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Northleaf Capital Partners (Northleaf) and AVALT have acquired AMAROK.
provider of contracted perimeter security infrastructure solutions in the United States. Funds managed by Northleaf and AVALT have together acquired a majority interest in AMAROK with the Company’s management team retaining a minority interest.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
AMAROK installs, operates, monitors and maintains solar-powered electric fences and perimeter security solutions on commercial and industrial properties. The Company operates approximately 5,000 installed sites under ongoing service and maintenance agreements for customers across a diverse set of industries in every state in the continental United States.
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has made a strategic equity investment in Rising Pharma Holdings and Casper Pharma (collectively, “Rising Pharmaceuticals”), a provider of generic and specialty pharmaceuticals in the United States.
Rising Pharmaceuticals develops and markets generic and specialty branded pharmaceutical products across various therapeutic categories.
HIG’s investment in the company represents its latest transaction in the pharma services sector. Other active HIG pharma services investments include Aspire Pharma, BioVectra, Leiters and Taconic BioSciences.
CIFC Asset Management (CIFC), an alternative credit specialist serving institutional investors globally, is to acquire LBC Credit Partners (LBC), a leading middle market direct lending platform.
CIFC’s acquisition of LBC follows a series of positive developments for the firm, which in 2021 grew its assets by more than USD5 billion. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close by year-end, have not been disclosed.
BroadOak Capital Partners has invested USD10 million in Accellix Inc, a provider of flow cytometry results in a compact and easy-to-use platform designed for use by cell therapy companies on the manufacturing floor and at the point-of-need.
Kayne Partners Fund, the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, has led a USD50 million Series B Funding round in KlearNow, a smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) specialist founded in 2018.
Existing investors including GreatPoint Ventures, Argean Capital, and Autotech Ventures also participated along with new investor Activate Capital.
Since its USD16 million Series A funding round led by GreatPoint Ventures in January 2020, KlearNow has grown exponentially, increasing its customer base tenfold and its monthly revenue run rate by more than 50 times. During this time, US-based KlearNow has expanded into Canada, and launched its
MidOcean Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on the business services and consumer sectors, has acquired GHR Healthcare (GHR) from Platform Partners and other investors.
GHR is a provider of healthcare staffing services offering travel nursing, local nursing, per diem nursing, allied health, behavioural health, education, information technology, revenue cycle, managed services provider, interim leadership and permanent placement services to healthcare facilities nationwide. The Company operates three national divisions across a broad geographic footprint of 11 locations built through acquisition and organic expansion. MidOcean Partners plans to continue the Company’s aggressive growth plan through comprehensive organic initiatives
Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment firm with more than USD49 billion under management, has started using a real-time ESG data analytics solution to provide insights into underlying fund and private company investments.
Adams Street is deploying a custom ESG Ratings and Reporting solution from Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider. The analytics platform securely processes a variety of ESG data streams to provide tailored insights during investment and operational due diligence. Adams Street is also collaborating with Apex to develop a tailored impact data collection and reporting solution for use by Adams Street in monitoring
SCF Partners (SCF) has invested in Powerstar EMSc (UK) Ltd (Powerstar), a provider of power resiliency, microgrids, and energy efficiency equipment to customers worldwide.
Dr Alex Mardapittas, Powerstar’s founder and CEO, will continue to serve in his current role as the company enters its next phase of growth.
Powerstar, headquartered in Sheffield, United Kingdom, designs and manufactures behind-the-meter hardware and software technologies that help commercial and industrial customers reach their net zero carbon goals. It has provided voltage optimization, power resiliency, energy storage, EV charging, and transformer equipment to customers on five continents worldwide.
QueryLayer, a no-code privacy operations platform for digital enterprises, has raised EUR2 million in seed funding in a round led by Nauta Capital.
The company, which was founded last year in Valencia (Spain), has previously raised a pre-seed round from Seedcamp and Martin Henk, the co-founder of Pipedrive. During 2020, QueryLayer built the platform working closely with privacy and security executives of several scale-ups and now plans to use the seed funding to finance product, sales and marketing.
QueryLayer helps businesses to become “Good Data Brands”, leveraging automated workflows and PrivacyUX to build customer loyalty based on the transparent
O2 Investment Partners portfolio company Capital Construction, a provider of roof replacement and other exterior restoration services to residential customers in the Midwest USA, has partnered with Irish Roofing & Exteriors (www.irishroofs.com).
Irish Roofing & Exteriors (Irish) is a provider of roof replacement and repair and other exterior restoration services to customers in West Michigan. Irish is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan and earlier in 2021 opened its second branch location in Portage, Michigan.
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