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Apex Group (Apex), a global financial services provider, subject to Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) approval, has appointed Frederic Bilas as CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of Apex Fund Services in Luxembourg (Apex Fund Services).
In this role, Bilas will be responsible for driving Apex Fund Services through a phase of significant growth to become the leading fund services provider in Luxembourg, implementing the scalable governance structures and systems to deliver the highest level of service to clients. Client service remains at the heart of the Group’s strategy and has recently created two new departments
Sales experience platform Walnut has raised USD15 million in Series A funding led by Eight Roads Ventures, a global VC managing USD8 billion of assets, with portfolio companies such as AppsFlyer, Alibaba, Hibob and Made.com.
This funding round comes just several months after a high-demand USD6 million seed round, bringing the total funding raised to date to USD21 million, less than a year after it was founded. Seed investors include NFX, A Capital, Liquid2, Graph ventures and leading figures in the tech industry from Google, Wix, HubSpot, GitHub and more.
Walnut aims to make demos, as they are performed today,
The Riverside Company (Riverside), a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, and Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, have sold Arrowhead Engineered Products (AEP) to Genstar, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrials and software industries.
Specific terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1985, AEP is a leading global engineer and omni-channel distributor of non-discretionary, proprietary-branded, aftermarket replacement parts for outdoor power equipment, powersports, specialty vehicles, agriculture and other diverse end markets. AEP leverages data and digital
quip, an oral healthcare company with over 7.5 million users, has raised USD100 million in growth funding from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI) an environmental sustainability focused growth investment strategy.
On the heels of reaching profitability, expanding into new oral care verticals, and launching its first professional services, CSI recognised quip’s potential to disrupt the USD450 billion global oral healthcare market through its digital platform connecting personal and professional oral care, and become the centre for oral health.
“quip is well on its way to becoming the iconic oral care brand in the way we’ve seen companies revolutionise other industries
Procuritas portfolio company Frendy, a Finnish IT services platform, has made its first add-on acquisition, three months after the company’s creation through the acquisition of twelve businesses.
The acquisition of Wisdomic brings Frendy’s combined turnover to around EUR50 million with 220 employees.
Wisdomic is a Finnish IT services company employing around 60 people with offices in Kaarina, Vantaa and Seinäjoki and a data centre in Vantaa. Its offering is focused on cyber security services, cloud and data centre solutions, equipment and user support services, as well as IT infrastructure maintenance and monitoring.
Mikko Peltonen, CEO of Frendy,
BankiFi, a fintech business specialising in payment processing and financial administration services for SMEs, has secured a GBP2.2 million investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures, with participation from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).
Headquartered in Manchester, BankiFi was founded to help financial institutions better serve small and medium-sized businesses. The firm’s technology equips banks to take on challengers and provide more agile customer-led services to SMEs, as opposed to more traditional product-led offerings. BankiFi enables banks to provide a set of integrated services, including invoicing, payments, cash management and accounting, which are designed to help businesses
Palatine Private Equity has exchanged contracts for the sale of its stake in holiday park operator Verdant Leisure, to the management team backed by Pears Partnership Capital. The deal is subject to FCA approval.
Verdant Leisure is a bespoke holiday park operator offering lodge and caravan holidays and holiday home ownership at stunning sites across Scotland and Northern England.
The sale will see Palatine exit the business with a returns multiple of 3.7x, following a highly successful strategy of acquisitions and value creation which has grown Verdant’s annual turnover by 150 per cent since 2016. Since investing in the business
Olsam Group (Olsam), a company that buys and scales category leading e-commerce businesses, has successfully raised USD165 million in a Series A equity and debt round.
The equity investment was led by Christian Angermayer’s Apeiron Investment Group and Elevat3 Capital, which counts Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund as a strategic partner. Alongside the equity raise, the debt financing round was led by leading European special situations investor North Wall Capital, from the firm’s dedicated e-commerce lending strategy. Stanhope Capital advised Olsam on the transaction.
Olsam will use the capital raised to rapidly acquire larger brands from global entrepreneurs seeking a
Pan-European private equity investor Oakley Capital’s (Oakley) portfolio company Ocean Technologies Group (OTG) has acquired COMPAS, a crew management SAAS provider to the maritime industry.
The acquisition is OTG’s fifth bolt-on acquisition and continues Oakley’s transformation of the business into a diversified software platform serving the multiple needs of the maritime industry.
COMPAS is a leading human capital management (HCM) SAAS solution that helps ship owners and professionals to efficiently manage all aspects of crewing activities, such as crew planning, crew change management and other logistics.
OTG is a leading software provider to the maritime industry, serving around 20,000 vessels
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested in REAL Digital International Limited (RDIL), a specialised data-led software solutions and automated fulfilment provider, to continue to support the existing management team’s organic growth strategy.
Established in 2004, RDIL plays a key role in helping organisations to solve complex fulfilment challenges. The business optimises client supply chains through its use of automation technology, software, personalisation and managing bespoke uniquely coded products to create more efficient production processes and reduce costs.
The business supports a broad range of sectors including large healthcare organisations to operate pioneering home testing kit programmes to support
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