Managers
Epic Gardening, an online gardening destination founded by Kevin Espiritu has secured an investment of USD17.5 million from The Chernin Group (TCG).
Founded in 2013, Epic Gardening is a trusted resource for millions of enthusiast and aspiring gardeners who want to grow their own food and learn creative gardening techniques. Originally started as a hobby for Espiritu, Epic Gardening now has over three million social followers, 10 million lifetime podcast downloads and 10 million blog visits in 2021.
The investment will be used to bolster Epic’s operations, commerce, and content teams and aggressively scale its offering of gardening products and
PDQ.com, a provider of IT asset management software backed by private equity firm TA Associates, has acquired SmartDeploy, a specialist in remote computer management.
The acquisition comes just months after PDQ.com acquired SimpleMDM, further enhancing its value proposition to the broader IT community by making device management easier from start to finish.
SmartDeploy manages Windows devices offline, on-prem, or through the cloud, making it well suited for every computing environment. IT professionals can easily manage drivers, applications, patches, and scripting through SmartDeploy’s single-image management and patented device driver injection technology.
Avision Sales Group, an Osceola Capital portfolio company, has completed the acquisition of two additional companies: OneSolution and JJ Shearer Company.
Concurrently, Avision has announced the formation of Forward Solutions, which will serve as the umbrella brand for brands including: Avision, servicing facility maintenance, cleaning and disposables manufacturers; Curate, servicing foodservice equipment manufacturers; OneSolution, servicing industrial and commercial safety manufacturers; Allynt, providing consulting and training solutions to end users; and C3Consulting, providing consulting services for manufacturers and distributors.
Nexxus Iberia Private Equity has completed a capital increase to acquire a significant minority stake in Solutex, a manufacturer of highly concentrated Omega 3.
Founded in 1995 by Dr Fernando Moreno and Verónica Olaya based in Madrid, Solutex produces Omega 3 natural ingredients from fish and algae oils, which are mainly used for pharma and food supplement products.
Nexxus Iberia’s investment will allow Solutex to expand its manufacturing plant in Mallén (Aragón) to face the increasing demand. Likewise, the capital increase will accelerate the ongoing integration of Solutex’s production process. This will allow the Company to expand its innovation capabilities,
SK AeroSafety Group (SK), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired Fire-Tec Aero Systems (Fire-Tec).
HTEC Group (HTEC), a global consulting, software engineering and digital product development company, has secured a USD140 million investment from Brighton Park Capital (Brighton Park), a growth equity investment firm that specialises in partnering with growth-stage software, healthcare and tech-enabled services businesses.
HTEC will use this investment to further scale its capacities to deliver industry-leading products and technologies to its growing global customer base.
Brighton Park’s investment is among the largest initial funding rounds by dollar value recorded in Europe this past year. The financing will enable HTEC to further scale its product design and deep technology engineering capabilities through
Cytovation AS, a clinical stage immune-oncology company has closed its Series A financing round, raising a total of NOK180 million (USD20 million).
The Series A round was led by Sandwater, a Norwegian venture capital firm that invests in groundbreaking companies across a range of industries including life sciences, and Canica, a large, privately owned investment company operating out of Norway and Switzerland focused on building highly innovative companies that aim to create value for investors and society as a whole.
The new funds will primarily be directed towards clinical development of Cytovation’s lead asset CyPep-1, a proprietary first-in-class targeted tumor
ArmorCode, a specialist in AppSecOps, has secured an additional USD8 million in a seed financing round led by Cervin Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures.
The firm’s previous USD3 million funding round was supported by Tau Ventures, and several prominent Cybersecurity leaders, including founders of Demisto and RedLock.
The company will use these new funds to extend its AppSecOps platform capabilities and expand the company’s go-to-market efforts.
Addionics, a chemistry-agnostic battery technology company, has raised USD27 million in a Series A funding round to scale up its efforts to redesign battery architecture with the company’s Smart 3D Electrodes, which improves the cost and performance of batteries with any chemistry – existing or emerging.
Worldwise, a portfolio company of middle market private equity firm A&M Capital Partners (AMCP), has acquired Kitty Sift (Kitty Sift), specialist in the cat litter and accessories segment.
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