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BGF has made a successful exit from its investment in Sheffield-headquartered Coppergreen Leisure Resorts.
The luxury, family-run holiday park business has been acquired by Away Resorts, which is backed by CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII, and will incorporate Coppergreen into their plans to form the UK’s leading staycation provider.
BGF backed Coppergreen Leisure Resorts in November 2016 and has invested a total of GBP21 million to support a team, led by Donna (CFO) and David Copley (CEO), in their growth ambitions.
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed a strategic growth investment in Integrate.com, a specialist in B2B Precision Demand Marketing.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Integrate connects data, channels, technology, and team members to create intelligent buyer and account journeys and deliver Precision Demand Marketing at scale. Its core offering, the Demand Acceleration Platform (DAP), centralises, connects, and elevates multichannel B2B buying experiences to help accelerate demand and convert leads to revenue. In 2021, Integrate’s B2B marketing customers processed over 14.5 million marketable and compliant leads through their governance engine.
Stacked, a crypto-investing software that allows users to manage assets and invest in pre-built portfolios and strategies, has raised USD35 million in a Series A funding round led by Alameda Research, a core partner of FTX, and Mirana Ventures, venture partner of Bybit and BitDAO.
The oversubscribed funding round also included investors such as, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures (FISV), a dedicated venture capital team within Fidelity International set up to invest in fintech; DRW Venture Capital; Alumni Ventures and Jump Capital.
Schroders is to acquire a 75 per cent shareholding in Greencoat Capital Holdings Limited (Greencoat) for an initial consideration of GBP358 million.
Greencoat is one of Europe’s largest renewable infrastructure managers, with GBP6.7 billion of AUM at 30 November 2021.
Greencoat pioneered large-scale renewable energy infrastructure investing in listed and private formats, delivering compound AUM growth of over 48 per cent per annum over the last four years to 31 March 2021. Over the past 12 months Greencoat achieved net new commitments​ for private funds and equity raises for listed funds of GBP1.6 billion (1 December 2020 to 30 November 2021)
Alternative asset management firm Hayfin Capital Management has exceeded its EUR2 billion target to invest via its Hayfin Special Opportunities Fund III. The successful fundraise comprises Fund III, which has reached a final close, and related separately managed accounts.
Hayfin employs a broad and flexible investment mandate through its Special Opportunities strategy, deploying capital into a range of unique opportunities across industries, markets, and sub-strategies in situations where financing may be scarce. The fundraise provides Hayfin with what the firm believes is the right amount of capital to invest in corporate and asset-backed opportunities arising from post-pandemic dislocation and related
Independent UK-based Oracle partner, DSP-Explorer, a database and cloud managed services provider, has received an additional GBP8 million of investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM).
The investment, made by the YFM-managed YFM Equity Partners Buyout II LP fund, will enable the business to continue its organic and acquisitive growth plans.
With offices in London, Nottingham, Basingstoke and Leeds, DSP-Explorer was founded in 1999 and has grown turnover to GBP23 million, employing nearly 100 people nationally. With an established reputation as a trusted technology partner and Oracle expert, DSP-Explorer now boasts multi-cloud cloud capabilities as a Microsoft Gold Partner and
Job search app SonicJobs has secured USD5.5 million in a funding round led by Triple Point Ventures, TMT Investments and Ufi Ventures.
The new funding will enable SonicJobs, which is based in London, to further integrate machine learning into its robotic process automation, accelerate bringing on more candidates in the UK and launch in the US, the largest market in the world, in order to move from Series A to Unicorn.
Other prominent investors have also participated in the round including Richard Flint (Sky Bet), W Fund, Vivek Kumar (PropertyGuru), Paul Huntingdon (Serocor Group), Rod Leefe (serial HR tech investor),
Len the Plumber, a portfolio company of Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), has completed the acquisition of Russo Bros. Russo Bros, a full-service provider of residential HVAC, plumbing, electrical and indoor air quality services located in East Hanover, New Jersey.
Founded in 1954, Russo Bros serves three counties in northern New Jersey. Russo Bros Co-Owner, Matt Russo, will stay on post-close and continue to run the business, while Co-Owner, Mark Russo, will support the business for a transitional period and subsequently retire. Terms of the transaction have
not been disclosed.
Lapse, a photo-sharing app enabling groups of friends to avoid the pressures of traditional social networks by emulating the experience of film cameras, has closed an USD11 million seed round led by Octopus Ventures and GV (formerly Google Ventures).
Sicene and technology company Merck is to acquire Chord Therapeutics (Chord), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing drugs for rare neuroinflammatory diseases, launched in October 2020 by leadng healthcare venture capital firm Omega Funds, the sole investor in the Company’s USD 16 million Series A financing.
The strategic acquisition enables Merck to expand its neurology pipeline to develop Chord’s lead drug candidate, CRD1 (cladribine), for the treatment of gMG and NMOSD
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