Allocations
Ten Coves Capital has led a USD35 million Series B round in Canopy, a cloud-based practice management platform for accounting professionals.
Current investors NewView Capital, Pelion Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Ankona Capital also made significant investments with the funding set to be used further accelerate Canopy’s mission to become the ”default operating system for accounting firms.
SoftBank Vision Fund, Speedinvest, and several venture capital partners have announced a collective USD8.7 million in committed capital to the nine start-ups that make up the first European edition of the Emerge accelerator programme for underrepresented founders.
The companies are: Blloc, Credrails, Fiat Republic, Juli, Kwara, Pear Bio, Robin AI, Vitaance, The Stack World.
Including the investment contribution from Emerge, these nine companies have gone on to cumulatively raise upwards of USD23 million in their latest funding rounds.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in milliCare, a floor and textile care franchise brand, from Milliken & Company.
The company is an add-on investment to Riverside’s Clintar platform, offering franchise solutions for a wide network of commercial property maintenance and cleaning services.
Global investment firm KKR has launched Stellar Renewable Power (Stellar), a new platform that will source, develop and operate utility-scale solar plants and storage facilities on behalf of KKR’s Asset-Based Finance (ABF) strategy. Stellar will source opportunities through greenfield development and acquisitions of early-stage assets from other developers.
Vijay Venkatachalam, a renewable energy expert with extensive experience developing utility-scale solar energy projects, will lead Stellar. Venkatachalam has spearheaded the development of nearly seven gigawatts of utility scale solar capacity in the United States and India, and he will be building out Stellar’s team of talented solar energy professionals over the
Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses, has led a strategic investment of approximately USD100 million in NZXT, a specialist in in PC gaming hardware and services.
In addition to Francisco Partners, strategic investors in NZXT also include leaders and entrepreneurs across multiple industries. This group of investors includes: Kevin Lin – Co-Founder of Twitch; Vanessa Dew – Co-Founder & CSO of Health-Ade Kombucha; Patrick Lee – Co-Founder of Rotten Tomatoes; James Lin – Co-Founder of CrunchyRoll; Eddie Hartman – Co-Founder of LegalZoom; James Park – Co-Founder & CEO of Fitbit, Inc; Kevin
Eir Ventures Partners AB, a Nordic Life Science Venture Capital manager, has held the final close of its fund Eir Ventures I AB of EUR122.3 million.
Eir Ventures I AB is the firm’s first dedicated life sciences venture capital fund which was launched in 2020 with support from a strong investor syndicate comprising the European Investment Fund (EIF), Novo Holdings, Saminvest, Vækstfonden, as well as a group of prominent Nordic universities, family offices and the founding partners of Eir Ventures.
Atar Capital, a Los Angeles-based global private investment firm, is to sell RWS Facility Services (RWS) to Quest Resource Holding Corporation (Quest), a specialist in environmental waste and recycling services.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
RWS, which was acquired by Atar Capital in September 2017, delivers hands-on managed solutions for waste management, commodity recycling and facilities services.
Addleshaw Goddard is advising JP Morgan Cazenove in relation to the recommended GBP1.2 billion acquisition of Clinigen Group plc by Triton Funds.
JP Morgan Cazenove is acting as financial adviser to Triton. The AG team is led by Simon Wood and Peter Crichton, assisted by Jayne Gallagher.
Clinigen is a global pharmaceutical services and products company focused on providing ethical access to medicines. Triton is a leading European private equity investment firm with a focus on four core areas: healthcare (including pharmaceuticals), consumer, business services, and industrials.
Actis has exited its investment in Mouka Limited (Mouka), a Nigerian provider of branded mattresses and bedding products, to Dolidol for a transaction value of around USD70 million.
Dolidol, a Moroccan bedding sector specialist, will become a pan-African operator as a result of this transformational acquisition.
The investment in Mouka dates back to 2015, with a 90 per cent stake in the company being owned by the fund in partnership with the founding Moukarim family, who continued to hold a 10 per cent stake in the business and remained committed to its success
Private investment firm Quilvest Capital Partners (Quilvest), has made a substantial growth investment in UrgentMED, an independent network of urgent care clinics in Southern California.
Quilvest is partnering with UrgentMED’s co-founders, Dr Jacob Rastegar, Dr Morris Kokhab and Dr Pejman Bolourian, who will each remain significant shareholders and will continue to lead the business going forward.
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