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Lovehoney, an e-commerce retailer, manufacturer and distributor of pleasure products and accessories, and WOW Tech Group, a provider of premium sexual wellness products, today announced a EUR1 billion merger and the creation of Lovehoney Group.
The newly formed Group will also include Amorana, a Swiss sexual well-being retailer acquired by Lovehoney in September 2020. Additional financial terms have not been disclosed.
The Lovehoney Group combines excellence in B2C sales and marketing, a leading multi-channel distribution network and R&D capabilities, with a strong portfolio of brands and patented technologies. This transaction will bring together some of the industry’s best known
GovExec, an information services company for government leaders and contractors, has acquired GovTribe, a market intelligence company for government contractors.
The terms of the acquisition, which was completed with financial support from mid-market private-equity firm Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP), have not been disclosed. Peter Goldstone, chairman of GovExec, served as adviser.
The acquisition continues GovExec’s rapid business expansion to build the leading suite of decision-support services for government leaders and contractors. GovTribe is the largest business development collaboration and market intelligence tool serving the public sector to be added to GovExec’s portfolio.
GovTribe was built by former government contractors turned
Forward Partners, a London-based venture capital firm specialising in supporting high growth, early-stage technology businesses, has announced its first portfolio company exits since its admission to AIM in July.
Forward Partners has exited its investments in Wonderbly, a publishing platform for personalised children’s books, and Heights, a brain health and cognition supplements company for a total of GBP5 million. The proceeds from the divestments will be reinvested in Forward Ventures and Forward Advances, in line with the IPO strategy. The Company, which invests in start-ups across eCommerce, digital marketplaces, and applied AI, exited from Wonderbly following private equity firm Graphite
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to ID Images (IDI) on its sale to Sole Source Capital.
Headquartered in Brunswick, Ohio, IDI is a leading provider of durable and graphic intensive labels, along with an assortment of complementary products and value-added services. Established in 1995, IDI has grown both organically and through eleven strategic acquisitions to provide a comprehensive labelling solution to customers in the transportation and logistics, food and beverage, consumer durables, health and beauty, automotive and retail markets.
Brian Gale, president of IDI, says: “We are pleased with Citizens and their commitment throughout this
Appital has secured a GBP2.5 million investment from Frontline Ventures and a number of seasoned capital markets angel investors to bring technological innovation and automation to today’s equity capital markets.
The investment will accelerate the development of Appital’s technology infrastructure, integration with financial institutions as well as technology vendors and enable the expansion of their engineering team to support the delivery of their go-to-market strategy.
Appital’s mission is to bring innovation to Equity Capital Markets, an area largely untouched by automation, plagued by opaque legacy processes. A new trading platform that enables the discovery of latent liquidity, Appital offers the
General Atlantic has led a EUR100 million Series C funding round in online luxury watch marketplace Chrono24. This latest round follows Chrono24’s 2019 EUR 43 million Series B financing from Sprints Capital, former Richemont director Gianni Serazzi, and YOOX-NET-A-PORTER founder Alberto Grignolo, as well as the company’s EUR37million Series A from Insight Partners in 2015.
Champ Titles, a technology company that is changing the way that vehicle titles are created, managed, and transferred in the United States, has closed an USD8.5 million Series A investment.
The round was led by EOS Venture Partners and W R Berkley Corporation, and brings the company’s combined funding to over USD17.5 million.
Champ Titles was launched in 2018 and can reduce the amount of time it takes to create, manage, or transfer a vehicle title to just one day. The money raised will be used to accelerate the distribution of its breakthrough technology across multiple vehicle title ecosystem
In a drive to better serve its clients and increase transparency and understanding of private markets, Preqin — a specialist in alternative assets data, analytics and insights — has acquired Colmore, a private markets technology, services and administration business.
Preqin supports more than 110,000 professionals globally in raising capital, sourcing deals and investments and understanding performance by providing them with the most comprehensive alternative assets data and insights. Colmore’s key solutions include portfolio monitoring, analytics, fee tracking and validation, and fund administration services for its LP and allocator clients. The rapidly growing business monitors more than 3,000 private market funds
GovSpend, a provider of government intelligence solutions and a portfolio company of Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) and Endicott Growth Equity Partners (EGEP), has completed the acquisition of Fedmine, a provider of detailed federal government contracting and spend intelligence solutions headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The founder-led-and-owned Fedmine (www.fedmine.us) was founded in 2004 and provides an advanced online database application containing integrated datasets uniquely curated to serve both industry and government organisations seeking decision-quality information on federal contracts and business opportunities. The acquisition combines this powerful federal focused database with GovSpend’s proprietary state
New Heritage Capital (Heritage), a Boston-based private equity firm, has made a new platform investment in Icelandirect, an importer, manufacturer and packager of marine oils and other nutraceutical products.
Icelandirect has proven to be an invaluable partner for its customers, with extensive in-house formulation & packaging capabilities, a reputation for sourcing high-quality, hard-to-find ingredients from its global supplier base, and ability to meet fast turnaround times. Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) acted as financial advisor to the Company in the sale transaction.
Heritage completed the investment through its unique Private IPO solution, which leaves operating control in the hands
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