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Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, has led a GBP2 million investment into Plank Hardware, a direct-to-consumer home décor brand whose stylish hardware products have tapped into the boom in DIY and renovation projects among millennial and Gen Z consumers.
Plank Hardware was founded in London in 2019 by Tom Revill and Annie Aveyard. The husband-and-wife duo identified an opportunity to provide high-quality, design-led products that could enable aspiring DIY enthusiasts to create beautiful home renovations on a modest budget. Its products today span handles, hooks, knobs, and rails that provide the perfect finishing touch to DIY projects and inspire
Funds advised by Apax are to acquire Eating Recovery Center (ERC Pathlight), a provider of eating disorder and mood and anxiety treatment in the US, in partnership with Oak HC/FT and management, from CCMP Capital.
ERC Pathlight is a specialist in eating disorder treatment. The company’s differentiated clinical model meets patients where they are in their treatment journey by offering the full continuum of higher levels of care. Through the recent expansion of its Pathlight division, ERC Pathlight addresses a more comprehensive set of behavioural health conditions including primary mood and anxiety disorder treatment. ERC Pathlight lowers financial barriers to
Varagon Capital Partners, LP (Varagon) is serving as Administrative Agent, Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Fireboy-Xintex by United Safety & Survivability Corporation (USSC).
USSC is a portfolio company of private equity firm Dubin Clark.
Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), a private equity firm that specialises in investments in healthcare and industrial companies, has completed a majority recapitalisation of BioIVT, Inc (BioIVT) with Linden Capital Partners (Linden), a Chicago-based healthcare private equity firm. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Westbury, New York, BioIVT is the market leader in providing of mission-critical biological specimens and value-added services for the academic research, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics discovery and development markets.
Gene Gorbach, an Investment Partner of Arsenal, says: “We are proud to have partnered with the talented team at BioIVT in building an enterprise
Goldman Sachs veteran Sheila Patel has joined the board of Antler, as the global early-stage venture capital firm continues its international expansion.
With three decades of experience in financial asset management, Patel has become a global leader in the asset management industry.
Previously, Patel was chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management based in London, and a member of the bank’s Firmwide Management Committee, holding leadership roles in two divisions across three continents. Before Goldman Sachs, Patel headed up Trading Strategy at Morgan Stanley for seven years. As the current Vice Chairman of B Capital Group, the venture capital firm
mParticle, a customer data infrastructure company, has raised USD150 million in Series E funding, led by Permira’s growth fund which backs leading tech-enabled and digital businesses.
The existing investor base also participated in the round alongside new backers including former Adobe CFO Mark Garrett and New England Patriots All-Pro punter Jake Bailey. The funding will support mParticle’s continued global go-to-market expansion, as well as significant R&D investment as demand for customer data infrastructure continues to accelerate. With the round, Daniel Brenhouse, Principal at Permira, will join the mParticle Board of Directors.
Creating truly adaptive, privacy-friendly digital experiences is becoming
Onecom, a business communications technology and cloud communications specialist, has acquired IP Office Ltd in its third acquisition in 2021.
The transaction brings IP Office’s Exeter-based team and in excess of 700 customers into the Onecom Group family.
The new partnership comes after Hampshire-based Onecom’s acquisition of Olive Communications earlier this year, which created the UK’s largest business-to-business mobile, connectivity and cloud specialist in the UK, in a deal that was closely followed by the addition of thousands of customers and hundreds of channel partners with the subsequent acquisition of 9 Group.
Martin Flick, Onecom Group CEO, says: “As we
Recruitment group HCRG (Health Care Resourcing Group) has sold its homecare provider businesses CRG Homecare and Allied Healthcare.
Browne Jacobson’s corporate finance team have advised on the sale of tech services provider, Centiq to international based SoftwareONE group.
Licensed textile product provider Character World has secured a GBP14.5 million refinance package from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance, as it plans for growth in 2022.
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