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Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a GBP4.4 million investment in Candle Shack, an eCommerce business supplying candle making components as well as providing contract candle manufacture for high profile, luxury brands.
The transaction includes GBP3 million of funding from Maven’s high net worth investment syndicate, Maven Investor Partners, as well as a GBP1.4 million debt facility from HSBC UK.
Candle Shack employs 105 staff and operates from its 100,000 sq ft West Carron facility in central Scotland encompassing a fulfilment centre, development lab and manufacturing. The Company provides everything for an artisan manufacturer to make high quality candles, including
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM), Natixis IM, and its affiliate Mirova, Sienna Investment Managers, and Solactive have participated in a. Series A funding round for Iceberg Data Lab.
Following this minority investment, each investor will also be represented at Iceberg Data Lab’s Supervisory Board in order to support the development of the company.
With increased demand from both financial institutions and their stakeholders for better transparency on the impact of portfolios on climate and the environment, AXA IM, Natixis IM/Mirova, Sienna Capital and Solactive will support Iceberg Data Lab’s global expansion and product development which includes data coverage enlargement, automated
Tola Capital, a venture capital firm that believes in the power of software and data to transform the way the world works, has appointed Phil Sorgen as a Venture Partner.
Sorgen will be part of the Tola investment team, serve on boards, and guide companies on their sales and growth strategies.
Sorgen has grown depth and breadth businesses at scale. Most recently, he was the Chief Revenue Officer for RingCentral, where he led the company’s global sales and partner organisation. Prior to this role he spent 24 years at Microsoft, most recently as a Corporate Vice President, leading Microsoft’s US
San Francisco-based Telos Brands, a technology-first eCommerce company focused on the Amazon FBA ecosystem, announced a USD2.1 million seed round led by Picus Capital with participation from select business angels.
Telos has also raised an undisclosed amount of debt from several financing partners to support acquisitions.
Telos Brands is rethinking the “Amazon Aggregator” model that has become popular over the last couple of years by utilising predictive analytics, automation tools and other proprietary technology-first processes to grow and optimise acquired brands. “The Amazon ecosystem is hundreds of billions of dollars and growing. Technology is a powerful vector to capture outsized
L Squared Capital Partners has acquired of Chicago-based Sterling Trading Tech (STT) from LLR Partners and other investors, a SaaS provider of financial technology for the global capital markets.
The investment represents L Squared’s fourth platform investment in Fund III, a USD505 million private equity fund that closed in September 2020. STT’s management also participated in the acquisition.
Sterling Trading Tech offers complete trading solutions to the professional and retail global capital markets. STT’s mission is to provide market-leading, cloud-based trading infrastructure, encompassing Trading Platforms, OMS, and Risk products to support both buy-side and sell-side firms. Clients include clearing firms,
Macquarie Capital is to sell Dovel Technologies (Dovel) to Guidehouse, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital.
Dovel is a leading expert to federal agencies that blends deep domain expertise and advanced technologies in the health IT, life sciences, public safety and grants management markets.
Macquarie acquired a majority stake in Dovel in 2019 and established a plan to further grow and scale the company. Under Macquarie Capital’s ownership, Dovel continued its rapid organic growth, acquired Ace Info Solutions, broadened its executive management team and workforce and has been cited as a top growth company in numerous rankings as well as
Eventus Systems, a provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, has closed a USD30 million Series B funding round, led by Centana Growth Partners.
Also participating in the round were DRW VC, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, CMT Digital, existing investors Jump Capital and LiveOak Venture Partners, along with several new strategic investors.
Eventus will use the proceeds to further scale across the organisation, including growing its sales, product and engineering teams, building further on its flagship Validus platform, expanding its product suite across asset classes and introducing new financial risk applications to the platform.
Silver Oak Services Partners (Silver Oak), a lower middle market private equity firm focused exclusively on business, healthcare and consumer service businesses, has led the recapitalisation of Drive Automotive Services (Drive).
Drive, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a full-service operator of automotive repair shops, serving over 120,000 vehicles annually. The Company has 22 automotive repair sites across the US, in attractive, high-growth metropolitan markets including Atlanta, Denver, Houston, Knoxville and Phoenix under a handful of operating banners. Drive and its team of over 120 service technicians provide a complete suite of automotive maintenance and repair services to all major vehicle
Tidal energy specialist Nova Innovation has secured GBP6.4 million from the Scottish National Investment Bank to fund manufacturing and distribution of its subsea tidal turbines. The investment will see Nova increase its presence across the UK and expand into new global markets.
The Edinburgh-based company’s innovative 100kW tidal turbines have been transforming the power of the sea into clean, predictable energy in Shetland since 2016. By focusing on scalable solutions, Nova has been able to install, adapt and enhance its technology on site, creating a reliable and replicable product for mass production.
Nova’s turbines can be used to generate
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the refinance of NationsBenefits.
Additionally, The Pritzker Organization, Denali Growth Partners, and Monroe Capital provided equity capital to enhance the existing service offerings and support future growth of the Company.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Plantation, Florida, NationsBenefits is a leading supplemental benefits company that guarantees cost savings and long-term health outcomes to managed care organisations. Nations provides customised healthcare management solutions, based on clinically-focused interventions that maximise quality and deliver value-based outcomes. The organisation has been consecutively
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