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Entrepreneurial Equity Partners (e2p), a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on the food and consumer packaged goods industries, is to merge portfolio company Kronos Foods (Kronos) with Grecian Delight Foods, a Parthenis family business. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Grecian Delight is a leading manufacturer and marketer of Greek and Mediterranean inspired cuisine. The company’s products include authentic gyros and specialty meats, pitas and flatbreads, tzatziki, hummus and specialty dips/spreads, falafel, and plant-based proteins to foodservice and retail industries across the US Grecian Delight is headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
e2p Managing Partner Mark
Global investment bank GCA Corporation has has completed its acquisition of Stella EOC, a leading technology and media investment banking boutique with coverage in the Nordics, the UK and continental Europe. With this GCA is expanding its coverage into further key strategic markets including Benelux and the Nordics, strengthening its already leading technology practice and adding expertise in the media and global entertainment space. Furthermore, Kristoffer Källeskog, a founding partner of Stella EOC, has been appointed to GCA Altium’s Executive Management Committee.
GCA now employs more than 500 employees, 400 of whom are bankers, and operates across 25 locations in
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with USD37 billion of equity capital under management, has invested, through convertible debt, into Modern Logistics, a Brazilian one-stop-shop full service logistics firm. Terms were not disclosed.Modern Logistics, the only firm of its kind in Brazil to have its own fully integrated air cargo operation dedicated to long distance, time-sensitive, and warehousing capabilities, was founded by former JetBlue VP and Co-founder of Azul airlines, Gerald Lee. The company is backed by DXA Investments, a private equity and venture capital investment firm.
Fernando Marques Oliveira, Managing Director and Head
Fast-growth web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired Euronic OY, which is headquartered in Finland. Founded in 2000, Euronic is an established Finnish web hosting business with around 12,500 customers. Alongside its core shared web hosting offering, Euronic provides services, such as website builds, domain names, and security certificates. Euronic has reported strong growth in recent years, hitting revenues of EUR2.4 million and EBITDA of EUR1.5 million in FY2019.
In February 2020, Perwyn acquired a majority position in Miss Group to support the growth ambitions of the business through international expansion and ongoing M&A. This deal is the first acquisition
Palatine Private Equity has backed Acora, a managed IT services provider, as it looks to expand its service capabilities through a buy-and-build strategy.Acora has traded for more than 25 years, providing a range of IT support and cloud solutions to help mid-market organisations modernise infrastructure and operate in the digital economy. It offers a full service suite, from service desk through to cloud transformation and ongoing managed service of cloud applications and infrastructure.
David Rabson, CEO of Acora, acquired the business through a management buyout in 2008. Since then, the business has developed from a traditional service desk provider
Cache Ventures has partnered with 360 Family Office to launch a private equity fund, kicking things off with its first acquisition, LeadOwl.Since 2013, Cache has been entirely self-funded. Founders Sean Heilweil and Jarrett Lusso began by building and launching Exit Monitor, which was acquired in August 2016 by Kaleidoscope Global. Their experience building, growing, and exiting the company inspired them to embark on a non-traditional route. As a venture studio, Cache set its sights on building an organisation that aimed to repeatedly build new ideas. Thanks to existing infrastructure and resources, Cache Ventures has been able to increase its chances of
Privitar, a data privacy platform provider, has completed an USD80 million Series C funding round led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from Accel, Partech, IQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures and ABN AMRO Ventures.The investment comes less than a year after a USD40 million Series B funding round led by Accel in June 2019. This raise enables Privitar to further accelerate the development of its data privacy platform, fuel continued innovation, and support key growth initiatives, with a focus on international expansion and increased hiring across sales, services, product development, and other areas of the business.
“The Privitar platform enables our customers
MMC Ventures and Forward Partners have co-invested USD7 million in a Series A round for London-based data streaming startup Ably.
MMC Ventures invested from its GBP52 million MMC Greater London Fund, launched in May 2019, which forms part of the Mayor of London’s initiative – the Greater London Investment Fund.
The capital injection will be used to scale, as demand for real-time around the world escalates.
Ably provides cloud infrastructure and APIs that enable developers to deliver live experiences to their users. Large enterprises and high-growth tech companies choose Ably to offload the technical and operational burden required to deliver
Global software investor Insight Partners has held a final close of its growth equity fund Insight Partners XI at USD9.5 billion, with support from Insight’s existing, as well as new, investors.
Fund XI is one of the largest global funds focused on investing in scaleup software companies, businesses that have advanced from the startup phase and are positioned for rapid growth that includes major milestones like global expansion, M&A, and IPO, according to Insight Partners.
The fund is expected to invest between USD10 million and USD350 million of equity in a company, although larger transactions are also possible.
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