Managers
Cadenza Ventures has raised a USD50 million early stage venture fund, anchored by Van Eck Associates, with participation from institutions that include Solana, Dapper Labs, WorldQuant Ventures, Mirana, TRON, Lennertz, Babel Finance, Social Leverage and individuals affiliated with Coinbase, Kraken Ventures, Angellist and Norwest Venture Partners.
The fund is led by its Co-Founders and Managing Partners, Kumar Dandapani and Max Shapiro. The Cadenza team is composed of technologists and investment professionals that previously assembled a corporate venture portfolio that has generated outsized returns. This portfolio includes Seed and Series A early stage investments in unicorns FalconX, BlockFi, CoinDCX and FTX’s
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) utility market intelligence, data science and consulting platform E Source has acquired Cairn ERA (Cairn).
Founded in 2015 by Sam Jaffe, Cairn is a global market intelligence firm specialising in battery storage. Cairn expands E Source’s existing subscription and consulting services through a robust contextual understanding of the battery storage environment, competitive landscape, existing market dynamics and technological disruptions to help its clients make data-driven decisions.
“Cairn ERA, a leader in battery technology information, helps early adopters make good, data-driven decisions,” says E Source CEO Ted Schultz. “We’re staying on the forefront of this movement by
Healthcare software provider Alfa eCare, backed by Main Capital Partners, has entered the Finnish market for childcare software with the acquisition of Daisy.
Daisy, flagship label of software company WhileOnTheMove, is active in the Finnish municipality ecosystem providing software solutions for early childhood education and daycare.
Daisy is the third acquisition of Alfa eCare following the investment of Main Capital Partners in 2020. The combined group will create a leading Nordic eCare group with strong presence in the municipal care segment, servicing more than 200 municipalities and regions in the Swedish and Finnish market. The combination of Alfa eCare and
3i , and funds managed by 3i, have sold 4.5 million shares in Basic-Fit, a European specialist in the value-for-money fitness market, at a price of EUR44.25 per share.
As part of this transaction, 3i Group has reduced its stake from 11.6 per cent to 5.7 per cent and received proceeds of c.GBP146 million. Following the offering, 3i Group’s remaining stake is worth approximately GBP143 million.
These proceeds take 3i Group’s cash return to date from its investment in Basic-Fit to 4.1x and, including remaining value, to 5.5x. Basic-Fit listed on the Euronext Amsterdam NV at EUR15.00 per share in
Following government focus on low carbon heating roll-out, RSK Group Limited, an integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business, is further strengthening its offering with the acquisition of four businesses across the environmental services sector.
New businesses Carbon Zero Consulting, Envireau Water, Enviroflow and Streetwise are the latest in a series of recent acquisitions to the group, affirming the company’s desire to grow and diversify the business to ensure it can support global clients as they work towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Rutland-based Carbon Zero Consulting are expert advice providers in renewable energy, ground source heat pump
MacNeill Pride Group (MPG), a portfolio company of Centre Partners and a diversified global designer and manufacturer of outdoor products and sporting goods, has acquired Rightline Gear, an Asheville, North Carolina-based automotive and outdoor gear designer. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Inflexion has become the first corporate in the UK to reduce its carbon impact through the purchase of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, an initiative fostered between Neste, a renewable fuel producer, and Reed & Mackay, a corporate travel company. The partnership enables Inflexion to significantly reduce the environmental impact of its business travel.
Reed & Mackay last month announced a partnership to offer Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ to all Reed & Mackay clients. Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel is made from sustainably sourced renewable waste and residue raw materials. In its neat form and over the life cycle, Neste MY
IK Small Cap II Fund has signed an agreement to sell its entire stake in BST Group Nordic AB (BST or the Company) to Norvestor. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, BST is a full-service provider of active fire protection services. The Company, which is the largest pure-play active fire protection services provider in Sweden with an emerging presence across the Nordics, employs approximately 430 people across the region.
IK partnered with BST in May 2019 and since then has helped facilitate the Company’s strategic development through its investments
H2O.ai, an AI cloud specialist, has closed USD100 million in Series E funding led by Australia’s largest bank, customer Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). H2O.ai has now raised over USD250 million and is valued at USD1.7 billion.
Pivot Investment Partners joins prior investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Crane Venture Partners. Existing investors include customers and partners such as Wells Fargo, New York Life and NVIDIA. 20,000 organisations, millions of data scientists, and half of the Fortune 500 trust H2O.ai as their AI provider. The company has a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78— the highest in the industry. The
Arlington Capital Partners’ (Arlington) portfolio company, BlueHalo (the Company), a provider of advanced engineering solutions and technology to the national security community, has acquired Citadel Defense Company (Citadel).
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Citadel develops advanced counter unmanned aerial systems (cUAS) technology utilised by customers within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, as well as civilian, commercial, and international markets. Founded in 2016, Citadel’s team of engineers and data scientists has developed best-of-breed cUAS products that leverage proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms to enable operators to locate drone threats, track flight paths, and autonomously neutralise threats.
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