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The Capzanine Situations Spéciales fund is providing financial and strategic support to Legal, the leading independent French coffee roaster.
Affected by a fire in 2016, Legal had to meet medium-term financing needs to finish the modernisation of its industrial tooling and continue its development.
After working in close collaboration with the management and the shareholders to clearly understand Legal’s financial and strategic issues, Capzanine intervened to set up a EUR5.4 million, five-year bond financing in order to enable the company to finalise its investments and support its growth approach.
Capzanine was particularly convinced by the involvement and agility of the
When President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act) last December, one of the key points that the media focused on was the reduction in corporate tax from 35 per cent to 21 per cent; the biggest cut in more than three decades. This was big news for corporate America.
But as some rightly questioned, what would US corporations do with this tax windfall? Are they going to use it to invest more? If they do, it would likely lead to an immediate boost to growth, which could be inflationary in the short-term. Or are
Business advisory firm Quantuma has led the management buyout of Miles 33 Group Ltd (Miles 33) from Ares Capital. The deal was backed by Ethos Partners and Santander.
Founded in 1976 and based in Bracknell, Miles 33 is a supplier of editorial and advertising management software to the media and publishing industries. The company also provides wider corporate marketing automation software to agencies.
The management team, led by Mike Moore, is well positioned to attain its growth plans supported by Ethos Partners. Growth will be driven by the further rollout of the recently developed Gemstone software, as well as
Céréa Partenaire, the investor-partner of French and European Agrobusiness companies, invested EUR217 million in private debt to finance the development of 15 companies over the last 12 months.
This is a record level of activity for the firm’s private debt team which acted as arranger or co-arranger on most of the transactions.
Michel Chabanel, CEO of Céréa Partenaire, says: “Active in mezzanine since our creation in 2004, private debt is at the heart of our DNA. Since then we have strengthened our position by expanding our offer and are able to cover almost all the financing needs of small
MachineMetrics, which equips factories with the digital tools needed to increase productivity and win more business, has raised USD11.3 million in Series A financing round.
Tola Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Hyperplane Venture Capital, Long River Ventures, Mass Ventures, Hub Angels and Firebolt Ventures. With the new funds, the company will expand its data science and product development teams while accelerating global sales.
MachineMetrics is a pioneer in Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) technology and brings analytics to manufacturing. Once installed, manufacturers can collect, visualise and analyse data from any industrial machine.
MachineMetrics is a
Manchester-headquartered Ardenton Capital Corporation has invested in Birmingham-based Shaftec Automotive with funding support from PNC Business Credit UK.
Ardenton’s third investment in the West Midlands, Shaftec has been supplying remanufactured and new parts to the motor trade for more than 20 years, establishing itself as the leading transmission, steering and braking supplier to the UK aftermarket.
The business has a headcount of 130, operating from its 42,000 sq ft facility in Birmingham where it manufactures and distributes products across the UK and Europe.
Ardenton has been active in the West Midlands since the Canadian-headquartered investor established its first
Altus Capital Partners, an investment firm focussed on middle market manufacturing companies headquartered in the US, has sold International Imaging Materials (IIMAK) to ACON Investments, LLC.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Altus Capital Partners acquired IIMAK in June 2012 alongside the senior management of IIMAK to support the Company’s growth and expansion efforts. Headquartered in Amherst, New York, with additional operations in Belgium, Brazil and Mexico, IIMAK is a leading developer and manufacturer of Thermal Transfer Ribbons, Direct Thermal Films and Fluid Inks used to print on-demand variable information such as bar codes, text and
eHealth Ventures, a digital health technological incubator in Israel, has acquired its 8th portfolio company – Engineering for All (EfA), managed by Yoel Ezra, an elite IDF technology unit veteran with many years of R&D management experience. eHealth Ventures has invested USD900,000 in the company’s seed financing round.
EfA is developing RevDx – a revolutionary Digital Diagnostic programable lab-on-hand system that can enable fully automated, on-the-spot gold standard microscopy diagnostics and real-time disease mapping, through an affordable handheld real-time digital, multichannel solution. This includes full CBC and parasitology capabilities, diagnosis of infectious diseases and precise and affordable test-treat-track treatment – all
Nautic Partners has sold portfolio company Endries International and related affiliates to MSD Partners.
Endries is a distributor of fasteners and Class-C parts serving industrial Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, providing over 500,000 SKUs to its customer base.
Endries operates primarily through a vendor managed inventory model, managing C-part categories for its customers across diverse industrial end markets. Endries partners with OEM customers through robust replenishment systems that provide products and support services which are critical to maintaining the manufacturing process.
Chris Pierce, Managing Director of Nautic, says: “The Endries management team is truly world-class. We thank Steve
QDOOZ, a life skills improvement platform, has launched a month-long crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise a minimum of GBP500,000. QDOOZ will cap the Crowdcube raise to a maximum of GBP1,550,000.
This campaign comes after a successful earlier round of funding which raised GBP3 million from 50 private investors.
QDOOZ is a digital platform which is addressing the distinct gap in personal life skills education and training. With proprietary intellectual property (IP) and a clever, comprehensively researched business plan and a clear monetisation strategy, QDOOZ will launch in Q2 2019 to more than three million identified potential users. It will be free
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