Managers
BGF has completed a multi-million-pound investment in Stark, a leading provider of energy data and analytics services, based in Horley, Surrey.
Scoro, a provider work management software for professional service businesses, has closed a USD16.4 million Series B funding round led by Kennet Partners.
Additional investors include Columbia Lake Partners, Inventure, Livonia Partners and Tera Ventures. The investment will fuel continued global expansion and is supported by new French and Spanish versions of the software.
“Even before Covid-19 hit, most professional service businesses used as many as a dozen different platforms daily,” says Scoro’s Founder and CEO, Fred Krieger. “However, teams now realise that constantly switching between tools harms productivity and results in lost data and duplicated work. In many
Business advisory firm Quantuma’s corporate finance team has completed a record-breaking eight transactions in the last fortnight, at a combined value of over GBP130 million.
Quantuma comprises a 250-strong team, operating across 22 locations around the UK and in selected offshore centres in Cyprus, Mauritius, and the Cayman Islands. In August last year Quantuma merged with K3 Capital Group plc, further enhancing its corporate finance capability and now works alongside KBS, the most active adviser in the South East in 2020.
Happening in quick succession, the majority of the deals took place in the South of England, namely London,
Private equity firm Nordic Capital is to actively support Boost.ai, a global specialist in conversational AI for Fortune 1000 companies. in its expansion.
Nordic Capital intends to further strengthen the Company’s strong market position by helping it to accelerate growth and expansion into new markets, working closely with the CEO and co-founders. The founders, the management team, and the current owners of Boost.ai, including Finstart Nordic and Alliance Venture, will continue as investors alongside Nordic Capital.
Boost.ai offers a no-code conversational AI platform, with a strong focus on customer service and support, that helps bridge the digital gap between
Brainlabs, a portfolio company of mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge, has acquired User Conversion, a conversion rate optimisation agency.
Livingbridge invested in Brainlabs in 2019 to accelerate the business’ growth and support the firm in its ambition to become the global leader in digital marketing. Since then, Brainlabs has expanded its offering and footprint through two add-on acquisitions, in the form of US digital marketing agency Hanapin Marketing and SEO specialist Distilled in 2020.
User Conversion represents Brainlabs’ third acquisition. Founded in 2015 and based in Manchester, User Conversion is a leading CRO agency, crafting bespoke conversion strategies to transform
Sunset Pacific Transportation, (Sunset Pacific), a portfolio company of private investment firm Granite Creek Capital Parters, has acquired Radius Global Solutions (Radius Logistics), a Canadian corporation.
“The acquisition of Radius Logistics represents a significant addition to the fast-growing Sunset Pacific platform, bringing together two operationally-strong companies and expanding their geographic footprint to include two of North America’s major logistics hubs,” says Brian Boorstein, Co-founding Partner of Granite Creek. “In particular, the acquisition of Radius Global Solutions will provide Sunset Pacific with a strong footprint in Canada.”
Granite Creek partnered with supply chain and logistics expert Red Arts Capital and
Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) are to sell their majority stake in Oikos Group, a European provider of prefabricated houses, headquartered in Schlüchtern, Germany, to West Street Capital Partners VIII, a fund managed by Goldman Sachs.
Equistone acquired Oikos Group – consisting of the brands Bien-Zenker, Hanse Haus and Living Haus – at the beginning of 2018 and, together with management, drove the growth strategy as well as the digitalisation and operational excellence of the group. The financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed and the transaction remains subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities.
Oikos
Foreside Financial Group (Foreside), a provider of governance, risk management, and compliance solutions and technology offerings to clients in the global asset and wealth management industry, has acquired the regulatory compliance business of JG Advisory Services LLC, a comprehensive regulatory solutions provider for hedge and private equity funds.
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Ocorian, a financial services group and provider of Capital Markets services, Fund services, Corporate services and Private Client services, has acquired Emphasys Technologies.
Emphasys Technologies is a US-based service provider to the capital markets community, specialising in tax reporting and calculation agency services to asset-backed transactions. The deal, which was agreed on 4 March 2021, is expected to complete later this month.
Emphasys Technologies provides capital markets services, leveraging its in-depth experience of modelling asset backed transactions and related tax returns, as well as its proprietary software that helps it deliver seamless solutions in a highly efficient manner. Emphasys
Temasek, an investment company headquartered in Singapore, has formed a USD500 million strategic partnership with leading global impact investment group LeapFrog Investments.
The strategic partnership will take the form of a multi-fund investment by Temasek to anchor LeapFrog’s future funds. Temasek will also take a minority stake in LeapFrog and provide growth capital to support the expansion of the LeapFrog team and investment capabilities across Asia and Africa. LeapFrog and its investment process will continue to be managed and controlled by its team of partners, with Temasek taking one non-executive seat on LeapFrog’s Management Board.
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