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Palatine Private Equity has acquired a majority stake in Routes Healthcare, one of the North’s leading providers of specialist person-centred health and homecare services. Headquartered in the North-West, the business operates from 14 service centres, employing 120 operational and management staff, along with 1,000 carers.
The business provides specialist complex care packages for people with long-term health conditions, clinically led enhanced homecare packages and end of life care, enabling people to spend their final days at home.
Routes’ fully integrated offering has become prized by its customers, as the health and social care space evolves to enable people to receive
Tesseract, an institutional digital asset lending company in Europe and emerging markets which provides digital asset lending solutions to institutional clients, such as hedge funds and retail trading platforms, globally, has raised USD25 million in its Series A funding round.
The first funding round in Europe focusing on the sector is led by Augmentum Fintech, a London-based leader in FinTech investments. Other participants in the round include global venture capital firms BlackFin Capital Partners, Concentric, DN Capital, Jabre Capital Partners Family Office, LeadBlock Partners, and Sapphire Ventures. Industry participants Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute, and Woorton also subscribed to the round along
An affiliate of funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital) is to sell Niacet Corp (Niacet) to Kerry Group plc, the global taste and nutrition company, for USD1,015 million (EUR853 million) on a cash-free, debt-free basis, subject to customary closing adjustments.
Following the acquisition, Niacet will be integrated into Kerry’s global food protection and preservation platform.
Jack Norris, Managing Director at SK Capital, says: “SK Capital is privileged to have partnered with Kelly Brannen and the entire Niacet team. We are proud and appreciative of Niacet’s accomplishments over the last four years leveraging the strong foundation the Brannen family
Oxwash, the UK-based green laundry startup backed by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has raised GBP2.08 million (USD3 million) in seed expansion investment, to clean up the traditional and environmentally costly washing and dry cleaning sector with its space-age technology.
The Agri-Business Capital Fund (ABC Fund) has invested USD1 million in Apollo Agriculture (Apollo), a Kenyan ag-tech which uses machine learning and automated operations technology to help small scale farmers access the resources they need to maximise their profitability.
Darshan Patel, Chairman & Joint-Managing Director, and Dipam Patel, Joint-Managing Director of Indian personal care and beauty products company Vini Cosmetics, and Sequoia Capital, are to sell a majority stake in the Company to KKR for approximately USD625 million.
The Co-Founders will continue to hold a significant stake in Vini and collaborate with KKR in the next phase of the Company’s growth. In addition, existing investor WestBridge Capital will acquire a further stake from the Founder Group to increase its shareholding in Vini.
Founded in 2010, Vini manufactures, markets and distributes its branded deodorants, cosmetics and toiletries through its flagship
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested GBP13 million in digital media company Hybrid. LDC’s investment will support Hybrid’s existing management team to grow and develop the business organically and explore targeted acquisitions.
Adenia Partners, a private equity firm investing in Africa, has acquired a majority stake in Herholdt’s, a leading distributor of low-voltage electrical products and solar products in South Africa. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Established in 1964, Herholdt’s operates in Bloemfontein, Kimberley and George, and has recently opened branches in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Herholdt’s supplies a broad product portfolio of 10,000-plus items to professionals – such as installers, contractors and resellers – as well as end-users. Herholdt’s originally focused on the sale of electrical equipment such as cabling, switches and sockets, as well as lighting.
Wheelhouse Advisors, a provider of prudential management, regulatory reporting and accounting, tax and HR support to the financial services sector, has partnered with ThinCats, a funding specialist for the mid-market.
Inflexion has acquired ANS, a provider of digital transformation and cloud managed services.
ANS and existing Inflexion investment UKFast will be brought together under one parent group to address the rapid market growth opportunity for digital and cloud services. The group will combine ANS’s public cloud, DevOps, applications and data expertise with UKFast’s leadership in private cloud, hosting and security, to create the UK’s independent leader in secure cloud-led digital transformation across the public and private sectors.
Each business will continue to operate under its existing brand, while offering customers the full portfolio of offerings from across the extended group.
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