Managers
NorthEdge Capital has invested in stairlift designer and manufacturer Platinum Stairlifts, backing the existing management team led by Founder, Tim Frear.
Based in Keighley, West Yorkshire, Platinum Stairlifts manufactures a full suite of stairlift products. The company employs over 100 staff and distributes to more than 40 countries worldwide, including France, Germany, the Netherlands and USA, through its network of authorised dealers.
The business has achieved strong growth in recent years, with revenue increasing by over 20 per cent year-on-year since 2012. NorthEdge’s backing will allow the company to continue its new product development, enhance its proposition for distributors
Foresight Group (Foresight) has invested several million pounds of growth capital from Foresight VCT (FVCT) into PowerLinks Media Limited (PowerLinks).
The investment completes a larger Series A round of funding, with additional participation from leading angel investors and PowerLinks management.
PowerLinks is a software platform, which automates the buying and selling of personally relevant and user-friendly “native” advertising. PowerLinks is emerging as a leader in a new generation of advertising platforms, connecting advertisers and publishers in a data-rich marketplace, which processes over 6 billion auctions each day. Ads are bought and sold in real-time, based on precisely defined customer
An affiliate of Blue Wolf Capital Fund IV has acquired a majority stake in Petrosmith, a provider of production equipment and oilfield tubular goods (OCTG) to the domestic oil and gas industry. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Petrosmith manufactures a broad suite of tanks (including oilfield storage tanks and gun barrel tanks) and vessels (including heater treaters, separators and vapour recovery towers) used by large E&P companies primarily in the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford and Mid-Continent region. The Company also sells a variety of new and used OCTG and provides a wide array of OCTG refurbishment services.
Orion Energy Partners, a private equity firm providing creative capital solutions to middle market energy infrastructure businesses, has closed Orion Energy Credit Opportunities Fund II. The fund was oversubscribed with commitments totalling USD816 million, exceeding the target fund size of USD750 million.
Capital commitments to Orion Energy’s new fund represent major global investor markets, with nearly 50 per cent from the US, approximately 20 per cent from the UK & Europe and the remainder from Australia. The investor base comprises multiple state and corporate pension plans, endowments and foundations, asset managers, family offices and high net worth individuals. Together with
Investment and strategic advisory firm Brown Advisory is teaming up with network-driven venture capital firm, NextGen Venture Partners (NextGen).The NextGen team will officially join their new Brown Advisory colleagues in offices across the United States from 22 February.
NextGen was founded by investment industry veterans Dan Mindus and Brett Gibson as a means to bring their Washington, DC-based network together to make more informed and successful venture capital investments. Today, the firm has a national network of over 900 entrepreneurs and investors that source, analyse, support and invest in startup companies.
The growth of their organisation has been driven
Private equity firm 1315 Capital has held the single close of 1315 Capital II, a healthcare growth equity fund, at its hard cap over USD300 million, exceeding its USD250 million target.
Similar to the first fund, 1315 Capital II includes endowment, foundation, public and private pension, and family office limited partners.
“We appreciate the ongoing partnership with our management teams and investors as we continue to support innovation and solutions across healthcare,” says Adele Oliva, Founding Partner. 1315 Capital will invest on average USD10-USD30 million into existing companies, or as part of the creation of a commercial stage ‘jumpstart’. Of
A new distillery, whose founders want to make England’s West Country one of the most recognised names in fine whisky, is seeking GBP2.75 million in SEIS/EIS funding.
The Dorset County Distilling Company is looking for backing to complete construction and begin production at its Springhead Distillery in the picturesque Blackmore Vale. Successful entrepreneur Hutch Wright and his son Alex, an experienced chef and brewer, established the business in response to the growing appetite for “craft” spirits.
Wright Snr says: “The trends that have transformed the beer, wine and gin markets during the past decade or so are increasingly shaping
Tethys Investments has become a full member of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), joining the ranks of more than 300 PE funds (including a few PE funds from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region) with USD5 trillion assets under management.
Tethys Investments is the first and only member of EMPEA from Caucasus and is one of two EMPEA members from the Caucasus and Central Asia region. The other member firm based in the Central Asia region is Centras Capital, a Kazakhstan-based PE Fund.
EMPEA is the global industry association for private capital in emerging markets whose
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, is backing the buy-out of ASK4 Limited, a fast-growing internet solutions provider.
Founded in Sheffield in 2000 by its chief executive, Jonathan Burrows, ASK4 partners with universities, private sector student accommodation providers, residential apartment developers and businesses, to provide high speed internet solutions and managed data services for multi-tenant accommodation.
ASK4 currently services 160,000 customers in more than 400 sites in the UK and Europe. The business has grown strongly due to its highly differentiated proposition, focus on customer service, and the increasing levels of investment in multi-tenant accommodation.
Bowmark is
Funds managed by private equity firm Stone Point Capital (Stone Point) are to buy a majority interest in Genex Services (Genex), a provider of cost containment services to the workers’ compensation, disability and auto industries, from funds advised by Apax Partners.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018.
Founded in 1978, Genex helped introduce the medical management concept and has become one of the largest and most experienced medical cost containment and disability management providers today. Genex offers a broad continuum of services including utilization management, case management, bill review, independent medical examinations, Medicare
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