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Blue Point Capital Partners has acquired Brimar Industries, a vertically integrated manufacturer and purveyor of high-quality safety signs, pipe markers, valve tags and parking and traffic signs.
Founded in 1988 and based in Garfield, New Jersey, Brimar serves customers primarily through its proprietary e-commerce websites, such as SafetySign.com and
PipeMarker.com.
“Over its more than 30-year history, the Brimar team has established the Company as a safety category leader with a digital-first mindset,” said Blue Point Partner John LeMay. “Blue Point is excited to help build on Brimar’s strong market position by leveraging our Data & Digital, M&A, Supply Chain and
Arteria AI, a specialist in enterprise digital documentation, is to acquire certain financial services assets of H4, an award-winning contract lifecycle management platform.
As part of the agreement, H4’s Chairman and Co-founder Joe Seifert will join Arteria AI’s team as a senior advisor.
Shelby Austin, CEO of Arteria AI, said: “This is a very exciting time for our business as we set out to unleash the power of data to help global financial institutions solve their client documentation challenges at scale. Since spinning out of Deloitte we have continued on an incredible growth journey accelerated by the market’s clear preference
Cennox, a portfolio company of York Capital Management’s private equity group (York Private Equity), has acquired FireKing Safety and Security (FireKing), a US-based financial safe and services business previously owned by Pfingsten Partners.
The deal enables Cennox to enter the traditional and smart safe manufacturing business, and further expands its deployment and maintenance services across FireKing’s 1,000-plus customers. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2006, Cennox provides integrated services and solutions to the financial services, commercial, retail, and transportation industries. Following this transaction, the Company’s global operations will span 1,700 employees across the US, UK,
Gresham House Ventures has made a USD6.8 million (GBP5 million) investments in Preservia, a specialist in Active Digital Preservation software to further accelerate product innovation in transforming the way organisations manage and protect critical long-term digital content.
Preservica’s cloud-hosted SaaS Active Digital Preservation platform – which ensures critical long-term content can always be read and accessed independently of its original format – is trusted by thousands of organisations worldwide including government (Texas State Archives, Los Angeles County, City of Boston) business (HSBC, Bacardi, Unilever), libraries and museums (New York Public Library, MoMA), academic institutions (Yale University, Manchester University), national archives
Goalsetter, a fintech platform dedicated to providing families and K-12 youth with access to banking, savings, investing, and financial education tools, has closed a USD15 million Series A round led by Seae Ventures.
Seae Ventures is joined by Fiserv, Mass Mutual, Sterling National Bank, Citizens Financial Group, Cuna Mutual Financial Group, Astia Fund, and others.
With an oversubscribed round, the new tranche of funding is dedicated to enabling Goalsetter to further its B2B partnerships with corporations and financial institutions that are committed to transforming financial education and access to wealth for all Americans. The Series A round also includes
Diversis Capital Management (Diversis) has acquired Fishbowl, the No1-requested automated solution for QuickBooks users.
Founded in 2001, Fishbowl is the No1 desktop inventory management software for QuickBooks customers. Its core products include – Fishbowl Warehouse, Fishbowl Manufacturing, and Fishbowl Online. Fishbowl Warehouse helps automate order creation, control inventory flow, manage multiple warehouses; Fishbowl Manufacturing provides complete manufacturing inventory management to maximise efficiency in the production process; and Fishbowl Online inventory management software includes stock alerts, reordering and other tools to maximise production efficiency. Fishbowl also offers a remote server-hosting solution allowing users to view inventory data from any location. Based
Republic, a US-based private investment platform, is to acquire Seedrs, a European online private investment platform, in a deal that values Seedrs at approximately USD100 million.
Mercer Global Advisors (Mercer Advisors), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), has acquired Precipio Wealth Management (Precipio), a wealth management firm located in McLean, Virginia.
Precipio serves clients in 19 states with assets under management (AUM) of approximately USD250 million. Precipio was founded as a fee-only RIA in 2009 by Edgar L Parrish, Managing Principal, CFP, CIMA, AIF, and Katherine M Parrish, Managing Principal, CIMA, AIF. Precipio offers comprehensive financial planning and portfolio management to high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, and retirement plans, with a practice that stretches back to the 1970’s. Precipio’s entire team will be joining Mercer Advisors.
Golub Capital acted as Administrative Agent and Joint Lead Arranger on a USD1 billion GOLD facility to finance the merger of 2020 Technologies (2020) and Compusoft by Genstar Capital and TA Associates.
GOLD financings are Golub Capital One-Loan Debt facilities. The GOLD facility was funded using a combination of US dollars, Canadian dollars, British pounds sterling and eurodollars.
Golub Capital has been Administrative Agent to 2020 since Genstar acquired the company from Golden Gate Capital in May 2021. Golub Capital more than doubled the size of the GOLD facility to support 2020’s subsequent merger with Compusoft. The combined company
Aqua Security, a pure-play cloud native security provider, has acquired Argon, a specialist in software supply chain security.
Argon and Aqua now offer the industry’s first solution to secure all stages of software build and release. Shifting further “left,” Aqua Security’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) is now the only solution that can protect the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) from code through build to runtime, ensuring the end-to-end integrity of applications.
“With the addition of Argon to the Aqua Platform, we continue to execute on our vision of full lifecycle cloud native protection,” says Dror Davidoff, CEO and
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