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Renewable energy investment and asset management platform Low Carbon has appointed Harriet Parker as its Sustainability and ESG Manager.
Parker joins Low Carbon from Arup, where she was Senior Environmental Consultant in the London environment team. She has extensive experience working with clients on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) delivery for major and complex infrastructure projects including HS2, Thames Tideway and East West Rail.
Low Carbon, a certified B Corp, invests in both renewable energy developers and projects across a range of renewable energy technologies including solar PV, wind, energy storage, waste-to-energy and energy efficiency.
SCF Partners (SCF) has invested in Powerstar EMSc (UK) Ltd (Powerstar), a provider of power resiliency, microgrids, and energy efficiency equipment to customers worldwide.
Dr Alex Mardapittas, Powerstar’s founder and CEO, will continue to serve in his current role as the company enters its next phase of growth.
Powerstar, headquartered in Sheffield, United Kingdom, designs and manufactures behind-the-meter hardware and software technologies that help commercial and industrial customers reach their net zero carbon goals. It has provided voltage optimization, power resiliency, energy storage, EV charging, and transformer equipment to customers on five continents worldwide.
QueryLayer, a no-code privacy operations platform for digital enterprises, has raised EUR2 million in seed funding in a round led by Nauta Capital.
The company, which was founded last year in Valencia (Spain), has previously raised a pre-seed round from Seedcamp and Martin Henk, the co-founder of Pipedrive. During 2020, QueryLayer built the platform working closely with privacy and security executives of several scale-ups and now plans to use the seed funding to finance product, sales and marketing.
QueryLayer helps businesses to become “Good Data Brands”, leveraging automated workflows and PrivacyUX to build customer loyalty based on the transparent
Cyber and advanced technologies investor Paladin Capital Group has appointed Florence Mottay as an external Strategic Advisor.
A software engineer by training, Mottay is an experienced executive focused on information security and IT governance. She will help Paladin to assess potential investments in cyber security and support its European portfolio companies as they seek to expand globally.
Mottay is Senior Vice President of Information Security and Global Chief Information Security Officer of one of the world’s largest food retail groups, Ahold Delhaize, based in The Netherlands. She is responsible for defining the strategy and leading the execution of the
O2 Investment Partners portfolio company Capital Construction, a provider of roof replacement and other exterior restoration services to residential customers in the Midwest USA, has partnered with Irish Roofing & Exteriors (www.irishroofs.com).
Irish Roofing & Exteriors (Irish) is a provider of roof replacement and repair and other exterior restoration services to customers in West Michigan. Irish is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan and earlier in 2021 opened its second branch location in Portage, Michigan.
Forterro, a European provider of ERP software solutions to nearly 8,000 mid-market manufacturing and production companies, has acquired myfactory, a provider of cloud-based ERP software to more than 2,000 wholesalers and manufacturers in DACH.
The acquisition expands Forterro’s total addressable market in DACH, and nearly doubles the number of customers served by the group in the region.
myfactory will operate as a standalone business within Forterro. David Lauchenauer, CEO of myfactory, will continue overseeing the business in the role of general manager with the support of his existing management team.
Clearlake Capital Group is to sell Proven Brands and KTB Foods to The Hain Celestial Group (Hain Celestial) for approximately USD259 million.
The sale includes the flagship ParmCrisps and Thinsters brands out of Clearlake’s Better For You Holdings food platform, which sponsors leading providers of high quality, branded, better-for-you snacks and beverages.
Clearlake acquired the Company in 2014 and subsequently completed the successful acquisition of Kitchen Table Bakers, the makers of ParmCrisps, in 2016.
Ares Management Corporation (Ares), a global alternative investment manager, has held the final closing of Ares Senior Direct Lending Fund II (SDL II). With total equity commitments of approximately USD8 billion, SDL II was significantly oversubscribed relative to its initial target of USD4.5 billion.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Gordon Riske as an Operating Advisor to CD&R funds effective 1 January, 2022 after he steps down as Chief Executive Officer of KION GROUP AG, a global provider of material handlings equipment and warehouse automation solutions and software.
Riske will work with CD&R’s Industrials team in Europe to source new investments and advise the funds’ portfolio businesses.
Riske has previously held several leadership positions at German headquartered industrial companies including Chairman of the Management Board of Linde Material Handling, Chairman of the Executive Board of Deutz AG, and Chairman of the Management Board of
The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the European Investment Bank Group (EIB), has closed a commitment to invest EUR50 million in Overawed Renewables Europe V FCR, a Spanish-based Fund managed by Everwood Capital devoted to investing in renewable assets in Southern Europe.
Everwood Fund V will invest in developing, constructing, and operating a portfolio of new renewable projects, primarily photovoltaic assets.
Everwood Fund V is also one of the first Spanish funds to classify under Article 9 of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the highest classification under the new directive. This implies that the investments under Everwood
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