Managers
Law Business Research (LBR), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired Hopkins Bruce Publishers LLC (Docket Navigator). Headquartered in London with offices in Hong Kong and Washington DC, LBR is a provider of business information, legal analysis tools and networking for global legal markets.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Docket Navigator is a provider of patent litigation information across the United States. Its proprietary technology tracks, processes, organises and synthesises every significant event across US district courts, the Court of Federal Claims, the International Trade Commission, and certain Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Echion Technologies (Echion), a developer of next generation materials for Lithium-Ion batteries, has raised GBP10 million in a Series A founding round led by led by CBMM – the world’s leading supplier of niobium products and BGF.
A new configurable investment vehicle is bridging the gap between capital raisers and financial institutions that want to offer a broader range of alternative investments to their clients.
With more firms looking to raise capital and close funding rounds in a shorter space of time, the investment structuring solution uses technology to meet all regulatory requirements quickly and in a more robust manner.
The investment vehicle, created by fintech company Delio, offers greater flexibility for firms when raising capital for their clients by enabling them to expand the distribution of opportunities beyond traditional institutional investors. At the same time, the
BurdaPrincipal Investments (BPI), the growth capital arm of media and tech company Hubert Burda Media, has invested in UK-based Oddbox, a platform that is leveraging technology to fight food waste.
Breakwater Management (Breakwater), a leading capital provider to the US lower middle market, has expanded its investment management platform to include a control private equity strategy.
This new effort builds upon Breakwater’s 12-year history providing growth capital and acquisition financing through both private debt and structured equity. The platform extension will focus on partnering with outstanding management teams and founders to create significant value through operational improvements, the execution of organic growth opportunities, as well as add-on acquisitions.
“With this new vertical, we’ve expanded our ability to meet the full range of financing needs a lower middle market company may
Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has raised USD210 million as part of a Series B financing on a valuation of USD3.2 billion. Investors include Baillie Gifford and iFinex.
The new funding comes alongside the acquisition of Spondoolies’ intellectual property, and the core team joining Blockstream to build Blockstream’s ASIC arm. Spondoolies is a bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer founded by top Israeli semiconductor veterans. Since its inception in 2013, the Spondoolies team successfully designed and built five different mining products and was one of the earliest teams in the bitcoin mining industry to deliver energy-efficient and high-performance mining hardware.
“Blockstream is bringing
Axcel Management (Axcel), an investor in the Nordic market, has closed Axcel VI at its hard cap of EUR800 million, an increase of more than 30 per cent compared to its predecessor fund.
Axcel is equally pleased with the continued strong support it received from existing investors representing approximately 65 per cent of the total commitments, as it is to welcome the many new investors.
As a result of its solid investment pipeline, Axcel VI has already completed six investments, which have seen strong, early momentum and a significant value increase.
Christian Schmidt-Jacobsen, Managing Partner at Axcel, says: “We are
Private investment firm Auxo Investment Partners has acquired Altus Industries Inc, a Grand Rapids, MI-based designer, manufacturer, assembler and marketer of medical, point-of-care workstations used across the healthcare industry.
As part of the deal, Spectrum Health Ventures, one of Altus’s larger customers, will join as a strategic partner in the transaction.
Serving the healthcare sector, Altus’s product portfolio includes powered and non-powered mobile technology workstations (also known as workstations on wheels, medical mobile carts or mobility workstations) and wall-mounted workstations, along with related accessories. The transaction is part of co-founders’ Craig VanderHeide’s and Eric Kahkonen’s succession plan for Altus,
Strong demand for full fibre broadband and high levels of customer satisfaction have seen rapidly-growing independent Internet Service Provider (ISP) Trooli secure a GBP67.5 million senior debt facility with the support of the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund (CEBF) team – with attractive terms from a consortium of commercial lenders, with potential for a further increase depending on business needs.
The funds will be used to expand the reach of Trooli’s Gigabit-capable network as it increases from more than 100,000 premises today to 170,000 by the end of 2021, 400,000 during 2022, and rising to one million in 2024.
The
Souter Investments, a private equity-focussed family investment office, has continued its deal making during 2021 with the announcement of the sale of Pet Network International plus the completion of three new investments.
The new investments span a variety of sectors and geographies ranging from sustainably sourced fashion to climate finance and carbon neutral solutions for the voluntary carbon market, and from global fuel and oil testing to UK domestic landline, broadband, TV, and mobile services.
The exit of Souter’s investment in Pet Network International follows the successful sale of the business by The Rohatyn Group (“TRG”) to A&M Capital Europe.
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