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Datalogix has closed a USD25m Series B round of equity financing led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP).
IVP joins existing investors General Catalyst, Sequel Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital.
The financing will enable Datalogix to continue its rapid growth and accelerate adoption of its audience and measurement solutions across display, mobile, video, social and search channels. This will include investment in scaling its industry leading technology platform and geographic expansion.
The new funding round follows the closing of a record year for Datalogix, capped by a tripling of its digital business in March. In the past
Following approval from the French financial markets regulator (Autorité des Marchés Financiers or AMF), ACG Group has completed its acquisition of Groupama Private Equity with Groupama changing its name to ACG Capital as a result of the transaction.
The acquisition encompasses Quartilium’s funds of funds business (EUR1.4bn under management) and the mezzanine fund ActoMezz (EUR220m).
Groupama is a long-term partner of ACG Capital and retains all its investments in the funds managed by the company.
Aligning the interest of the asset management team and investors, ACG Group will continue to grow by constantly focusing on the quality
Yellow&Blue Investment Management, ABB Technology Ventures and b-to-v Partners have invested EUR4.8m in ROMO Wind along with the founders of the wind farm optimisation company.
Yellow&Blue, a specialised clean-energy venture capital investor backed by Nuon/Vattenfall and headquartered in the Netherlands, led the investment. It invested alongside ABB Technology Ventures, the venture arm of ABB, a power and automation technology group and global supplier to the wind industry. b-to-v is a venture capital investor backed by a network of 200 entrepreneurial private investors investing across different industries including renewable energy.
ROMO Wind is a product led technology and service company
Private equity firm HIG Capital has acquired Pegasus Financial Services (PFS), the world’s largest processor of commissions paid by hotels to travel agencies, from Pegasus Solutions.
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, PFS’s global payment network and technology solutions serve a large and diverse customer base of hotels and travel agencies worldwide. The company provides a range of services to its hotel and travel agency customers, including commissions receipt and disbursement, foreign currency exchange, and reconciliation and tracking services.
HIG is joining Mark Dubrow, chief executive officer, Monica French, senior vice president of business development, and
The North West Fund for Digital & Creative, managed by AXM Venture Capital, has supported the launch of new software venture Sitedesk which will this Summer launch a on-site Building Information Modelling collaboration tool, Sitedesk Dabit.
The initial development work on Sitedesk Dabit was commissioned by construction entrepreneurs Paul Grady and Danny Doohan, who saw the opportunity for a tool that bridged the gap between architects’ 3D models and the on-site project manager.
The North West Fund for Digital & Creative introduced the company’s new chief technology officer, Chris Sewart, who previously acted as CTO at Yuuguu
Euro Car Parts, the UK’s largest car and van parts distributor, has agreed to merge with Netherlands based Sator Holding to create one of Europe’s largest car parts distributors.
The merger has been financed by LKQ Corporation, the largest provider of aftermarket and recycled collision replacement parts and refurbished collision replacement products in the US and Canada.
LKQ has acquired Sator Beheer BV, also known as Sator Holding, from H2 Equity Partners, effective from 1 May 2013. The purchase price is approximately USD268.4m (GBP176m).
Sator Holding was established in 2005 by the merger of the previous Van
Small transactions (under GBP10m) dominated the UK equity capital markets and M&A market in Q1 2013, increasing by 6.3 per cent from 319 in Q1 2012 to 357 deals in Q1 2013, according to Experian.
The increase can largely be attributed to a substantial upturn in the volume of smaller scale equity fundraising from UK public companies, which increased transactions from 116 worth GBP225m in Q1 2012 to 225 worth GBP334m in Q1 2013.
The total number of UK M&A and ECM transactions recorded in Q1 2013, however, fell by 14.2 per cent: from 1,239 transactions in Q1
The venture capital trust (VCT) sector raised GBP402.5m in the 2012/13 tax year (value of new shares issued), according to figures published by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC).
This is up 22 per cent on the previous tax year (GBP330.9m).
Excluding enhanced share buy backs, the VCT sector raised GBP269.2m in the 2012/13 tax year compared to GBP267.4m raised in the previous tax year.
Ian Sayers (pictured), director general, AIC, says: “The level of funds raised is at its highest in seven years, reflecting strong investor demand for the sector. This is a clear vote of confidence
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK fell by 18 per cent to 580 deals from 2011 to 2012, new research from S&P Capital IQ reveals.
While none of Europe’s three major economies – the UK, France and Germany – have seen M&A transaction levels return to their 2008 high, the effects of the labouring UK economy can be seen in recent transaction data.
Over the last five years, the number of SME M&A transactions in the UK (3,264) has been roughly equal to the number in France (3,139) and more
The management team of Euro Cater, a Nordic Foodservice wholesaler, and Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), the specialist asset manager, have formed a partnership to acquire the business from Euro ManaCo (the current investment vehicle of Euro Cater management), Altor and inco Amba.
The transaction marks the conclusion of a partnership between Euro Cater and Altor that commenced in 2006.
Euro Cater was established in 2006 as a partnership between Altor and key employees of the company and has since developed into a wide reaching foodservice supply business, organically and through acquisitions. In 2007 Euro Cater entered Sweden by
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