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Corsair, a private equity firm targeting services, software, and payments investments in the financial services market, has acquired a majority stake in Aurora Payments (Aurora), a full-service payment solutions provider for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) across a variety of industries.
Founded in 2005, Aurora offers a one-stop-shop solution for partners and merchants seeking to accept and receive electronic payments. Aurora’s bundled offering provides merchants with a wide range of products, services, customer technology, and support capabilities, including point of sale (POS) equipment, transaction processing services, and the ability to transfer funds between banks and merchants.
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to WorkforceQA, LLC on its recapitalisation by Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, WorkforceQA is a tech-enabled provider of employee compliance solutions to safety-sensitive and regulated industries. The company serves many of the largest trucking, airline, logistics and rail companies in the United States, providing a suite of critical solutions, including drug and alcohol testing, physical examinations, background screening, training and compliance programs.
Cion Digital, developers of an enterprise SaaS blockchain orchestration platform, has closed a USD12 million seed funding round led by Green Visor Capital and 645 Ventures.
Cota Capital, Epic Ventures, Hourglass Capital Partners, BAT Ventures, Greycroft and Ulu Ventures also participated.
The capital will be used to expand R&D resources and accelerate the rollout of crypto financing and payment solutions tailored for Financial Services companies (Lenders, RIA’s, Banks and Neobanks) and Big Ticket Retailers (Auto, RV/Marine, Jewelry and Luxury Goods) and to expand the capabilities of the firm’s proprietary Blockchain Orchestration Platform for other industries.
Atar Capital, a global private investment firm, announced the fifth acquisition in fewer than two years through its portfolio company, Pathways Health and Community Support, LLC (Pathways), with the closing of Human Resource Training, Inc. (HRT), a provider of foster care and social services to families and youth in the central and northern regions of Arizona.
Atar Capital acquired Pathways in 2018 as part of a strategy to put the firm’s cross-functional expertise to work in a critical and fast-growing segment in the healthcare space. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
HRT was incorporated in 1981 offering services as
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has added David S Hong as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Department based in the Los Angeles office. Hong was previously a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson.
Hong focuses his practice on the formation and operation of private funds across the spectrum of asset classes, including private equity, credit, real estate, venture capital, growth equity, hedge and hybrid funds. He represents emerging and institutional private fund sponsors in fund formations, fund investment matters, seed capital arrangements, complex restructurings, structuring of investment management businesses and regulatory, compliance and operational issues. In addition, he represents
Starting the new year off on a high note, leading independent music distributor and technology platform Symphonic Distribution announces that it has received a USD37 million Series B investment.
Led by NewSpring and Ballast Point Ventures, the new investment comes on the heels of funding announcements by other industry participants, further solidifying investor interest in music technology and distribution.
Headquartered in Florida and with international presence in Africa, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain and more, Symphonic remains a 100 per cent independent distribution and music technology company.
Middle market private equity firm MidOcean Partners (MidOcean) has acquired Casper’s Ice Cream (Casper’s), a manufacturer and supplier of branded and co-packed frozen novelty products sold through leading grocery and mass customers throughout the United States.
The Company primarily sells through the FatBoy brand, one of the fastest growing frozen novelty brands in the US, as well as the Jolly Llama and ChurnBaby brands.
MidOcean intends to accelerate the Company’s growth and drive value through comprehensive organic initiatives and strategic M&A. Casper’s represents MidOcean’s second investment in branded food in the last six months following the acquisition of Louisiana Fish
Highview Capital (Highview) has acquired Watterson, a national facility services company that provides a full suite of services, including facilities management, environmental services, and emergency and disaster response.
Over the last 20-plus years, the Company has built a strong base of long-term corporate clients, which includes leading brands in retail and commercial workspaces. Through its network of over 1,000 in-house and third-party service providers, Watterson has established a reputation for industry-leading response times and nationwide best-in-class customer service.
Following the close of the acquisition, Billy Watterson, Watterson’s founder, and Steve Peldiak, Watterson’s President, will both retain significant minority stakes
Private markets investment management firm Adams Street Partners has added Lou Holland Jr as the fifth member of its Board of Directors.
Holland’s addition to the Board of Directors concludes an extensive search within the asset management industry of executives with deep investment management backgrounds and a wide range of diverse perspectives.
Holland has spent 35 years in the asset management and investment business, including senior roles in sales, marketing and strategy at firms such as Oppenheimer Capital/Quest for Value, the John Hancock Funds and Nuveen Investments. He currently serves as President and CFO of his own family office, CUMOTA
Orange, via its holding company Orange Digital Investment, is investing in the ‘Move Capital I’ fund, a Kepler Cheuvreux Invest “Tech Growth” fund that supports future B2B ‘champions’ of European tech.
Move Capital is active in the fields of digital technology: IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Cloud and Industry 4.0.
This investment is a boost for Orange Business Services, the global enterprise entity of the Orange Group.
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