Allocations
Clearview Capital Fund III (Fund III), an affiliate of Clearview Capital, has sold its majority interest in Controlled Products Acquisition Corp and its subsidiaries (Controlled Products) to Sentinel Capital Partners (Sentinel), a private equity firm that invests in middle market companies.
Terms of the transaction, which closed on 25 October, 2021, have not been disclosed.
Controlled Products is a manufacturer and distributor of premium quality synthetic turf solutions. From its headquarters and manufacturing facilities located in Dalton, GA, Controlled Products has built a broad multi-brand presence through a large dealer distribution network, as well as 27 corporate and franchise
Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programmes, has raised USD215 million in a growth funding round with Learn Capital and A-Street Ventures, as well as existing investor Emerson Collective.
The funding will accelerate Amplify’s remarkable growth in providing students and teachers with high-quality, digital-forward instructional programs and helping districts address unfinished learning from the pandemic. Rob Hutter from Learn Capital and Marc Sternberg from A-Street Ventures have joined the company’s board, currently made up of Emerson Collective Managing Director and XQ Institute CEO Russlynn Ali, Amplify CEO Larry Berger, Monarch Global Strategies President and CEO Michael Camuñez, Emerson
RIMES, a global strategic data partner for asset managers, asset owners and service providers, is to acquire Matrix IDM, an Australia-based investment data management platform, for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition will bring together superior managed data services and powerful analytics technology to help asset owners, institutional investors, asset managers and service providers solve complex data problems. Matrix Co-CEO Stuart Plane will join the RIMES Executive Committee, and together with co-founder Neil Lotter and RIMES Head of Managed Data Services (MDS) Shaun Mirams, will lead the combined MDS and Matrix IDM business segment.
Brad Hunt, CEO, RIMES, says: “We
SEI has acquired Finomial, an investor lifecycle management firm offering cloud-native financial technology. The technology is expected to be added to SEI’s existing investor-focused platforms to further enhance automation and digitisation capabilities, as well as reporting and transparency.
Button Finance, a fintech mortgage lender focused on home equity, has closed a USD2 million seed raise.
The capital will allow Button Finance to hire talent and to develop its proprietary technology further. Entities advised by Hildene Capital Management, LLC (Hildene), participated in the seed funding round. Hildene is a USD13 billion structured credit focused asset manager based in Stamford, CT.
Button Finance enables homeowners to borrow against their home equity through a hassle-free online process that delivers quick decisions and funding in as little as five days. The company has built an AI-powered underwriting platform that enables it
Bespoke Post, a multi-category e-commerce retailer, has secured USD40 million in a Series B funding round led by NewSpring.
The New York-based company was founded in 2011 to introduce customers to products from under-the-radar brands, once a month. Since then, they’ve worked with thousands of small brands, expanded their offering to thousands of products available to purchase each month, and grown to over 300 thousand active members.
“We’re extremely proud of the fact that 90 per cent of the brands we carry are small,” says co-CEO of Bespoke Post Rishi Prabhu. “They’re fundamental to our ability to fulfill the
The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the purpose of advancing cooperation in the provision of finance and investment to private sector in their common Member States in Eastern and Southern Africa.
The agreement establishes a framework for both institutions to collaborate with the aim of financing eligible transactions in targeted countries sponsored by the private sector or non-sovereign backed projects. Possible financing solutions to be considered include syndication and co-financing opportunities, risk sharing, bilateral financing and/or
In the framework of the equal partnership that involves the two companies, Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy are set to file, on behalf of the company Odra Energia, the documentation required to start the authorisation process for a floating offshore wind farm off the southern coast of the province of Lecce.
Similarly to the first project off the coast of Brindisi, Kailia Energia, the project developers behind Odra Energia are about to begin a voluntary preliminary consultation process aimed at providing a better understanding of the scope of the environmental impact study which will be carried out.
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Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in mid-market companies, has acquired Controlled Products, a manufacturer and distributor of premium synthetic turf products for landscape, sports, commercial and specialty applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Controlled Products develops and distributes a variety of premium synthetic turf solutions through a network of dealers and customers across an international network and to its company-owned and franchised Purchase Green® stores. Controlled Products serves a diverse group of residential, commercial, and field customers with leading name brands including GrassTex™, SporTurf™, and Synthetic Turf International™, as well
MSI Express (MSI), backed by HCI Equity Partners, has acquired select operating assets from PacMoore Products, Inc (PacMoore or the Company), a founder-owned business, on 25 October, 2021.
MSI Express is a provider of contract packaging and contract manufacturing services, primarily for well-known CPG brands in the liquid and dry food space. PacMoore represents the third add-on acquisition for MSI following HCI’s initial investment in 2018. Financial terms were not disclosed.
MSI acquired all of PacMoore’s contract manufacturing operations located in Hammond, Indiana. PacMoore provides co-manufacturing and co-packaging services similar to MSI’s core business and is located near the rest
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