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EMH Partners, and the Founding Shareholders of Native Instruments, are to to sell a majority of their shares in Native Instruments Holding, the Berlin-based specialist in digital music creation software and hardware, to Francisco Partners, a global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses.
As part of the transaction EMH Partners, members of the Native Instruments founding team, and key Native Instruments’ employees will retain a significant minority stake in the company.
Native Instruments was founded in 1996 in Berlin and employs more than 400 employees worldwide. It operates seven global offices and is active in more
Falfurrias Capital Partners (FCP), a Charlotte-based private equity firm focused on growth-oriented, middle-market businesses, is to merge Corsis, a provider of data-powered technology due diligence services, with its newest portfolio company, Crosslake Technologies.
Corsis brings a consistent, data-driven approach to technology due diligence assessments through their extensive TechIndicator best practice library and proprietary Confidence Index scoring methodology. With their proprietary software, Corsis delivers actionable insights to private equity firms and portfolio companies via a centralised dashboard, complete with objective benchmarking data that help them prioritise technology initiatives, maximising both short- and long-term success.
Corsis has supported USD30 billion in deal
Eurazeo Growth announces a EUR55 million investment in PPRO, an infrastructure provider in the cross-border alternative payments space.
Eurazeo Growth is co-leading this round of EUR153 million, alongside Sprints Capital and Wellington Management among other investors.
After Younited Credit, Wefox, Thought Machine and Tink, PPRO is Eurazeo Growth’s fifth investment in the Fintech sector and a testament to Europe’s innovation engine for financial services.
Headquartered in London, PPRO employs over 300 employees spread across nine offices globally. The Company offers a payments infrastructure platform and value-added services that allow its customers and their underlying merchants to access over
Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business, has completed another successful exit from a management buyout (MBO) investment, with the sale of Carter Accommodation Group Ltd, a leading UK portable accommodation hire company, to trade buyer Modulaire Group.
Private investor clients of Connection Capital invested GBP5.3 million in the company’s GBP12 million MBO in 2015. In addition to a change of ownership into management’s hands, the investment provided significant growth capital to fund the expansion of its hire fleet.
The pace of Carter Accommodation’s growth was so rapid that the initial investment was supported by two further funding rounds
SPINS, a wellness-focused data, analytics and technology provider in the US, has secured a significant investment from Warburg Pincus, General Atlantic and Georgian.
The investment will support future strategic initiatives, including sales and marketing expansion, retail partner value expansion, new product development, and new vertical expansion. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
For two decades, SPINS has been a passionate advocate for the Natural and Specialty Products Industry. SPINS is committed to laying the foundation for the next generation of growth, providing dynamic data, actionable insights, unmatched product attributions, and digital activation solutions. SPINS established the common language across
Sixpoint Partners, a leading global investment bank serving the middle market, has held the closing of Sheridan Capital Partners Fund II, above its hard cap with USD306 million of total capital commitments.
Sheridan Capital Partners (“Sheridan”) is focused on making investments in lower middle market companies in recession resistant, non-discretionary markets within the healthcare industry. The Fund will continue Sheridan’s strategy of making control investments in North American founder-owned businesses with USD3-15 million of EBITDA. Sheridan is led by Partners Jonathan Lewis and Sean Dempsey.
“We are extremely pleased with the overwhelming support provided by our investor base, which encompasses
proSapient has closed a USD10m Series A investment round led by Smedvig Capital, with Guy Hands and existing investors 24 Haymarket also participating in the round. This brings the total raised by proSapient to date to USD18 million.
The new funding will accelerate proSapient’s international expansion as well as support the roll out of their workflow SaaS platform which helps solve a major pain point for users of expert networks, using multiple networks simultaneously.
Founded in 2017, proSapient is a primary research platform helping investors and consultants gather the data they need to make those big decisions. Through the
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital is to sell Bois & Matériaux (B&M), a French building products distributor, to Chausson Matériaux, a major building materials distribution company.
Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, and the final sale is subject to closing conditions and works council consultation. OpenGate Capital acquired B&M in March of 2016 from Wolseley Plc, representing the firm’s second investment within Fund I.
Bois & Matériaux, with headquarters in Pacé, France, is one of the leading building materials distributors in France. The business has more than 2,100 employees and operations across the northern region of France
A fund managed by Odyssey Investment Partners (Odyssey) has acquired Applied Technical Services (ATS), a provider of high-quality testing, inspection, and calibration services, in partnership with Jim J Hills, the Company’s President, and the existing ATS management team.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
ATS, headquartered in Marietta, Georgia with more than 40 offices across the US, is a leading technical service platform that deploys a national network of experienced, highly technical professionals to provide mission-critical testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) services. Powered by innovative technology, significant operational scale and expertise, and deep knowledge of complex
UK mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has agreed the sale of Broadstone, an independent provider of specialist pensions, trustee, and employee benefits solutions, to ICG.
Livingbridge’s investment was originally made from the Livingbridge 5 fund.
Founded within BDO Stoy Hayward in 1989, Broadstone offers coordinated, end-to-end pensions, trustee, and employee benefits solutions to SMEs and large corporates – helping them to navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape and evolving employee demands.
Livingbridge first invested in Broadstone in 2016, having identified the potential to build a mid-market leader of scale in the highly fragmented pensions and employee benefits sector.
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