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Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a minority investment in preventative healthcare specialist PAM to help the existing management team to drive organic growth and support a series of new product launches.
Headquartered in Warrington, PAM is one of the largest occupational health and wellbeing providers in the UK. It offers a full-service of integrated occupational health programmes to clients which include leading blue-chip and public sector organisations, supporting more than 600,000 employees at over 1,000 businesses.
PAM’s services include absence management, health surveillance, physiotherapy, employee assistance programmes, psychological support, corporate health assessments and neuro-diversity assessments. These are
Gamut Capital Management (Gamut), a New York-based middle market private equity firm, in partnership with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, has signed a definitive agreement to invest in PS Logistics.
As the largest and fastest-growing flatbed transportation and full-service logistics provider in the United States, PS Logistics employs a “Driver-First” culture to transport general flatbed commodities with a specialiaation in irregular route service in the continental United States.
“The combination of our exceptional team, with the resources we will gain through our relationship with Gamut and BCI, will enable PS Logistics to accelerate
London-based venture capital investors, Forward Partners, saw its Net Asset Value (NAV) increase by 48.5 per cent to reach GBP103 million during the 12 months to 31 March 2021.
The VC firm, which is focused on early-stage tech businesses across e-commerce, digital marketplaces and applied AI, has seen significant momentum in its portfolio during the pandemic, as trends moving trade and consumption online accelerated. That momentum has continued into the current financial year with the firm’s NAV growing by 18.9 per cent – including new investments – during the last quarter (Q1 FY21).
The main boost to NAV was
Digip AB, a Swedish SaaS company in the legal tech industry that make trademark protection accessible, affordable, and functional, has secured EUR2 million in a funding round led by Industrifonden.
NeXtWind, a green independent power producer (IPP) focused on the repowering and lifetime extension of European clean energy assets, has made three strategic investments in wind energy projects in Northern Germany, totalling over USD50 million.
The acquisitions were made in the first six months after the company’s debut fundraising round, where it secured USD100 million from institutional backers and family offices.
The projects across Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt encompass 34 turbines, with a combined capacity of 70MW and an average age of 14 years. NeXtWind will keep the energy transition moving forwards by rejuvenating the sites with new, more
International private equity firm, Cinven, has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Arcaplanet, a pet care retail chain in Italy, from funds advised by Permira and Winch Capital Partners.
As part of the transaction, Cinven and Arcaplanet will jointly acquire Maxi Zoo Italia, the third largest pet care operator in the Italian market, and a subsidiary of Fressnapf Group. The combination of Arcaplanet and Maxi Zoo Italia (together ‘the Arcaplanet Group’) creates one of the leading pet care platforms in Italy, selling food and non-food products in c500 stores across Italy and online.
Headquartered in
ESG Investing, a multi-media platform devoted to ESG and sustainable investing, has launched Greenlight, an accreditation service for ESG funds and products.
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Leta Capital (Leta) has launched its third and largest fund to date, which will invest in excess of USD100 million in UK, European and US-based growth stage software and technology companies over the next three years.
The new fund will have a particular focus on supporting East European and Russian-speaking entrepreneurs operating out of international hubs such as London and New York, who Leta founder and IT entrepreneur, Alexander Chachava, maintains remain over-looked and under-valued by many VCs and investors.
Founded by IT entrepreneur Alexander Chachava and with over USD45 million invested to date, Leta is an international venture capital
Recycle Track Systems, Inc (RTS), a specialist in the waste and recycling management industry, has closed its Series C round of financing. Citi Impact Fund led the USD35 million investment round as part of its commitment to investing in American companies applying innovative solutions to help address some of society’s most pressing challenges. The funding will be used to support RTS’s efforts to redefine materials management and develop zero-waste programs for a more sustainable future.
RTS also received investment from Edison Partners, Cue Ball, Greenspring Associates, Gaingels and the Partnership for New York City, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to mobilising
Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, has secured a USD100 million Series E financing led by Coatue, bringing its valuation to USD4.2 billion. Previous investors Benchmark, Accel, Addition, Dragoneer, Durable Capital Partners, and 9Yards Capital increased their investment in the company, and Altimeter, Blackstone, GIC, Pictet, Sequoia Heritage, and SVB Capital also participated.
Chainalysis is known for building trust in the cryptocurrency industry as the leading provider of investigations and compliance software that enables government agencies and private sector businesses across the world to detect and prevent cryptocurrency crime and money laundering. These tools are only as good as the
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