Allocations
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Signal Vine, a higher education-focused text messaging platform.
The investment is an add-on to Riverside’s Modern Campus, a learner engagement platform for higher education institutions. The investment will enable colleges and universities to modernise learner engagement with personalisation at scale, supporting optimal enrolment, completion and student success.
Genesys Capital has appointed Dr Maxime Ranger as a Venture Partner. Later this year, he will transition from this role into the role of General Partner of Genesys Ventures IV LP.
Genesys has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Ranger as he has co-created and provided leadership to three biopharma companies alongside Genesys over the past 15 years, including most recently having co-founded and currently serving as CEO of Genesys portfolio company, Giiant Pharma.
Funds advised by alternative credit provider Permira Credit are acting as sole senior secured lender to CVC Capital Partners on its acquisition of Rayner Surgical Group (Rayner).
The support highlights Permira Credit’s focus on high-quality, growing businesses and builds on Permira’s proven track record of investing in the healthcare sector.
Founded in 1910, Rayner is a designer and manufacturer of advanced technology Intraocular Lenses (IOLs) for ophthalmic products.
The Permira Credit funds are supporting Rayner’s acquisition of Omeros Corporation’s ophthalmology assets, including Omidria.
Babcock International Group (Babcock) has sold its overhead line Power business to M Group Services (MGS) for a gross cash consideration of GBP50 million.
M Group Services is the growing UK infrastructure services group backed by international private equity firm PAI Partners.
Following the sale, the Power business will form part of the MGS’ Morrison Energy Services division.
Marigny Investments, a Denver-based private equity firm, has acquired The Gauge House, a distributor of measurement and instrumentation equipment.
The Gauge House, based in Lafayette, Louisiana, distributes gauges, valves, regulators, tubing, and fittings. Ryan Elwell, who acquired the company in 2000, will continue to lead The Gauge House.
UMB Bank provided debt financing and Nelson Mullins served as legal counsel for Marigny Investments.
Evangeline Securities served as financial advisor and Babineaux Poche Anthony & Slavich served as legal counsel for The Gauge House.
Cherry Tree Dental (Cherry Tree), a Midwest USA dental service organisation backed by private equity firm ICV Parthjers (ICV) has made three acquisitions,Downtown Dental Associates and Robert J Kingston, DDS in Minneapolis and Fairmont Family Dentistry, in Fairmont, Minnesota.
ICV Partners, a Miami-based investment firm that focuses on lower middle market companies in business services, consumer goods & services, food & beverage, and healthcare, made a majority investment in Cherry Tree, in partnership with Co-CEOs Steve Sorrel and Jack Young, in February 2021.
Sustainable Omega-3 producer AlgaeCytes (comprising of UK based AlgaeCytes Ltd and its wholly owned subsidiary AlgaeCytes Germany GmbH) has secured EUR5 million in funding from German private equity provider IBG Risikokapitalfonds III GmbH & Co, plus an EUR11 million commitment from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s GRW investment programme.
Security awareness platform vendor SoSafe has raised USD73 million in a Series B funding round led by expansion-stage specialists Highland Europe.
Existing investors Acton Capital and Global Founders Capital were joined by SAP Hybris founder and Celonis Advisory Board member Carsten Thoma together with La Famiglia as well as Adjust founder Christian Henschel as participants.
With its agile and human-centric security awareness platform, SoSafe takes a uniquely user-centered approach to cyber security.
With 85 per cent of security attacks traced back to a human factor, the SoSafe awareness platform uses insights from behavioural science to drive sustainable behavioural change.
Texthelp, a specialist in literacy and accessibility technology, backed by private equity firm Five Arrows, is to acquire the Education Technology Division of Don Johnston Inc, a US-based assistive technology and special education curriculum company.
Don Johnston Inc is the latest Assistive Technology provider to join the Texthelp Group. Following Five Arrows’ investment in December 2020, Texthelp acquired Lingit Group and Wizkids in 2021, expanding the company’s reach in the Nordics and the UK. Texthelp’s goal is to use its assistive technology to help 1 billion people with reading, writing, and numeracy by 2030.
Eurazeo has acquired an 80 per cent equity interest in Ikaros Solar, a Belgian solar PV company, from its founders and Capenergie 2, a fund managed by Omnes Capital.
Ikaros Solar is the first investment of Eurazeo’s infrastructure team in line with its mandate to invest in the energy and digital transition and contribute to a low-carbon and sustainable economy. Eurazeo has committed to invest up to EUR45 million.
Ikaros Solar develops, builds, owns and operates rooftop and ground mounted solar PV power plants across Benelux, France, Portugal and the UK. Eurazeo will support the company by providing growth
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