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Centre Partners, a middle market private equity firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles, has acquired KNS International (KNS), a data-driven designer and drop shipper of branded footwear to blue-chip e-commerce retailer platforms and online marketplaces.
The KNS management team, led by Founder & Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Pope, has invested alongside Centre Partners and will continue to lead the business. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2001 in Salt Lake City, KNS designs and distributes its proprietary brands, including Journee Collection, Thomas & Vine, Vance Co and Territory, across a broad array
Credit and equity managers are leading the charge in regard to the consideration of diversity metrics when researching potential investments, Redington research has found.
Almost all asset managers across all asset classes appear to be recognising the importance of diversity within their own investment teams. Yet despite this, Redington’s Sustainable Investment Survey found that most asset managers across real assets, private debt, LDI and multi-asset funds are not considering diversity metrics such as gender when researching potential investments.
Of the 112 asset managers Redington surveyed, representing over USD10 trillion in AuM, the vast majority (94 per cent) believe that diverse
Private equity professionals are facing a more specialised and competitive market than ever. GPs are reviewing more deal opportunities, conducting more due diligence, and giving more fundraising pitches than ever before. Whether it’s identifying potential investments, or explaining their strategy to investors, PE professionals’ need for instantly actionable sources of deep intelligence and analysis is outstripping the ability of legacy data to keep up.
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, has completed an investment in Kubrick Group, a provider of next-generation technology consulting.
Founded in 2016 by Tim Smeaton and Simon Walker, Kubrick addresses the acute global technology skills shortage, enabling companies to implement digital and data transformation. The business is at the forefront of creating a high quality, diverse workforce, and has trained and deployed close to 1,000 graduates into data, AI and cloud engineering roles at approximately 100 blue chip clients.
Since 2018, revenues and profits have increased by more than 50 per cent per annum, reflecting Kubrick’s unique capabilities in
Crestbridge has appointed Cheryl Bai as Director, Head of Funds UK.
Bai has significant experience supporting complex fund structures across asset classes and domiciles and has worked with some of the largest fund management names in the UK and United States. Her experience also includes client relationship management, building service teams capable of high-quality delivery and specialist expertise in both financial and investor reporting.
In her new role, Bai will lead the UK Funds team and contribute to the evolution and growth of Crestbridge’s UK private equity and real estate fund services proposition. Cheryl will help continue to drive Crestbridge’s
Mixpanel, a product analytics solution powering nearly 6,000 of the world’s most innovative digital companies, has secured a USD200 million Series C growth investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. The funding was raised at a USD1.05 billion valuation.
To date, USD277 million has been invested in Mixpanel, including its previous USD65 million Series B investment led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2014.
The investment will be used to accelerate product development and expand Mixpanel’s reach to new digital-first businesses, which already include customers like Discord, Monday.com, Noom, and Xero. Mixpanel plans to scale its team in North America, EMEA,
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap) portfolio company MRH Trowe (MRHT) has closed on a new financing facility in support of its organic and acquisition-driven growth strategy.
MRHT is one of the ten largest German industrial brokers, offering extensive expertise in most insurance lines for both industrial and commercial customers, as well as affluent private customers.
Having been identified by AnaCap as the ideal platform to achieve scale in its market, MRHT has accelerated its buy and build execution in 2021, signing or closing 11 bolt-on acquisitions since December last year. In line with its strategic roadmap, the Group remains well positioned
Growth capital investor VGC Partners has sold its stake in Iconic Images in a GBP20 million sale to New York-based Authentic Brands Group (ABG), a brand development, marketing and entertainment company.
Headquartered in London, Iconic Images owns and manages some of the world’s most famous photography archives. Its collections feature millions of images spanning the history of fashion, rock and roll, film, politics, royalty and pop culture. It brings long standing active relationships within key markets around the world including New York City, Paris, Los Angeles, Dubai and Tokyo.
ABG was set up by Jamie Salter in 2010 to
Glasgow-based space company Craft Prospect has received a GBP870,000 grant award through the UK Space Agency National Space Innovation Programme for its ROKS Mission, coupled with a first investment of GBP300,000 from the University of Strathclyde, a leading university in quantum technologies.
The funding supports the company’s Smart Secure Space vision to provide quantum and onboard AI products and services for next generation space systems. It follows on from successful investment of over GBP1 million from Capital for Colleagues, a fund that advises and invests in employee-owned businesses and Scottish Enterprise earlier in the year.
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Bridges Fund Management, a specialist sustainable and impact investor, has invested in Tier 1, a circular economy business that specialises in IT asset disposal (ITAD), IT refurbishment and the reselling of used IT hardware.
Bridges will support Tier 1 with its organic growth plan, while also scaling the business further via acquisitions in a fragmented market.
Electronic waste is a growing global challenge. According to the UN, 54 million tonnes of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, and 83 per cent of this was not recycled sustainably, typically ending up in landfill (where it can be extremely toxic). The UK
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