Family office investor Kidd & Company and private investment firm Firmament have exited their investment in Logistyx Technologies, a global multi-carrier shipping software company, in a sale to E2open Parent Holdings, Inc (ETWO) for USD185 million. E2open is a leading network-based provider of a cloud-based, mission-critical, end-to-end supply chain management platform. Logistyx Technologies’ complementary parcel management technology bolsters global fulfilment capabilities of E2open, providing comprehensive global multi-carrier parcel management capabilities in one unified end-to-end, connected omni-channel supply chain platform.

Thomas H Lee Partners, LP (THL), a private equity firm investing in growth companies, has acquired a majority interest in Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO or the Company), a healthcare data enablement company and market leader in clinical terminology solutions from Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor. THL’s investment will support the Company’s product development and expanded commercial relationships with hospitals and other health care providers. Founded in 1994, IMO manages more than 5 million clinical terms and maps to all major coding systems. Its suite of software products, which is used by over 740,000 physicians daily, helps hospitals minimise

HighPost Capital (HighPost), a private investment firm focused on the global consumer and consumer technology sectors, has acquired Centr, a personalised digital health and fitness platform curated by Chris Hemsworth and his hand-picked team of internationally renowned experts, and Inspire Fitness (Inspire), a leader in state-of-the-art fitness equipment.

Elgin Property Finance (Elgin), a new property finance lender, has partnered with Pollen Street Capital to provide finance to high quality affordable development opportunities across Ireland. This new lending partnership will look to fund up to EUR300 million of Irish development loans over the next three to five years.

Sona, the all-purpose ‘people operating system’ providing deskless workers with an easy-to-use platform for managing everything work-related, has raised a USD6.8 million seed round. The round was led by Google’s Gradient Ventures and comes just four months after the company’s pre-seed raise. Created for industries that employ deskless shift-based staff – such as health and social care, retail, hospitality, and the voluntary sector – Sona lets employees access vital functions such as scheduling, shift allocations, attendance records, and one-to-one and one-to-many communication with a tap. The London-based startup has now raised an aggregate of USD9 million since August 2021. It will use

Sarasin & Partners has acquired Bread Street Capital Partners. The deal will see Sarasin & Partners build out a new specialist private markets business called Sarasin Bread Street. Sarasin & Partners is a global investment manager that invests thematically and responsibly on behalf of institutions, charities and private clients, with GBP21 billion in AUM.  Bread Street is a private markets boutique founded in 2021 by former Aberdeen Standard Investments private markets investment duo, Alex Barr and James Witter.

The Riverside Company, a global private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in EventsAIR, an Australian events management software solutions provider for in-person, virtual and hybrid events. The investment is being made in partnership with EventsAIR’s founder, Trevor Gardiner, and several other members of the management team including incoming CEO Matthew Donegan-Ryan. EventsAIR, headquartered in Brisbane, develops software that is used before, during and after events to manage registration, attendee engagement, operations, housing, travel, marketing and communications.  Riverside will support EventsAIR with its international expansion plans in North America and Europe and will

Orka Technology Group (Orka), a SaaS business that provides tech-based solutions for shift workers and their employers, has secured a GPM3 million investment from venture capital investor Praetura Ventures. The business will use the funding to support people – such as cleaners, engineers and security staff – seeking shift work in the facilities management (FM) sector by helping them to source job opportunities, onboard with new employers and get paid.   With Praetura Ventures’ investment, Orka plans to accelerate product development, grow its API integration programme and target growth in new markets, including in the mechanical and electrical sectors.

NorthEdge-backed Correla has completed its first strategic acquisition – CloudKB, a cloud-based energy data management business. NorthEdge acquired Solihull-based Correla in March 2021. Correla is the only technology service provider with end-to-end visibility of the UK’s gas network, and enables access to this data through a real-time, visual and interactive analytics dashboard – enabling customers to monitor the impact of Carbon reduction programmes and drive efficient energy usage.