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Private equity firm CenterGate Capital has made an investment in AC Photonics (ACP), a provider of precision optical and fibre optic components and modules designed and engineered to its customers’ precise specifications.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ACP designs and engineers its products to its customers’ precise specifications, creating photonic solutions across a wide range of fiber optic communication applications. With an industry leading quality control program that delivers high reliability products, its product portfolio includes fiber optic components and modules, both passive and active, fused and/or filter based- all of which are relied on by its customers to enhance
Carolon Capital Ltd (Carolon) is partnering with TB Capital in Sweden and Ely Solutions in the United Kingdom on the distribution of fund products throughout Europe.
Carolon is currently marketing a diverse suite of products that include both UCITS funds and non-UCITS funds. The strategies include US micro-cap, small-cap emerging markets, all-cap emerging markets, mining and natural resources, listed private equity, infrastructure and fixed income mandates.
TB Capital works with asset managers to deliver multi-strategy products to institutional investors throughout Sweden, Norway and Finland. Ely Solutions has expertise in business development for a variety of products in the financial services
Private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in Talkwalker, a global listening and analytics company.
The acquisition allows the software company to leverage Marlin’s operational resources and expertise in growing technology businesses. Talkwalker’s founders and management team will continue to lead the company during this exciting new stage of growth with a focus on accelerating product innovation and international expansion.
Utilised by over 1,000 clients, Talkwalker’s state-of-the-art multi-tenant cloud platform uses AI-powered technology to analyse images and text in 187 languages across social, online and traditional media. The company’s social listening and analytics software allows
Sheridan Capital Partners (SCP) is to invest in SpendMend (SpendMend), a provider of spend visibility and audit recovery services to the healthcare industry.
Sheridan has invested alongside SpendMend’s founders and management, who will retain a meaningful ownership stake in the business. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, SpendMend provides audit recovery, cost containment, and spend visibility services to leading healthcare providers nationwide. SpendMend’s services deliver tangible results, including monetary recoveries, cost reduction insights, and analytics and benchmarking tools to its customer base. SpendMend is an expert in its field, having specialised in spend
Waterland Private Equity is selling its interest in the A-ROSA river cruise group to Duke Street. The British company based in London is acquiring all the shares of the European rivers premium cruise specialist together with the existing management team.
“We are delighted to have found in Duke Street a new investor who will push ahead with growth of the A-ROSA river cruise group,” says Jörg Dreisow, Managing Partner at Waterland.
The independent private equity firm acquired a majority share in the leading German river cruise provider in 2009, and has since contributed significantly to the company’s growth and
Barings has sold its investment in Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) to 3i Infrastructure.
Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, WIG is an independent communications infrastructure provider. The Company operates a portfolio of over 2,000 communication towers and is the United Kingdom’s market leader for the deployment of neutral host distributed antenna system networks needed to deliver mobile signals to large public venues. Barings initially made its controlling investment in WIG in December 2012, and the transaction comes as the Company continues to scale up its deployment of high capacity, 5G-ready wireless infrastructure. This includes new communication towers serving rural communities, together with small
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, has invested USD3 million in US-based self-driving taxi service Voyage.
The backing will support Voyage in developing a global service, with the aim that anyone can summon an autonomous vehicle to their door and reach their destination safely. Voyage has already trialled its self-driving taxi service in a gated community in San Jose, California. The company is licensed to test self-driving cars on Californian roads in 2018 and is refining its technology and service with feedback from users.
In this funding round, InMotion Ventures invested alongside Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Initialized
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MeinAuto.de on its investment by Hg.
MeinAuto is a platform for online sales of new cars in Germany, with over 16 million visitors per year and more than 9,000 automotive dealerships connected. MeinAuto’s users are able to select from more than 600 models across 40 OEMs and importers, configure their chosen vehicle and complete their purchase with a prequalified automotive dealership.
The investment is an important development in Europe’s automotive distribution sector, which is experiencing fundamental change as consumers turn increasingly to the online channel to buy new cars. Hg, a
Whitecar, a UK-based electric vehicle car rental company, has secured funding of GBP1.29 million and is now focusing on European expansion to add to its existing outlets at Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Edinburgh airports.
Having launched in 2016, Whitecar has the largest fleet of white Tesla vehicles available to hire across the UK and has disrupted the car rental market by focusing on simplicity, ease and transparency.
Whitecar has simplified the sector by offering one make of car, in one colour, and most importantly, at one all-inclusive price. There is no additional charge for insurance or extra drivers, making
UK FinTech Delio, a specialist in white-label digital private market solutions, has raised a further GBP1 million in a further fund-raising round led by the Development Bank of Wales.
Together with participation from new and existing private investors the investment supports Delio’s ongoing expansion in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
The news comes as the company appoints two key signings to bolster its leadership team. Gareth Morgan, former Chief Risk Officer of HSBC Private Bank in Asia Pacific, joins Delio as Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, while Andy Samuel joins as Chief Technology Officer after holding a number
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