Allocations
Rotunda Capital Partners (Rotunda) has acquired a majority stake in Siegel Egg Co (Siegel), a wholesale distributor of bakery ingredients and other food products throughout New England and New York.
For nearly 100 years, Siegel has acted as a critical partner to both suppliers and customers in the baking industry, with a dedication to customer service and best-in-class operations. The Company operates out of a 171,000-square-foot facility north of Boston, delivering products from its exclusive and preferred supplier relationships to commercial, in-store, wholesale, and foodservice bakeries throughout the region.
Ken Siegel, CEO, and Amy Siegel Feld will continue with the
Chinese venture capital firm Qiming Venture Partners has promoted Bonnie Wang and Dr Kan Chen to Partner, and Xiaofei Zhou to Vice President.
In addition, the firm has made eight promotions in its finance, legal and administrative support teams.
P97 Networks, a mobile commerce platform provider to the convenience retail, fuels marketing, and automotive industries, has secured USD40 million of venture debt financing from an affiliate of Peak Rock Capital, a middle-market private investment firm.
This new credit facility was designed to support several key growth initiatives at P97.
P97’s Mobility Services platform was developed to support the Connected Economy and address the challenges of a changing mobility landscape by seamlessly powering a vast collection of interoperable ecosystems with payments as a core competency. Beyond commerce, the platform serves as an engagement engine, where payments are tokenised for security
GI Partners and Summit Partners-backed Patriot Growth Insurance Services (Patriot) has added several key partners to its Florida operations, including Kolisch Marine, Depace Insurance, MacLeish Insurance, Focus Insurance Agency, Herndon Carr & Company, and Crosslet Insurance Services.
These six partnerships will work within Patriot’s Shapiro Insurance Group (SIG) platform, and significantly expand Patriot’s expertise and capabilities throughout the Southeast region.
Mobeus has supported the GBP25.5 million management buyout (MBO) of Inbox Insight, a B2B demand generation agency, through a GBP17.7 million investment into the business.
Inbox Insight is a technology-focused provider of content syndication and lead generation services.
The transaction was originated off-market through Mobeus’s relationship with one of the business’s Non-Executive Directors. The deal sees the incumbent MD, Jamie Hendrie, continue with the business supported by a high-quality senior team across the UK and US. The transaction was funded by Mobeus alongside vendor and management rollover, with no third-party debt funding.
The Investment was led by Chris Price and
Connection Capital, a specialist private client alternative investments business, saw its highest ever levels of demand from private investor clients for alternative asset investments last year, raising a record GBP77 million of private capital across its direct private equity and debt transactions and third party managed alternative fund opportunities, in 2021.
Connection Capital clients demonstrated plenty of appetite for direct private equity deals, which included supporting the MBO of fast-growing UK pharmacy group, Pickford’s Pharmacies, and investing in MatOrtho, a specialist UK manufacturer of orthopaedic implants.
Private client investors of Connection Capital were also more likely than in previous years
VitalPath, private investment firm Inverness Graham’s (Inverness) precision catheter and sub-assembly platform, has acquired Modern Catheter Technologies (ModernCath), a provider of complex catheter-based delivery systems for a range of endosurgical and interventional applications with a primary focus on the neurovascular and electrophysiology markets.
ModernCath represents VitalPath’s second add-on acquisition, following the acquisition of VitalDyne in March 2021.
Inverness and VitalPath continue to pursue strategic acquisitions to expand the platforms expertise and capabilities in the precision microcatheter market.
Catalyst Capital, a European real asset investment, development and fund management firm, has acquired a site next to the M1 motorway in Yorkshire for the development of a 100MW battery storage facility.
Catalyst Energy Storage Platform (CESP), headed by John Parsons, has acquired the leasehold interest in a brownfield site at the former Skelton Grange power station, south east of Leeds, from Referent, a renewable energy developer. The site is part of a regional hub for renewable energy and is adjacent to a 19.5-acre waste-to-energy facility, which is currently under construction.
Planning permission was granted last year for a 100MW
Gousto, the only profitable B Corp Unicorn in the UK, has raised USD150 million of new investment in a fundraise that has brought SoftBank VF2 on to the Gousto share register.
Forster Chase Ventures, has assisted SportScientia Pte Ltd in its strategic capital realignment exercise with a view of cementing a longer-term collaboration for future funding.
Forster Chase Ventures also played a significant role in introducing a Non-Executive Director, Avril Millar, who joined the SportScientia board on 1 January, 2022.
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