Allocations
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, is to invest in iCEV, a developer of SaaS-based digital curriculum, instructional materials and industry certifications for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) market.
Riverside has invested in more than 80 education and training companies, including those specialising in pre-K, K-12, post-secondary education, certifications and lifelong learning.
Portobello Capital has closed its acquisition of Legálitas, a tech-enabled legal services platform in Spain.
This deal constitutes the largest transaction in the consumer legal-tech segment in Spain in the recent years, and represents the consolidation of the expansion plan started by Legálitas three years ago.
Luis Peñarrocha, Norberto Arrate and Ramón Cerdeiras will represent Portobello Capital on the Board of Directors of Legálitas, together with independent directors with relevant experience in the sector.
Tikehau Capital is acting as financing provider and reference partner to Portobello in this transaction.
Patriot Growth Insurance Services (Patriot), a US national insurance agency backed by private equity firms GI Partners and Summit Partners, has added The Safegard Group (Safegard) to its platform.
The partnership with Safegard strengthens Patriot’s existing property & casualty and employee benefits brokerage capabilities and expands the platform’s geographic presence into the critical Philadelphia region.
Oakley Capital Private Equity III is to sell its stake in TechInsights, an information services platform for the microelectronics sector.
The exit will generate a gross return on investment of c18.8x MM and c82 per cent IRR to Fund III. As part of the transaction, Oakley Capital Fund IV (Fund IV) will acquire a majority stake in TechInsights alongside CVC Growth Funds (CVC Growth) to benefit from the strong future growth potential of the business, as well as the significant strategic and sectoral synergies CVC Growth offers.
Fund III first invested in TechInsights in 2017 as a carveout from AXIO
Startup investment bank for the emerging markets JPIN Venture Catalysts (JPIN) has participated in a USD1.8 million investment round in BioSapien, a biotech that uses 3D Printed Biodegradable mesh designed to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumour sites with greater efficacy and reduced side effects.
Reposify, a leading External Attack Surface Management (EASM) provider, has raised seed round funding of USD8.5 million from two US-based VC firms, Joule Ventures and First Rays Venture Partners, alongside several industry expert angels.
Highland Europe has led a USD50 million Series D funding round in Signal AI, bringing total funding to date to USD100 million.
Other investors in this round include abrdn, existing investors include Redline, MMC, Hearst and Guardian Media Group Ventures.
Signal AI will use this new funding to further build out its innovative decision augmentation solution.
GREENPEAK, through its holding group PARATUS, has acquired a majority stake in DATA Corporation Softwareentwicklungs (DATA) in Vienna.
DATA is a leading provider of RIS and PACS solutions servicing outpatient radiologists in Austria led by a strong management team.
As the first investment by PARATUS, DATA is a building block in establishing a healthcare software and IT-service provider in the German-speaking region.
Blue Point Capital Partners has made a platform investment in National OnDemand, a communication and utility infrastructure service provider to the US fibre, wireless, energy and technology sectors.
Blue Point is the first institutional investor in National OnDemand, which, in the the four-plus years since its creation, has successfully completed 15 acquisitions.
National OnDemand provides its clients turnkey infrastructure services, including engineering, construction and last mile installation. The partnership with Blue Point will support the continued organic and acquisitive growth and expansion of National OnDemand’s services and geographic footprint.
Basakt Infrastructure Parteners has invested GBP100 million in Be Fibre, an internet service provider on a mission to provide hypersonic broadband access to 1,000,000 premises, over the next six years.
Be Fibre plans to reach 80 towns and cities by 2027, having already opened hubs in the Northwest of England (Cheshire), the Southeast (Essex), and the Midlands, with a fourth set to launch near the Scottish Border in 2022.
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