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Aliter Capital portfolio company Sponge Group has appointed Adam Poulter as its new Chief Executive officer (CEO).
Poulter’s remit is to create an integrated portfolio of international elearning services, initially from the four strategic investments in digital learning that Aliter Capital has made in the last two years. The focus will be on consolidating and expanding a domestic position in the UK whilst developing the businesses’ footprint in Europe and the USA. Poulter brings a wealth of international expertise from a career in private equity backed media-tech and SaaS businesses including platform buy and build.
Poulter says: “elearning markets
Lincolnshire Management (Lincolnshire), a private equity firm focused on investing in and acquiring growing middle market companies, has completed a dividend recapitalisation of Fund V portfolio company, Schumacher Electric Corporation (Schumacher Electric), a supplier of power conversion products to the consumer and professional global power supply markets.
Operating from a new headquarters in Fort Worth, TX, Schumacher Electric is a leader in the USD23 billion global power supply market, with a particular focus on battery life enhancement, chargers, testers, cables and other power accessories. The company’s products are available through a broad global sales channel from more than 30,000 distribution
By Mark Lynch, partner at Oghma Partners – The food industry appears to be going through a revolution in its structure which may turn out to be as far reaching as the shift to factory made processed foods which we saw in the 19th and 20th century, when the likes of John Cadbury and Henri Nestlé set up their businesses in the 1840’s and 1860’s, and the age of industrial food processing was born.
This change is occurring across the industry and incorporates areas which we would define as ‘low’ food tech – that is, changes from the way product is sold and distributed
Rothschild & Co has completed the fundraising for Five Arrows Private Equity Programme II (FAPEP II) with commitments totalling EUR366 million.
This is the 17th fund raised above its expected target by Rothschild & Co’s Merchant Banking business over the last 10 years. This brings the total assets under management to cEUR16 billion across four strategies: corporate private equity; senior and junior credit; primary and secondary fund investing; and co-investments.
The Fund was oversubscribed with total capital commitments of EUR366 million, materially above its initial target of EUR250 million. Investors in the Fund represent a diversified group of family offices,
BGF has broken the GBP100 million life sciences investment milestone, backing more than 30 businesses across the fields of diagnostics, medtech and digital health, as well as services, software and tools supporting therapeutic development.
To support the organisation’s continued drive into the industry, BGF has now created a specialist advisory board in order to solidify its position in the life sciences space.
The board’s appointments bring a wealth of experience to BGF’s offering in the sector and will support its ambitions to be at the forefront of innovation at a critical time for the UK & Ireland.
The life
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has opened a new office in Singapore and expanded its investment team in Hong Kong.
The new Singapore office expands the firm’s global footprint to eleven locations including Beijing, Bogota, Boston, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Toronto.
The Singapore office will be overseen by regional head and HarbourVest Managing Director, Hemal Mirani, with investment professionals focused on the primary, secondary and co-invest strategies. Hemal oversees operations and strategy for Asia Pacific, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul and Tokyo.
“The Asia Pacific region continues to
MAPAL Group (MAPAL), a European developer and provider of hospitality management software solutions backed by growth equity firm PSG, has acquired Easilys, a multi-site restaurant and kitchen management software provider based in France with offices in Paris, Geneva and Barcelona.
The acquisition is the latest in a series of investments by MAPAL in complementary hospitality technologies, with a view to combining solutions to create a powerful, integrated back of house multi-site operating system for the hospitality sector. This transaction follows the acquisition of UK-based Flow Hospitality Training in December 2019, US-headquartered Cloud Reputation in 2020 and Sweden-based GetCompliant earlier this
HealthyHealth Group, a company focused on transforming the life and health insurance underwriting journey through digital data, has announced the closing of a USD10m series A financing round, led by MMC Ventures.
Joining MMC Ventures are AdirVentures and a number of other family offices, as well as existing investors including TMT Investments PLC.
The new funding will help accelerate global expansion of the current offering, after launching the product commercially with multiple large, listed insurers in Europe, Asia Pacific, the UK and North America. As part of this growth journey, the business is also transitioning to a new brand, Qumata.
CMBOR, the Centre for Private Equity and MBO Research, has been re-established by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) within Nottingham University Business School, having been suspended in 2020.
Founded in 1986, CMBOR will return to providing comprehensive data and insight around European buyout activity and extend its 35-year track record as a leading academic institute devoted to the study of private equity. CMBOR will be led by Dr Kevin Amess, Associate Professor in Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School and a former colleague of the late Professor Mike Wright, the centre’s founder. CMBOR will continue in its previous scope of
Moonshot, a data analytics company which designs new technology and methodologies to identify and mitigate online harms, has raised USD7 million in Series A funding from Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, and UK-based Mercia.
Moonshot believes the internet is increasingly used to propagate harm, including in the preparation of terrorist acts and the proliferation of child sexual abuse content, hate speech and the abuse of women in public life. Meanwhile, disinformation threatens democratic consensus and public trust in the media is at an all-time low. Yet the vast majority of US adults believe the internet to be mostly a
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