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Newfold Digital, a web and commerce technology provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group and Siris Capital Group has acquired YITH, one of the largest independent sellers and developers of WooCommerce plugins and themes for WordPress, a free and open-source content management system.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
With nearly 2.3 million active installs and more than 100 plugins that expertly solve most e-commerce needs, YITH enables customers to build and grow online WooCommerce stores. WooCommerce is the world’s No1 open-source e-commerce software, powering 22 per cent of the top one million e-commerce sites in the world.
PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, has led a EUR 10 million funding round in Sesame HR, a Spanish start-up provider of human resources software that streamlines processes related to centralised employee management on a single platform.
Sesame will use the funds to expand that ecosystem by integrating itself in depth with leading tools available in the domestic and international market. It will also improve its People Analytics offering to apply AI to help companies better understand their employees and create fully personalised work experiences.
Antwort Capital has appointed Vinayak Bhattacharjee as a board member and managing partner. He will jointly run the business together with founder, Manuel San Salvador.
Global investment firm KKR has closed its previously announced investment in Biosynth Carbosynth, an life sciences reagents, custom synthesis and manufacturing services company, as well as Biosynth Carbosynth’s acquisition of vivitide, a global provider of custom peptides and antibodies for the life sciences and biotech industry.
Existing vivitide owner Ampersand Capital Partners will roll over its entire stake and become a substantial minority shareholder of the combined entity. Together, KKR and Ampersand plan to accelerate the company’s geographic expansion, broaden its capabilities, and expand its product portfolio.
KKR invested in Biosynth Carbosynth through KKR Health Care Strategic Growth Fund II,
InTandem Capital Partners (InTandem Capital), a healthcare services focused private equity firm, has launched Private Equity for Greater Good, a programme that will enable all full-time employees at InTandem Capital backed portfolio companies to share in the equity gains they help create.
Envisioned as an industry-wide effort, Private Equity for Greater Good aims over time to help shift the norms of incentive equity plan construction and employee rewards by broadening the grant of equity-based incentives to align and reward all employees who contribute to their respective portfolio company success, rather than the typical concentration of equity participation among senior executives.
The path has been laid for investment advisers to benefit from Ireland’s Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) structure when launching private assets funds. Many players in the private equity space do not currently have a fully scoped MiFID license which might have precluded them historically from making use of certain structures. But this barrier has been broken as it relates to the ILP, even though investment advisers must remain mindful of their choice of service providers.
By Angele Paris – The Irish funds industry has demonstrated consistent growth, as evidenced by data from the Central Bank of Ireland. Now, as the jurisdiction seeks to consolidate its push into private markets and capitalise on the rising appetite for these assets, its enhanced Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) structure is coming into further focus as the fulcrum for future growth.
The last quarter of 2021 saw the net asset values of Irish-resident funds (IFs) reaching an all-time high of EUR4,067 billion, according to figures from the Central Bank of Ireland. The total NAV increased by EUR288 billion, or eight per
The past decade has been marked by rapid growth in private markets and this looks set to expand even more as most countries are now lifting their Covid-19 restrictions, which the sector rebounded from very quickly. In light of this, Ireland’s recently revamped Investment Limited Partnership (“ILP”) structure is now a very attractive option for managers structuring closed ended funds and has added to the vast array of fund vehicles available in Ireland. The structure was modernised to contain the best-in-class features of other limited partnership structures globally and to remove drawbacks under the previous ILP regime.
The Irish Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) structure has now been modernised with flexibility to rival its overseas counterparts. This enhanced vehicle fills the significant gap in the overall Irish Funds product suite and the revisions provide a good balance between regulation and versatility.
The private asset funds sector of the Irish funds industry is set for accelerated growth as the jurisdiction looks forward to capitalising on the solid groundwork put in place with the introduction of the ILP legislation in 2021.
“I expect it to be more of a snowball effect rather than a tsunami of new funds being launched,” explains James McEvoy, Country Executive Ireland, Alter Domus, “But it is definitely a story of growth across the industry and as a firm we are very focused on this.”
In the past year alone, Alter Domus has hired around 100 people in its
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