Managers
Pole Star Space Applications Limited (Pole Star), a provider of cloud-based compliance software solutions to the maritime sector, has secured a significant growth investment from Wavecrest Growth Partners and Abry Partners.
The capital will be used to accelerate hiring, scale sales, and expand product development to meet substantive and increasing demand for its related trade & commodity finance, maritime surveillance, and ESG sustainability solutions and to accelerate innovation into disruptive AI, ML, and distributed ledger technologies. Pole Star was represented by Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc in the transaction.
“All components of the maritime sector are now entering a significant
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited Kee Safety Group Ltd to its management team in a deal supported by Intermediate Capital Group.
The deal marks the end of a successful 10-year partnership during which LDC supported the management team to increase revenues to more than GBP100 million, an increase of more than 350 per cent since the start of the partnership, as well as helping Kee Safety to increase headcount to 780 people across 10 countries, an increase of more than 400 per cent over the same period.
The transaction also provides an exit for majority shareholder Investcorp.
Private Equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) has completed a significant investment into a specialist provider of cutting-edge integrated fire safety and security solutions, Total Integrated Solutions (TIS), to support its continued growth and expansion.
Mansfield-based TIS is a design led fire, security and communications integrator which installs, maintains and services systems, with leading credentials across a broad range of sectors including retirement villages, open space CCTV and Smart City installations, the Ministry of Defence and further education. Over the past nine years, the current owner and CEO James Twigg, has successfully expanded the technical capability of the business and
Same-day grocery delivery startup Grocemania has raised more than GBP170,000 on the crowdfunding platform Seedrs.
The London-based business has exceeded its funding target of GBP100,000 at a valuation of GBP2.4 million. In this latest funding round, which concluded on 29 March 2021, more than 340 investors invested a combined GBP173,000 in Grocemania.
Launched in February 2019, Grocemania is an on-demand delivery platform, which allows customers to shop from local grocery stores and get deliveries in minutes for a fee of only GBP2.50.
The company’s monthly revenue has more than doubled since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and it now
ThreatQuotient, a specialist security operations platform innovator, has closed USD22.5 million in new financing, including a combination of equity and debt financing.
The investment syndicate includes New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Adams Street Partners, Escalate Capital, Blu Ventures, Cisco Investments and Gaingels, who took notice of the company’s significant momentum in 2020, specifically their record bookings and revenue growth. ThreatQuotient plans to leverage this financing to accelerate execution of new innovations currently in development.
“As a result of strong performance in 2020, we welcomed an opportunity to secure additional funding and add new investors to our syndicate. ThreatQuotient is meeting a
Pemberton, a specialist European private debt manager transforming traditional credit markets, backed by one of Europe’s largest insurers, Legal & General Group PLC, has provided financing to support two bolt-on acquisitions by Cupa, the largest producer of natural slate in Spain and a distributor of roofing materials in the UK, backed by The Carlyle Group.
Cupa has acquired Rinus Roofing, an independent UK distributor specialising in roofing materials, and Proinor, a producer of natural slate in Spain. The acquisitions are the latest steps in Cupa’s expansion plan and will consolidate its leading position in the slate market. As an existing
One Utility Bill, the Newcastle-based business which simplifies the utilities experience for consumers, landlords and letting agents, has raised a further GBP1.6 million in its second fundraise within a year.
The follow-on investment round was led by incumbent investors DSW Ventures, the venture capital business of the Dow Schofield Watts group, alongside the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Northstar Ventures.
The latest investment, which takes the funding raised to date by the business to circa GBP5 million, will allow it to improve scale and efficiency, further enhance its technology and create
LiveEO, an Earth Observation (EO) asset monitoring startup based in Berlin, has closed an investment round with the venture capital firms btov Partners, Helen Ventures, DvH Ventures, and Motu Ventures as well as deep tech investor Andreas Kupke and a renowned investor from the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem.
The Series A investment of EUR5.25 million (USD6.35 million) allows LiveEO to further accelerate the development of their market leading infrastructure monitoring solution as well as their international expansion. LiveEO analyses satellite imagery with artificial intelligence to monitor infrastructure grids such as railways, electricity grids or pipelines and enables the operators
Kainos Capital (Kainos), a food and consumer-focused private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company Ferraro Foods to funds managed by Kelso & Company.
Headquartered in Piscataway, NJ, Ferraro Foods is a specialty foodservice distributor delivering quality food and supplies, primarily to the Italian restaurant and pizzeria segment in the Eastern US. The Company, which had its first sale in 1975, today sources over 7,000 products from around the world and distributes to over 6,000 end customers. Kainos partnered with Ferraro Foods in May of 2018 after having developed a prior relationship with Ferraro’s owner Michael Giammarino through the
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MPB on a USD70 million investment led by Vitruvian Partners, with participation from existing investor Acton Capital.
Headquartered in Brighton, UK, MPB is the world’s largest reseller of photo and video kit. The used kit market is in a period of significant expansion as more consumers purchase sustainably in the circular economy.
Supported by this new funding, and with established locations in the UK, US and Germany, MPB is well-positioned to take advantage of this growing trend.
The transaction underlines Arma Partners’ position as a market-leading advisor on private capital
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