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Kinzie Capital Partners (Kinzie) portfolio company Colony Display has acquired Braeside Displays (Braeside), an independent point-of-purchase display manufacturer.
The transaction was completed in partnership with Braeside’s and Colony’s management.
Founded in 1975, Braeside specialises in the design, engineering and manufacturing of stock and custom point-of-purchase displays. Braeside’s expertise in plastics brings additional capabilities to Colony’s focus on wood and metal display manufacturing in servicing the home improvement and retail industries. Braeside’s President and CEO Nathan Kelly will join Colony as Senior Vice President of Customer Strategy and Development.
“Braeside is thrilled to join forces with Colony, and we are confident
insightsoftware, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for the ‘Office of the CFO’, has secured an investment from Hg, a global software and services investor.
The Hg Saturn 2 Fund will make a cUSD1 billion equity investment in insightsoftware to become a significant minority shareholder alongside TA Associates (TA) in a transaction valuing the business at an Enterprise Value of around USD4 billion. TA and Hg will share joint control. As part of the transaction, insightsoftware will also continue to be supported by minority shareholders Genstar and ST6.
insightsoftware is a leading provider of financial reporting and enterprise
The United States remains unparalleled as a magnet for investors, according to the 10th anniversary edition of the Venture Capital (VC) and Private Equity (PE) Country Attractiveness Index.
The index ranks 125 countries according to the quality of their investment environment for adventurous VC and PE investors. The countries are analysed and ranked according to thousands of weighted data points covering six key drivers: economic activity, depth of capital markets, taxation, investor protections and corporate governance, human and social environment, and finally entrepreneurial culture and deal opportunities.
Based on its strong performance in all six areas, the United States continues
HelloFlow, a Danish FinTech startup, has closed a USD1.6 million Seed round led by a Danish VC PreSeed Ventures, and UK-based, Seedcamp. The company provides a no-code platform for client onboarding and identity verification in the financial industry which integrates with ID authentication services in local markets.
“Using the platform, you can set up a proper, sleek, and compliant onboarding process and share it with the clients, all inside a single day. This makes it possible to launch your service in new markets across the world within 10 minutes,” explains Mikkel Skarnager, the Co-Founder and CEO of HelloFlow.
With an
In this podcast, Private Equity Wire speaks to New York-based growth equity firm LB Equity, a firm that invests in high-growth beauty and wellness brands, about sustainability themes within the beauty space. Founded in 2012, LB Equity is led by co-founders Jay Lucas (pictured), a former partner at Bain & Company, and Karen Ballou, who used to work for Redken and Elizabeth Arden.
Join us on 2 December for Institutional Asset Manager, Hedgeweek and Private Equity Wire’s global summit as we analyse the key issues, changes and opportunities for fund managers, asset owners, intermediaries and advisors in the fast-evolving world of ESG and green investing.
An overwhelming majority (91 per cent) of US 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 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 North America, the UK, and
IW Capital has invested in e-pharmacy company SimplyMeds, marking the first external investment in the highly scalable online platform.
SimplyMeds is an end-to-end digital pharmacy platform that provides a convenient method of ordering same day prescriptions and lifestyle products while empowering patients to have medical autonomy. While most online pharmacies are designed to service only one sector, SimplyMeds caters to both the private and NHS prescriptions market in what is believed to be a market first, having developed the distribution channels and a highly sophisticated platform to effectively serve both sectors.
Bootstrapped by two entrepreneurs with extensive experience in the
Ironwood Capital portfolio company The Facilities Group (TFG) has acquired Excel Building Services (Excel), a California-based janitorial services provider with a primary focus on retail and distribution customers.
Ironwood Capital Partner Roger Roche, says: “Excel serves customers in 40 states, significantly expanding the reach and market penetration of TFG. The overlap and fit with TFG are perfect, and the acquisition allows both TFG and Excel to better service their customers.” Paul Witinski, director at Ironwood Capital added, “Our investment thesis for The Facilities Group is to continue building a national leader within the janitorial services industry through both organic growth
John Davies has joined Pitalia Capital to launch a new investment fund in response to increased demand for capital and support from small to mid-sized businesses across the UK.
The firm, which is part of the Pitalia group of companies and funded by entrepreneur Anil Pitalia, will seek to invest across a diverse portfolio of ambitious businesses. This will include early-stage companies looking for growth capital to scale, as well as backing management buyouts of mid-sized firms.
It will focus on flexible deal structures, enabling its team to support a broad range of businesses by deploying up to GBP10
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