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Software scale-up investor, Frog Capital has made a GBP12.25 million investment in insurance software solutions provider, Genasys.
The investment will see Frog take a significant stake in the business, with the Genasys management team retaining operational control.
Genasys’ dynamic SaaS platform provides modularised end-to-end policy administration and claims solutions for insurance business across the full spectrum of the industry.
Eurazeo, a leading global investment group, is acquiring a controlling stake in Beekman 1802, a high growth clean beauty brand offering a line of premium skincare and body care products that leverage microbiome science and harness the benefits of goat milk.
Eurazeo is investing USD62 million out of a total of USD92 million to acquire a majority stake alongside co-investors Cohesive Capital Partners and the Cherng Family Trust. The investment marks Eurazeo’s Brands team continued momentum as a value added partner to North American and European consumer brands, with over USD600 million invested since 2017.
Gulf Capital, a thematic alternative investment firm investing across the GCC and Asia, has reported record profitability results for its private equity portfolio over the 12 months ending Q3 2021.
The fair value of Gulf Capital’s USD750 Million GC Equity Partners III (Fund III) soared by 67 per cent in the last twelve months, fuelled by the record profitability of its underlying portfolio companies. This strong performance is a direct result of Gulf Capital adopting a thematic investment approach in 2015 and investing early in the sectors of the future, namely technology, fintech, healthtech, healthcare, business services, and sustainability.
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Zukin Partners, LLC, the financial advisory arm of the Zukin Family Office, has Zukin Certification Services (ZCS). The firm’s core product—the Z-SPAC Readiness Certification—is designed for SPACs seeking an independent assessment that they have met the essential readiness criteria to operate as a public company.
ZCS employs proprietary rapid-sequencing techniques—first developed to simultaneously resolve issues encountered in financial restructurings—to identify gaps among the 30 components of readiness and to highlight “red-flag” issues that have plagued other SPACs, so they can identify and avoid them before the business combination.
Venture capital firm Sapphire Ventures is planning to significantly expand its European investment activities over the coming year, having raised USD2 billion in new capital commitments for investments in late-stage technology companies across the US, Europe and Israel.
This is the firm’s largest fundraise to date and comes across Sapphire Ventures Fund VI (Fund VI) and Sapphire Ventures Opportunity Fund III (Opportunity Fund III). This latest fundraise brings the firm’s AUM to USD8.8 billion.
As part of this expansion, which follows the opening of the firm’s first European office last year with seven team members, Sapphire is promoting Annalise Dragic,
Growth-oriented private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners is to acquire acquire a majority stake in KBRA, a full-service global rating agency.
KBRA is the largest global credit rating agency founded in the wake of the global financial crisis.
KBRA has more than 400 employees across its five offices in the US and Europe. The company has issued over 51,000 ratings with nearly USD3 trillion in rated issuance since its inception in 2010. KBRA provides industry-leading ratings and research across all sectors from its Corporate, Financial, and Government (CFG) and Structured Finance units.
The company also delivers high-quality data, information, and
Northleaf Capital Partners (Northleaf) and AVALT have acquired AMAROK.
provider of contracted perimeter security infrastructure solutions in the United States. Funds managed by Northleaf and AVALT have together acquired a majority interest in AMAROK with the Company’s management team retaining a minority interest.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
AMAROK installs, operates, monitors and maintains solar-powered electric fences and perimeter security solutions on commercial and industrial properties. The Company operates approximately 5,000 installed sites under ongoing service and maintenance agreements for customers across a diverse set of industries in every state in the continental United States.
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has made a strategic equity investment in Rising Pharma Holdings and Casper Pharma (collectively, “Rising Pharmaceuticals”), a provider of generic and specialty pharmaceuticals in the United States.
Rising Pharmaceuticals develops and markets generic and specialty branded pharmaceutical products across various therapeutic categories.
HIG’s investment in the company represents its latest transaction in the pharma services sector. Other active HIG pharma services investments include Aspire Pharma, BioVectra, Leiters and Taconic BioSciences.
CIFC Asset Management (CIFC), an alternative credit specialist serving institutional investors globally, is to acquire LBC Credit Partners (LBC), a leading middle market direct lending platform.
CIFC’s acquisition of LBC follows a series of positive developments for the firm, which in 2021 grew its assets by more than USD5 billion. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close by year-end, have not been disclosed.
BroadOak Capital Partners has invested USD10 million in Accellix Inc, a provider of flow cytometry results in a compact and easy-to-use platform designed for use by cell therapy companies on the manufacturing floor and at the point-of-need.
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