Allocations
RugsUSA, an e-commerce provider of area rugs and home décor products, has secured a growth investment Francisco Partners, a global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses.
As part of the transaction, Comvest Partners, an operationally-focused private investment firm, will sell its majority position to Francisco Partners and retain a minority stake in the business. The pending transaction is expected to close later in 2021.
“RugsUSA has reinvented the rug-buying experience as the pioneer in driving area rug and home décor purchases online. Anyone who has bought a rug from RugsUSA knows first-hand how seamless the shopping experience
Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP) has closed its latest, oversubscribed lower middle-market private equity fund, Falfurrias Capital Partners V, at USD850 million in investor commitments.
The firm’s prior flagship fund, Falfurrias Capital Partners IV, totalled USD500 million and was raised in 2019. In total, FCP has approximately USD1.9 billion under management.
The Charlotte-based private equity firm, founded by former Bank of America CEO Hugh L McColl Jr, former Bank of America CFO Marc Oken, and Managing Partner Ed McMahan, will invest the proceeds of the fund in growth-oriented, lower middle-market businesses, leveraging the firm’s deep network of industry relationships, operational expertise,
EyeSouth Partners has completed an affiliation with Eye Center of St Augustine (ECSA), its sixth in the state of Florida and twenty-fifth affiliation overall.
EyeSouth is an eye care-focused management services organisation backed by Shore Capital Partners, committed to partnering with leading physicians to build a premier network of eye care services in the US. EyeSouth’s affiliate network consists of 25 practices with over 210 doctors providing medical and surgical eye care services at over 115 locations including 14 surgery centres throughout Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky and Alabama.
Eye Center of St Augustine has been serving
Independent Iberian alternative assets manager GED Capital has added three new technology startups to the portfolio of its Conexo Ventures fund – Vonzu, Pridactect and Feedzai.
Conexo Ventures has injected EUR1.5 million into Vonzu, a software company for logistics and delivery.
Pridatect, meanwhile is a company in the Legal-Tech sector founded in 2017 that offers complete solutions for generating and maintaining all documentation and procedures relating to compliance with the new GDPR legal framework for agencies, consultancies, lawyers and data protection experts.
Feedzai, which a few months ago became the fourth Portuguese unicorn, after raising a funding round of
ARQIS has advised robotics company Agile Robots on its series C financing round which raised a total investment of EUD220 million.
The proceedings from this financing exercise will be mainly used for the company’s product development, series production, and global sales expansion. Agile Robots is now the first German unicorn in the robotics industry and has a valuation exceeding USD1 billion dollars globally.
The financing round is led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, followed by financial investors including but not limited to Chimera Investments under Abu Dhabi Royal Group, Hillhouse Group, Sequoia China and Linear Capital, and strategic investors
Visma, a provider of business-critical software to private and public companies in Europe, today announces that it has expanded its shareholder base through a secondary sale to leading institutional investors – Aeternum Capital, Government Pension Fund Norway (Folketrygdfondet), Vind, and GIC – valuing Visma at EUR16 billion (~NOK165 billion).
Construction engineering specialist firm RDCP Infrastructure has acquired Gloucestershire-based Woodford Engineering for an undisclosed sum.
RDCP Infrastructure is a part of the London-based investment firm RDCP Group, which controls USD250 million of investments in the UK. Led by Sameer Rizvi, Iryna Dubylovska and Gareth Dillon, RDCP Infrastructure is the group’s construction and engineering arm. With 200 full-time staff members and a balance sheet worth over GBP50 million, RDCP Infrastructure is now one of UK’s leading construction engineering specialist contractors, offering fully integrated delivery of complex construction projects featuring innovative engineering solutions across key building and infrastructure sectors.
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Victress Capital, an early-stage VC firm which invests in high-growth companies designed to meet the needs of the evolving consumer, has appointed Taryn Jones Laeben as an Operating Partner.
Laeben brings 20 years experience in developing hyper-growth strategy and scaling revenue for today’s top consumer brands. Laeben is the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SoulCycle, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Casper and executive at leading fashion and retail companies including Kate Spade. Laeben is currently President & Founder of IRL Partners, where she advises venture-backed consumer startups on brand and growth strategy.
Since 2016, Victress Managing Partners Lori Cashman
NMI, a global full commerce enablement technology company, has secured a significant new equity investment from New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners.
Insight Partners joins existing investors Francisco Partners and Great Hill Partners. The company will continue to be led by Chief Executive Officer, Vijay Sondhi, and the current management team, who invested alongside Insight Partners, Francisco Partners, and Great Hill Partners.
NMI, which was acquired by Francisco Partners in 2017, processes more than USD150 billion in payments annually and enables critical payment functionality for over 2,800 partners and over 250,000 merchants globally. The company
Manhattan West, an investment company with a vertically integrated platform of in-house services and investments, has added Reginald “Reggie” Tucker to the Venture Capital team as Managing Director.
Tucker brings more than a decade of experience to Manhattan West, as a capital allocator in both public and private markets, venture capital and private debt. He will bring his deep network of limited partner and general partner relationships to the organisation as it builds out its venture capital division, complementing the firm’s private equity, real estate and private debt investment strategies.
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