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UX-Republic joins Smile, a specialist in open source technologies known through its brands Neopixl, the mobile applications specialist, and SensioLabs, creator of the Symfony framework.
UX-Republic will continue to operate under its own brand and will benefit from Smile’s capabilities to strengthen its customer offering – particularly on the technological side – and roll out its expertise in France and Europe. The acquisition benefits from the active support of the two companies’ management teams and Smile’s shareholders: Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout1 investments, and Eurazeo PME.
Smile and UX-Republic are bringing
AlpInvest Partners has raised USD3.5 billion for AlpInvest Co-Investment Fund VIII (ACF VIII). The Fund exceeds its USD3 billion target.
Rob de Jong, Managing Director & Co-Head of Co-Investments at AlpInvest, says: “This latest fundraise underlines AlpInvest’s strong performance, and the appetite for our differentiated co-sponsored approach acting as a partner in active deal settings, which is built on long-standing relationships with buyout fund managers. We believe that we are well-positioned to provide investors with the type of high-quality co-sponsor opportunities and diversification that they are seeking.”
Richard Dunne, Managing Director & Co-Head of Co-Investments at AlpInvest, says: “We are
Ecommerce startup aisle 3 has completed a successful follow on funding round, raising GBP250,000 via Angel Investment Network.
Aiming to become ‘the Wikipedia of product search’ the business secured the funds in just six weeks with the company’s valuation more than doubling in the past five months. Experienced angel investors have backed the founders’ vision for a new, disruptive ecommerce marketplace offering truly personalised experiences for large networks of engaged shoppers.
This raise is the second completed successfully in just five months, with the company being backed with almost GBP500,000 in pre-seed funding. It represents an impressive trajectory for a
Blazehill Capital, a new alternative lender focusing on providing credit and critical working capital funding to mid-market UK businesses who require additional financial support which they cannot get from traditional providers, has been launched.
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Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor, and LMCA, a brand extension specialist, have launched brand acquisition firm Full Sail IP Partners.
Full Sail IP Partners will acquire brands with untapped potential and build out their business through relevant, revenue generating licenses.
“Our partnership with LMCA demonstrates our commitment to identifying prime brand target acquisitions with strong fundamental growth potential,” says Justin Sadrian, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. “As long-term growth investors, we look forward to building out the Full Sail IP Partners brand portfolio and accelerating the growth and expansion of brands globally through licensing,” added Michael Ding, Principal, Warburg Pincus.
Unreasonable Collective has closed Q1 2021 with investments in Classcraft, Goodr, At One Ventures and Turtle Tree, totalling more than USD3 million.
The Collective, a private co-investment club launched by the Unreasonable Group at the end of 2020 with racial and gender diversity at its core, explicitly directs capital into Unreasonable ventures operating at the intersection of high impact and disruptive innovation. With a mandate to ensure its investments are channelled into deals and founders that are diverse in nature, and with a commitment that at least 50 per cent of its members are women, people of colour, and/or identify
Rosemark Group (Rosemark), a new company focused on helping brands build deeper relationships with their consumers, has entered into an agreement under which Newlight Partners LP (Newlight), a growth equity investor, will make an equity investment of up to USD150 million in the company.
Rosemark will use the investment to build the next leader in customer marketing by acquiring and accelerating the growth of tech-enabled marketing companies focused on deepening consumer relationships. Rosemark is founded and led by Chris Kuenne, an entrepreneurial pioneer with more than 35 years of experience converting deeper consumer insights into thriving brands.
Kuenne and
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised longstanding client Piper, a specialist investor in fast-growing consumer brands, on its GBP5 million investment into Wild Nutrition, a natural health supplements brand.
Founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Henrietta and Charlie Norton, Wild Nutrition has disrupted the UK’s GBP20 billion health and wellness market. The brand offers supplements that are ethically and sustainably formulated by an in-house team who source the highest quality, fully traceable ingredients to provide solutions to common health needs – including pregnancy, fertility, immunity, energy, gut health, sleep, stress and anxiety and hormonal health.
Piper’s investment will
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has held the final close of the NB Private Equity Impact Fund with nearly USD280 million of commitments.
The successful fundraise demonstrates the growth of Neuberger Berman’s private equity impact investment strategy and the manager’s active role in the market. Neuberger Berman manages USD429 billion in AUM with over USD96 billion of committed capital to private markets.
The Impact Fund primarily invests in direct and fund investments that seek to achieve positive social and environmental outcomes that are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and that also meet NB Private Equity’s
Foresight Group, a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has made a GBP1.25 million growth capital investment under the Scottish Growth Scheme into FURTHER.SPACE Limited, a luxury glamping pod holiday company, providing outdoor premium short breaks in Scotland and Ireland.
The company is well placed to benefit from the growth in staycations with Covid-19 likely impacting international tourism for some time to come and more broadly to serve a growing segment of consumers concerned about the carbon footprint of air travel.
FURTHER.SPACE was founded in 2019 and operates luxury pod accommodation across Scotland and Ireland. It manufactures high-quality, design-led
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