Managers
The majority owner of Polygon group, Triton Fund III, has signed an agreement to sell its investment.
ArtistWorks has been acquired by Growth Catalyst Partners’ portfolio company TrueFire Studios, a consortium of major online music instruction companies.
The acquisition brings together leading names and pioneers in online music education – including ArtistWorks, TrueFire, JamPlay, and FaderPro – who together span dozens of genres and instruments while delivering access to Grammy Award-winning artists, top session players, and world-renowned educators. The deal was completed with financial support from mid-market private equity firm Growth Catalyst Partners.
Founded in 2008, ArtistWorks partners with master musicians and enables them to create and preserve their teaching legacy online. Each hand-selected ArtistWorks teacher
A fast-growing company that delivers high-speed internet connectivity to sites that lack the usual infrastructure has secured a further GBP500,000 investment from the North East Venture Fund (NEVF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia.
Trench Networks’ innovative device, Outpost, aggregates connections from all the major mobile networks and combines them to provide a reliable internet service. The business, which started out by supplying construction sites, has recently launched a ‘Wi-Fi SOS’ service for businesses suffering wi-fi outages or moving to sites which lack connectivity.
The latest funding will enable it to take advantage of
Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank, has acquired boutique advisory firm Baylor Klein as it continues to grow its Corporate Finance business in Europe.
Founded in 2008 by Managing Director Tim Leach, Baylor Klein specialises in providing M&A and corporate finance advisory services to the multinational and independent owners of household, beauty, and personal care (HBPC) assets globally. The transaction signed and completed on 8 July.
Jay Novak, Global Head of the Consumer, Food & Retail (CFR) Group, says: “The Baylor Klein acquisition further expands our global CFR Group and specifically adds deeper expertise to the already robust HBPC sector
Foresight Group (Foresight), a private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a GBP1.7 million growth capital investment into Hexarad Group Limited (Hexarad), a high growth UK teleradiology company, as part of a GBP2.3 million funding round.
Hexarad is an early stage, high growth healthcare technology company, providing teleradiology services to NHS Trusts and UK private healthcare customers. Headquartered in London, the Company was founded in 2016 by a group of NHS consultant radiologists and differentiates through its clinical leadership and technology-led proposition.
Demand for radiology services is increasing rapidly, driven by factors including ageing population, growing prevalence of
Buy it Direct Group, one of the UK’s largest online consumer goods retailers, has acquired hot tub and swim spa specialist, Outdoor Living, as part of its ongoing expansion strategy.
Already home to a number of leading eCommerce brands, including Appliances Direct, Laptops Direct, Better Bathrooms and Furniture 123, Buy it Direct Group has seen impressive growth in recent years, increasing its turnover by more than 20 per cent year-on-year to GBP436 million in the year ending 31 March 2021.
Established in 2003, Outdoor Living is one of the UK’s most trusted retailers of hot tubs, swim spas, saunas
Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider, has acquired mola-administration, one of Germany’s leading fund administrators.
This strategic acquisition establishes the Group’s local presence in Germany, supplementing its existing capabilities to serve clients in Germany and the wider European market.
mola-administration serves a range of clients, with a 10-year track record of providing fund administration services to private equity firms, venture capital, debt, special situations and digital assets funds managing EUR3.5 billion of assets.
By joining the Apex Group, mola-administration’s client base will benefit from access to the Group’s single-source solution which includes locally delivered services across
Global private equity firm, CVC Capital Partners’ (CVC) Fund VIII has acquired a majority stake in Aleph, a partner to the world’s biggest digital media players.
The closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions precedent, and is expected to occur by August 2021.
Aleph operates in over 90 markets worldwide, reaching two billion consumers. It acts as an enabler of digital advertising sales for the leading digital media platforms – such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Twitch and TikTok amongst others – giving access to new and under-served markets, while providing a complete suite of services that
Cohere Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on investing in tech-enabled middle market companies, has made a strategic growth investment in Kentucky-based Promevo, a provider of IT services, solutions, and software focused on Google Workspace, Chrome, and Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies.
As a Premier Google Partner, Promevo offers its clients resale, services, and solutions leveraging its proprietary management software product, gPanel. gPanel is a comprehensive management and reporting software solution which helps clients manage users, documents, reporting, automation, and security in an easy-to-use interface specifically built for Google Workspace.
The investment and partnership from Cohere will allow Promevo to
medifa healthcare group (medifa), an owner-run one-stop-shop provider of medical technology for operating rooms, has been acquired by a consortium led by Hohnhaus & Jansenberger and Cathay Capital Private Equity through its Small Cap strategy.
The transaction includes a full recapitalisation of the Company’s balance sheet.
Christian Keller, CEO of medifa, rolled his stake in the Company and remains a significant shareholder. He says: “Thanks to the commitment of both existing and new investors, medifa now benefits from a shareholder base that is wholly dedicated to continuing and accelerating the successful growth path initiated by the Company since 2015.
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