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Dubin Clark, a private equity firm focused on niche market leaders in the lower middle-market, has created a new holding company, Super Home Services, to invest in Evergreen Lawn & Pest Control (Evergreen).
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Evergreen is a provider of residential lawn spray and pest control services throughout the Central Florida region. The Company’s service offerings include lawn spray services, tree and shrub services, pest control, termite treatment, and mosquito control services. Since its founding in 1991, Evergreen has established a reputation for quality, excellence, and high customer satisfaction. The Company is
Gravitee.io, an open source API management platform that gives businesses and their developers unprecedented control over their entire API ecosystem, has raised USD11m in a Series A round, co-led by AlbionVC and Oxx, to power its expansion in the burgeoning API management market, which is predicted to be worth USD22 billion by 2028.
As the world has become more digital, the need for connected software has exploded, and APIs are now ubiquitous. This increased reliance on APIs brings endless possibilities, but also means that APIs should run perfectly every time. For businesses, keeping track of the complex web of APIs
Vector Capital, a private equity firm specialising in transformational investments in established technology businesses, has promoted five individuals across its investment and value creation teams.
Sandy Gill has been promoted to Managing Director, and Stephen Goodman, Amir Ravandoust, Gabriel Shields-Estrada, and Tom Smith have been promoted to Principal.
Additionally, Vector Capital has appointed private equity veteran Mac Hofeditz, who most recently was a Managing Director at GCA Advisors where he founded and led its Private Funds Group, as Managing Director and Head of Marketing and Investor Relations.
Alex Slusky, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Vector Capital, says:
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrials, and software industries, has promoted Matt McCabe to Principal.
Ryan Clark, President and Managing Director at Genstar Capital, says: “Matt has made meaningful contributions to our firm and also as a board member at a number of our portfolio investments. He is indicative of the deep talent represented within our firm and is highly regarded by our partners and all of our professionals. Matt has demonstrated the core values of Genstar and we believe he will make even greater contributions in the
Unigestion will continue to back the next generation of private equity managers with the launch of its second Emerging Manager Choice Fund.
The fund will tap into Unigestion’s 25 year track record of investing in private equity and successfully supporting emerging managers. Some 40 per cent of all commitments made by Unigestion since 1996 have been to first or second time funds.
Unigestion has been successfully running a dedicated global emerging manager programme since 2018. This programme has already shown strong performance through the Covid-19 crisis by supporting managers based in the US, Europe and Asia, and focusing on
Baird Capital, the global private equity and venture capital arm of Baird, has held the final close for its second Global Fund (Global Fund II) with over USD340 million in committed capital.
The fund makes buyout and growth equity investments of USD15 million to USD40 million in Technology & Services and Industrial Technology & Solutions sectors in the US, UK and Asia. Target opportunities have EBITDA of USD5 million to USD15 million. The first Global Fund closed in 2017 with USD310 million in committed capital.
Baird Capital leverages its global investment platform to target founder-owned businesses with global growth
Mercedes-Benz has acquired YASA, a specialist in next-generation electric drive technology.
YASA’s proprietary axial-flux electric motors offer enhanced performance over radial electric motor technologies. YASA’s e-motors deliver the greatest efficiencies and highest power densities in class for the smallest possible size and weight.
Following the acquisition, YASA and its 250 employees will continue to operate from its headquarters and production facility in Oxford, UK. YASA will provide electric motors for Mercedes-Benz’s AMG.EA electric-only platform, while also acting as an innovation partner pioneering new electric drive technology for the Group
Moray Wright, CEO of Parkwalk, says: “Parkwalk was the largest investor
Coinciding with the milestone of delivering prototype winding wire to the automotive industry, Tau has concluded its Aeries A financing round with additional funding from Finindus, a Belgium-based investment company financed by ArcelorMittal and the Flemish Region, and a top-up by German specialty chemicals company ALTANA.
Tau develops high-performance wire that combines minimised partial discharge, high filling factors, greater temperature resistance, high-voltage and frequency optimisation. This enables global producers of electric motors, cars, buses, trucks and aircraft to double the power output of future traction motors while keeping their size.
“Years of research have allowed us to be developing coated
Pemberton, a European private credit manager transforming traditional credit markets, has added a Managing Director to the firm’s Business Development team, Sanford ‘Sandy’ Ewing who joined on 5 July 2021 and brings more than two decades of experience in the field.
Ewing will support Pemberton’s international expansion, which is set against a backdrop of growing international demand from investors for European private debt. He joins Pemberton as a Managing Director for North America, where he will be responsible for all aspects of investor coverage, client servicing and consultant relations across the North American market.
He was previously Co-Head of
Five Elms Capital, a global growth private equity firm focused on investing in B2B software, has closed Five Elms V with USD780 million in capital commitments.
Five Elms V will target equity investments between USD5 and USD75 million. The new fund received strong support from a diverse global base of new and existing institutional investors, bringing Five Elms’ total assets under management to more than USD1.5 billion.
“We are incredibly grateful for the longstanding support of our existing limited partners. Our team is particularly excited about the number of founders from Five Elms portfolio companies that personally invested in Five
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