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CamerEye, a specialist in swimming pool and backyard safety AI-powered smart fences, has closed the last tranche of its seed-round funding series for a total of USD1.1 million.
A Place for Mom (APFM), a US marketplace for senior care services, has raised USD175 million in growth equity funding to fuel the next stage of the company’s growth and transformation.
The funding round was led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with additional participation from existing investors General Atlantic and Silver Lake.
A Place for Mom is the leading, online platform and trusted advisory service, powered by a national team of local experts, assisting families with personalised senior care guidance.
Private equity firm Accel-KKR has topped this year’s HEC–DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking ahead of Francisco Partners and TA Associates, in second and third spots.
The 2021 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking lists the world’s Top PE firms in terms of aggregate performance based on all buyout funds raised between 2008 and 2017. This ranking answers the question: “Which firm(s) generated the best performance for their investors over the past years?”
The ranking draws on a comprehensive set of data on PE fund performance provided by preqin and directly from PE Firms and uses a unique methodology to calculate the
Inflexion has made a minority investment in Wood Thilsted, a global offshore wind engineering consultancy.
The investment is being made from Enterprise Fund V, Inflexion’s dedicated lower mid-market fund.
Founded in 2015, Wood Thilsted designs the foundations for some of the world’s largest offshore wind farms which are a key driver of the global transition to renewable clean energy. The company operates in all the major wind energy markets of the world, providing its services to many of the leading wind developers, and is currently working on the three most significant wind development projects globally. The firm employs over 140
YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Reading, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, is continuing to expand its team throughout the UK with the appointment of Nick Holt as a portfolio director.
Based in the firm’s Reading office, Holt joins from GEMS Education, one of the world’s largest K-12 education providers where he was a member of the management team across Europe, responsible for corporate development and operations. Prior to that, he had 13 years working in private equity across a range of businesses and sectors including restaurants, pubs, software, healthcare, education, IT services and fintech.
Working operationally and
Unifrax, a manufacturer of high performance specialty materials used in advanced applications, has changed its name to Alkegen, in a move designed to reflect the new company created following the acquisition of Lydall late last year.
The business’s corporate headquarters will also be moving to Dallas, Texas.
Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials platforms and represents a new chapter for the unified company.
JC Flowers & Co, a private investment firm focused on investing globally in the financial services industry, has appointed banking industry veteran Louis Vachon as an Operating Partner, effective immediately.
Most recently, Vachon was President and CEO of National Bank of Canada, based in Montreal, a position he held from 2007 until his retirement last October.
Vachon serves on the Boards of Molson Coors Beverage Company, CH Group Limited Partnership and Alimentations Couche-Tard. He holds a master’s degree in International Finance from Tufts’ Fletcher School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bates College, and is also a Chartered Financial
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, is to sell Leaders Romans Group (LRG), one of the UK’s largest property services groups, to Platinum Equity.
LRG was formed from the merger of two Bowmark portfolio companies, Leaders Lettings and Romans Group, in 2016. It specialises in residential property lettings, sales and associated professional services including planning and surveying. The group has a nationwide network of 210 branches and offices, and manages over 62,000 properties across the UK.
Under the stewardship of Bowmark and LRG’s executive team, revenues have approximately trebled to GBP165 million, the number of employees has increased from
Prime Global Medical Communications (Prime Global), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired HCD Economics. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Prime Global is a global medical communications and market access group that provides the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses with full-service professional communications, including healthcare strategy and consultancy, scientific and medical communications, consumer health, patient-integrated science, and market access.
Gathr Outdoors, a diversified global designer and manufacturer of outdoor products and sporting goods and a portfolio company of private equity firm Centre Partners, has acquired Cascadia Vehicle Tents (CVT).
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Bend, OR, Cascadia Vehicle Tents is a family business that has become an industry leader developing rooftop vehicle tents, awnings, off-road trailers and car camping equipment for cars, trucks and SUVs.
Gathr Outdoors, formerly known as MacNeill Pride Group, was unveiled earlier this month to reflect the company’s transformation as it continues to build a leading outdoor recreation platform.
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