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Atar Capital, a Los Angeles-based global private investment firm, has acquired the assets of Metco Landscape (Metco) a privately owned landscape company in Colorado and a provider of landscape maintenance and development services across the state.
This is Atar Capital’s sixth transaction in 2021, with four completed in the month of December alone. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Atar’s investment team for the transaction included Founder and Managing Partner Cyrus Nikou, Senior Managing Director Robert Lezec, Managing Directors Stanley Huang and Vijay Mony and Director TJ McCaffrey. Dykema provided legal counsel, GHJ provided tax advisory services
Anitian, a provider of pre-engineered cloud security and compliance automation solutions, has raised USD55 million in a Series B round led by Silicon Valley-based Sageview Capital with participation from existing investor, Forgepoint Capital.
The financing round brings Anitian’s total funding to USD71 million.
The new capital will be used to fuel the company’s expansion and further transformation of the cloud security and compliance automation industries. As part of this new round of funding, Ned Gilhuly, Co-Founder and Partner at Sageview Capital, will be joining Anitian’s Board of Directors.
Anitian closed its Series A funding led by Forgepoint Capital in February
Biotech company ONI has closed a USD75 million Series B funding round led by RCH Venture Partners and Casdin Capital.
Section 32, ARTIS Ventures, Vertical Venture Partners, Axon Ventures and private investors, including Paul Conley also participated, along with existing investors, including Oxford Science Enterprises, also participated in the round.
Shakepay, a Canadian bitcoin technology company enabling customers to easily buy and earn bitcoin through financial applications, has raised CAD44 million in a Series A investment, at a CAD313m valuation.
The round was led by QED Investors, a US-based venture capital firm that invests in businesses that disrupt and empower the financial technology industry, funding over 150 successful fintech companies.
Existing investors Boost VC and BoxOne Ventures also participated along with Golden Ventures, Broadhaven, Henri Machalani, Mike Murchison, Jevon MacDonald, Mark MacLeod, Dan Debow, Farhan Thawar, and several product leaders from Shopify.
The funding will be used to scale Shakepay’s
Palatine-backed Anthesis, a global sustainability specialist, has announced its second strategic deal of this year with Netherlands-based consultancy, Climate Neutral Group, joining the Anthesis Group.
Climate Neutral Group is a Net Zero authority on emissions analysis and reduction, offsetting, and certification programmes. Headquartered in Utrecht, it has a team of 50 people and offices in Belgium and South Africa.
Climate Neutral Group has supported more than 3,000 businesses with Greenhouse Gas footprinting, reduction, and offsetting initiatives since it was established in 2002.
Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a global investor in the transition to a sustainable future, has launched the Deep Decarbonization Frontier Fund, targeting early-stage, revolutionary technologies that accelerate the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Mayer Brown has represented Marlin Equity Partners, the global investment firm, on its majority investment in Silobreaker, a provider of risk and threat intelligence solutions.
The company’s software solution helps business, security and intelligence professionals generate critical and actionable insights from unstructured data on the web through its powerful data and visually rich capabilities.
Co-founders, Kristofer Mansson and Per Lindh, will continue to lead the company and retain minority ownership in the business.
The Mayer Brown team was led by Corporate & Securities partner Electra Callan with James West, Richard Page and Rebecca Bothamley, counsel Tim Baines, associate James Beattie
Prometheus Group, a provider of asset management operations and optimisation software and a portfolio company of Genstar Capital, has acquired RiskPoynt, a provider of risk management software.
RiskPoynt’s solutions allow operators to test mitigation scenarios, enabling organisations to enhance safety while optimizing resource allocation to achieve operational excellence.
The acquisition of RiskPoynt represents the seventh made by Prometheus Group since being acquired by Genstar in 2019.
SWEN Capital Partners has held the first close of the second vintage of its infrastructure fund dedicated to renewable gas and circular economy initiatives – SWEN Impact Fund for Transition 2 (SWIFT 2)– at EUR150 million.
SWIFT 2 is aiming for a final close at EUR300 million, with the aim to build a portfolio of about 20 renewable gas assets, primarily in Europe, with a ticket size ranging from EUR5 million to EUR50 million.
The fund invests directly in methanisation and renewable hydrogen, as well as in green infrastructure such as renewable heat networks and energy storage.
Like its predecessor,
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, has exceeded its 2020 commitment to invest GBP2 billion in Africa over the last two years.
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