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FinAccel, the parent of Kredivo, an AI-enabled digital consumer credit platform in Southeast Asia, and VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings II (VPCB), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Victory Park Capital (VPC), have entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination that will result in FinAccel becoming a publicly traded company with an expected pro forma equity value of approximately USD2.5 billion, assuming no redemptions.
Element Ventures, one of Europe’s leading B2B fintech-focused venture capital firms, has launched a USD130 million fund to invest in the founders building tomorrow’s financial enterprise technology businesses.
Founded by Steve Gibson and Michael McFadgen, with more than 30 years of combined experience in the space between them, and joined by Spencer Lake, HSBC’s former Vice Chairman of Global Banking and Markets. Element Ventures is also backed by an LP base and network consisting of more than 30 world-class founders and executives from across the financial sector.
The financial technology opportunity is substantial. European fintech companies have already raised USD12.3bn
Duke Street, a European mid-market private equity group, has completed the acquisition of COMPO, the largest European producer and distributor of consumer gardening soil, fertiliser, plant protection and lawn seeds.
Headquartered in Münster, Germany, COMPO was previously owned by Kingenta Ecological Engineering Group Co. Ltd. (“Kingenta”), a publicly listed company and one of the leading fertilizer producers in China.
A market leader across continental Europe, COMPO has created an impressive range of technically superior products – including soil, fertiliser, plant care, and lawn care. The organisation owns first class production and distribution infrastructure and has established brands that are
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse), a group of technology companies providing useful, integrated software solutions, is to acquire The EPOS Bureau, a provider of stock control and inventory management software.
The acquisition is the ClearCourse’s second of the year and sees the Company joining ClearCourse’s retail division, strengthening its retail management and e-commerce capabilities.
Founded in 1997, The EPOS Bureau is one of the UK’s premier providers of sophisticated software solutions for premium delicatessens and farm shops. It offers a unified platform with a wide range of capabilities to assist retailers, from helping keep margins under control through inventory management to
CentroMotion, a designer and manufacturer of highly engineered components and systems for the industrial and transportation markets, has successfully completed the previously announced acquisition of Carlisle Brake & Friction (CBF) from Carlisle Companies Incorporated (CSL).
The addition of CBF to CentroMotion’s growing portfolio of highly respected brands creates a global technology leader focused on mission-critical solutions and applications.
Founded in 1920, CBF is the largest global manufacturer of friction materials and mechatronic solutions for off highway brake and transmission products. The company is headquartered in Medina, Ohio with approximately 1,350 employees serving customers across 70 countries. CBF will join the
BGF-backed Evoke Creative Ltd – a specialist in kiosk, digital signage and interactive solutions for the retail, hospitality and public sectors – has acquired Liverpool-based app design and development agency, Apposing Ltd.
Under the agreement, Apposing will continue to operate as an individual brand from its city centre creative studio, while strengthening Evoke’s solution offering, adding in-house mobile app and additional user interface development resource to its suite of solutions.
The move will enable the Wirral-based company to ‘close the loop’ on its compelling offering to its customers, with mobile acting as the final piece in its full-service,
Babcock Wanson, a specialist in the design and maintenance of industrial boiler rooms, has completed its first acquisition with the purchase of Steam Plant Engineering (SPE), a specialist in the field of industrial boiler services.
The acquisition has been made thanks to the support of Kartesia, which recently became its new majority shareholder. This acquisition fully reflects the ambition and objectives of the Babcock Wanson Group to become the pan-European leader in the industrial boiler services industry by consolidating the key players in the market.
Founded in 2001 by Dan Garbett, the current Managing Director, SPE is a company based
3i Group has agreed to invest cEUR60 million in MAIT GmbH (MAIT), a provider of innovative and pioneering digital solutions in the DACH region.
MAIT Group, headquartered in Rottweil, Germany, provides innovative and pioneering digital solutions in product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and IT services generating approximately EUR120 million in sales.
More than 550 employees across 21 locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland develop and implement solutions in close cooperation with their over 5,300 SME customers. As a value-added reseller and strategic implementation partner, MAIT uses the most innovative technologies from market-leading PLM, ERP and IT providers
Michael Whelchel, co-founder and managing partner of US-based investment bank Big Path Capital, outlines what he thinks will be the hottest trends within impact investing in the next few years, as well as the links between positive impact investments and profits.
SYNLAB is to acquire Laboratorio Médico Polanco and Laboratorio Clinicos de Puebla (LMP & LCR), a network of over 100 diagnostic service points in Mexico.
By integrating LMP & LCR into the international SYNLAB laboratory network, SYNLAB will strengthen its strategic position in the region.
SYNLAB will be ideally structured and positioned for further expansion and integration of bolt-on acquisitions in Mexico and Latin America.
SYNLAB, Europe’s leading medical diagnostics services provider, with a presence in five Latin American countries, announces a corporate agreement with Medica Sur to acquire LMP & LCR to increase its presence to Mexico.
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