Allocations
Each year SS&C Intralinks, in partnership with Private Equity Wire, polls (LPs) worldwide for their sentiments toward current funds, selecting GPs, and allocation plans for the coming year.  The 2021 report is now available to download…
Palatine Private Equity, the mid-market private equity firm, has completed the maiden investment from its fourth buyout fund (Fund IV) with the acquisition of a majority shareholding in NRG Fleet Services Ltd, a provider of specialist services to the commercial vehicle sector.Headquartered in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, and operating 10 national technical centres, NRG has annual revenues of £90m and employs 280 people. It comprises two divisions, Riverside Truck Rental and Direct Tyre Management.
Riverside Truck Rental is national provider of fleet management services into the UK waste industry, directly servicing local authority providers and large UK waste management operators. It provides
TA Associates (TA), a global growth private equity firm, has completed a majority investment in Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy. TA, together with the Netwrix executive management team, plans to accelerate Netwrix’s growth as the company aims to expand its portfolio of easy-to-use data security solutions to its customers globally. Members of Netwrix senior management and existing Netwrix investor Updata Partners will invest alongside TA, and will maintain a significant equity interest in the company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“Netwrix is thrilled to be working alongside TA as we enter our next
HomeDoctor, a Warsaw and Amsterdam-based digital healthcare provider has announced a EUR3.7m Series A funding round led by Cogito Capital Partners with participation from the Company’s founders. HomeDoctor, founded in 2016, is a leader in the Polish market in providing online medical consultations and delivery of healthcare services to patients’ homes. The Company is operating as a b2b2c and a b2c medical services platform that enables delivery of both, online and phone consultations (telemedicine channel) and booking a doctor appointment (home visit).
Home Doctor is also a key partner for largest medical centres and insurers in Poland. HomeDoctor developed an effective
A company backed by Permira funds has led a Series F round of USD92million in Seismic, a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform provider.
In addition to its capital investment, the Permira funds have also made a secondary investment, becoming Seismic’s largest shareholder. This round brings the total raised by Seismic to around USD270 million to-date and values the company at close to USD1.6 billion.
“Permira’s investment in Seismic is a tremendous testament to Seismic’s market opportunity, team, and overall momentum. Permira’s experience investing in leading enterprise software companies will help us accelerate Seismic platform innovations, international expansion, and M&A
Two energy industry entrepreneurs have launched a family investment company which will support fledgling technology enterprises with development capital and decades of experience gained building international businesses.Doug Duguid and Michael Buchan have formed Indigo 7 Ventures (I7V) which will have a focus on start-up businesses specialising in environmental sustainability and energy transition.
The pair have created a multi-million pound fund which will invest upwards of six figure sums in a small stable of innovative companies working in the renewables sector.
Duguid was Chief Executive Officer and Michael Buchan Chief Financial Officer of EnerMech, which they founded in Aberdeen
Nordic Capital has held the final close of Nordic Capital Fund X (Fund X) at EUR6.1 billion (including GP commitment of 6.5 per cent). The Fund, launched in April 2020, was oversubscribed at its hard cap, and was raised in less than six months via a remote capital raise without holding any face-to-face meetings.
Hg, a European investor in software and tech-enabled services businesses, is to make a significant long-term equity investment in Hyperion Insurance Group Limited (Hyperion), an international insurance intermediary, in a deal that values the business at an enterprise value of around USD5 billion. In conjunction with an additional debt raise and existing resources, the investment will provide Hyperion with up to USD1.5illion to accelerate its growth with both selective acquisitions and investments in data and technology.
Hg will join Hyperion as an aligned, long-term, growth partner alongside General Atlantic, which invested in Hyperion in 2013, and CDPQ, which invested in
Independent infrastructure investment manager Ancala Partners (Ancala), on behalf of its managed funds, has sold its majority interest in Fore Freedom for an undisclosed sum to funds managed by HRL Morrison & Co. Fore Freedom is an independent developer, owner and operator of fibre networks across the Netherlands.
Ancala acquired a majority interest in Fore Freedom and its related entities in September 2018 and through a buy-and-build strategy has helped transform the business into a leading fibre network developer, owner and operator in over 80 business parks across the Netherlands. Fore Freedom provides essential broadband connectivity to businesses via high-speed,
Chicago-based private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), has sold Prototek Holdings (Prototek), a rapid prototyping service provider, to Snow Phipps, a middle-market private equity firm.Founded in 1987, Prototek manufactures CNC machined and fabricated parts and components across both metal and plastic materials with a specialty in difficult and complex parts. Prototek serves a diverse customer base across a variety of end markets, including aerospace, defense, medical, robotics, electronics, consumer, telecommunications, and general industrial. Based outside of Boston with additional facilities in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley, the Company conforms to a variety of rigorous customer and industry standards and holds
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