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Mr Green Africa has become the first waste management and recycling company in Africa achieve certification as a B Corporation. The company is backed by DOB Equity, a Dutch family-backed impact investor.
Mr Green Africa collects waste plastic from local communities and recycles it into a “new” high-quality raw material which can be used by manufacturers in their packaging for products. Through DOB Equity’s investments, Mr Green Africa has been able to replace virgin plastic packaging with up to 100 per cent recyclable plastic for multinational companies such as Unilever.
The B-Corp certification establishes Mr Green Africa as a pioneer
Based near Lugano in Switzerland, 1MED is a fast-growing clinical research organisation that helps MedTech companies secure regulatory approval for new medical devices and pharmaceuticals, providing specialist services including regulatory strategy, clinical trial management and quality assurance services.
FRP’s debt advisory team advised Apposite Capital on sourcing a stretched senior financing package to support the leveraged acquisition, and to provide further financial firepower to support a buy-and-build strategy. Financial details of the investment are undisclosed.
Apposite Capital will work with the 1MED management team to continue to strengthen and widen the company’s service offering and further expand its geographic
NetDocuments, a secure cloud-based content services and productivity platform for law firms, corporate legal teams, and compliance departments, has secured a significant investment from Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor, along with existing investor Cove Hill Partners.
Warburg Pincus’ investment alongside Cove Hill will support the Company’s continued rapid growth and innovation. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
For more than two decades, NetDocuments has delivered innovation through its world-class content services and productivity platform. NetDocuments is used by over 3,150 professional services firms and corporate legal departments and recently announced unprecedented growth in Q1 2021, continuing its record
Human Layer Security company Tessian has raised USD65 million in Series C venture capital funding to accelerate its mission of quantifying and preventing human risk in global enterprises, and empowering people to do their best work without security getting in the way.
The round is led by March Capital, a venture-growth firm which has previously invested in cybersecurity unicorns such as CrowdStrike and KnowBe4. Existing Tessian investors Accel, Balderton Capital, Latitude and Sequoia Capital also participated in the Series C funding round, along with new investor Schroder Adveq, bringing Tessian’s total funding to-date over USD120 million. The deal values Tessian
PEF Services LLC (PEF), a specialist fund administrator for alternative investment managers, has been selected to provide fund administration services to Star Mountain Capital, LLC (Star Mountain).
PEF’s deep experience with SBIC fund administration, its services team, leading-edge fund accounting platform, and PEF’s investor portal, ViewPoint, will support Star Mountain. With nearly USD2 billion in AUM and over 45 full-time people supported by 35+ additional senior advisor and operating partners, Star Mountain is a 100 per cent employee-owned specialised investment firm focused exclusively on the US lower middle-market by investing debt and equity directly into established operating companies, making
On the heels of record revenue in 2020, Sentieo, the next-generation financial and corporate research platform provider, has raised USD20 million in a Series B round of funding. The round was led by Ten Coves Capital with participation from existing investors Centana Growth Partners and Studio Management. Ned May, a founder and Managing Partner at Ten Coves Capital, will join Sentieo’s board of directors. With this latest funding Sentieo has now secured USD62 million in total capital.
More than 1,000 clients around the globe, including Schroders, Magellan Asset Management, and Roivant Sciences, rely on Sentieo to deliver the insights, speed,
Private equity and special situations institutional investor Sandton Capital Partners (Sandton) has announced an enhanced partnership with AWH Solicitors (AWH), Credit Style and Tresartis to offer a one stop shop solution to support Insolvency Practitioners (IPs).
Sandton has a proven track record of providing funding in situations too complex for traditional capital sources. To date the team has executed over GBP1.3 billion transactions with certainty and speed of execution. The partnerships with AWH, Credit Style and Tresartis demonstrates Sandton’s commitment to deliver a reliable turnkey solution that makes it easier for IPs to maximise value for creditors. Launching the new
The number of acquisitions made by private equity backed businesses in the UK hit record levels in the first quarter of 2021, with 168 transactions completed in just three months, according to Rickitt Mitchell’s Buy and Build Barometer.
The latest analysis from the corporate finance firm, conducted in partnership with Experian Market iQ, reveals an 85 per cent rise in the figures seen in the corresponding quarter last year. Q1 2020 saw 91 deals completed, prior to the first Covid-19 lockdown, with the latest figures nearly triple the 57 deals in Q1 2019.
On a local level, the majority of
Raymond James Financial, Inc has reached an agreement to acquire Cebile Capital, a private fund placement agent and secondary market advisor to private equity (PE) firms. The transaction is subject to certain regulatory and other closing conditions.
The addition of Cebile Capital to the firm’s Investment Banking division deepens relationships with the private equity community and expands the related service offerings to include fund placements, general partner (GP)-led secondaries capabilities and limited partner (LP)-led secondaries advisory, a rapidly expanding market. Based in London and New York City, Cebile will operate as a new business unit within Investment Banking, and
MacroFab has received USD15 million in new funding. The round was led by Edison Partners, with prior investors including ATX Venture Partners participating. Altium Limited, a leader in the electronics design software space, joined the round as a strategic investor aligned with the MacroFab mission of digitising electronics production from earliest design stages to prototype development and commercial production.
The investment follows a strong record of growth driven by adoption of digital manufacturing by production scale customers in industrial, IoT and energy sectors. The USD15 million growth round allows the company to accelerate expansion in North America, including increased investment
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