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Eze Castle Integration, a portfolio company of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) and a specialist in technology solutions, has acquired digital transformation firm NorthOut Inc. Eze Castle Integration says the acquisition will accelerate its digital transformation offering for the financial and professional services industries.
NorthOut is a fast-growing digital transformation firm headquartered in Boston with 165 employees focused on delivering advanced solutions that allow leading organisations to accelerate business transformation and overcome business challenges. NorthOut brings a combination of business-led digital strategy and modern engineering driven design to its core capabilities – Digital Experience Design, Application Modernisation, DevOps and
Williams Advanced Engineering’s (WAE) technology investment partnership with Foresight Group has hit a milestone of GBP50 million raised, helping a total of 20 UK-based SMEs and start-ups take their innovative products to market.Launched in 2016, the Foresight Williams Technology EIS fund has had one aim: to help grow small and medium-sized UK technology and engineering businesses, giving them access to expert technical expertise and investment.
The inspiration for the fund followed a partnership between WAE and Aerofoil Energy which rolled out an energy-saving refrigeration system across most of the UK supermarkets, preventing cold air from spilling into the aisle and
Independent private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services has secured a new strategic investment led by General Atlantic (GA), a global growth equity firm, and Hg, a global software investorIHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, will also make a minority investment in the company, while Cobepa SA will continue to hold a minority position and Gen II’s founders and management team will continue to hold a significant investment in Gen II whilst continuing to lead the business.
The terms of the transaction were not disclosed and closing of the transaction is conditional on customary
Prime Capital AG, an independent asset manager and financial services provider, wich manages and administers EUR 17.7 billion in various asset classes, is broadening its shareholder base with immediate effect with 70 per cent of Prime Capital shares being transferred to a total of 10 executives. Company founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board Wolfgang Stolz will retain 30 per cent of the shares. The move gives long-serving executives and employees across the company the opportunity to participate in the future business success of Prime Capital.
The generation change and the new ownership structure have been carefully prepared over the past
Aurelius Equity Opportunities (Aurelius) is to acquire Pullman Fleet Services from Wincanton. With a particular focus on heavy goods vehicles (HGV) in the UK, Pullman Fleet Services (Pullman) will complement Aurelius-owned Rivus Fleet Solutions (Rivus) which has an offering for light commercial vehicles (LCVs).Headquartered in Doncaster, Pullman Fleet Services is the UK’s largest independent provider of commercial fleet management and maintenance, with a focus on heavy goods vehicles. Pullman has a strong reputation and track record for excellence, throughout 35 years of providing a reliable, flexible and quality service offering, and will be further supported under the ownership of Aurelius.
Chiltern Capital (Chiltern) has completed a buy-out of Inciner8 Limited (Inciner8), a designer and manufacturer of incinerators for a range of applications across the waste management industry including medical, municipal and animal. Inciner8 supplies incinerators to a range of customers including corporate, government and non-governmental organisations.
Based in Southport, Inciner8 was founded in 2003 by Vince Ferguson OBE, who will be exiting the business at completion.
Chiltern has taken a majority stake in the company and will play an active role in supporting the management team to build on Inciner8’s successful growth track record and develop additional revenue streams. As part
Downing Ventures has completed a USD35 million Series B funding round in Ayar Labs as co-lead investor.
Ayar Labs is a Deep Tech organisation that is solving semiconductor interconnect (I/O), bandwidth and power bottlenecks by moving data using light, with its TeraPHY monolithic in-package electronic/photonic chiplet-based solution. The result is a vast improvement in bandwidth, bandwidth density, latency and power consumption across a wider distance.
The round was co-led by Downing Ventures and BlueSky Capital with additional funding provided by Applied Ventures LLC, Castor Ventures and SGInnovate (Singapore) in addition to existing investor participation from Founders Fund, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Intel
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Pappas Capital’s portfolio company, VelosBio Inc (VelosBio), is to be acquired by a subsidiary of Merck for USD2.75 billion in cash, subject to customary adjustments. The exit is amongst Pappas Capital’s most successful in its 25-plus-year history.
VelosBio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to developing first-in-class cancer therapies targeting receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1). Pappas Capital first invested in VelosBio in 2018 as part of the Company’s USD58 million Series A financing. Encouraged by the strong potential of VelosBio’s novel therapies for difficult-to-treat cancers, Pappas Capital subsequently participated in the Company’s USD137 million Series B financing in
Nordic Capital is to acquire BearingPoint’s Regulatory Technology business, RegTech, a provider of software solutions for regulatory reporting. BearingPoint will continue to serve as a strategic consulting partner and will retain a minority stake in the Company.Founded over 25 years ago, RegTech is today firmly established as a leading European provider and market leader in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. RegTech’s flagship products are used by more than 6,000 reporting firms including banks, insurance companies, supervisory authorities and financial services providers. RegTech is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and has 17 offices across 10 countries with a total workforce of
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