives of HIG, say: “We are grateful for the support from our investors for this offering. The strong response to the fund reflects their confidence in the capability of our team and our differentiated
Legal & General Capital, through LGV Capital, has agreed terms to sell its majority interest in The Liberation Group to Caledonia Investments in a transaction valuing the company at GBP118 million.
Liberation is held principally on behalf of the with-profits fund for customers.
Completion is expected over the course of the summer, and Caledonia is backing the existing management team.
Legal & General Capital focuses its investments in four key sectors: UK housing, UK urban regeneration, clean energy and SME finance. These reflect its aim to invest for the long term in economically and socially useful assets, securing
Asset International, which is backed by private equity firm Genstar Capital, has closed its acquisition of Market Metrics and Matrix Solutions, data and research firms for adviser-sold investments and insurance worldwide.
The acquisition broadens Asset International’s portfolio of proprietary, actionable data, insights and business intelligence. Through this acquisition, Asset International is now the one-stop shop for data and insights supporting product innovation, manufacturing, sales and distribution for the asset management and insurance communities, as well as providing market surveillance solutions and marketing channels for this community.
The Market Metrics and Matrix Solutions acquisition expands Asset International’s deep proprietary asset
Apricus Biosciences has entered into a common stock purchase agreement with Aspire Capital Fund.
Aspire Capital will complete an initial purchase of 2,531,645 shares of common stock for proceeds of USD1.0 million and has committed to purchase up to USD6.0 million in additional shares of common stock over the next 24 months at prices based on the market price at the time of each sale.
No warrants are associated with this agreement.
"This agreement with Aspire Capital will enable Apricus to sell shares from time-to-time on market-based terms to a committed, long-time investor," says Richard Pascoe, CEO
Chicago-based private equity firm NextGen Growth Partners (NGP) has held the first closing of its inaugural fund.
The goal of the first close is to create a solid base for the firm’s entrepreneurs-in-residence (EIR) to begin targeting industries, sourcing and acquiring companies in the lower middle market.
Founded in early 2016, NGP pins its early success on the collaboration between some of Chicago’s most distinguished investment minds. NGP’s business model is to identify and mentor top talent within Chicago’s world-class entrepreneurial community to serve as the leaders of growing lower middle market companies across the country post-acquisition.
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Mid-market private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe has acquired a majority stake in Camusat Group following the exit of MBO Partenaires, a minority shareholder alongside management since 2011.
Richard Thomas, CEO of Camusat, Eric Braghini, partner, and several members of the management team will reinvest in the group as part of this transaction.
Headquartered in Dijon, France, Camusat specialises in the implementation and maintenance of telecom infrastructure networks for fixed and mobile telecommunications operators, equipment manufacturers, integrators, and ‘Towercos’. The group is organised around three main business units: design and installation of telecom towers, monitoring and maintenance services, and
Trivest Partners has held the first and final closing of the Trivest Growth Investment Fund (TGIF) with USD225 million of total equity capital commitments.
TGIF is Trivest’s 11th overall fund, sixth institutional fund and fourth fund focused on founder/family-owned investments.
TGIF will target growth and non-control investments among founder-owned businesses.
Due to strong support from Trivest’s existing investors, plus a few new limited partners, TGIF more than doubled its original target of USD100 million. The fund includes a mix of limited partners including endowments, corporate and public pensions, insurance companies, fund of funds, family offices and individuals. Additionally,
LeapFrog Investments’ portfolio companies now employ 102,438 people in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
“Nothing sustains a family more than a secure job. Each job typically supports a family of five in our focus countries, while benefiting the wider community,” says Dr Andrew Kuper, LeapFrog’s CEO and founder. “For the past three years, our financial services companies have grown revenue on average by 43 per cent, creating jobs at a breathtaking pace. This is profit-with-purpose capitalism at scale.”
The jobs figure is double the commitment LeapFrog made at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2012, to support 50,000 jobs by
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