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ReSolve, a UK business investment and advisory practice, has partnered with RoundShield, a major European investment institution, to significantly increase ReSolve’s ability to assist businesses seeking support and investment.
The economic challenges and uncertainty created by Covid-19 and Brexit have led to many quality companies needing exactly the services that ReSolve has become known for, such as corporate finance and simplification, restructuring, refinancing, and investment. This partnership will enable ReSolve to reach out to many more of those businesses and provide expert knowledge, experience and greater financial backing.
ReSolve has a strong and successful track record of investing in UK-based
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active investors in growth businesses, has invested GBP2.5 million in Cardinality Ltd, a software and service provider which has developed a data ingestion and analytics platform called ‘Perception’, that enables its customers to run, manage and derive value from datasets in real time and at massive scale.
Cardinality’s proprietary system utilises Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to enable its customers to address the growing challenges of analysing Big Data and extracting the hidden value in that data to provide powerful insights.
Demand for this technology is expected to continue to grow against
Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has completed a growth investment in Canadian Orthodontic Partners (COP) alongside current shareholders and management.
Headquartered in Toronto, COP is the largest orthodontics-focused specialty dental support organisation (SDSO) in Canada and actively serves more than 30,000 patients across over 60 clinics in eight provinces.
“We are excited to partner with Pamlico as we look to enter our next phase of rapid growth,” says Anthony Milonas, CEO of COP. “We value Pamlico’s commitment to our mission of delivering the highest quality of care centred around outstanding doctors, superior technology, and unsurpassed patient satisfaction. This collaboration with Pamlico gives
Maverix Private Equity has appointed SS&C GlobeOp as fund administrator for its inaugural growth equity fund.
Maverix will use SS&C GlobeOp’s full suite of private capital fund services to support the Maverix Growth Equity Fund, including its fund accounting, investor services, reporting and data analytics. SS&C’s Toronto team will oversee services for the fund. Maverix was founded in early 2021 by John Ruffolo and Mark Maybank.
“We aim to build a globally-recognized, industry-leading, Canada-based private equity platform, so we want to partner with the best. SS&C is one of the world’s largest private equity administrators,” says John Ruffolo, Managing
Live streaming sponsorships platform inSTREAMLY has raised a EUR1.1 million seed round led by Supernode Global to expand into new markets.
Founded in 2019 by a team of live streaming and marketing professionals, inSTREAMLY has built a platform that enables all streamers – regardless of size – access to brands and to participate and execute sponsorships.
Colopl Next and PKO TFI were also involved in the investment round and previous pre-seed investment was secured from SMOK VC, which is run by Paul Bragiel, an investor in Niantic (PokemonGO), Unity, Uber, and Stripe.
The global live streaming market is
Ingram Content Group (Ingram) has signed a definitive agreement to sell VitalSource Technologies LLC to Francisco Partners, a global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses.
Growth capital investor BGF has invested GBP14 million in Bloom (Bloom Procurement Services), based in the North East and headquartered in Gateshead.
Bloom is the UK’s only public sector procurement marketplace offering an end-to-end managed service procurement solution.
Founded in 2011 by Adam Jacobs, the executive chairman, Bloom provides a dynamic and open access marketplace for the provision of professional services to the UK Public Sector.
Bloom’s managed service enables public sector buyers to compliantly and transparently award public sector contracts and achieve significant savings. Buyers have access to a dynamic supplier base across a wide range of
AURES Holdings is to launch Driverama which is aiming to become the first ever truly borderless pan-European online used car retailer, bringing to market a ‘bricks and clicks’ operating model that delivers the widest choice of vehicles, most sophisticated car buying and selling technology and best value for customers across the continent.
As part of AURES Holdings, the largest independent used car retailer in Europe with more than EUR700 million in revenue, EUR44 million EBITDA and over 2.5 million customers served, Driverama will initially launch in Germany, with over 5,000 of its own fully inspected cars, before rolling the concept
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital’s portfolio company, SMAC, a French provider of waterproofing and building envelope solutions, has completed the sale of its skylights-related division to Kingspan Light + Air, a division of Kingspan Group Plc.
The sale of the skylights division includes two business lines; Skydôme, a subsidiary focused on the production of daylighting, ventilation, smoke evacuation, and roofing access systems; and Essemes Services, a division within Skydôme specialising in the installation of skylights and the maintenance of fire safety equipment. OpenGate acquired SMAC from Colas Group in May of 2019. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
NewSpring, a family of private equity strategies, has announced that NewSpring Franchise, the firm’s newest strategy focused on investing in innovative franchise and multi-unit concepts, has completed its acquisition of Duck Donuts, one of the nation’s fastest-growing donut franchise companies. Free Fenix, a Charlotte, NC-based hybrid investment company, partnered with NewSpring on the deal, providing a significant investment to further accelerate growth.
Russ DiGilio, founder and original CEO of Duck Donuts, launched the now-iconic donut brand in 2007 in the town of Duck in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Since beginning to franchise in 2013, the company today operates
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