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Perwyn, a family-backed private equity and growth capital investor, is pleased to have led a EUR10 million Series A funding round in Secret Sales, a premium ecommerce marketplace for fashion, footwear, accessories, beauty and homeware.
Secret Sales’ revolutionary new business model is disrupting the discount sector and ingeniously solving excess inventory problems with its direct to consumer digital channel, allowing brands and retailers to sell stock profitably, while maintaining brand equity and identifying new customers in compliance with GDPR. The business has grown by 4,000 per cent since launching in March 2020, and is currently showcasing over 700 brands on
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has acquired CloudCare. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Established in 2011 and headquartered in Rome, Italy, CloudCare is a tech-enabled platform active in the energy, telecommunications and insurance markets where it operates as a channel partner and digital broker, connecting consumers and service providers through both its own proprietary online platform and clients’ web platforms. CloudCare’s website, Comparasemplice.it, is a leading online platform for consumers in Italy to compare prices for energy, telecommunications, motor insurance and personal finance products. The Company’s differentiated proposition is underpinned by a
Hg, a global software and services investor, has agreed the sale of Allocate, a workforce and people management software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider to healthcare and government organisations, to RLDatix, a global provider of intelligent patient safety solutions.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed and completion is subject to customary closing conditions.
Allocate Software is a leading international provider of Human Capital Management solutions, supporting the operational and administrative needs of health, care, government organisations and commercial sectors. In the health and care sector, Allocate is enabling the delivery of safe and effective care at optimal cost, by
Abris Capital Partners, a private equity investor in Central Europe, has published its latest annual ESG Report, accelerating its sustainability drive and setting out its priorities for responsible investment, as well as detailing how its ESG focus helped support portfolio companies during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Paweł Gierynski, Managing Partner at Abris Capital, says: “If we were to pick one word to describe what was critical for Abris last year, it would be ‘agility’. Our ESG focus in 2020 shifted strongly towards the social and crisis management aspects. Together with our portfolio management teams, we designed and implemented sophisticated health protection
Palliare has closed an oversubscribed USD8 million Series A funding round led by leading European Life Sciences Venture Capital firm Seroba Life Sciences, with participation from Luxembourg-based SCM AD Ventures, Western Development Commission, and several private investors.
The funds will be used to support US commercial launch activities related to Palliare’s EVA15 insufflator and smoke evacuation system, as well as new Research & Development activities.
There has been growing awareness of the hazardous nature of surgical smoke to the operating room staff, and various medical organisations in USA have been lobbying for the safe evacuation of all surgical smoke. The
Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Private Equity III (Fund III) and other co-investors have reached an agreement to sell their stakes in ACE Education (ACE) (formerly AMOS), a private vocational higher education platform in France and Spain.
The exit will generate a gross return on investment of c2.1x MM and c27 per cent IRR to Fund III.
As part of the transaction, Oakley Capital Origin Fund (Origin Fund) will invest cEUR40 million alongside Groupe Amaury (Amaury) and ACE’s founder, Patrick Touati, to benefit from the strong future growth potential, as well as the significant commercial and strategic benefits Amaury can
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a minority investment in preventative healthcare specialist PAM to help the existing management team to drive organic growth and support a series of new product launches.
Headquartered in Warrington, PAM is one of the largest occupational health and wellbeing providers in the UK. It offers a full-service of integrated occupational health programmes to clients which include leading blue-chip and public sector organisations, supporting more than 600,000 employees at over 1,000 businesses.
PAM’s services include absence management, health surveillance, physiotherapy, employee assistance programmes, psychological support, corporate health assessments and neuro-diversity assessments. These are
Gamut Capital Management (Gamut), a New York-based middle market private equity firm, in partnership with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, has signed a definitive agreement to invest in PS Logistics.
As the largest and fastest-growing flatbed transportation and full-service logistics provider in the United States, PS Logistics employs a “Driver-First” culture to transport general flatbed commodities with a specialiaation in irregular route service in the continental United States.
“The combination of our exceptional team, with the resources we will gain through our relationship with Gamut and BCI, will enable PS Logistics to accelerate
London-based venture capital investors, Forward Partners, saw its Net Asset Value (NAV) increase by 48.5 per cent to reach GBP103 million during the 12 months to 31 March 2021.
The VC firm, which is focused on early-stage tech businesses across e-commerce, digital marketplaces and applied AI, has seen significant momentum in its portfolio during the pandemic, as trends moving trade and consumption online accelerated. That momentum has continued into the current financial year with the firm’s NAV growing by 18.9 per cent – including new investments – during the last quarter (Q1 FY21).
The main boost to NAV was
Digip AB, a Swedish SaaS company in the legal tech industry that make trademark protection accessible, affordable, and functional, has secured EUR2 million in a funding round led by Industrifonden.
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