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youAPPi has secured USD1m in funding from Glilot Capital Partners, an Israeli-based early stage venture capital firm.
Founded in late 2011, youAPPi resolves the most critical and urgent problem within the mobile eco-system, identifying, matching and connecting the best mobile applications to the most relevant users. youAPPi provides a fully managed mobile application recommendation platform which drives publisher’s revenue and increases mobile users’ engagement.
Glilot is also opening up its professional network and experience to youAPPi, which will augment its investment in the company’s growth. The raised capital will specifically be used to extend youAPPi’s matching and mobile
BaltCap has signed a EUR1.5m investment in PostService Group, a Latvian private postal operator and developer of automated last mile delivery solutions.
PostService Group is the largest privately-owned postal operator in Latvia and the market leader of unaddressed mail. With forty “Mana Pasta Stacija” parcel delivery and shipment terminals in all largest cities, PostService Group is the leading operator of automated parcel delivery and shipment terminals. In addition, the group develops and exports automated parcel terminals to satisfy the needs of other postal operators and courier companies as well as companies from other industries where parcel deliveries are crucial.
MIR Capital, a private equity fund formed by Gazprombank and Intesa Sanpaolo, has made its first investment by acquiring a non-controlling stake in Packer Service Group.
Packer Service Group is a Russian company specialising in hi-tech services and solutions for some of the largest oil and gas companies. The investment will be used towards developing Packer Service Group, and particularly for the acquisition of new, advanced technology equipment which will enable the company to expand its range of services.
The investment, made within one of the most strategic sectors of the Russian economy, is the first result of the
Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, has completed an investment in BioAgilytix Labs, a contract bioanalytical laboratory specialising in large molecule biologic drugs.
Riverside Partners’ investment was completed in partnership with the BioAgilytix founders and management team.
Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, BioAgilytix provides outsourced laboratory services to customers within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and agriculture industries. By developing, optimising and conducting bioanalytic testing, the company offers its customers a high-quality outsourcing option, which supports drug discovery, pre-clinical and clinical development, and manufacturing.
"The BioAgilytix team is very excited work with Riverside Partners. The Riverside
An affiliate of global private equity firm HIG Capital has made a strategic investment in Raymond Express International (REI).
Founded in 1983, REI is an asset-light logistics provider specialising in transportation solutions for temperature-sensitive products.
From its facilities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, the company primarily services military and commercial customers seeking to transport perishables from the West Coast of the US to Asia.
HIG has partnered with REI’s founder, chief executive Raymond Wong, and his co-shareholder and executive vice president David Moore to continue the company’s 30 year track record of providing efficient logistics
Brookfield Capital Partners III, the flagship private equity fund of Brookfield Asset Management, has acquired the Canadian logistics operations of Millard Refrigerated Services, launching a national cold storage company called Brookfield Cold Storage.
Through this acquisition, Brookfield Capital Partners is acquiring more than 16 million cubic feet of combined storage capacity in two state-of-the-art facilities in Toronto and Calgary that includes rapid freezing capability. It intends to grow the company using its existing national scale through acquisitions, organic growth as well as expanded service offerings. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“We are pleased to have completed
As part of a recent mandate to acquire EUR500m worth of assets, B Capital Partners has guided its client through the purchase of two wind portfolios made up of over 80 MW of operational wind park assets from across Europe’s expanding green energy sector.
The initial portfolio (57MW) was acquired from Solarparc, a subsidiary of SolarWorld, a German stock exchange listed group which specialises in Solar Energy. The second portfolio was acquired from BayWa r.e. renewable energy. Having sourced and negotiated the transactions, B Capital will also manage the assets for its client in the future.
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Mid-market private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe has exited its Fund II investment in AFI-Uplift, the powered access equipment company, in a transaction that involves the simultaneous acquisition of two smaller businesses at a total deal value of GBP85m.
The transaction sees Rutland Partners acquire a majority stake in AFI-Uplift. AFI has also acquired two separate but complementary businesses: Hi-Reach and Access Rental Gulf.
Wakefield-based AFI is a provider of powered access machines to a range of sectors including construction and infrastructure maintenance. It also provides training and machine maintenance services.
AFI has enjoyed organic and acquisitive growth
HgCapital has sold ATC to Intertrust for an enterprise value of EUR303m.
This realisation represents an investment multiple of approximately 2.2x original cost and a gross IRR of 37 per cent over the two year investment period for HgCapital’s clients.
HgCapital completed its investment into Amsterdam-based ATC in March 2011. ATC had been independent since 1893 and HgCapital was the first external investor in the business. ATC provides fiduciary, management and administration services to multinational corporations, financial institutions and fund managers. The fiduciary services segment was identified as a high growth and robust market by HgCapital’s services team over
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners’ Winch Capital 2 fund has taken a minority stake in MCI, joining existing investor Iris Capital, which invested in MCI in 2010, in backing the professional congress and conference organiser (PCO).
MCI has a strong presence in the pharmaceutical sector. Almost 100 senior executives and managers own shares.
The group’s management team (Roger Tondeur, Sébastien Tondeur, Jurriaen Sleijster and Robin Lokerman) aims to accelerate MCI’s international development by maintaining a strong acquisitions drive.
François-Xavier Mauron and Sophie Nordmann-Caetano, investment directors at Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, says: "We are delighted to help
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