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As the world enters a new phase in the global Covid-19 pandemic, the majority of CEOs are ready to accelerate plans for investment and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in their pursuit for growth.
These findings come from the inaugural EY 2022 CEO Outlook Survey, which recorded the views of more than 2,000 CEOs across the globe on their prospects, challenges and opportunities.
More than half of respondents (54 per cent) will prioritise investment in existing businesses, digital transformation and sustainability, according to the survey. In addition, more than three-quarters (79 per cent) of respondents have adjusted, or are planning
Myzone, a global manufacturer of wearable fitness tracking technology, has secured a USD17.2 million investment from BGF, the UK’s most active growth capital investor, alongside tech entrepreneur Vin Murria OBE, who also joins as Non-Executive Chair.
Created in 2011 by fitness industry expert Dave Wright, Myzone has experienced impressive growth since inception and currently serves over 9,000 facilities in 84 different countries, boasting over two million shipped devices.
BGF invested more than GBP100 million in tech businesses in 2021 and announced seven successful exits in the sector this year. Of the over GBP500 million invested in tech businesses
Baird Capital, the global private equity and venture capital arm of Baird, has appointed Louise Kingston as a Director with the Global Portfolio Operations team in London.
Kingston will focus on supporting UK-based investee companies.
Kingston joins Baird Capital from the mid-market private firm Livingbridge, where she spent eight years as an Investment Director within the company’s Value Strategy Group. She has extensive experience defining and executing value creation strategies within investee companies. Kingston has sat on the boards of four to five portfolio companies at any one time. Before this role, she was an Investment Manager at lower
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led a GBP5.5 million funding round for Liftango, a cloud-based technology platform which enables transport operators to optimise route planning in real-time based on passenger demand.
The transaction includes a GBP1.75 million investment from the Maven VCTs with follow-on funding from Liftango’s existing investors, which include Transdev, Taronga Ventures and GUD. Scottish Enterprise are also new investors in this round.
Liftango’s technology centres around its three core products, on-demand bus (ODB), fixed-route shuttles and carpool. The ODB and fixed-route cloud-based platform allows public and corporate transport operators to manage their services on a single platform.
PwC UK has announced changes to its Deals Leadership team and continued to strengthen the practice with the promotion of nine new equity partners from 1 January 2022.
Lucy Stapleton has been appointed as Head of Deals and a member of the firm’s Management Board. With over 25 years’ experience at PwC within its Transactions Services team, Lucy brings a wealth of experience to the role and is committed to delivering our part in the global recovery, working alongside government, investors, and corporates, and ultimately unlocking value for shareholders, stakeholders, and wider society.
Stapleton has appointed Jonathon Land as
We previously looked at how alternative data sets, having become ubiquitous within the hedge fund industry, are of increasing interest in the private equity asset class as well. Just as their hedge fund counterparts now routinely sift through satellite imagery or web traffic data to inform their investment strategies, private equity managers can gain an edge in investment origination and value creation by making use of non-traditional sources of information.
BPOC, a pure-play healthcare investors, has made a strategic growth investment in Networking Packaging Group (Network Partners), a provider of consulting services to medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
Founded in 2015, Network Partners serves many of the world’s largest medical device and pharmaceutical companies, providing specialised expertise to help bring life-saving products to market. The company employs a team of over 250 professionals across the United States, offering packaging engineering, labeing, regulatory affairs, quality assurance and project management consulting services.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is effective immediately, have not been disclosed.
Dude Solutions, a SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management solutions backed by Clearlake Capital Group, has acquired Energy Profiles Limited (EPL), a software provider enabling Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) optimisation for customer facilities.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Based in Toronto, Canada, EPL delivers data-driven energy and sustainability data management and ESG reporting and predictive analytics to owners and managers of more than 6,000 buildings. The acquisition will expand Dude Solutions’ Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) capabilities to address enterprise-level energy and sustainability management.
BGF has exited its investment in North West-headquartered NSS to Premier Technical Services Group (PTSG), delivering ‘excellent returns for all shareholders’.
NSS is a specialist services provider, covering all aspects of external building maintenance – including window and technical cleaning, testing and platform hire – to the retail, commercial property, events, healthcare and distribution markets.
BGF initially backed NSS – which was formed by a merger with another BGF portfolio company – in July 2016 with GBP3.3 million to support its national roll-out and acquisition strategy. Since then, the company has made four acquisitions to expand its geographical footprint and
Octo, an IT modernisation provider for the Federal Government backed by private equity firm Arlington Capital, has acquired privately held B3 Group, an IT transformation firm specialising in digital services and technology solutions that impact the lives of military veterans.
B3 leverages low-code/no-code software and platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Power Platform, Pega, and ServiceNow; large-scale data governance, integration and analytics; and cloud engineering and operations for federal healthcare customers.
B3’s leadership will remain with the company and expand Octo’s Health business to drive continued growth and customer success.
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