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CBPE Capital LLP (CBPE) has invested in Perspective Financial Group Limited (Perspective), following approval from the FCA.Perspective is a UK financial planning and wealth advisory business with a client centric culture, employing over 185 staff across 15 offices. Perspective provides its 18,000 clients with holistic and impartial financial advice to aid them in achieving their investment goals and objectives. Perspective helps clients who are looking for advice on retirement planning, investment, inheritance tax planning, personal wealth or corporate planning. Through its Cambridge Investments Limited offering, Perspective also offers investment management services to its wealth advisory clients.
CBPE is partnering
Private company investment platform Seedrs experienced a record-breaking year in 2019 with GBP283 million invested into pitches, resulting in 49 per cent growth in investment compared to 2018.Seedrs completed 250 deals in 2019, up from 186 in 2018, and delivered 7,858 investor exits on its Secondary Market.
In 2019, Seedrs helped businesses from 16 different countries raise funds, and received investment from 78 different countries. Fifty one per cent of the 250 completed deals were fundraises of over GBP1 million, showing 89 per cent growth in larger funding rounds over 2018. Highlights include Scottish fintech Paysend raising GBP10.7 million in
Akram & Associates, a boutique Public Accounting Firm specialising in accounting, audit and tax services to alternative investment entities, had another successful year in 2019, growing 40 per cent, and is targeting double-digit growth again in 2020.
Crestview Partners (Crestview) has completed the sale of JR Automation Technologies (JR) to Hitachi for USD1.425 billion. The agreement to sell JR was originally announced on 23 April, 2019.
Mike DuBose, Crestview Senior Advisor and outgoing Chairman of JR Automation, says: “It has been a privilege to work with the very talented teams from JR and Crestview. Over the past four years, we have built on JR’s strong entrepreneurial passion for custom automated solutions and put in place systems and processes that have allowed the company to rapidly scale around the world.
“Since our investment in JR in 2015, the
EV Growth, a Singapore headquartered venture capital firm, has hit the hard cap of its first fund at USD250 million, exceeding the firm’s initial USD150 million target.
This milestone is the result of the firm’s admission of new Limited Partners (LPs) which include several Asian based family offices and two of Asia’s largest sovereign wealth funds.
Launched in March 2018, EV Growth is a joint venture between East Ventures, SMDV and Yahoo! Japan Capital that focuses on providing growth capital to startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia with an industry agnostic focus. The company is led by
KKR is to acquire OverDrive, a digital reading platform for libraries and schools, from Rakuten USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Serving a growing network of 43,000 libraries and schools in more than 75 countries, OverDrive delivers the industry’s largest catalog of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines and other digital media to millions of readers around the world. With its proprietary platform, the Company securely allows these institutions to acquire and manage premium and differentiated digital content from a strong publisher network OverDrive has built over more than 25 years.
“KKR
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has partnered with management to acquire Custom Wheel House LLC, (CWH) a Los Angeles, CA-based designer, marketer, and distributor of branded automotive aftermarket wheels, performance tyres, and accessories through its brands – Method Race Wheels, Tensor Tires, GMZ Race Products, and Dusty Times, a desert racing enthusiast-focused publication.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2010, Method Race Wheels (www.methodracewheels.com) designs, develops and distributes high performance wheels and accessories for race and street applications. These products represent the company’s commitment to quality, driven
Omnio has held the first close of a private placement, successfully raising gross proceeds of EUR15 million by issuing 23,077 shares at a subscription price of EUR650 per Offer Share.
The Company received substantial interest from new institutional investors, family offices and HNWI across Europe, in particular building a strong investor base in the Nordic region. Omnio intends to increase the total fundraising size up to EUR25 million in January 2020. The net proceeds from the private placement will be used to invest in the Company’s sales force, compliance/risk management, product (platform) enhancements, working capital and to finance a pending
Blue Point Capital Partners (Blue Point) has made its seventh Fund IV platform investment, with the acquisition of Country Pure Foods (CPF), a provider of beverages and other natural juice products.
The acquisition of CPF also includes Silver Springs Citrus. Blue Point acquired CPF in partnership with management and CPF’s former CEO, Raymond (Ray) Lee. The Company is an excellent fit with Blue Point’s expertise in the food & beverage space.


For over seventy years, Country Pure, based in Akron, OH, has been a value-added producer, processor, packager and distributor of both branded and private label beverages and juice products
Blackford Capital has made an investment in the US business of Cartridge World, a franchised network for the leading printing consumables brand.
Blackford has completed an investment in the Cartridge World brand through the purchase of the brand licensing rights covering the United States territory.
Headquartered in McHenry, Illinois, the Cartridge World US business operates nearly 230 franchised retail store locations. The brand and franchise are internationally renown for high-quality ink and toner products, with the company’s locally owned and operated full print solution providers expanding their product and service offerings extensively over the past 18 months. Cartridge World is the
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