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Molten Ventures has led a USD10.8 million seed funding round in agtech startup Gardin. The investment follows a USD1.2 million pre-seed round in January 2021.
Formerly Draper Esprit, Molten Ventures was first introduced to Gardin through its Fund of Funds seed programme. Also participating in the round is LDV Capital, MMC Ventures and Seedcamp
Funds affiliated with Lightyear Capital (Lightyear), a New York-based private equity firm focused on financial services, have led a recapitalisation of PracticeTek, a provider of vertical software and payments solutions to the retail healthcare market.
Lightyear joins Greater Sum Ventures (GSV), an entrepreneurial family office, in the investment. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Lightrock and affiliates of DH Capital have co-led a USD100 million Series C funding round in software company Liqid, a specialist in composable software and solutions aimed at providing cloud-like speed, flexibility, and higher efficiency from data centre.
Current investors Panorama Point Partners and Iron Gate Capital also participated.
JPIN Venture Catalysts Ltd (JPIN) has made a strategic investment in The Social Loan Company (TSLC), an AI-driven FinTech, providing bespoke financial products and services.
JPIN is working alongside Rothschild & Co in a recently launched Series B funding round of USD200 million-plus for TSLC, which is seeing significant interest from global institutional investors. This announcement comes after JPIN recently participated in a USD25 million round for TSLC alongside other investors in a consortium led by ADGM-domiciled ARV Investments.
A select set of JPIN’s LPs/global family offices within their proprietary network have also participated along with JPIN in this round.
JMI Equity (JMI), a growth equity firm focused on investing in software companies has led a USD85 million growth investment in ServiceTrade, a provider of software as a service (SaaS) applications for commercial service contractors.
Existing investors Frontier Growth and Bull City Venture Partners also participated in the funding. With the additional capital, ServiceTrade will increase the pace of new product innovations to continue to meet the heightened demand from commercial service contractors.
Industrial Opportunity Partners (IOP), an operations-focused private equity firm, has completed the sale of portfolio company Union Corrugating Company Holdings to Cornerstone Building Brands, a manufacturer of exterior building products for residential and low-rise non-residential buildings in North America.
Terms of the transaction, which is IOP’s eighth investment realisation from its USD275 million second fund, Industrial Opportunity Partners II, have not disclosed. IOP acquired Union Corrugating in December 2016.
Inflexion has completed the sale of its investment in Halo Technology Group, an independent provider of compatible optics, to Amphenol Corporation, a provider of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems.
The transaction generated a 6x money multiple and 53 per cent IRR for investors in Inflexion funds and follows a four-year partnership which supported transformational acquisitive growth and saw profits increase by just under ten times.
Inflexion created Halo in 2017 with the investment in UK business ProLabs in mid-2017 and its transformational acquisition of AddOn Computer Peripherals in the US less than six months later.
Eurazeo, Speedinvest, and Frst, as well as the co-founders of social app Zenly and game-studio Voodoo, have invested USD10.8 million in a seed funding round in activist investment platform, Tulipshare, which aims to empower individuals to make a positive change within some of the biggest household name companies in the world.
Davies, a specialist professional services and technology business, serving insurance and highly regulated markets, has acquired Sionic, an international consulting and technology firm serving the insurance, banking, and wider highly regulated markets.
In March 2021 Davies announced that BC Partners had signed a definitive deal to take a majority stake in the business, to support Davies’ next phase of international expansion and continued digital transformation. The BC Partners deal closed in August, following receipt of regulatory approvals.
Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate services firm, HAS finalised a strategic investment of USD500 million in Greystone, a national commercial real estate finance company, acquiring a 40 per cent stake in Greystone’s Agency, FHA and Servicing businesses.
Greystone, a multi-family lender, intends to use the capital to create new product offerings which will position the company for future expansion.
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