Managers
Marigny Investments, a Denver-based private equity firm, has acquired The Gauge House, a distributor of measurement and instrumentation equipment.
The Gauge House, based in Lafayette, Louisiana, distributes gauges, valves, regulators, tubing, and fittings. Ryan Elwell, who acquired the company in 2000, will continue to lead The Gauge House.
UMB Bank provided debt financing and Nelson Mullins served as legal counsel for Marigny Investments.
Evangeline Securities served as financial advisor and Babineaux Poche Anthony & Slavich served as legal counsel for The Gauge House.
Cherry Tree Dental (Cherry Tree), a Midwest USA dental service organisation backed by private equity firm ICV Parthjers (ICV) has made three acquisitions,Downtown Dental Associates and Robert J Kingston, DDS in Minneapolis and Fairmont Family Dentistry, in Fairmont, Minnesota.
ICV Partners, a Miami-based investment firm that focuses on lower middle market companies in business services, consumer goods & services, food & beverage, and healthcare, made a majority investment in Cherry Tree, in partnership with Co-CEOs Steve Sorrel and Jack Young, in February 2021.
Sustainable Omega-3 producer AlgaeCytes (comprising of UK based AlgaeCytes Ltd and its wholly owned subsidiary AlgaeCytes Germany GmbH) has secured EUR5 million in funding from German private equity provider IBG Risikokapitalfonds III GmbH & Co, plus an EUR11 million commitment from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s GRW investment programme.
Security awareness platform vendor SoSafe has raised USD73 million in a Series B funding round led by expansion-stage specialists Highland Europe.
Existing investors Acton Capital and Global Founders Capital were joined by SAP Hybris founder and Celonis Advisory Board member Carsten Thoma together with La Famiglia as well as Adjust founder Christian Henschel as participants.
With its agile and human-centric security awareness platform, SoSafe takes a uniquely user-centered approach to cyber security.
With 85 per cent of security attacks traced back to a human factor, the SoSafe awareness platform uses insights from behavioural science to drive sustainable behavioural change.
Texthelp, a specialist in literacy and accessibility technology, backed by private equity firm Five Arrows, is to acquire the Education Technology Division of Don Johnston Inc, a US-based assistive technology and special education curriculum company.
Don Johnston Inc is the latest Assistive Technology provider to join the Texthelp Group. Following Five Arrows’ investment in December 2020, Texthelp acquired Lingit Group and Wizkids in 2021, expanding the company’s reach in the Nordics and the UK. Texthelp’s goal is to use its assistive technology to help 1 billion people with reading, writing, and numeracy by 2030.
Eurazeo has acquired an 80 per cent equity interest in Ikaros Solar, a Belgian solar PV company, from its founders and Capenergie 2, a fund managed by Omnes Capital.
Ikaros Solar is the first investment of Eurazeo’s infrastructure team in line with its mandate to invest in the energy and digital transition and contribute to a low-carbon and sustainable economy. Eurazeo has committed to invest up to EUR45 million.
Ikaros Solar develops, builds, owns and operates rooftop and ground mounted solar PV power plants across Benelux, France, Portugal and the UK. Eurazeo will support the company by providing growth
Private equity firm Nile Capital Group Holdings has acquired a minority stake in hedge fund manager Welton Investment Partners, according to a report in Pensions & Investments.
Terms of the transaction, which was completed on 15 December, have not been disclosed.
Nile Capital specialises in taking general partners stakes in boutique, niche and diverse money managers, while Welton runs multi-strategy global macro and ESG strategies, as well as systematic trend-following funds for an institutional client base.
Tandem Bank is acquiring fast-growing consumer lender, Oplo to create a ‘fairer, greener’ digital bank for UK consumers.
An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital), a private investment firm focused on defensible businesses in growing markets, has completed the acquisition of Total Transportation Services (TTSI or the Company), a provider of drayage transportation services.
TTSI is the second investment in the supply chain space by a Sun Capital affiliate in 2021 following the June 2021 closing of Century Distribution Systems, a Virginia-based global digital logistics provider offering supply chain management and freight forwarding services.
RElab, an international scale-up programme curated by Goldacre, the venture capital arm of the Noé Group, has selected nine start-ups selected for its 2022 cohort.
The programme is supported by leading industry partners, including Capreon, JCA Engineering,Kier, Knight Frank, Landsec, Lockton, Logifruit, Mace, RSBG, Sacyr and White & Case.
As part of the 14-week programme, start-ups will benefit from curated introductions to decision makers within RElab’s network of industry partners to explore commercial opportunities and receive feedback around scaling and commercialisation of their products. Start-ups also benefit from mentorship, expertise surgeries, investment introductions, as well as an initial GBP100,000
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