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Permira, a global private equity firm which backs leading, scaling, tech-enabled businesses, has made a strategic investment in CommentSold, a leading digital commerce solution that enables small and medium-sized retail businesses (SMBs) to unlock sales growth through live and social selling.
The company will use the investment to accelerate its next phase of business growth. CEO Brandon Kruse, who has driven CommentSold’s rapid expansion over the past four years, will continue to lead the company alongside the existing management team. Previous investor ZMC will exit its position as part of this transaction.
CommentSold is a cloud-based SaaS platform that enables
Joanna Scott, formerly BOOST&Co’s head of London and the east, has been promoted to managing director. Scott brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the role, having worked for the independent asset manager for almost five years.
A key part of Scott’s role will be cementing the lender’s reputation as a leading provider of term loans for UK SMEs, particularly fast-growing, high-tech firms. She will take on the day-to-day running of BOOST&Co’s front office in the UK and will help to inform the strategic direction of the business from a customer-facing perspective.
In addition, former principal Adam Brinn
The team of insect entrepreneurs at Beta Hatch has announced it has closed a new USD10 million funding round, led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood, with support from existing investors Cavallo Ventures and Innova Memphis.
Beta Hatch has secured product interest far exceeding existing capacity, and this latest round of funding will be used to finalise and expand Beta Hatch’s flagship facility in Cashmere, Washington, as the company grows its footprint in rural America.
Beta Hatch is focused on scaling up the farming of insects for a more sustainable food chain. Through a proprietary process, it provides an alternative
Audax Private Equity-backed Global Nephrology Solutions (GNS), one of the largest physician-led and physician-owned kidney care platforms in the United States, has added six senior executives to its team.
The expanded leadership team will accelerate the scaling of the company’s best-in-class kidney care delivery platform that puts nephrologists and patients at the centre of care. In January 2021, GNS announced a partnership with Audax Private Equity (Audax) when the platform included more than 315 providers and 700 employees providing the complete continuum of kidney care across 10 states to over 170,000 patients. The GNS value-based care delivery platform is driven
DWS has appointed Stephen Davies as Senior Principal in its London-based Infrastructure Investments team, reporting to Hamish Mackenzie, Head of Infrastructure.
Davies’ responsibilities include leading the acquisition financing and refinancing of portfolio companies as well as managing the relationships with lending banks and other financing counterparts for DWS’s series of Pan-European Infrastructure Funds (PEIF).
Davies joins DWS with more than 15 years’ experience as a debt advisor in the infrastructure market, with expertise across the full spectrum of funding sources including bank debt, private placements, bonds, and green and ESG-linked financing. Most recently, Davies was an Executive Director at
CAIS, an alternative investment platform, has added Michelle Browning as its Director of Business Development for the CAIS IQ learning platform.
Browning brings two decades of experience in financial services education to the role, having served in a variety of different roles ranging from advisor relations to sales leadership at Merrill Lynch, ATEL Capital Group, W P Carey Inc, AI Insight, and most recently Alternative Investment Exchange. Browning has also managed relationships across the entire wealth management ecosystem including advisors, broker dealers, and custodians.
Browning says: “I share CAIS’s commitment to transform advisor education. With CAIS IQ, we have an
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has completed the acquisition of Oxford Global Resources (Oxford), a provider of specialty staffing and consulting services in the United States and Europe, from ASGN Incorporated.
Headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, Oxford offers on-demand high-end consulting talent serving over 2,200 active clients across the United States and Europe. The Company offers a differentiated service to its clients, focused on providing hard-to-find, highly specialised technical talent in several niche practice areas, including life sciences, information technology, engineering and healthcare.
Rob McGuckin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Oxford, says: “We are thrilled to enter into this
TT Capital Partners (TTCP), a source of capital and expertise for growth-stage healthcare technology and services companies, has promoted Adam Letson and Donnacha O’Sullivan to the role of principal and the additions of July Hugen as head of investor relations and Ryan Schultz as vice president.
These personnel changes deepen TTCP’s healthcare investing team during a period of strong business momentum.
“At TTCP we strive to be value-add investors, requiring a team of professionals who are students of healthcare and bring a level of expertise and inquisitiveness to everything we do,” says Conor Green, Partner. “Both Adam and Donnacha embodied
Trivium Group, LLC, a Chicago-based venture fund of funds which officially opened its Fund 1 in mid-March 2021, held its pre-emptive closing on 30 June, 2021.
The decision was made in order to avoid diluting the fund’s value for existing investors on the heels of the success of its portfolio company BlockFi.
As Kurt Johnson, Managing Partner of the Trivium Group, explained, “venture capital usually has a fairly long time horizon for return. But with BlockFi’s historic rise in price coming so quickly into our planned fundraising, we felt we needed to close the fund as soon as possible to
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Premier Electronics (Premier).
Based in Michigan, Premier provides fire and life safety system inspections, repairs, maintenance and installations for retrofits and new construction. The investment is an add-on to Riverside’s CertaSite platform, a fire and life safety platform committed to the highest levels of customer service, responsiveness, building safety and code compliance.
CertaSite goes beyond compliance, focusing on partnerships and professionalism while providing customers a simplified and dependable solution to manage fire protection and life safety systems in commercial buildings.
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