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Wavenet, a UK supplier of business telecommunication and technology solutions, backed by Macquarie Capital, is advancing its cloud and workspace offering by adding the experience and infrastructure of Excell Group into its solution and service portfolio.
This acquisition will significantly bolster Wavenet Group’s market share in the cloud and workspace market and strengthen its place as one of the UK’s leading managed service providers to businesses for fully converged data, voice, cloud, and IT.
Excell Group has grown steadily since its inception through both organic and acquisitive means, expanding its network, portfolio and creating a hugely successful business centre
Twelve Capital has introduced a revised organisational structure to prepare for future growth whilst preserving focus on performance generation and client orientation.
Marcel Wildhaber and Nils Ossenbrink assume responsibility for day-to-day management as Co- Managing Partners and head the Group Management Committee. This committee oversees all aspects of operational business activities including client services and distribution efforts.
Additionally reflecting the firm’s focus on performance generation, an Investment Oversight Committee has been established as a focal point for investment activities and governance. The committee is chaired by Urs Ramseier who maintains his role as Executive Chairman and CIO, and continues to
Blackfinch Ventures has completed on four new investment deals totalling GBP3.27 million in a move which demonstrates its ongoing commitment to facilitating the growth of innovative technology and tech-enabled companies.
Business intelligence platform WatchMyCompetitor received a total of GBP1.0 million, and Culture Shift, an online platform that is designed to identify and prevent harassment and bullying in the workplace, received GBP775 thousand.
In addition, llluma Technology, a contextual advertising company which uses AI to learn from online browsing behaviour during live campaigns to reach target audiences, has received GBP1.1 million, and job management software company Payaca received GBP330
Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc (LSE: SSIT), the world’s first listed fund focused on SpaceTech, has made a new USD25 million investment into HawkEye 360, a commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics.
PSG, a growth equity firm focused on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies, is to acquire a majority stake in Universign, a provider of SaaS-based electronic signature solutions.
Universign will join Signaturit and Ivnosys to offer one of the widest catalogues of digital transaction management and trust services in Europe.
Headquartered in France, Universign was founded in 2001 and has evolved into a leading e-signature, e-seal and timestamping software solutions provider, serving more than 9,000 clients. Universign has built longstanding relationships with large corporates and expanded towards the SMB segment. As one of the sector’s pioneers and
Perwyn has appointed Maxime Menu as an Investment Manager in its Private Equity team. Menu joins from OMERS Private Equity, where he worked as a Senior Associate.
His experience includes working on majority, direct control buyouts with target equity investments of around USD300-600 million. A fluent French and English speaker, he also speaks Italian and German and has worked on many transactions across Europe, with a particular focus on the UK, France, and Benelux.
His team at OMERS, led by recent Perwyn recruit Martin Le Huray, managed an asset portfolio valued at around $14.8bn. Menu held asset management responsibility
PAI Partners (PAI), a pre-eminent private equity firm, today announces that it has reached an agreement to sell Atos Medical, a global specialist in supporting patients with a neck stoma, to Coloplast, a Danish multinational company that develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices and services related to ostomy, urology, continence, and wound care, for an enterprise value of cEUR2.2 billion.
Founded in Sweden in 1986, Atos Medical was born out of a desire to make life easier for people living with a laryngectomy by providing personalised care and innovative solutions for restoring speaking ability after surgical removal of a patient’s
Motive Partners (Motive), a specialist private equity firm focused on growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services companies that serve the financial services industry (financial technology), has appointed Mariano Belinky as an Industry Partner.
Belinky will focus on areas that bring strategic value to Motive Partners’ investment mandate.
Motive Partners believes the adoption of new digital channels, innovative processes and game-changing technologies will yield value-creating opportunities for forward-thinking alternative investment firms. The appointment of Mariano demonstrates Motive’s intent to continue building capabilities to support the Motive platform’s mission of outsized returns, focusing on operator and innovator
KKR is to acquire Japanese chemical storage tank operator Central Tank Terminal (CTT) from an affiliate of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA).
The investment will be used to reinforce CTT’s leading position in the chemical storage tank industry and to pursue future growth opportunities, including bolt-on acquisitions.
CTT is Japan’s largest independent chemical storage tank operator, offering over 300,000 cubic meters of storage capacity across seven terminals located near key ports and strategic hubs around Tokyo Bay, Osaka Bay, Nagoya and Kitakyushu. The Company provides tank storage and auxiliary services to more than 80 blue-chip customers, including major chemical
Greentech start-up Plan A, a leadng platform of science-based tools for carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and ESG management, has successfully closed a USD10 million Series A funding round led by European venture capital firm HV Capital and Netherlands-based Keen Venture Partners.
Existing investors Demeter IM and coparion are also doubling down on their seed investment. Plan A will use the capital to further develop its platform and expand internationally, with the opening of offices in London, Munich, Paris and other international hubs.
To help companies meet the ever-increasing societal and regulatory pressures, Plan A is further deepening its SaaS platform’s calculation
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