Allocations
BigTime Software, a provider of cloud-based software for professional services firms, has secured a USD100 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
Global alternative investment firm Värde Partners has agreed to sell its 52 per cent stake in Trastor REIC (Trastor), a real estate investment company, to Piraeus Bank for EUR98 million. The deal will take Piraeus Bank’s total shareholding to 97 per cent.
Trastor owns a portfolio of 59 real estate assets in Greece with a gross asset value of over EUR315 million across the retail, office and logistics sectors, comprising more than 238,000 sq m of total leasable area.
Värde Partners initially bought its stake in June 2016, in a deal that formed part of Piraeus Bank’s wider restructuring
StepStone Group, a secondaries investor across private markets, has recapitalised early-stage venture capital investor Vertex Ventures Israel’s (Vertex Israel) Vertex Israel Fund IV (Fund IV).
StepStone was the sole investor in the GP-led strip sale transaction, valued at approximately USD160 million, inclusive of future commitments.
The transaction provides partial liquidity to existing Fund IV limited partners while allowing both Vertex and its fund investors to realise further upside as the portfolio’s assets mature.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Augusoft, a specialist in enrolment management for continuing and corporate education programmes.
The RMA Group of Companies (RMA), a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, has merged with Western Technologies, Inc and Enviro-Drill (collectively, Western Technologies or WT).
The combined group will provide technology-enabled laboratory testing, inspection, and quality management services for critical infrastructure end-markets.
Ed Lyon, RMA’s President and CEO, will lead the newly combined business, supported by an experienced management team consisting of leaders from both RMA and WT. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
11:11 Systems (11:11), a managed infrastructure solutions provider, has completed the acquisition of iland, a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS).
11:11 Systems also recently acquired Green Cloud Defense, a channel-only, cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider. By adding iland’s steady 25 per cent YOY momentum to 11:11 Systems’ expanding national network of MSPs, VARs and IT consultants, a hyper growth pathway has been created.
Eurazeo has held the second closing of the Eurazeo Smart City II Venture fund1 at EUR150 million with new institutional and corporate partners in Europe and Asia.
After the success of its initial closing at EUR80 million in 2021, this second closing brings together top-tier institutional and corporate investors including European Investment Fund (EIF), the Korean Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC), Momentum Venture Capital (SMRT, Singapore), SCG (Thailand) and SWK the German electric utility. These new partners join an already strong group in Europe and Asia which includes French, German, and Asian groups such as carmaker Stellantis, electric utilities EDF and
Atar Capital, a Los Angeles-based global private investment firm, has acquired the assets of Metco Landscape (Metco) a privately owned landscape company in Colorado and a provider of landscape maintenance and development services across the state.
This is Atar Capital’s sixth transaction in 2021, with four completed in the month of December alone. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Atar’s investment team for the transaction included Founder and Managing Partner Cyrus Nikou, Senior Managing Director Robert Lezec, Managing Directors Stanley Huang and Vijay Mony and Director TJ McCaffrey. Dykema provided legal counsel, GHJ provided tax advisory services
Anitian, a provider of pre-engineered cloud security and compliance automation solutions, has raised USD55 million in a Series B round led by Silicon Valley-based Sageview Capital with participation from existing investor, Forgepoint Capital.
The financing round brings Anitian’s total funding to USD71 million.
The new capital will be used to fuel the company’s expansion and further transformation of the cloud security and compliance automation industries. As part of this new round of funding, Ned Gilhuly, Co-Founder and Partner at Sageview Capital, will be joining Anitian’s Board of Directors.
Anitian closed its Series A funding led by Forgepoint Capital in February
Biotech company ONI has closed a USD75 million Series B funding round led by RCH Venture Partners and Casdin Capital.
Section 32, ARTIS Ventures, Vertical Venture Partners, Axon Ventures and private investors, including Paul Conley also participated, along with existing investors, including Oxford Science Enterprises, also participated in the round.
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