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Legal & General Group-backed European private debt manager Pemberton, has provided facilities to support the acquisition of Infinigate, a European Value-Added Distributor of cybersecurity software, by private equity firm Bridgepoint.
Infinigate acts as a sales multiplicator between cybersecurity software vendors and resellers, giving vendors market access to more than 10,000 hard-to-reach SME resellers, and providing resellers with a curated portfolio of solutions together with value-added services, such as pre-sales and post-sales technical support. As the further expansion of Infinigate’s footprint across and eventually also beyond Europe is a core element of Bridgepoint’s investment strategy, Pemberton’s financing package includes a sizeable
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Business Services and Debt Advisory teams have advised Queen’s Park Equity (QPE) on the acquisition of Sagacity Solutions (Sagacity), a provider of tech-enabled customer data management solutions.
Founded in 2005, Sagacity offers three core solutions within the lifecycle of its clients’ customers: reducing bad debt, improving revenue & margin and optimising customer value. Sagacity generates impressive ROI for some of the largest utility, telecoms and financial services corporates across territories all over the world.
Anita Dougall, CEO of Sagacity, says: “Organisations are sitting on valuable data and we work in collaboration with them to unlock the potential.
NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has invested GBP750,000 in Blueberry Therapeutics Limited (Blueberry), a drug discovery and development company focused on developing innovative nanomedicines for difficult to treat skin and nail infections.
The funding will support the business as it embarks on the next set of clinical trials for a new topical antifungal spray for the treatment of onychomycosis using its unique nanodelivery platform technology, as well as progressing other product development lines.
Based at Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Blueberry focuses on developing innovative
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrials, and software industries, has acquired 2020 Technologies Inc (2020) from Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
2020 is a global provider of specialised computer-aided design (CAD), configure, price, quote (CPQ) and enterprise solutions dedicated to interior design, space planning and furniture manufacturing. 2020’s mission-critical applications provide end-to-end solutions designed to optimize efficiency and improve productivity for the Company’s vast global network of customers, which includes more than 50,000 independent kitchen and bath
Alex Barr and James Witter have launched Bread Street Capital Partners Ltd (Bread Street), a new investment management business specialising in broadening investor access to global private markets including private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real assets. Between them, Witter and Barr have over 60 years of investment and capital markets experience and have managed or overseen GBP60 billion of private markets assets.
Bread Street will launch private markets portfolios that deliver responsible thematic, financing stage or manager exposures, and focus initially on developing a series of innovative stock-exchange listed private markets funds. Bread Street will also provide complete private
Ace Capital Partners, a private equity firm specialised in strategic industries and technologies and subsidiary of Tikehau Capital, announces today the launch of Ace Aerofondo IV FCR, with SEPI, Airbus, Indra and Tikehau Capital as investors. This new private equity fund will invest in lower and upper midmarket companies active in the Spanish aerospace and defence sector.
Ace Capital Partners will act as manager of the fund, which will invest in both Support Capital (niche players with the ability to grow organically) and Platform Capital (consolidation platforms to become leaders in their markets through external growth) strategies. Ace is currently
KPS Capital Partners (KPS) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Siderforgerossi Group, SpA (Siderforgerossi), a global manufacturer of large diameter forged products.
Upon completion of the transaction, Siderforgerossi will become the fifth acquisition completed by KPS Special Situations Mid-Cap Fund (the “Mid-Cap Fund”) and KPS’ second Mid-Cap Fund acquisition in Italy in 2021.
Siderforgerossi is a vertically integrated manufacturer of rolled and forged products with capabilities across the manufacturing spectrum, including ring-rolled, open die and closed die forging capabilities. The Company is specialised in large diameter forged products and primarily serves the Wind Power, Oil & Gas,
Terraformation, a global forest restoration company, has held the first closing of USD30 million in funding to support its mission to help solve climate change by restoring thriving ecosystems to capture carbon across billions of acres of degraded land.
The round was led by Sam & Max Altman at Apollo Projects, and included several high-profile institutional investors and nearly 100 angel investors, such as Sundeep Ahuja, Lachy Groom, Sahil Lavingia, Joe Lonsdale, Susan Wu, and OVN Cap.
The funding will be used to accelerate global forest restoration projects, support R&D, and expand hiring.
Terraformation combines world-leading forestry expertise
Shamrock Capital (Shamrock) has held the final closing of Shamrock Capital Growth Fund V, (SCGF V), a USD1 billion fund focused on buyout and later-stage growth equity investments within Shamrock’s core industries of media, entertainment, and communications.
Shamrock’s private equity funds target companies seeking USD25-200 million of equity capital in both control and non-control transactions. SCGF V is managed by the Partners of Shamrock and other investment professionals in Los Angeles, California. Shamrock has approximately USD3.5 billion of total assets under management.
“We are grateful for the continued support of our longstanding investors and welcome our new investors as
Scalable Capital, a fast growing neo-broker and one of Europe’s largest digital wealth managers, has raised more than USD180 million (EUR150 million) in a Series E funding round led by by China’s leading technology company Tencent.
This purely primary investment round brings the total capital raised to over USD320 million (EUR260 million). Existing shareholders participated as well. The funding will be used to accelerate Scalable Capital’s European growth and to continue building an integrated digital wealth management and brokerage experience. Five years after go-live in February 2016, the company has over a quarter of a million clients and over USD5
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