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Lonsdale Capital Partners (Lonsdale), the private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the mid-market, has made a significant investment in Horseware Ireland (Horseware), a global specialist in the manufacture and sale of equine products. The company is headquartered in Ireland and will continue to be led by Mark Saunders (CEO). Horseware was founded in 1985 by Tom MacGuinness and has built a strong reputation in Ireland due to its focus on innovation and quality alongside its rich Irish heritage.
The Company predominately focuses on horse rugs/blankets (c70 per cent of revenue) but its product offering expands into wider
Berlin-based biotech Bluu Biosciences has closed its seed funding round at 7 million euros less than 10 months after its foundation.
Bluu Biosciences is the first company in Europe to specialise in the development and production of cell-based fish. There is currently only a handful of other companies active in this field worldwide. Global food and impact investors such as Manta Ray Ventures (UK), CPT Capital (UK), Lever VC (USA), Norrsken (SE) and Be8 (GER) participated in the investment round. The fresh capital will flow into the company’s intensive biotechnology research and development work as well as into product development.
Unified Comms, Contact Centre and Cyber Solutions provider, Babble, has acquired 81G Blue. The deal is the third completed in three months and the seventh since the start of 2020.
The deal continues Babble’s rapid buy and build strategy, which has been complemented by robust organic growth over the last 12 months. The acquisitive business has now completed seven deals since the start of 2020, three of which have been undertaken since the well-publicised backing from lead investor Graphite Capital.
With customers situated nationwide, 81G Blue is a fully managed service IT solutions provider which will enhance and expand
Nordic Capital has signed an agreement to sell MFEX, a global independent fund distributor, to Euroclear. During Nordic Capital’s ownership, MFEX has successfully repositioned itself from a Nordic player to a pan-European leader with an emerging global presence.
The new owner Euroclear is a provider of financial market infrastructure services and believes it is ideally placed to support the next phase of MFEX’s growth and development.
The two companies are complementary and will build on each other’s strengths. The combination of MFEX’s innovative distribution platform with Euroclear’s FundSettle post-trade operations expertise will create a unique and compelling offering for
Zobi, the developer of domestic cybercrime solution Hedgehog, has secured USD1.5 million of funding to bring Hedgehog to life and create Zobi Home Intelligence, the brains designed to help users manage and keep their online identity safe through digital guardians.
The investment was led by Worth Capital with Loyal VC and supplemented through a blend of angel funding and a hugely successful Seedrs campaign. The cash injection means that the British AI tech startup, which only launched in 2020 now has the potential to realise its full ambitions, further developing Hedgehog and Zobi Home Intelligence, creating what they believe to
Hornetsecurity Group, a cloud email security provider, has made its second acquisition this year – email protection specialist Zerospam, which comes hot on the heels of its acquisition of worldwide backup solution provider Altaro in January.
Zerospam is a fast-growing business that serves more than 4,000 small, midsized and enterprise customers worldwide via an ecosystem of 400+ partners focused primarily on Canada and the US. It is a recognized leader in providing cloud-based email security solutions to the SMB market across North America, helping them block unwanted emails and combat cybercriminals.
Providing customers and partners with innovative and safe
The Solana Foundation has partnered with cryptocurrency exchanges, OKEx and MXC, to launch two strategic investment funds that will bring USD40 million of new capital to accelerate the growth and development of key projects in the Solana ecosystem.
Solana’s layer 1 proof of stake network has grown at an exponential rate, with 560+ active community validators around the world who have produced over 70 million blocks and processed over 14 billion transactions. Since the launch of its mainnet beta in 2020, Solana has attracted industry-leading projects like Serum, Chainlink, Terra, Audius, USDC, USDT, and more to deploy on its blockchain.
Linking platform Linktree has raised USD45 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Index Ventures, an investor in Patreon and Discord, and Coatue, an investor in TikTok, with participation from returning investors AirTree Ventures and Insight Partners.
Coatue Chairman Dan Rose will join Linktree’s Board of Directors, bringing his 20 years of experience from Facebook and Amazon. The funding follows a USD10.7 million Series A round announced in October 2020.
Linktree is the rapidly growing social identity layer with more than 12 million users globally, four million of whom signed up in the last three months. The platform
Horizon Capital’s USD200 million fund, Emerging Europe Growth Fund III, has sold its minority stake in Dobrobut to existing shareholders – Oleg Kalashnikov, Dobrobut’s Managing Shareholder and CEO, and Concorde Capital.
Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Horizon Capital invested in Dobrobut in April 2019. Fuelled by the Fund’s investment, the Company was able to rapidly execute value-accretive strategic projects, strongly accelerating the growth of the business. Over the last two years, Dobrobut completed two lucrative M&A transactions, acquiring Boris and Doctor Sam clinics; is completing the construction of a new flagship hospital; expanded its network
Council Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, has invested in ViaQuest Holdings, Ltd and Affiliates (ViaQuest).
ViaQuest is a leading provider of residential, day and employment services for individuals with development disabilities (IDD), (ii) hospice care and (iii) behavioural and mental health services. The company delivers care tailored to patients’ and their family’s individual needs and circumstances. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, ViaQuest provides services in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
Eric Keen, General Partner at Council Capital, says: “We are excited to invest in ViaQuest and partner with Founder/CEO Rich Johnson and the management team. ViaQuest is
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