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Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed the sale of Stonewall Kitchen (Stonewall), a provider of branded specialty food and home good products, to TA Associates.
Established in 1991 and headquartered in York, Maine, Stonewall Kitchen serves its specialty food and home goods products to more than 8,500 wholesale accounts nationwide and internationally. In addition, Stonewall operates eleven retail locations throughout New England and provides its products through catalogs and an industry-leading direct-to-consumer website.
Harris Williams is serving as lead financial advisor and Robert W Baird is serving as a co-advisor. Kirkland & Ellis and Fredrikson & Byron PA are serving
ACORE Capital, a credit manager focused on commercial real estate lending, has appointed Roger (Roddy) W Conner as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Marketing and Investor Relations.
In this critical role, he will work with the team to provide best-in-class solutions and service to ACORE’s global capital relationships. He will report to Michael Romo, Senior Managing Director and Head of Capital Raising.
Encompass Corporation, a provider of automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has raised approximately USD33 million (GBP25 million) in a funding round led by Australian investment management company Perennial Partners.
Financial services focused principal investing firm Serendipity Capital, Seven Seat Capital, and FinTech investment firm Microequities Asset Management also participated in the round. There were also follow-on investments from several existing shareholders, including Alan McIntyre, former Global Head of Banking Services at Accenture, and Tim Frost, ex-Chairman of IHS Markit, as well as experienced technology investor Ray Scott.
Encompass’ capital raise will be used to accelerate its growth globally, which
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising lower mid-market companies, has recapitalised TriMech, a provider of 3D engineering design and additive manufacturing software, services, and solutions.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, TriMech is a provider of computer-aided design and engineering software, additive and subtractive manufacturing solutions, and associated training, consulting, implementation, and staff augmentation services to customers across a variety of industries. TriMech partners with leading software and hardware providers, including Dassault Systèmes and Stratasys, throughout the central and eastern United States and Canada, and delivers expert technical support
AYOXXA Biosystems, a specialist in the development of multiplex protein analysis assays for drug discovery and translational research, has closed a funding round led by Prosnav Capital, who will provide AYOXXA access to the Asian market with a broad regional network.
Besides Prosnav, a group of existing shareholders participated in the financing.
The funds will be used to drive the global commercialisation of AYOXXA’s LUNARIS platform. The platform is designed to generate high-quality proteomics data using smallest-volume samples. It enables fully scalable quantitative validation of disease-relevant biomarkers and allows for translational research from laboratory to clinic, from mouse model to
New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with over USD35 billion in assets under management, and Endicott Capital, an investment fund focused exclusively on the information services sector, have closed on the the acquisition of 3E from Verisk.
New Mountain will serve as the control investor.
For more than 30 years, 3E has provided its clients with the necessary expertise and content to support their environmental health and safety (EHS) initiatives. The company provides market-leading data and software solutions that increase chemical and workplace safety, strengthen product safety and stewardship, improve supply chain responsibility, and enhance research and development capabilities.
Global investment firm KKR has held the final closing of KKR Global Infrastructure Investors IV, a USD17 billion fund focused on pursuing global infrastructure investment opportunities with an emphasis on investments in OECD countries in North America and Western Europe.
Consistent with KKR’s risk-based approach to infrastructure investing, the Fund will focus on critical infrastructure investments with low volatility and strong downside protection where KKR believes it can achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns by leveraging its experienced team, risk-based strategy, long track record of operational value creation, and global network of industry experts. The Fund has a broad investment mandate across
General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, has appointed Annette Thomas as a Senior Advisor.
Based in London, Thomas will provide strategic support and counsel to General Atlantic’s investment teams and portfolio companies across the EMEA region.
Thomas brings more than 25 years of experience working with global media, data, information technology and education businesses across Europe and North America, overseeing numerous digital and data transformation strategies. Most recently, Thomas served as CEO of Guardian Media Group, the parent company of the Guardian and Observer newspapers, where she focused the group’s strategy on digital reader revenues whilst delivering
Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent fund administrator in the alternative investment space, has acquired Update Capital, a specialist in investment management technology solutions for the real estate asset class.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded by Ran Kohavi and Itamar David, Vancouver-based Update Capital provides an automated, cloud-based solution for real estate sponsors to manage their assets, engage their investors, and connect with new prospects. The product offers asset-level data as well as financial and transactional data providing visibility to both the manager and investors. Ran Kohavi, Co-Founder and CEO of Update Capital, will
CN Group, a managed IT, cloud and digital transformation specialist, has acquired application and analytics business, Public View, following last year’s purchase of analytics, data and automation specialists, Cloud2.
UK-based cloud application company, Public View, is at the forefront of providing performance monitoring and benchmarking services to the NHS underpinned by Microsoft, .Net, and Azure Cloud Platform. Public View promptly collates data from hundreds of public data sources automatically and combines them into a single intuitive portal for NHS leaders. Public View subscribers can instantly identify areas that are high performing, progressing well, or a cause for concern.
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