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Global investment firm KKR has invested in Adopt A Cow, a fast-growing, direct-to-consumer dairy company in China that integrates digital solutions into its core operations.
Adopt A Cow’s new funding round was co-led by KKR and DCP Capital.
Founded in 2016, Adopt A Cow primarily produces and sells its pure milk, yogurt, cheese sticks and milk power products and has quickly become a trusted high-end dairy brand in China, thanks to its vertically integrated business model covering alfalfa growing, dairy farming, milk processing, and technology-enabled marketing. Over the past five years, the company has become one of the fastest growing
Abry Partners (Abry), a leading Boston-based private equity firm, announced today the acquisition of High Street Insurance Partners (HSIP), a full-service insurance brokerage, from Huron Capital (Huron), a lower middle-market private equity platform.
HSIP management and agency partners will maintain large stakes in the company and Huron will maintain a minority interest in HSIP.
Founded in 2018, High Street Insurance Partners provides a broad array of business insurance & risk management; employee benefits & human capital management; financial & retirement services; and personal insurance solutions. HSIP is headquartered in Traverse City, MI.
Scott Wick, Founder and CEO
LUMICKS, a, next-generation life science tools company that develops highly innovative platforms for Dynamic Single-Molecule and Cell Avidity analysis, has completed a USD93 million Series D preferred share financing.
The funding round was led by new investors Farallon Capital Management and Lauxera Capital Partners, and included investments by Softbank Vision 2, funds and accounts advised by T Rowe Price Associates, Parian Global Management, Pura Vida Investments, and Irving Investors. The round was also backed by existing investor Gilde Healthcare and select members of the LUMICKS management team. A majority of the proceeds from the financing will be used to bolster
Dubin Clark, a private equity firm with offices in Boston, MA and Jacksonville Beach, Florida, has invested in a new portfolio company, iROCKER, Inc (iROCKER).
iROCKER is a watersports lifestyle company focused on designing and innovating outdoor recreation products, including inflatable stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) and other watersport accessories. Since launching its flagship iROCKER SUP brand in 2013, the company has introduced its Nautical and Blackfin brands to capture the full needs of SUP enthusiasts. In addition, the company has expanded into accessory offerings, including wave mats, floating docks, coolers, speakers, kayak conversion kits, backpacks, leashes, paddles, SUP anchors, and pumps. iROCKER
Cavendish Corporate Finance (Cavendish), part of finnCap Group, has closed a deal for the sale of Datrix Limited (Datrix), a supplier of cloud-based networking, communications, and cyber security solutions, to AdEPT Technology Group (AdEPT), one of the UK’s independent providers of managed services for IT, connectivity, unified communications solutions, and cloud services.
Based in London since 1994, Datrix boasts considerable expertise in the growing market for Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN), having designed, delivered, and managed end-to-end enterprise solutions for a number of multisite, mission-critical environments. With 63 per cent of total revenue generated from public sector clients, Datrix’s
MunchFit, the healthy food provider to luxury gym Equinox and elite studio Barry’s Bootcamp, has closed GBP1.2 million in funding through a recent crowdfunding campaign via Crowdcube, after attracting substantial investor interest.
Helping to accelerate training results by taking the guesswork out of what to eat, the upmarket goal-based meal service secured equity investment from 330 “Fitvestors” to take the business to the next level.
MunchFit – founded by Angus Fay in 2013 – operates a retail offering, fitness cafés and a nationwide meal plans service that allows people to order up to four meals a day, six days a
Sky9 Capital, a venture capital firm investing in Chinese start-ups, has completed the flotation of its portfolio company TuSimple on the Nasdaq stock exchange today under the ticker symbol ‘TSP’ at a market capitalisation of USD8.49 billion.
TuSimple is the global leader in autonomous trucking and is revolutionising the USD4 trillion global truck freight market. Founded in 2015, it has developed a fully integrated software and hardware solution enabling what is believed to be the world’s most advanced Level 4 driver-out autonomous semi-truck technology.
Through its innovative technology, TuSimple is able to address some of the trucking industry’s most
Global private investor The Riverside Company has invested in PPM Advisory Group and OrtleyBio (collectively PPM).
PPM provides scientific operations and communications services to global biopharmaceutical companies with a focus on oncology and haematology therapeutic areas. The company leverages its deep scientific expertise to support customers across various stages of the drug life cycle to better educate and inform healthcare professionals, medical science liaisons and commercial sales representatives.
PPM is an add-on investment to Riverside’s platform Red Nucleus (RN), a premier provider of learning, performance and process solutions for the life sciences industry. This is RN’s fifth add-on acquisition since
UserZoom, a specialist in Experience Insights Management (XIM), has raised USD100 million in a funding round led by Owl Rock.
UserZoom will use the funding to build out the company’s proven XIM solution that helps businesses join the dots between their user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX) strategies and get an org-wide view on their digital experience.
In today’s digital economy, designing great product experiences is a critical competitive differentiator. Unfortunately, businesses often silo their data in separate user and customer buckets, resulting in increased technical, process and data debt, and a fragmented end experience for customers and users.
LFM Capital, a private equity firm focused on lower middle market manufacturing and industrial services businesses, has sold Medix Specialty Vehicles (Medix) to Demers Braun Crestline (DBC), a subsidiary of Demers Braun Ambulance Manufacturer.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Medix, based in Elkhart, Indiana, designs and manufactures ambulances that are utilised to provide essential services such as emergency response and patient transport. Medix offers Type I, Type II, and Type III ambulances that are crafted and designed to offer exceptional comfort, quality, and convenience at a reasonable price. Medix primarily sells ambulances through dealers that
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