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SparkPost, an email sending and optimisation platform delivering nearly 40 per cent of the world’s commercial email, has secured USD180 million from LLR Partners, NewSpring Capital and PNC Bank.
The investment will help fuel SparkPost’s next stage of growth and product innovation as organisations continue to look at email as the channel to communicate and educate customers, and transact at scale in the years to come.
SparkPost’s focus on empowering the most sophisticated email senders globally has generated steady revenue growth within the last three years and substantially expanded its customer base, which includes companies like Zillow, The New York
Shore Capital Partners (Shore), a private equity firm focused on investments in the healthcare and food and beverage industries, has invested in the Tandem Family of Companies (Tandem).
Tandem is a nationwide, full-service HR technology and solutions leader servicing small, mid-size, and enterprise companies. Tandem is currently comprised of four brands: Tandem HR, a professional employer organisation (PEO) offering HR outsourcing solutions, two leaders in highly customised brokered benefits for groups and individuals, Benefit Solutions Group and Alliance Workplace Solutions, and Workplace Solutions, a provider of comprehensive employee assistance programs (EAP).
Powered by experienced professionals, Tandem HR has been
Purlos an admissions platform designed to help educational institutions increase their revenue by reducing student drop-outs during the admissions process, has raised GBP300k from multiple investors in the education space from the UK, US and Germany.
Palatine Private Equity has completed the seventh investment from its Impact Fund, with the acquisition of a significant minority stake in tranScrip, a fast-growing global business playing a key role in the innovation and commercialisation of new medicines, including treatments for Covid-19.
Headquartered in the Thames Valley, tranScrip provides a wide range of specialist professional services to pharma companies, ranging from global players to dynamic, fast-growing biotechnology companies.
Operating internationally, tranScrip is playing a leading role in accelerating innovation in healthcare, enabling people to live longer and healthier lives.
Led by co-founders Managing Partner Dr Flic Gabbay, who has more
Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm investing in growth software companies, has sold AMTdirect, a provider of lease accounting, lease administration, and facilities management software, to MRI Software.
Jeff Ralyea, Chief Executive Officer of AMTdirect, says: “Over the last few years, the Luminate team has partnered with AMTdirect to deliver cloud-based solutions to leading corporations and retailers. We’ve been able to build the organization and products that now support lease administration, lease accounting, and facilities management for hundreds of enterprise customers.”
“AMTdirect has experienced considerable growth as a result of their ability to provide solutions to manage lease
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has sold its investment in ZorgDomein, Netherlands-based healthcare referral platform, to Rabobank.
Founded in 2000, ZorgDomein provides SaaS-based solutions to the Dutch healthcare sector. The Company connects various types of healthcare providers to patients through digital patient referrals, diagnostic requests and consultations. In 2019, over six million patients found the right care through 14+ million referrals in the ZorgDomein environment. More than 80,000 care providers, such as GP’s and specialists, use the platform on a daily basis.
Wouter Snoeijers, Managing Director of LLCP, says: “We believe that LLCP’s investment in ZorgDomein has been highly value
Francisco Partners has been named the top-performing firm in the 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking.
The San Francisco-headquartered tech specialist came top out of 529 private equity (PE) firms analysed, delivering an aggregate performance that was 2.40 standard deviations above the average. Genstar Capital Partners, and Vitruvian Partners were ranked second and third, respectively. Thoma Bravo, which had held top spot for the previous three years remained in the top 10 performing funds in the sample, at sixth position.
The annual ranking, developed on the research of HEC Professor and MJ Hudson Fund Performance Analytics founder, Oliver Gottschalg,
An innovative North East based immersive technology company is aiming to transform the way customers engage and experience entertainment, sport, visitor attractions, hospitality and retail.
Fame Media Tech – led by entrepreneur Bryan Hoare – is on a mission to transform customer experiences through mobile and content technology to help operators create more engaged and loyal customers, fans and visitors.
The County Durham business, whose team combines market leading technology with decades of experience in publishing and digital media, has already started to create innovative content experiences for millions of mobile users around the world and is now about
Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Kusters Beheer, a group of six companies offering advanced manufacturing capacities for the production of high-tech precision components.
The financial terms of the transaction, which remains subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities, have not been disclosed.
Going forward, the group will be led by Geert Ketelaars and Adwin Kannekens, Managing Directors of Wilting, one of the companies that make up Kusters Beheer; they will take up the positions of CEO and CCO respectively. As part of the transaction, the founding family as well
CBRE Caledon Capital Management Inc has acquired Karlssonbuss, a regional and school bus operator in southern Sweden.
The vendors of the family-owned bus operator, the Karlsson family, will continue to have a small equity stake in the business.
CBRE Caledon is making the investment on behalf of a fund sponsored by the firm as well as a separately managed account. It represents the second investment completed in the Nordics since 2019.
Karlssonbuss has been operating since 1949 in southern Sweden, with the majority of its customers being public transport authorities for regional routes and local authorities for school
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