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Funds affiliated with Lightyear Capital (Lightyear), Oak HC/FT and Greater Sum Ventures (GSV) have completed the sale of Therapy Brands to KKR.  Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Funds affiliated with Lightyear and Oak HC/FT acquired a majority stake in Therapy Brands in July 2018. Therapy Brands provides practice management, integrated patient payments, revenue cycle management, patient engagement, tele-health and data management solutions for mental and behavioural health practices to support their clinical, administrative and billing needs. The Therapy Brands suite of software tools enables more than 28,000 practices in psychotherapy, applied behavioural analysis, substance use recovery
Clean energy investment firm Sunwealth has secured a USD2.9 million loan from Calvert Impact Capital to support its solar access work.  Sunwealth will use the financing, together with USD4.3 million in tax equity investment from private investors, to support 18 solar projects on the rooftops and parking lots of nonprofit organisations, multi-family apartment buildings, houses of worship and commercial office buildings in communities underserved by traditional renewable energy financing. These community-based solar projects will generate enough electricity to power over 300 homes annually, and will provide Sunwealth’s solar customers with USD3.8 million in lifetime energy savings. The loan will also
Investec Bank (Investec) is to a acquire a significant minority stake in Capitalmind, one of Europe’s leading independent mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance advisory firms. Investec and Capitalmind first established an international advisory partnership in 2018. The two firms’ advisory operations are characterised by outstanding geographic complementarity: Investec provides Capitalmind with connectivity to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Asia and Africa, while Capitalmind joins Investec’s advisory business to most of Western Europe, and in particular to Germany, France, the Benelux countries, Scandinavia and Switzerland. From the perspective of business sectors, Investec’s areas of focus with respect to advisory largely mirror
Smartronix, LLC, a specialist in next-generation cloud, C5ISR, and advanced engineering and IT solutions, has acquired C2S Consulting Group (C2SCG), a pure-play, full spectrum cloud solution provider specialising in the transformation of government customers in data intensive environments through innovation, automation, and adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.  Based in Herndon, Virginia, C2SCG will become part of Smartronix’ Cloud Solutions business unit under President John Sankovich. The company brings deep technical expertise and cutting-edge solutions that strengthen Smartronix’ position as a leader in cloud. Along with adding more than 50 highly skilled technical staff members, C2SCG expands Smartronix’ client base
Top Gun Facility Services (Top Gun), a portfolio company of Osceola Capital, has acquired Emerald Isle Landscaping, expanding the company’s suite of services into the commercial landscape market. Emerald Isle marks the fourth acquisition within the Top Gun platform since its partnership with Osceola Capital and the second acquisition in 2021. In April, Top Gun acquired Zoneez, a leading provider of pressure washing and window washing services to commercial customers in Arizona.   Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Denver, Emerald Isle is a leading commercial landscape maintenance provider to the Colorado market. The Company provides a range of landscape
Funds advised by KLAR Partners Limited (KLAR) have today completed the previously communicated acquisition of ISS Kanal Services, a Swiss specialist in underground infrastructure maintenance (UIM). The company is KLAR Partners’ first acquisition in Switzerland. 
Funds advised by Gulf Capital and NBK Capital Partners, respectively, have announced a full and successful exit of their growth capital facility in Jordan’s Classic Fashion Apparel Industries (Classic Fashion). 
Companies in the digital, media and internet sectors have taken advantage of the open public markets, with no fewer than 18 IPOs completed in the first quarter of 2021, up from just one the previous year, according to research from global investment bank GCA Altium. The global trend of listings has been headlined by food delivery platform Deliveroo’s highly publicised GBP7 billion IPO on the London Stock Exchange, as well as the USD13 billion deal for US dating app Bumble on the NASDAQ.   GCA Altium’s ‘Digital, Media and Internet Monitor’ also identified a series of global mega deals on
Foresight has chosen leading flexible energy specialist Flexitricity to optimise a new battery site in West Gourdie. The site in Dundee will house a 50MW lithium-ion battery and will be one of the largest battery storage units in Scotland, and will play a major role in helping National Grid ESO manage GB’s energy needs.  It is expected that the site will be fully operational and trading in the first quarter of 2022. West Gourdie will have a 49.9MW import and export connection and Flexitricity will optimise it across all the available markets to maximise revenue, including various frequency response services
DeversiFi, a Layer 2 Decentralised Finance (DeFi) trading platform powered by StarkWare’s scalable technology, has closed a USD5 million strategic funding round led by ParaFi with participation from Defiance Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Blockchain.com Ventures, Delphi Ventures and others, to scale DeFi trading on Ethereum.   The round saw 12.5 per cent of DeversiFi’s new DVF tokens sold to long term supporters of the project, including some of the top investors in the industry. “Layer 2 scaling is essential to Ethereum’s roadmap. We are creating a hub to invest, swap, send, and lend tokens without the friction and cost of

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