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Pario Ventures has completed a successful investment in Kingfisher Overland Ltd. Pario Ventures has taken a 20 per cent stake to accelerate Overland-e commercial growth in developing a new Electric Overland-E vehicle to be built in Banbury and Birmingham, UK as well as growing the performance and endurance engineering side of the business in a future ‘everyman’ motorsport series.
MacNeill Pride Group (MPG), a diversified global designer and manufacturer of outdoor products and sporting goods, and a portfolio company Centre Partners, has appointed Keith Bornholtz as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Bornholtz, who has over 30 years of experience in branded consumer products, joins MPG from Central Garden & Pet, where he was President of the pet distribution business unit and led a five year strategic transformation of their national multi-channel platform. Bornholtz previously held senior leadership positions at Yes To Inc., Big Heart Pet Brands, Clorox and Procter & Gamble. He will be based at MPG’s headquarters in Nashville,
Babylon Holdings Limited (Babylon), a digital-first value-based care company, and Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp (Alkuri Global), a special purpose acquisition company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will operate as Babylon and plans to trade on Nasdaq under the new symbol “BBLN”. The transaction reflects an initial pro forma equity value of approximately USD4.2 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2021.
Babylon was founded in 2013, with the mission to put accessible and affordable quality healthcare in the hands of every
Antidote Technologies Limited (Antidote) has closed USD23.2 million in funding to expand its digital patient engagement programs and clinical trial recruitment services.
The funding round was led by LBO France, a private equity firm committed to supporting the growth of digital health, both in transforming health systems and accelerating medical R&D. Through its Digital Health 2 fund, LBO France is investing USD10 million, joining existing major investors Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Smedvig Capital, and Octopus Ventures, who between them are investing USD13.2 million.
Sebastien Woynar and Franck Noiret of LBO France will join the Antidote Board as
Investment firm RDCP Group has acquired Ipswich-based Ancient House Printing Group for an undisclosed sum.
This latest deal is RDCP’s fifth acquisition in the last 12 months, following its purchase of Chilango, Macair, Buxton Water and Su-Fix Precast last year. Established in 2015 by Sameer Rizvi and Iryna Dubylovska, RDCP Group is a diversified conglomerate that controls USD200 million (GBP140 million) of investments across five sectors and employs 675 staff members in the UK. The acquisition of Ancient House Printing Group is RDCP’s 15th acquisition since 2015.
Taken over by the previous owners in 1971, Ancient House Printing Group
Kushki, a Latin American Fintech backed by GED Capital’s Conexo Ventures fund, has closed a Series B investment round of USD86 million, reaching a valuation of approximately USD600 million, the largest in Latin American history.
The investment is focused on Series A investments in entrepreneurial teams set to become leaders in their fields in the US and Latin America.
Kushki’s clients include large companies around LATAM such as Telefónica, Cabify, Uber, Rappi, OfficeMax, Nubank and SURA. These companies choose Kushki for its cutting edge technology, tailored service and higher payment acceptance rate.
Since it was founded four years ago,
VSS Capital Partners (VSS) portfolio company Quatrro Business Support Services (QBSS), a provider of end-to-end tech-enabled business process management services, has completed the acquisition of EAB Solutions Inc. (EAB), a Chicago-based provider of outsourced finance & accounting, and human resource services to Not-For-Profit (NFP) organisations in Chicago as outlined further in the attached press release.
EAB’s customers include schools and non-profit educational institutions, arts and cultural organisations, and health and human services organisations that rely on its accounting, financial and human resource services to focus on their core NFP mission activities.
For VSS, this acquisition demonstrates VSS’ expertise in
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
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