Private equity firm The Riverside Company has invested in Cordico, a provider of purpose-built, mobile health and wellness applications that deliver high-quality wellness tools, resources and assessments to public safety customers including law enforcement, fire, EMS, corrections and more. First responders can access these mobile apps anonymously and conveniently 24/7 to get the behavioural health support they need. The investment merges Cordico with Riverside’s Lexipol platform, a provider of public safety policy and training solutions, targeting the same users as Cordico. “We are thrilled about the opportunity to partner with Dr. David Black and the Cordico team to make these essential

Foundation SP (FSP), a specialist Digital Transformation services provider, has secured a multi-million-pound minority investment from leading mid-market private equity firm LDC.Headquartered in Reading, FSP is an award-winning provider of Digital Transformation services to large enterprises and public sector organisations. Its portfolio of cloud, productivity, data and artificial intelligence offerings alongside trusted managed services delivery are transforming high-profile clients across a range of sectors.   LDC has backed FSP’s ambitious management team, led by Simon Grosse (Chief Executive Officer), Simon Walker (Chief Customer Officer), and Tim Ebenezer (Chief Digital Officer). The team have already successfully grown the business to 80

Chicago-based private equity firm Entrepreneurial Equity Partners (e2p) has invested in Salm Partners (Salm) alongside the Salm family, who will maintain a significant stake in the Company. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Founded in 2004, Salm is the largest contract manufacturer of fully cooked sausages and premium hot dogs in the United States serving a blue-chip customer base that includes industry-leading brands. Utilising a differentiated, co-extrusion, cook-in-package manufacturing process, Salm offers better tasting, clean label products with extended shelf lives relative to sausages produced utilising conventional methods. Salm is headquartered in Denmark, Wisconsin where it owns and

The US International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) Office of Equity Investments (OEI) has announced the Direct Equity Request for Applications, which invites early and growth-stage companies, working to solve critical development challenges, to submit an application for direct equity investment.OEI is DFC’s new group dedicated to generating developmental impact through direct equity investments in emerging markets. As a financial tool, direct equity provides DFC with greater flexibility to invest in early and growth-stage companies, partner with other financial institutions, and enable investees to scale operations more efficiently to create greater development impact.   “Equity investments are highly developmental because of

Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) environmental services platform Alliance Holdings (Alliance) has acquired Almega Environmental (Almega), a provider of source emissions testing (or stack testing) services including ambient air testing, on-site analysis and EPA compliance to the manufacturing, metals and renewable energy industries, among others.Located in Cypress, California, Almega is a natural strategic fit for Alliance as the Company strengthens its presence in the Western United States.“Almega is excited to partner with Alliance as the Company’s first stack testing office in California,” said Almega President John Phillips.  “We will continue to serve our clients in meeting their HSE (Health Safety and

London based Investment company Kinetic Investments has made an investment in PrivacySavvy,a startup digital resource centre aiming to spread cybersecurity awareness.PrivacySavvy is a global educational portal spreading awareness about digital security, cybercrimes, and the responsible use of security tools, such as VPNs. It will serve internet users as a ready source to seek news, guides, information, and answers to critical digital security questions. The digital security education startup aims to develop a diversified customer base from multiple sectors, including businesses, educational institutions, cybersecurity enthusiasts, and average internet users. Besides providing information through their core website, PrivacySavvy also plans to launch

Nasdaq Ventures, Nasdaq’s investment arm, has made a strategic investment in Matter, a sustainability analysis and reporting provider. Nasdaq’s investment in Copenhagen-based Matter further extends and complements its existing partnership with Matter via Nasdaq’s European data business. The Nasdaq ESG Footprint solution is powered by Matter’s analytics technology and provides retail and institutional investors with in-depth insight of the ESG impact of their portfolios. “We are excited to welcome Nasdaq Ventures as an investor and look forward to strengthening our partnership with Nasdaq around sustainability,” says Niels Fibæk-Jensen, CEO of Matter. “The investment will enable us to continue the expansion of