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An overwhelming majority (91 per cent) of US private equity firms are planning to deploy capital in Latin America over the next five years, according to a new study, fuelled by attractive valuations and a growing appetite for cross-border deal flow as the global economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new study, ‘Recovery to Rediscovery: Capitalising on a Changed Private Equity Landscape’, was commissioned by Auxadi, a provider of accounting, tax and payroll services to private equity, real estate and multinationals, and was based on interviews with 100 senior-level private equity investors based in North America, the UK, and
IW Capital has invested in e-pharmacy company SimplyMeds, marking the first external investment in the highly scalable online platform.
SimplyMeds is an end-to-end digital pharmacy platform that provides a convenient method of ordering same day prescriptions and lifestyle products while empowering patients to have medical autonomy. While most online pharmacies are designed to service only one sector, SimplyMeds caters to both the private and NHS prescriptions market in what is believed to be a market first, having developed the distribution channels and a highly sophisticated platform to effectively serve both sectors.
Bootstrapped by two entrepreneurs with extensive experience in the
Ironwood Capital portfolio company The Facilities Group (TFG) has acquired Excel Building Services (Excel), a California-based janitorial services provider with a primary focus on retail and distribution customers.
Ironwood Capital Partner Roger Roche, says: “Excel serves customers in 40 states, significantly expanding the reach and market penetration of TFG. The overlap and fit with TFG are perfect, and the acquisition allows both TFG and Excel to better service their customers.” Paul Witinski, director at Ironwood Capital added, “Our investment thesis for The Facilities Group is to continue building a national leader within the janitorial services industry through both organic growth
John Davies has joined Pitalia Capital to launch a new investment fund in response to increased demand for capital and support from small to mid-sized businesses across the UK.
The firm, which is part of the Pitalia group of companies and funded by entrepreneur Anil Pitalia, will seek to invest across a diverse portfolio of ambitious businesses. This will include early-stage companies looking for growth capital to scale, as well as backing management buyouts of mid-sized firms.
It will focus on flexible deal structures, enabling its team to support a broad range of businesses by deploying up to GBP10
E-commerce specialist detected has raised GBP900,000 in its latest funding round bringing total funding raise to GBP2 million.
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has agreed to sell AOC, a global producer of specialty resins, to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds (Lone Star).
The contemplated transaction is subject to AOC workers’ councils information and consultation and relevant regulatory authorities’ approval.
Headquartered in Schiphol, The Netherlands, AOC is a global CASE & Colorants leader, producing and formulating unsaturated polyester resins, vinyl ester resins, and other solutions for applications in Coatings & Protective Barriers, Colorants & Visual Effects, Adhesives, and Conventional Composite Resins.
AOC serves customers globally with specialty products for the automotive, marine, corrosion, construction, and infrastructure segments. The
Vaayu, a carbon tracking software company for retailers, has raised USD1.57 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by CapitalT, supported by a number of angel investors including Atomico’s Angel Program, Planet Positive LP, Saarbrücker 21, Expedite Ventures and NP-Hard Ventures.
This comes as the fashion industry is still responsible for 10 per cent of annual global carbon emissions – more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
Vaayu integrates seamlessly with various point-of-sale systems, such as Shopify and Webflow, to pull data on logistics, operations and packaging so retailers can monitor, measure and reduce their carbon
InfanDx AG (Cologne, Germany), a privately held diagnostics company focusing on the development and commercialisation of novel diagnostic solutions for newborns, has held the first closing of a Series A financing round raising EUR4 million from new and existing investors.
In the transaction, new investor Alluti GmbH – Smart Invest, the family office of entrepreneur and brand specialist Bert Bleicher, joined existing investors participating in the raise, such as serial entrepreneur Jochen Tschunke and the LSI Pre-Seed Fonds GmbH of Life Science Inkubator Bonn, among others.
The proceeds will fund the further development of the Company’s lead product, the HypoxE
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