Managers
Naxicap Partners, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has acquired a majority stake in Let’s Go Fitness following the exit of Afinum.
Working in partnership with the company’s existing management, led by Jean-Pierre Sacco, François Victor and Steve Porchet, Naxicap Partners will launch a new phase of growth for the company.
Let’s Go Fitness is the largest operator of fitness centres in French-speaking Switzerland, focussing on the upper middle-class pricing segment. It has been controlled by Afinum since 2014. The group currently operates 52 fitness centres, mostly in the Lake Geneva region. Since its foundation in 2002, the group has
Ipsos has acquired Synthesio in a deal worth over USD50 million in cash. Founded in 2006, Synthesio is a Social Media Intelligence specialist with presence in New York, Paris, London, Singapore, and Brussels, backed by its historical shareholders: Entrepreneur Venture, Idinvest Partners and Bpifrance.
Synthesio employs 130 personnel worldwide including a large team of engineers and data scientists. It provides clients with listening solutions and audience insights to measure the impact of social and mainstream media conversations.
Beyond product innovation, Synthesio plans to grow its international presence and services beyond its existing five offices. Synthesio will be a standalone business unit at Ipsos, maintaining
Inflexion Private Equity has invested in PMC Treasury (PMC), an independent provider of treasury and risk management solutions.
The transaction sees Inflexion take a substantial minority stake in the business, with management re-investing as part of the deal. The investment is being made by Inflexion Enterprise Fund IV, Inflexion’s dedicated lower mid-market fund.
Founded in 1989, PMC provides operational treasury and risk management solutions globally to corporate clients, private equity and infrastructure funds and their portfolio companies from its main offices in London, New York and Singapore. The business employs 30 people and additionally draws on 45 independent consultants
HIG Capital (HIG) has closed the HIG Advantage Buyout Fund with aggregate capital commitments of USD3 billion, well in excess of its target. The Fund makes control equity investments in more stable, higher quality companies with EBITDA between USD25 million and USD100 million.
The fund will capitalise on HIG’s established expertise in middle market private equity.
Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, Co-CEOs of HIG, say: “We are pleased with the strong demand for the HIG Advantage Buyout Fund. The positive response from our investors to this offering reflects their confidence in the capability of our team and our differentiated
Fenox Venture Capital and Sega Sammy Holdings have jointly announced a USD20 million venture capital fund to invest in advanced technologies globally.
Fenox Venture Capital is an international venture capital firm with headquarters in Silicon Valley. Sega Sammy Holdings INC, is a Japanese general entertainment company group engaged in a range of businesses, including digital games, amusement machines, toys, animation production and resort facility development.
The purpose of the fund, for which Fenox Venture Capital acts as General Partner, is to contribute to Sega Sammy’s innovation and growth by investing in startups with the potential for strategic synergy with
Nottingham-headquartered ENSEK, a software supplier to UK energy providers, has delivered a period of exceptional growth after securing a minority investment from mid-market private equity firm LDC in October 2017.
ENSEK’s revenues have more than doubled in the financial year to March 2018 to GBP6.2million, up from GBP2.7million in the previous year, which has included significant increases in contracted recurring software revenue. Headcount has also increased substantially from 65 people to more than 120 in the first year of ENSEK’s partnership with LDC.
ENSEK uses its market-leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to provide existing and new entrant energy providers with
The Credit Junction, a data-driven, asset-based lender for small and mid-sized businesses, has secured a USD23 million growth equity investment from Century Equity Partners (Century).
Century focuses on making investments in lower middle market companies that have demonstrated value propositions to the financial services industry. This investment provides The Credit Junction with growth capital to expand its ability to provide financing solutions to Supply Chain America, as well as commercialise its proprietary data and risk analytics platform.
This marks the second meaningful financing announcement for The Credit Junction in recent months, as the company secured a USD150 million credit
EOS Investment Management (EOS IM), an independent London-based AIFM, has acquired Neronobile, a family-founded coffee company that has enjoyed sustained growth in Europe.
The transaction sees EOS IM’s Private Equity Fund acquire 67 per cent of the company Neronobile whilst the existing shareholders maintain 33 per cent, thus maximising business continuity.
The deal is the third Italian SME acquisition by EOS IM in less than a year and the fourth since the launch of the private equity fund in 2016 with the acquisition of Poplast, a company specialising in packaging with ecological credentials, which has already grown 40
Guinness Asset Management has led a GBP1.7m investment for a minority stake in Pasta Evangelists, which is disrupting the UK’s GBP3.8 billion pasta sector, delivering fresh, authentically Italian artisan pasta direct to consumers’ homes across the UK.
Founded in October 2016 by Genoa native Alessandro Savelli and co-founders James McArthur and Chris Rennoldson, Pasta Evangelists is on a mission to become the authority in fresh pasta in the UK. The company believes premium pasta and authentic Italian pasta sauces are two categories that have seen the least innovation in the food industry in the past decade.
The GBP1.7 million
Private equity firm SWEN Capital Partners has closed fundraising for its third infrastructure fund, SWEN Infra Multi-Select 3, EUR455 million from well-regarded European investors, including pension funds, mutual and other insurance companies, banks and private clients.
This success demonstrates investors’ confidence in SWEN Capital Partners’ investment strategy, which features a solid track-record in infrastructure going back almost 10 years.
Its strategy has been successful in its two previous funds, with investments via funds (primary and secondary deals) and directly in infrastructure assets. This third fund will be invested mainly in Europe in transport, energy, communication and social infrastructure, hence,
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