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Tide, the UK’s leading business financial platform, has received just over USD100 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total raised to date to USD200 million. Tide is now valued at over USD650 million post-money, after only four years of operation.
The round was led by funds advised by Apax Digital, the growth equity team of Apax Partners. Anthemis, Augmentum, Jigsaw, Local Globe/Latitude, SBI, and SpeedInvest, existing investors, also participated in the round.
Tide has experienced rapid and sustained growth since launching in 2017, with 2020 seeing the business more than double its user base in the UK.
MRH Trowe an owner managed commercial lines insurance broker in Germany and a portfolio company of tech-focused mid-market private equity investor AnaCap Financial Partners, has successfully completed four bolt-on acquisitions in quick succession, following three earlier this year.
MRH Trowe offers extensive expertise in most insurance lines for both industrial and commercial customers as well as affluent private customers. AnaCap invested in MRHT as strategic growth partner in late 2020, identifying the company as a strong platform to achieve scale in the large and consolidating German market.
The latest acquisitions underpin the strategic roadmap aimed at expanding capabilities in specialist
Founded in 2012 by Jay Lucas and Karen Ballou, LB Equity is a growth equity firm investing within the wellness, beauty and personal care brands space. The New York-based firm invests at a very early stage; when the emerging brand has hit around USD1-3 million in revenues.
The investment strategy works as a kind of reverse engineering, according to Lucas, in that they look at a strategic acquirer three years or five years down the line and at what they are going to need in their portfolio within that time frame.
“We invest at a much earlier stage than most
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, and Eurazeo have provided a EUR103 million financing solution to pan-European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square) for its acquisition of Spanish agriculture business Sustainable Agro Solutions (SAS).
Founded in 1989, SAS is a leading developer and producer of biostimulants, soil and water improvers, defence activators, and specialty plant nutrition solutions. The Company operates in the highly attractive biosolutions segment, which is characterised by double-digit growth rates across all regions, underpinned by positive secular trends. SAS offers a high-quality and broad product portfolio, global footprint, robust
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has appointed Urs Rohner as a member of its International Advisory Board (IIAB) as of 1 July 2021.
Mohammed Alardhi, Executive Chairman at Investcorp, says; “We are very pleased to welcome Urs Rohner to our International Advisory Board. Urs brings a wealth of knowledge and experience accumulated throughout a distinguished career at the highest levels of international finance. As we continue on Investcorp’s growth journey, and remain focused on achieving our ambitions, we are continually searching for the best and most strategic advisors from a diverse range of relevant practice
Almost three-quarters (70 per cent) of private equity firms are planning to deploy capital in Latin America over the next five years, according to a new study, fuelled by attractive valuations and a growing appetite for cross-border deal flow as the global economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new study, ‘Recovery to Rediscovery: Capitalising on a Changed Private Equity Landscape’, was commissioned by Auxadi, a leading provider of accounting, tax and payroll services to private equity, real estate and multinationals, and was based on interviews with 100 senior-level private equity investors based in the UK, Continental Europe and North
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has appointed Urs Rohner as a member of its International Advisory Board (IIAB) as of 1 July 2021.
Mohammed Alardhi, Executive Chairman at Investcorp, says; “We are very pleased to welcome Urs Rohner to our International Advisory Board. Urs brings a wealth of knowledge and experience accumulated throughout a distinguished career at the highest levels of international finance. As we continue on Investcorp’s growth journey, and remain focused on achieving our ambitions, we are continually searching for the best and most strategic advisors from a diverse range of relevant practice
Global alternative asset management group Tikehau Capital has launched Tikehau Impact Credit (TIC), pioneering an impact approach in the high yield universe.
The fund’s objective is to help expand impact investing in fixed income, a key step towards addressing climate change and contributing to reaching the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement. This new fund will sit alongside Tikehau Capital’s private assets impact strategies, marking another major step forward for the Group’s global impact platform.
The fund’s mission is to finance and actively engage with companies across a diverse range of sectors which have the potential to enable the
Seraphim Space Investment Trust, a newly established closed-ended investment company which will invest in a diversified international portfolio of early and growth stage Space Tech businesses, has successfully raised gross proceeds of approximately GBP178.4 million pursuant to the Initial Issue of its ordinary shares as described in the prospectus published by the Company on 22 June 2021.
Gross proceeds of GBP150 million by way of the Initial Placing, the Offer for Subscription, Direct Subscriptions (other than any Direct Subscription in connection with the Company’s acquisition of the Initial Portfolio) and the Intermediaries Offer (the “Capital Raise”); and
Gross proceeds of
KPS Capital Partners (KPS) announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Tate & Lyle PLC (“Tate & Lyle”) (LSE: TATE.L) to acquire a controlling stake in its Primary Products business in North America and Latin America and its interests in the Almidones Mexicanos SA de CV and DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio-Products Company, LLC joint ventures, through a newly formed company (NewCo), for an enterprise value of USD1.7 billion.
KPS and Tate & Lyle, through affiliates, will each own approximately 50 per cent of NewCo with KPS having Board of Directors and operational control. Completion
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