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Exegy Incorporated, a specialist in low-latency solutions for global market data, predictive trading signals, and hardware-acceleration technology, and Vela Trading Systems (Vela), a provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, have merged business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over USD7.5 billion of capital commitments under management.
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Trimountain Partners has led a significant investment round in fire and security firm ABCA Systems (ABCA) alongside investor partners including The Vorsprung Partnership and Cambridge Capital Partners.
With over 30 years of experience behind it, ABCA is one of the UK’s preeminent fire and security experts, providing installation and maintenance across a broad range of fire and security systems. The Company serves a blue-chip client base that extends across several end-markets, principally social housing, government, education, hospitality, healthcare and commercial.
Headquartered in Newcastle, with a national footprint and a workforce of over 170, ABCA is one of the most trusted
New York based startup Polywork, a professional social network founded by Peter Johnston, has secured USD3.5 million in a seed funding round led by Caffeinated Capital (Ray Tonsing, first investor in Clubhouse, Airtable and Brex) with participation from the founders of YouTube (Steve Chen), Twitch (Kevin Lin), PayPal (Max Levchin), VSCO (Joel Flory), Behance (Scott Belsky), and Worklife VC (Brianne Kimmel).
Polywork is a professional social network that lets users create a free personal webpage, share what they’re up to both personally and professionally and send collaboration requests to others on the network. The network launched in response to a
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) is to acquire Travis Perkins Plc’s Plumbing & Heating business (P&H), one of the UK’s leading plumbing, heating, and bathroom related products specialist merchants.
The divestiture is valued at approximately GBP325 million, and the transaction is expected to be completed within the next three months, following regulatory approval.
Headquartered in Northamptonshire, P&H operates under its primary trading brands City Plumbing Supplies (CPS) and Plumbing Trade Solutions (PTS), with over 350 branches across the UK and Ireland, alongside several specialist online outlets including The Underfloor Heating Store, Direct Heating Spares, PlumbNation, and National Shower
PointGrab, a maker of smart sensors that help businesses maintain social distancing in post-Covid offices, has completed a GBP3.4 million equity raise led by specialist venture capitalist EMV Capital.
PointGrab’s product is a smart workplace platform system enabling organisations to count, track the flow and locate people at individual desks, on floors or across an entire campus. It alerts users when social distancing measures are breached.
The system also features cleaning and sanitation measures to help make offices Covid secure. The platform is already used in over 40 countries, by 45 Fortune 500 Companies.
With the return to the office
Lionpoint Group, an award-winning global technology enablement and operations advisory firm, is now part of Alpha FMC, plc, a UK-AIM listed company.
Lionpoint’s acquisition by Alpha will help grow the former’s geographical reach, breadth of services to alternative investment managers, investors, and advisors, and range of clientele to include multi-strategy clients who combine traditional and alternative assets. By joining forces, both firms will complement each other’s capabilities as the line between alternative investments firms increasingly permeates retail investors and other traditional asset managers, dramatically reshaping client requirements.
“Lionpoint is a fantastic addition to Alpha and closely aligns with our
Cynerio, a provider of Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, has secured USD30 million in a Series B funding round led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund.
Existing investors, global VC Accelmed, RDC, Elron’s joint venture with Rafael, and Swiss-based growth investor, MTIP, also participated in the funding round. ALIVE co-investors, CBG London investment company owned by Vincent Tchenguiz, also participated in the round and additional co-investors will join as well, including a leading UAE based investment group.
Cynerio will use the funding to fully realise its vision of being the healthcare industry’s go-to cybersecurity and asset management solution by
International private equity firm Cinven is to sell Chryso, a provider of specialty chemicals for the construction industry, to Saint-Gobain, a specialist in the building materials sector.
Headquartered in France, Chryso is a leading global manufacturer of concrete admixtures and cement additives, as well as construction systems. Chryso provides value-added technology and chemistry expertise to improve the performance of construction materials. The Company has international operations, spanning Europe, the US, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and generates revenues from more than 100 countries worldwide. Chryso has 35 industrial sites and five R&D centres globally and employs c1,300 people.
Castik Capital, a European private equity investment firm, has closed a new single asset fund, EPIC I-b, which will acquire a controlling stake in Waterlogic, a global provider of purified drinking water dispensers, at its hard cap of EUR700 million.
The fund will be managed by Castik Capital, which has had a successful partnership with Waterlogic since 2015.
The fund will acquire the majority stake in Waterlogic from Castik Capital’s EPIC I Fund. This transaction follows the sale of a significant minority stake in the company to four institutional investors – British Columbia BCI, Neuberger Berman, StepStone, and Skandia
A subsidiary of Ares Management Corporation is to acquire 100 per cent of Black Creek Group’s US real estate investment advisory and distribution business (Black Creek).
Founded in 1993, Black Creek had approximately USD11.6 billion of assets under management, as of 31 March, 2021, in core/core-plus real estate strategies across two non-traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and various institutional fund vehicles. Black Creek’s senior management team has an average of 25 years of experience in sourcing, acquiring, operating and developing properties in the US. Supported by large institutional investors and an established retail investor base, Black Creek has a
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