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Moda Furnishings (Moda), a Manchester-based outdoor furniture retailer, acquired in September 2019 in an MBO led by CEO Jonny Brierley and COO Vallan McCarthy, backed by the Manchester office of mid-market private equity investor Endless, has agreed a new GBP17 million funding deal.
Moda has had another strong year of growth with revenues set to exceed GBP35 million in the year to the end of October, from GBP24.5 million in 2020 and GBP15.3 milllion in 2019.
The new funding package comes just 12 months after a GBP7 million deal with Secure Trust and sees the inventory and cashflow funding solution
Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to sustainable investing, has launched the Mirova Environment Acceleration Capital fund.
Mirova is pursuing its approach as a responsible impact investor through the new pan-European private equity fund, which aims to invest in companies providing sustainable innovative solutions and technologies contributing to the environmental transition. The fund is aiming to raise EUR300 million from institutional and private investors.
The fund and its team also benefit from the support of the responsible investment research team, which has been analysing the sectors and actors of the environmental transition for almost 10
L Squared Capital Partners (L Squared) is leading the recapitalisation of Literacy Resources, d/b/a Heggerty, an early childhood literacy solutions provider offering a suite of phonemic and phonological awareness solutions.
Heggerty’s product offering is anchored by its daily systematic phonemic and phonological awareness curriculum delivered in print and digital modalities that are used by more than 250,000 educators spanning from early pre-K to fifth grade. Heggerty has supplemented its foundational curriculum offering with a growing suite of solutions, including digital video content, digital assessment and screening tools, intervention curriculum, and decodable readers. Heggerty’s products are supported by professional development services
Inflexion has made a majority investment in Detectortesters, a global manufacturer of fire detector testing equipment. The investment is being made by Inflexion Buyout Fund V.
Founded in 1965, Detectortesters designs and produces solutions that enable testing of smoke, heat and carbon monoxide fire detectors. With a worldwide customer base, consisting mainly of field service engineers, the business exports its products to over 130 countries, deriving over 80 per cent of its revenues outside the UK. The company conducts all new product development in-house, working with all of the major fire detector OEMs, fostering efficiency as well as proprietary innovation.
Biotechnology company Expansion Therapeutics has closed an USD80 million Series B financing led by Cormorant Asset Management with participation from new investors Westlake Village BioPartners, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company) and Logos Capital as well as Series A investors RA Capital Management, 5AM Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sanofi Ventures and Novartis Venture Fund.
Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the company’s small molecule RNA platform (SMiRNA) to identify clinical candidates in myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and various tauopathies.
“Drugging RNA with small molecules has the potential to dramatically transform the
EquityBee, an employee-focused stock options funding solution, has raised USD55 million in a new Series B funding round led by existing investor Group 11, with participation from new investors Israel-based Greenfield Partners, as well as existing investors Battery Ventures, Local Globe/Latitude, Altair and ICON.
The investment will be used to advance development of EquityBee’s proprietary technology platform, expand best-in-class product and service offerings, and accelerate leadership hiring in EquityBee’s Palo Alto- and Tel Aviv-based offices
Group 11 led EquityBee’s Seed and Series A rounds; the Series B—raised ahead of schedule and demonstrating significant confidence in the company’s rapid and consistent
CVC Credit has further supported life sciences and diagnostics business, Calibre Scientific, by leading an incremental USD57 million multi-currency first lien credit facility to help fuel its ongoing global acquisition strategy.
Calibre Scientific is owned by investment firm StoneCalibre.
CVC Credit originally provided a USD92 million multi-currency first lien credit facility for Calibre Scientific in June 2020. Since this time the company has significantly grown its top line and expanded its geographic footprint through five recently completed add-on acquisitions.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California and founded in 2013, Calibre Scientific is a diversified global developer, manufacturer and distributor of consumable
Global attention measurement platform Amplified Intelligence today has closed a post-seed funding round of AUD3 million (USD2.2m) led by TEN13, an investment syndicate co-founded by Aussie tech entrepreneur and Shark (Shark Tank) Steve Baxter.
Founded by acclaimed academic and author, Professor Karen Nelson-Field, with Chief Growth Officer Philip Townend (ex-Unruly/Newscorp) as 2IC, Amplified Intelligence is a global leader in the measurement of human attention – the most valuable and important indicator of ad success.
Powered by its AI-powered attention-tracking technology and the most comprehensive database of attention to advertising across digital and TV, Amplified’s solutions provide advertisers with a more
Altada Technology Solutions (Altada), a global artificial intelligence (AI) platform solution provider which creates operational efficiencies for clients by leveraging cutting edge AI to unlock value in data, announced today a USD11.5 million funding round led by Rocktop Partners alongside Elkstone Partners and Enterprise Ireland.
With over 70 employees across the US and Europe, Altada is focused on building upon its work in financial services and responding to a rapidly increasing demand for AI solutions in healthcare, security, and travel. This new infusion of capital will support the hiring of over 100 new employees across Altada’s global offices in the
An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock), a middle-market private investment firm, has completed an acquisition of SAM Companies (SAM), a provider of geospatial services to utility, transportation, and broader infrastructure clients.
The SAM management team, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas, will maintain a meaningful ownership position in the Company.
SAM’s comprehensive service offering includes surveying and building information modelling, geographic information systems and aerial mapping, utility engineering, program management, and inspection services. SAM provides value-added technical services and a full spectrum of geospatial data solutions to capture, analyse, and deliver the most accurate and reliable data, and
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