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SMS Assist, a mobile and cloud-based multisite property management company, has raised USD150 million in Series D funding from Goldman Sachs Investment Partners. Prior investors in SMS Assist include Insight Venture Partners and Pritzker Group Venture Capital.
SMS Assist offers property owners a cloud-based technology platform and a network of more than 20,000 subcontracted affiliates and an estimated 500,000 technicians to address the maintenance and management needs in their 120,000-location portfolio. The company’s advanced technology platform integrates customer, subcontractor and SMS Assist operations, eliminating unnecessary steps in the maintenance workflow and allowing clients to reduce costs and improve service, quality
Aurelius has acquired Calumet International Ltd, a holding company comprising both pan-European multi-channel photography retailer Calumet Photographic (Calumet) and professional lighting producer Bowens Lighting (Bowens).
The company was bought from Calumet Holdings for an undisclosed sum.
Calumet Photographic is a multi-channel retailer of branded and own-label photography equipment and services with 17 locations across the UK, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Calumet’s expanding online business and pan-European network of specialist stores offer a premium purchasing experience across all channels to a diverse customer base of photography enthusiasts, professionals, and companies. Aurelius’ investment will allow Calumet to upgrade current locations,
An affiliate of private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to acquire a majority stake in and provide funding for the future growth and development of inexio, a provider of fibre-based internet access services in Germany.
The total enterprise value of the transaction is approximately EUR250 million. Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG), an investor in inexio since 2013, is also participating in this capital increase.
inexio is a fast-growing service provider in the German telecommunication services market, providing fibre-based assess services to business and residential customers. The Company benefits from the growing demand for high speed access driven by increasing video consumption
Twelve Capital Group was the anchor investor in Adriatic Slovenica’s note offering, providing the company with Solvency II compliant capital for a ten year period.
On 24 May 2016, the company placed EUR50 million in notes, maturing in May 2026. Twelve Capital Group acted as anchor investor and was then joined by additional investors. These notes, which comply with the requirements of the Solvency II directive are listed on the Irish Stock Exchange (on the GEM – Global Exchange Market). The proceeds will be used for strengthening the capital adequacy of the issuer and for purchasing KD Funds, which is
Instana Inc has raised a USD6 million investment led by venture capital firm Target Partners with participation of Codecentric, a German IT consulting firm.
Instana is tackling the problem of monitoring and managing the increasingly complex big data and microservices architectures; humans can no longer monitor these systems by simply collecting data and building “dashboards”. Through auto-discovering the application’s technologies and topology, Instana is able to deliver unprecedented clarity into the health and performance of these modern architectures. The startup pairs its own ever increasing knowledge base with a machine learning approach to predict future performance degradation or downtime, identify
An affiliate of Moorgate Capital Partners has partnered with management to acquire substantially all of the assets of ITC Service Group (ITC) from its founding shareholders.
ITC is a leading provider of planning, design, installation and maintenance services to the telecommunications and IT industries. Most recently, the company has been focused on designing, installing, maintaining and providing operational management services for fiber–to-the-home networks, an area that is expected to grow dramatically over the next several years as major industry participants deploy significant capital to build and upgrade networks. ITC currently employs approximately 700 people across the United States.
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Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) has closed the firm’s seventh private equity investment fund, Green Equity Investors VII (GEI VII), with committed capital of USD9.6 billion.
GEI VII exceeded its target and closed at its hard cap of USD9.1 billion in third-party investor commitments along with a USD500 million commitment from the Partners of the firm.
Founded in 1989 and based in Los Angeles, LGP’s philosophy is to invest in market-leading companies with defensible competitive positions, attractive growth prospects, and proven management teams. LGP’s investments have taken the form of traditional buyouts, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, growth capital investments, corporate carve-outs,
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund has acquired a significant minority stake in B2S Group (B2S), a French player in the outsourcing of customer services management.
IK Funds will invest alongside Maxime Didier, founder and majority shareholder of the Group. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
B2S Group offers an extensive portfolio of customer experience services, including consulting, telesales, customer services, debt collection and technical assistance, to a large client base. The Group is well positioned to achieve additional growth, already operating 13 contact centres in France, Morocco and Madagascar. In 2015, B2S Group generated
As part of its diversification push, Euronews Group is launching Euronews Ventures, a programme to back innovative technology start-ups.
The purpose of this programme is to accelerate the development of the most promising start-ups by providing them with a complete array of media and marketing services: global communication levers, media coaching, events, networking through the international network of Euronews and Africanews, media for revenue or even media for equity.
Kiwi Plug, a start-up in the connected-device space, is the first player to join the programme and will receive support from Euronews Ventures right from the start of its global fundraising
New York-based private equity firm Bregal Sagemount has made a significant growth investment in Steele Compliance Solutions the parent company of the Steele CIS and Securimate businesses.
The two companies are providers of third party management software and due diligence investigation services focused on the anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) compliance market, including The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA).
As a part of the transaction, the Company announced that founder Kenneth Kurtz will be promoted to the Chairman of the Advisory Board, and that Eric Lochner has been appointed CEO.
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