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Flipdish, an international online ordering and digital experience platform for hospitality, has received a cUS100 million investment led by Tencent.
The funding values the company at over USD1.25 billion and follows a USD48.5m investment from Tiger Global Management in February 2021.
Tencent join other existing Flipdish investors Global Founders Capital, Elkstone, Enterprise Ireland and Growing Capital.
Founded by brothers Conor and James McCarthy in 2015, Flipdish provides technology that powers QR code ordering & payment at the table, online ordering for pick-up and delivery, self-service kiosks, customer loyalty programs, and digital marketing.
Private markets firm Partners Group has agreed, on behalf of its clients, to acquire North Star, an operator of specialised vessels that offer emergency response and rescue and essential offshore wind maintenance services, from Basalt Infrastructure Partners.
Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, North Star is an established infrastructure company with a fleet of 48 Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRVs) and Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) and around 1,400 employees.
Partners Group aims to transform North Star into a leading next-generation offshore wind infrastructure services company, which reflects the firm’s focus on investing with sustainability factors in mind. Partners Group will work
Northstar Capital (Northstar), a provider of junior capital for middle market private equity transactions, has invested in Rustic Bakery, a portfolio company of San Francisco Equity Partners (SFEP).
Northstar provided a co-investment to help SFEP finance the transaction. The Northstar team remains committed to partnering with experienced management teams and private equity sponsors. Rustic Bakery is the nineteenth platform investment for Fund VII, a USD500 million committed parallel fund strategy consisting of Northstar Mezzanine Partners VII LP and Northstar Mezzanine Partners SBIC LP.
Founded in 2005, Rustic Bakery is a specialty foods company that manufacturers and markets a growing portfolio
Eureka, an Israeli startup offering holistic security across cloud data stores, has secured USD8 million in a seed funding round led by YL Ventures with participation from renowned security executives and serial entrepreneurs.
Industry leaders and security luminaries who participated in Eureka’s seed round include Edna Conway (VP, Security & Risk Officer, Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure at Microsoft), David Hannigan (Director of Product Security Assurance at Google Cloud), Andy Ellis (Former CSO at Akamai Technologies), Maarten Van Horenbeeck (CISO at Zendesk), Assaf Rappaport (CEO at Wiz) and Ben Bernstein (Former CEO at Twistlock, acquired by PANW).
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Elephant has led a USD56 million Series C funding round in Tecovas, a footwear, apparel, and accessories brand, bringing total lifetime equity funding to approximately USD120 million.
Elephant, which also led Tecovas’ Series A and Series B rounds, is joined by new and existing investors, including Access Capital, Seamless Capital, and Kemmons Wilson Companies.
Blackstone has held the final close of Blackstone Capital Opportunities Fund IV (COF IV) bringing the total of funds available to Blackstone Credit’s opportunistic private debt strategy to USD8.75 billion.
COF has an almost 15-year track record of providing private financings for businesses of all sizes and across industries.
COF IV has already made 12 investments and commitments with a focus on high growth industries, such as technology and healthcare.
The future looks bright for London’s tech sector, according to a new report from London & Partners and Dealroom.co, showing that 2021 was another record year for venture capital investment into London’s tech firms.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested in Bramble Foods (Bramble), a manufacturer and distributor of more than 2,000 products, ranging from preserves, pickles, chutneys and sauces, to cakes, biscuits, confectionery, hampers and seasonal goods.
LDC is backing the existing management team, led by founder and CEO Tony Foster, alongside Finance Director Chris Neville and Sales Director Ken Osborne. As part of the transaction, co-founder Nigel Foster will retire to pursue other interests.
The investment was led by Rob Schofield, Partner in LDC’s Midlands team alongside Investment Director Phil Hinson. A team from Orbis Partners, led by Partner Gary
Jet Edge International, an Ohio-based private aviation company, has raised an additional USD75 million of funding from credit funds and accounts managed by KKR.
The new funding expands KKR’s total credit and equity investments in Jet Edge to approximately USD265 million over the past year.
Following the initial USD150 million credit facility announced in June 2021, KKR has continued investing in Jet Edge amidst historic demand for its direct-to-consumer Reserve Membership programme. Jet Edge will utilise the funding to further expand the company’s extensive Gulfstream and Challenger fleet.
Jet Edge has 20 additional Gulfstream & Challenger aircraft slated to be
Golding Capital Partners, an independent asset managers for alternative investments, has held the final closing of its first dedicated secondaries fund with commitments of some EUR280 million.
Thanks to strong demand from institutional investors, particularly from the client segments pension funds and savings banks, the original target volume of EUR200 million was substantially exceeded. Golding’s experienced secondary market team has already completed 14 transactions, quickly building a diversified portfolio of more than 80 small and mid-cap companies, primarily in Europe
Golding is planning to launch a follow-on fund in the first half of 2022 and believes that the continued availability
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