Managers
Private equity firm Copley Equity Partners (Copley) has completed a full buyout of Perkins Biomedical Services (Perkins). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Perkins will utilise Copley’s investment to assist in the company’s strategy to build a market-leading laboratory equipment service business. Perkins will serve as Copley’s platform investment in the laboratory equipment service industry and is actively pursuing other complimentary investments as part of the investment strategy. Copley Equity representatives Peter Trovato and Andrew Miller will participate on the Perkins Board of Directors.
Breakout Ventures has closed of its oversubscribed second fund with USD112.5 million in commitments. Fund II received strong support from existing limited partners including Dolby Family Ventures, Thiel Foundation, GRIDS Capital, S Cubed Capital and deep tech investors Chris & Crystal Sacca, Tony Fadell, Zack Bogue and Matt Ocko.
Ascend Partners (Ascend), a healthcare focused private equity partnership, has closed its inaugural fund, Ascend Capital Partners Fund I (Ascend Fund I) with total committed capital of USD570 million.
The Fund was oversubscribed and hit its hard cap.
Ascend Fund I’s Limited Partners include public and private pension funds, foundations, financial institutions, and family offices with a shared mission of improving the access, affordability, and quality of healthcare for underserved and vulnerable communities
Main Post Partners, a private equity investment firm, has invested in Guided Practice Solutions (GPS Dental or GPS), a dental service organisation.
Main Post is partnering with the founders and several partner-doctors in the transaction. Andy Graham, an executive with decades of DSO experience, will be joining the Board of Directors as Chairman.
Garnett Station Partners, LLC (Garnett Station), a New York-based investment firm, has made a growth investment in Las Vegas carwash brand WOW Carwash (WOW), through its GSP 3.0 Fund, LP.
GSP’s investment will be used to accelerate the growth of WOW Carwash, which was founded in 2015 by Todd Bender and Scott Wainwright and builds and operates eco-friendly, tech-enabled express car wash operations.
Cassini Systems, a provider of pre- and post-trade margin and collateral analytics for derivatives market participants, has completed a USD20.5 million growth financing round led by Ten Coves Capital.
Existing investor Mosaik Partners also participated in the round with the proceeds set to be used by Cassini to accelerate its product development.
Cassini’s fully integrated platform enables asset managers to assess and optimise the liquidity and carry cost of their diverse trading strategies across the trade lifecycle from pre-trade, to intra-day to post-trade.
Bain Capital Credit, LP (Bain Capital Credit), has agreed a funding line of up to EUR183 million for Linus Digital Finance AG (LINUS), a publicly listed real estate fintech business, as part of a broader strategic partnership.
The proceeds will be used to further accelerate LINUS’ financing operations in the UK and Germany, focusing on the mid-market real estate segment. There are significant deployment opportunities for LINUS and its investors as European construction activity continues to grow at a rate of about 7 per cent per annum, according to Eurostat, from a total annual volume of approximately EUR800 billion last
CapRock Partners (CapRock), an industrial investor, developer and asset manager in the Western US and Texas, has held the final closing of CapRock Logistics Venture at nearly USD700 million, significantly above its initial target of USD450 million.
The venture represents CapRock’s first development-focused vehicle, marking an expansion of its fund business, which has traditionally focused on value-add investments.
CapRock Logistics Venture is fully allocated to new large-scale industrial real estate projects and will fund nearly USD2 billion for Class A developments strategically located throughout the Western US. By the end of 2021, CapRock will be under construction on approximately
Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm, has made a significant investment in Entersekt, a specialist in device identity and authentication solutions headquartered in Cape Town.
The investment will enable Entersekt to accelerate its roadmap, hire top talent and fuel expansion into new markets.
Founded in 2000, Accel-KKR has invested in over 300 mid-market software and technology-enabled services businesses around the world.
Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund (SEQI), the FTSE250 specialist economic infrastructure lender, has made a GBP60 million investment in LightSpeed Broadband, the Internet Service Provider.
The new investment will accelerate the construction of LightSpeed’s FTTP multi-gigabit broadband network to 25 towns across the East of England, with the company’s aim of becoming the region’s leading provider. It builds on LightSpeed’s original GBP55 million backing from AtmosClear Investments, Kompass Kapital and Thesaurium bringing total funding to date to GBP115 million.
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