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Private equity firm New Water Capital has made an investment in Pegasus Foods, a contract manufacturer of frozen appetisers and snacks.
Specialising in high-quality, difficult to produce products, Pegasus is a primary contract manufacturer for several consumer packaged goods and retail grocery companies, as well as quick service restaurants. New Water Capital, providing growth capital to Pegasus, will partner with the existing Pegasus team to support the company’s recent expansion into a second manufacturing plant, a 135,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Rockwall, Texas.
Founded in 1998, family-owned Pegasus Foods produces frozen snacks and other products for several prominent customers, including
Archangels, an Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate, and the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scotland’s enterprise agencies, have completed a GBP2 million funding round for Bio-Images Drug Delivery Limited (BDD).
The company is looking to scale it business based around its OralogiK precision timed drug delivery system, which enables the oral delivery of single, multi-dose or combination drugs at pre-determined times between one and 12 hours after being swallowed by the patient.
OralogiK’s performance has been validated in multiple clinical studies and BDD believes it offers tremendous opportunities, including: night time dosing of a drug to be delivered
Inflexion has completed the buyout of Chambers and Partners (Chambers), a provider of legal rankings.
Founded in 1990, Chambers ranks over 80,000 lawyers and law firms by practice area in almost 200 jurisdictions. The rankings are relied upon by corporates when selecting their legal advisers and by law firms and individual lawyers to support their business marketing activities. The specialised research and analysis that Chambers undertakes is recognised for its methodological rigour and is trusted by the legal profession globally.
The business is well placed to benefit from the continuing growth of the legal services market and rising business
Breed Reply, an active operational investor in early-stage Internet of Things (IoT) businesses, has invested in France-based METRON and TAG Sensors, a Norwegian company.
The two companies raised a total of GBP3.75 million from Breed Reply and other investors. These new investments mean Breed Reply’s pan-European investment portfolio of early stage IoT businesses has increased to 20 in a variety of different sectors, including health, industrial IoT, smart buildings and cities, and transportation.
METRON increases Breed Reply’s focus on industrial IoT technology. Energy is a significant cost in many industries and METRON’s technology provides industrial clients with an intelligent
Noerr has advised Ensono in its acquisition of Wipro’s hosted data centre services business for USD405 million, which sees eight data centres, and nearly 900 employees, transition to Ensono.
The acquisition significantly expands Ensono’s geographic footprint and global service capabilities.
Ensono and Wipro have also signed a long-term partnership agreement to jointly address hybrid IT requirements of Wipro’s new and existing enterprise customers. As part of the agreement, Wipro will make a strategic investment of USD55 million in Ensono.
Ensono, a portfolio company of Charlesbank Capital Partners and M/C Partners, provides hybrid IT services, from cloud to mainframe,
Digital Reasoning, a specialist in artificial intelligence (AI) that understands human intentions and behaviours, has raised USD30 million in a new funding round led by BNP Paribas.
Angel Rodriguez-Issa, Global Head of Strategic Investments, Global Markets at BNP Paribas, has joined Digital Reasoning’s board of directors.
Barclays and Square Capital also joined the round, as well as previous investors Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, Lemhi Ventures, HCA, and the Partnership Fund for New York City.
“Global financial institutions are turning to AI to help drive digital transformation in order to improve revenues and efficiencies,” says Brett Jackson, CEO of Digital
Private equity fund manager YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has backed the MBO of Checkmate Fire Solutions Limited, UK-based passive fire protection provider.
The investment in Checkmate Fire marks the fifth investment from the YFM managed fund, YFM Equity Partners 2016 LP.
Checkmate Fire is the UK’s leading passive fire protection company, providing fully compliant services including survey, design, specification and installation of solutions for fire stopping/air sealing, compartmentation, fire boarding and structural steel protection. Complementing this Checkmate Fire also specialises in fire door surveying, restoration and installation, and provides a fully bespoke range of fire resistant glazing solutions.
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has launched its second infrastructure debt fund, Archmore Infrastructure Debt Platform II (IDP II), with seed commitments from initial investors of more than EUR448.4 million.
IDP II has been launched on the back of the successful performance of its predecessor – the Archmore Infrastructure Debt Platform I (IDP I), which is now 94 per cent deployed and has a strong pipeline of attractive new investment opportunities. The strategy of this follow-on fund remains consistent; IDP II will focus on private infrastructure debt opportunities in Western Europe, primarily through direct
Farmstead, a new AI-powered digital micro-grocer that curates and delivers fresh, local foods from farm-to-fridge in 60 minutes, has secured an additional USD2 million capital infusion, led by Resolute Ventures and Social Capital, with additional participation from SV Angel and Y Combinator.
This latest round brings Farmstead’s total seed funding to USD4.8 million to date.
Farmstead will use the new funds to scale operations of its rapidly growing AI grocery sourcing and delivery service, continue building out its core AI technology, accelerate hiring, and expand its service well beyond the Bay Area.
“As Farmstead continues to grow at
HarbourVest Partners has held the final close of its flagship Europe, Asia, and emerging markets focused fund, HIPEP VIII Partnership at USD1.7 billion, exceeding its target and an ahead of the HIPEP VII Partnership fund which closed in August 2015 at USD1.5 billion.
“HarbourVest has long believed that solving for the unique challenges that our investors face must be at the core of everything we do,” says Peter Wilson, Managing Director and member of the Executive Management Committee, HarbourVest. “HarbourVest has invested more than USD25 billion in Europe, Asia Pacific, and other emerging markets over the last 30 years. These
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