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quip, an oral healthcare company with over 7.5 million users, has raised USD100 million in growth funding from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI) an environmental sustainability focused growth investment strategy.
On the heels of reaching profitability, expanding into new oral care verticals, and launching its first professional services, CSI recognised quip’s potential to disrupt the USD450 billion global oral healthcare market through its digital platform connecting personal and professional oral care, and become the centre for oral health.
“quip is well on its way to becoming the iconic oral care brand in the way we’ve seen companies revolutionise other industries
Procuritas portfolio company Frendy, a Finnish IT services platform, has made its first add-on acquisition, three months after the company’s creation through the acquisition of twelve businesses.
The acquisition of Wisdomic brings Frendy’s combined turnover to around EUR50 million with 220 employees.
Wisdomic is a Finnish IT services company employing around 60 people with offices in Kaarina, Vantaa and Seinäjoki and a data centre in Vantaa. Its offering is focused on cyber security services, cloud and data centre solutions, equipment and user support services, as well as IT infrastructure maintenance and monitoring.
Mikko Peltonen, CEO of Frendy,
BankiFi, a fintech business specialising in payment processing and financial administration services for SMEs, has secured a GBP2.2 million investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures, with participation from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).
Headquartered in Manchester, BankiFi was founded to help financial institutions better serve small and medium-sized businesses. The firm’s technology equips banks to take on challengers and provide more agile customer-led services to SMEs, as opposed to more traditional product-led offerings. BankiFi enables banks to provide a set of integrated services, including invoicing, payments, cash management and accounting, which are designed to help businesses
Palatine Private Equity has exchanged contracts for the sale of its stake in holiday park operator Verdant Leisure, to the management team backed by Pears Partnership Capital. The deal is subject to FCA approval.
Verdant Leisure is a bespoke holiday park operator offering lodge and caravan holidays and holiday home ownership at stunning sites across Scotland and Northern England.
The sale will see Palatine exit the business with a returns multiple of 3.7x, following a highly successful strategy of acquisitions and value creation which has grown Verdant’s annual turnover by 150 per cent since 2016. Since investing in the business
Olsam Group (Olsam), a company that buys and scales category leading e-commerce businesses, has successfully raised USD165 million in a Series A equity and debt round.
The equity investment was led by Christian Angermayer’s Apeiron Investment Group and Elevat3 Capital, which counts Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund as a strategic partner. Alongside the equity raise, the debt financing round was led by leading European special situations investor North Wall Capital, from the firm’s dedicated e-commerce lending strategy. Stanhope Capital advised Olsam on the transaction.
Olsam will use the capital raised to rapidly acquire larger brands from global entrepreneurs seeking a
Pan-European private equity investor Oakley Capital’s (Oakley) portfolio company Ocean Technologies Group (OTG) has acquired COMPAS, a crew management SAAS provider to the maritime industry.
The acquisition is OTG’s fifth bolt-on acquisition and continues Oakley’s transformation of the business into a diversified software platform serving the multiple needs of the maritime industry.
COMPAS is a leading human capital management (HCM) SAAS solution that helps ship owners and professionals to efficiently manage all aspects of crewing activities, such as crew planning, crew change management and other logistics.
OTG is a leading software provider to the maritime industry, serving around 20,000 vessels
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested in REAL Digital International Limited (RDIL), a specialised data-led software solutions and automated fulfilment provider, to continue to support the existing management team’s organic growth strategy.
Established in 2004, RDIL plays a key role in helping organisations to solve complex fulfilment challenges. The business optimises client supply chains through its use of automation technology, software, personalisation and managing bespoke uniquely coded products to create more efficient production processes and reduce costs.
The business supports a broad range of sectors including large healthcare organisations to operate pioneering home testing kit programmes to support
Foresight Group, a listed alternative investment manager, has provided a senior secured debt facility of up to GBP25 million to specialist secured SME lender, Fresh Thinking Capital.
Foresight worked with the Company to structure a debt facility tailored to provide the flexibility required in Fresh Thinking Capital’s business model. With its new lending capacity, Fresh Thinking Capital will be able to substantially grow its loan book and provide much needed financing to a wide range of SMEs that require a lender to tailor funding that is right for them.
Headquartered in Leeds, the Company provides short-term secured business loans to
3i Group has partnered with Professor Dr Hanns-Christian Mahler to create ten23 health, a pure-play, patient-centric and sustainable biologics drug product contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) focused on helping innovative biotech and pharma customers develop and commercialise injectable biopharmaceutical drugs.
Mahler, CEO of ten23 health, previously built a highly successful business within Lonza focused on drug product formulation development services and fill and finish manufacturing for biologics. He led Lonza’s Drug Product Services business from inception, scaling the business during his leadership tenure. Prior to Lonza, Mahler served as Head of Pharmaceutical Development & Supplies at Roche, where he
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to Invisors, a Workday consulting firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, on its recapitalisation by WestView Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on middle-market growth companies.
WestView’s investment represents the first institutional capital raised by the company and will help fuel its continued rapid growth in the Workday ecosystem.
Invisors provides initial implementation, optimisation and ongoing support services for Workday’s suite of products, including Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Adaptive Planning and Prism Analytics. The company’s founding team has an extensive track record in building IT consulting businesses and
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