Managers
Kayne Partners Fund, the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, has led a USD50 million Series B Funding round in KlearNow, a smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) specialist founded in 2018.
Existing investors including GreatPoint Ventures, Argean Capital, and Autotech Ventures also participated along with new investor Activate Capital.
Since its USD16 million Series A funding round led by GreatPoint Ventures in January 2020, KlearNow has grown exponentially, increasing its customer base tenfold and its monthly revenue run rate by more than 50 times. During this time, US-based KlearNow has expanded into Canada, and launched its
MidOcean Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on the business services and consumer sectors, has acquired GHR Healthcare (GHR) from Platform Partners and other investors.
GHR is a provider of healthcare staffing services offering travel nursing, local nursing, per diem nursing, allied health, behavioural health, education, information technology, revenue cycle, managed services provider, interim leadership and permanent placement services to healthcare facilities nationwide. The Company operates three national divisions across a broad geographic footprint of 11 locations built through acquisition and organic expansion. MidOcean Partners plans to continue the Company’s aggressive growth plan through comprehensive organic initiatives
Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment firm with more than USD49 billion under management, has started using a real-time ESG data analytics solution to provide insights into underlying fund and private company investments.
Adams Street is deploying a custom ESG Ratings and Reporting solution from Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider. The analytics platform securely processes a variety of ESG data streams to provide tailored insights during investment and operational due diligence. Adams Street is also collaborating with Apex to develop a tailored impact data collection and reporting solution for use by Adams Street in monitoring
SCF Partners (SCF) has invested in Powerstar EMSc (UK) Ltd (Powerstar), a provider of power resiliency, microgrids, and energy efficiency equipment to customers worldwide.
Dr Alex Mardapittas, Powerstar’s founder and CEO, will continue to serve in his current role as the company enters its next phase of growth.
Powerstar, headquartered in Sheffield, United Kingdom, designs and manufactures behind-the-meter hardware and software technologies that help commercial and industrial customers reach their net zero carbon goals. It has provided voltage optimization, power resiliency, energy storage, EV charging, and transformer equipment to customers on five continents worldwide.
QueryLayer, a no-code privacy operations platform for digital enterprises, has raised EUR2 million in seed funding in a round led by Nauta Capital.
The company, which was founded last year in Valencia (Spain), has previously raised a pre-seed round from Seedcamp and Martin Henk, the co-founder of Pipedrive. During 2020, QueryLayer built the platform working closely with privacy and security executives of several scale-ups and now plans to use the seed funding to finance product, sales and marketing.
QueryLayer helps businesses to become “Good Data Brands”, leveraging automated workflows and PrivacyUX to build customer loyalty based on the transparent
O2 Investment Partners portfolio company Capital Construction, a provider of roof replacement and other exterior restoration services to residential customers in the Midwest USA, has partnered with Irish Roofing & Exteriors (www.irishroofs.com).
Irish Roofing & Exteriors (Irish) is a provider of roof replacement and repair and other exterior restoration services to customers in West Michigan. Irish is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan and earlier in 2021 opened its second branch location in Portage, Michigan.
Forterro, a European provider of ERP software solutions to nearly 8,000 mid-market manufacturing and production companies, has acquired myfactory, a provider of cloud-based ERP software to more than 2,000 wholesalers and manufacturers in DACH.
The acquisition expands Forterro’s total addressable market in DACH, and nearly doubles the number of customers served by the group in the region.
myfactory will operate as a standalone business within Forterro. David Lauchenauer, CEO of myfactory, will continue overseeing the business in the role of general manager with the support of his existing management team.
Clearlake Capital Group is to sell Proven Brands and KTB Foods to The Hain Celestial Group (Hain Celestial) for approximately USD259 million.
The sale includes the flagship ParmCrisps and Thinsters brands out of Clearlake’s Better For You Holdings food platform, which sponsors leading providers of high quality, branded, better-for-you snacks and beverages.
Clearlake acquired the Company in 2014 and subsequently completed the successful acquisition of Kitchen Table Bakers, the makers of ParmCrisps, in 2016.
Ares Management Corporation (Ares), a global alternative investment manager, has held the final closing of Ares Senior Direct Lending Fund II (SDL II). With total equity commitments of approximately USD8 billion, SDL II was significantly oversubscribed relative to its initial target of USD4.5 billion.
The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the European Investment Bank Group (EIB), has closed a commitment to invest EUR50 million in Overawed Renewables Europe V FCR, a Spanish-based Fund managed by Everwood Capital devoted to investing in renewable assets in Southern Europe.
Everwood Fund V will invest in developing, constructing, and operating a portfolio of new renewable projects, primarily photovoltaic assets.
Everwood Fund V is also one of the first Spanish funds to classify under Article 9 of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the highest classification under the new directive. This implies that the investments under Everwood
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