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Metalshub, the metal industry’s first digital trading and price intelligence platform, has raised a USD11 million Series A financing round led by international growth VC Acton Capital with participation from existing investors Point Nine, Chrome Invest and several business angels. Using the fresh capital and the strong momentum of a record year, Metalshub will expand beyond Europe and targets USD1 billion GMV by the end of 2021.
Dr Sebastian Kreft, Co-founder Metalshub, says: “2020 exceeded our expectations. During the last 12 months, digital adoption has taken a quantum leap in the metal industry.” Also benefiting from trends like the rally
Yorkshire brand Pure Pet Food has secured another multi-million pound private equity investment, advised by law firm gunnercooke.
The additional deal with NPIF HTV Equity LP and also Mercia Fund Management Limited follows another sizeable deal for the brand with NVM Private Equity, handled by gunnercooke Corporate Partner Asad Ali two years ago.
Pure Pet Food, who appeared on Dragons Den, are an award-winning manufacturer of healthy, natural dehydrated and freeze fried pet food. The Yorkshire-based company was formed by Mathew Cockroft and Daniel Valdur Eha and since has grown to a huge global brand.
Other recent
Inflexion has sold its investment in Reed & Mackay, a premium corporate travel management and events business, to TripActions, a US headquartered business travel and spend management platform.
The deal follows a nearly five-year partnership which saw the business grow strongly and adapt to the pandemic trading situation.
Inflexion invested in Reed & Mackay in 2016 and supported its UK and international growth both organically and through acquisitions in the UK, Germany, France, Australia and Chicago. The firm also opened new offices in New York, California, Toronto, Singapore, Amsterdam and most recently India, with the support of Inflexion’s country expert
Golding Capital Partners is expanding into impact investing with the appointment of an experienced team of impact investors.
Andreas Nilsson and Nina Freudenberg joined the Golding investment team in March as Head of Impact and Director respectively. The duo previously founded Sonanz in 2015 as a boutique fund manager for impact investments in private equity. Golding intends to launch its first global impact private equity product for institutional investors in the second half of 2021.
“We are delighted to have attracted Andreas and Nina to our team. Sonanz was one of the pioneers of impact investing with a bold vision
Foresight Group (Foresight), an infrastructure and private equity investment manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), have invested in Machine Discovery, a University of Oxford spin-out commercialising new machine learning technology.
The investment will be used to support the senior management team in taking Machine Discovery through its next stage of growth, assisted by Foresight Williams’ expertise in the sector. During the process, Oxford Technology introduced Bijan Kiani to the business. Bijan was previously VP Product and Marketing at Synopsys, a NASDAQ listed Electronic Design Automation (“EDA”) company focusing on advanced technologies for chip design,
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning, (Radiant), a provider of maintenance plumbing, sewer and HVAC services to nearly 12,000 residential customers annually in the Austin, Texas, metropolitan area.
Since 1999, Brad and Sarah Casebier have owned and operated Radiant. Radiant’s employee-centric culture, coupled with a ‘five-star’ homeowner service experience, has resulted in multiple recognitions, including a multi-year win of Austin Chronicle’s ‘Best of Austin’ for both plumbing and HVAC as well as Austin Business Journal’s ‘Best Places to Work.’
“We’re thrilled to
INTERMIX, an omni-channel shopping destination in the luxury fashion market is to be acquired by Altamont Capital Partners, a private equity firm with more than USD2.5 billion in capital and over 20 investments, from Gap Inc.
Two experienced organisations operating in the Voluntary Carbon Market, ClimateCare and Natural Capital Partners, have come together to form a ‘world-leading’ solutions provider for companies and organisations looking to meet ambitious climate goals.
The combined group has been responsible for the reduction of more than 100 million tonnes of CO2e.
The merger, arranged by private equity firm Averna Capital, was funded by Averna’s investors in order to bring these two expert organisations together to create a market-leading business in the Voluntary Carbon Market. The group will use its access to capital, global reach, longstanding industry and project development expertise
Aurora Capital Partners (Aurora) is to acquire Grace Hill, a specialist in talent and customer management solutions for commercial and multifamily real estate covering policies, training, assessment and surveys, from investment funds managed by Stone Point Capital.
Grace Hill’s platform is designed to drive property performance and reduce operating risk by developing and retaining property management talent and customers.
The injection of capital and insights will better position Grace Hill to scale effectively. Specifically, Aurora plans to facilitate an intentional acceleration of Grace Hill’s growth and overall market reach, strengthen its property performance solutions and build out its customer management
Global investment manager AMP Capital has committed to co-finance up to USD73 million in Non-Convertible Debentures for listed road infrastructure company Sadbhav Infrastructure Project Limited (Sadbhav Infrastructure) on a private placement basis.
The long-term funding provided by AMP Capital will assist Sadbhav Infrastructure to fund the completion of an existing portfolio of road assets across India. This transaction marks the first investment in India for AMP Capital’s recently established Infrastructure Debt Asia strategy.
Sadbhav Infrastructure is one of the leading road companies in India specialising in the development, operation and maintenance of highways, roads and related projects. Its current road
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