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Ironwood Capital has exited its investment in Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS), a privately held waste and recycling company servicing Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
LRS is led by industry veteran Alan Handley, CEO. Ironwood has extensive experience in the environmental services industry, completing more than a dozen platform investments in the waste management vertical.
“We have enjoyed working with Alan and his team at LRS during this time of rapid company growth,” says Dickson Suit, partner and head of the Environmental Services team at Ironwood Capital. “LRS management has seamlessly executed its acquisition plan while maintaining high environmental
InvestX Capital, a private market secondaries platform and financial technology company, has secured a strategic investment from Jefferies Financial Group, Virtu Financial, and Canaccord Genuity Group.
Marcus New, CEO and Founder of InvestX says: “We are thrilled to partner with these leading financial institutions as we expand our Growth Equity Marketplace (InvestX GEM), a private market secondaries platform, focused on pre-IPO giants, to sell-side firms. Their tremendous knowledge, experience and networks will accelerate our ability to expand our solutions for a broader range of broker dealers and issuers, creating higher levels of electronification and transparency while lowering costs to all
GroVentive has completed a successful investment in Coastr, a Scottish technology startup, which enables car hire firms to become fully digitalised via a cloud-based “all-in-one” vehicle rental management platform delivering keyless entry, remote vehicle immobilisation, and real-time fleet monitoring.
The Edinburgh-based company plans to launch additional products into the market in 2022 such as on-demand fleet insurance, integrated vehicle financing and connectivity to market aggregators and booking platforms.
It has partnerships in place with Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) and existing customers include UK van rental company Herd Hire Group. Industry partners include Stripe, Sage, and Elavon. The company also plans
Granite Creek Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in Chicago, has partnered with Equivu Capital (Equivu) on an investment in C&C Manufacturing (C&C), a manufacturer and distributor of heavy equipment, providing high-quality machinery to the scrap metal recycling, waste management, and airport maintenance equipment markets alongside a suite of aftermarket replacement parts and value-added services.
As part of the transaction, Equivu, the investment arm of entrepreneur Salvatore Calvino, has acquired a majority stake in C&C. In addition, Calvino was named CEO of C&C Manufacturing.
Granite Creek and Equivu’s investments, along with Calvino’s leadership, will enable C&C to capitalise on
Atlanta-based private equity firm Eagle Merchant Partners (Eagle) has acquired Code Ninjas, a global coding franchise system for children.
The announcement follows a minority investment made last year. Code Ninjas was founded in 2016 and currently has 345 locations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
“We are excited to take the partnership between Eagle and Code Ninjas to the next level,” says Code Ninjas CEO Justin Nihiser. “We will lean heavily on Eagle’s experience and expertise as we continue our quest to give children the tools they will need for a successful future in an increasingly digital
Doconomy has announced a USD17 million investment round bringing the total invested in the firm since the start of 2018 to USD24 million.
This funding will accelerate Doconomy’s continued expansion and support the further development of its impact applied portfolio; enabling impact calculations on transactions, lifestyle, products and companies of all shapes and sizes. The funding will also be used to recruit new hires to join Doconomy’s growing team.
Doconomy currently processes close to 90 million transaction impact calculations per month in 20 markets, for clients including Klarna, with close to 20 million users in their app, and Nordea with
Global law firm Dechert has advised Vestiaire Collective, a global platform for desirable pre-loved fashion, in connection with its new EUR178 million (USD210 million) financing round backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Generation Investment Management.
Existing shareholders Bpifrance (Large Venture), Condé Nast, Eurazeo, certain funds managed by Fidelity International and Korelya Capital (backed by NAVER) are reinvesting.
The Dechert team advising Vestiaire Collective was led by partner Federico G Pappalardo in Munich and also included national partner Xavier Leroux, special counsel Sophie Lafay and associate Yan Boistay in Paris.
Dechert previously advised Vestiaire Collective in March 2021
CoinFund, a crypto and blockchain investment firm, has appointed David Pakman as Managing Partner focused on expanding the firm’s growth-stage venture capital initiatives.
Pakman comes to CoinFund after 13 years with Venrock, a venture firm focused on investing in emerging technologies. He is widely recognised for his exceptional track record and thought leadership in crypto, consumer, and enterprise technology investing. David led both the Series A and Series B rounds in Dollar Shave Club and sat on the board until it was acquired for USD1 billion. He led the Series A round and sits on the board of Dapper Labs,
cheqd – a start-up providing technology that could drive widespread uptake of digital IDs – has secured a USD2.6 million (GBP1.9 million) investment to support the launch of its product later this year.
The latest funding round was backed by Outlier Ventures, Evernym, TitanBlock, Torque, 3GR and a consortium of private investors. It follows their initial investment in March this year and brings the total raised by the company to USD3.3 million (GBP2.4 million).
cheqd’s software enables individuals to have their own digital ID that they can store on their mobile phone and use to verify their identity or
Book Salon, a Finnish payment and booking service provider specialising in hair, beauty, and wellness companies, has closed a EUR1 million funding round led by Big Bets VC.
Sontek Ventures and well-known business angel Lennu Keinänen also participated in the round. The funding will be used to further expand its operations, and prepare for further growth in Europe as the company looks to expand its offering.
“We are excited to have the backing of Big Bets VC who can help us accelerate the development of our operational capabilities and scale in new geographies,” says Book Salon CEO Harri Myllylä.
“Big
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