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Keensight Capital and ISAI Expansion, a French Tech entrepreneurs’ fund, have acquired a majority stake in IVIDATA, a consulting group specialised in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence services, alongside Etienne Aboulker, IVIDATA’s co-founder and CEO.
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Levallois-Perret, IVIDATA is a leading consulting group covering the entire Big Data value chain, from strategy to UX, and including Data Science and Data Privacy services. IVIDATA’s one-stop-shop model offers a broad range of services.
Thanks to its cross-disciplinary and multi-sector position, IVIDATA accompanies a diversified client portfolio which includes over 100 blue-chip companies such as Danone, France
Funds affiliated with Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (BIP), have made a growth-oriented investment in Carrix, one of the largest marine terminal operators in the US and in the Americas.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Carrix is the parent company of SSA Marine and its related affiliates, with combined operations at over 250 port and rail locations worldwide, including 16 container terminals in Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma, Panama, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Vietnam.
“We are pleased that BIP has invested in Carrix and will be working with us to continue our on-going growth and development,”
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the sale of Resolute Industrial Holdings (Resolute), an independent provider of York-brand chilling products, compressor remanufacturing, refrigerant storage, and other heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) equipment services.
The sale marks the first exit from the firm’s USD1.65 Billion Fund VI, which was also the first fund raised with outside capital after OEP spun out of JP Morgan. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, Resolute and its 18 branch offices serve a wide range of businesses across the
SFW Capital Partners (SFW), a specialised private equity firm that invests in leading Information, Software, Industrial and Healthcare Technology companies, has made a strategic investment in Greenshades Software (Greenshades), in partnership with Greenshades’ co-founders, David Rosas and Matt Kane.
SFW’s principals have supported a number of highly regarded companies in the Information and Software sector, including DaySmart Software, Swiftpage, Gerson Lehrman Group, Devada, AGDATA, MD Buyline, IAG Research, and Telephia. With SFW’s strategic support and resources, Greenshades plans to make significant investments to expand its product portfolio, enhance its sales and marketing capabilities, access new markets, and meaningfully accelerate its
UK venture capital firm Vala Capital expects to invest all the capital raised by the Vala EIS Portfolio before the end of this current tax year on 5 April.
This will grant investors income tax relief of 30 per cent of the investment value for the current tax year or allow them to carry it back to the previous tax year. Funds offering to deploy capital qualifying for EIS tax relief before 5 April are scarce this year after the Government closed down asset-backed EISs in March 2018.
Jasper Smith, Chairman of Vala Capital, says: “EIS tax relief is
StrongBlock, a Magnetic Capital incubated startup founded by four former technology executives from EOSIO-creator Block.one, has secured USD4 million in a seed funding round led byPangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management SA (Copernicus).
The raise will support the company’s plans to be the blockchain standard for enterprises, financial institutions, and governments. The seed round was led by Pangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management SA (Copernicus).
Unlike most enterprise blockchain projects to date that have failed due to inadequate blockchain protocols and inexperienced executives. StrongBlock’s founders, David Moss (Oracle, Edmunds.com),
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc (LSE ticker: SEIT), managed by Sustainable Development Capital (SDCL), has acquired a 71 per cent interest in a high-quality Combined Heat and Power (CHP) portfolio of eight operating CHP projects on the east coast of the USA for a total cash consideration of USD5.0 million.
Six of these CHP projects are being acquired from a well-known US manufacturer and installer of CHP units and solutions. The remaining two projects are being contributed by a fund managed by a US subsidiary of SDCL, which will result in that fund owning the remaining 29 per cent
Luminous Ventures’ existing portfolio company, Hadean – creator of the cloud-based operating system (HadeanOS) and distributed simulation engine (Aether Engine) – has secured a further GBP7 million investment in a third round of funding.
Luminous Ventures – a venture fund which focuses on supporting early stage deep-tech companies – was Hadean’s original venture investor, funding the startup from concept, and leading through two seed rounds of funding in October 2016 and May 2018.
This current funding is being led by venture capital firm Draper Esprit, with additional investment from Aster Capital and specialist gaming investor LVP. Existing investors Entrepreneur
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, is to acquire Walterscheid Powertrain Group, (Walterscheid), a provider of original equipment and aftermarket parts and services for off-highway powertrain applications, from GKN Limited.
Founded in 1919 and headquartered in Lohmar, Germany, Walterscheid manufactures, distributes and services shafts, gearboxes, attachment systems, clutches and other parts for off-highway applications. The Company’s 2,100 employees also provide a wide range of services for agricultural, construction, mining, and industrial OEM and aftermarket customers in Europe, China, and North America.
OEP will partner with the management team of Walterscheid, led by CEO Wolfgang Lemser,
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (Quinbrook), a specialist global investment manager focussed exclusively on lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure investment and operational asset management in the US, the UK and Australia, has held the closing of its Low Carbon Power Fund, raising a total of over USD1.6 billion in investor commitments to the strategy.
David Scaysbrook, co-founder and managing partner of Quinbrook, says: “We are very grateful to both our longstanding investors and our new institutional clients who have enabled us to achieve our largest fund raising to date. We especially value their commitment to Quinbrook’s investment strategy, which seeks to
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