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Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately held businesses, has advised Prime Cable KC on its sale to private investor, Todd McCullough.
Prime Label KC (PLKC) was founded in 1993 to provide custom pressure sensitive labels and sheets to customers throughout the United States. Through increasing production capabilities and offerings, the Company has been able to establish itself as a local leader in the industry.
Generational Equity Executive Managing Director of M&A – Central Region, Michael Goss, and his team led by Senior M&A Advisor, Lorry Nelson, with support from Vice President, M&A Madison Buckley, successfully closed the
Runway Growth Capital, a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, has closed a senior secured term loan commitment of USD75 million to VertexOne, a specialist in SaaS platforms for critical business processes of utilities across North America.
VertexOne is an example of a private equity-backed company utilising venture debt to help achieve its growth goals. Runway is being increasingly called upon by private equity firms to structure flexible debt solutions that enable their portfolio companies to develop their businesses.
Argonaut Private Equity has held the first closing of Argonaut Private Equity Fund V, which is targeting USD400 million in commitments, and made the fund’s first investment with the acquisition of Miller Contracting, a family-founded company providing specialty mining, industrial, and civil contracting services across the United States from its headquarters in southern Illinois.
Fund V will continue Argonaut’s disciplined investing in founder-led manufacturing and industrial businesses in Middle America where shared values brings strong relationships.
The Miller family will continue its leadership in the company post-acquisition.
BOOST&Co, an alternative lender which provides fast, flexible funding to UK SMEs, has appointed Rebecca Blaymires as a principal based in the company’s Birmingham office.
Blaymires will be joining the firm’s growing South and Midlands team, with a focus on supporting the needs of SMEs across the Midlands.
The appointment follows a period of significant growth for BOOST&Co, with the firm tripling the size of its front office in 2021 in its commitment to offer funding support to more businesses across the UK. Blaymires is the second addition to the Birmingham team, following the appointment of Matt Vincent who
The Private Equity fund of Gilde Healthcare, a specialist healthcare investor, has acquired EUROPIN, a leading international developer and manufacturer of customised pen cannulas and lancet needles for diabetic use.
Funds advised by Apax Partners are to acquire a controlling stake in Alcumus, a specialist in technology-led risk management and compliance solutions, from Inflexion.
Eco Material Technologies, a producer of sustainable cementitious materials, has acquired Boral Resources (Boral), Boral Limited’s North American fly ash business, and Green Cement Inc, a manufacturer of near-zero carbon cement alternatives.
Eco Material is a newly-formed company dedicated to decarbonising the materials industry through scalable and proven technological solutions. As part of the combination, Eco Material received significant investments from One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor, and historical Green Cement shareholders.
Along with these investments, the Company priced and closed USD525 million of Green Bonds to facilitate the combination
Runway Growth Capital (Runway), a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, has hired Rachel Goldstein as Senior Vice President of Growth to improve the quantity and quality of deal flow.
Goldstein will report to Mark Donnelly, Managing Director and Head of Origination at Runway.
In this newly created role, Goldstein will be charged with growing the deal pipeline and implementing operational best practices to ensure the firm’s origination efforts are more streamlined to reach the right borrowers at the right time.
Goldstein previously led marketing and operations at
OMERS Private Equity is to sell its interest in Forefront Dermatology to global private markets firm, Partners Group.
As part of the transaction, OMERS as well as Forefront’s physicians and executive team will reinvest in Forefront as minority owners.
Located throughout the US East, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, Southeast and West, Forefront Dermatology is the largest physician-led single specialty group providing dermatological services in the United States and comprises over 200 dermatology practices.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in early Q2 2022, have not been disclosed.
Odys Aviation (formally Craft Aerospace), an aircraft startup making hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for regional mobility, has secured USD12.4 million in a seed funding round.
The round included strategic investment from Giant Ventures, Soma Capital, 11.2 Capital, Countdown Capital, Uber Elevate co-founder Nikhil Goel and Cruise Automation founder Kyle Vogt.
Odys Aviation, a Y Combinator (YC) S21 company with USD13.7 million in total funding, uses a patented VTOL architecture and a flap based lifting technology that allows for a simple transition to lofted flight and more efficient cruise, which the company will demonstrate via a one passenger
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