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Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a USD25 million growth equity investment in Basis Technologies, a specialist provider of DevOps and test automation software for SAP systems.
Organisations across the world use Basis Technologies’ DevOps technology to support the transition from legacy on premise SAP software to modern cloud-hosted SAP systems, and to increase agility through fast, effective delivery of business innovation. The company provides the only complete automated DevOps and testing platform engineered for SAP and serves global enterprise customers including BP, Procter & Gamble and Booking.com, helping them to accelerate time to market, adopt new development methods and
Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, has formed Aquila Air Capital, a specialty finance platform focused on commercial aerospace, in partnership with aerospace industry veteran Al Wood and investment firm Kepler Hill Capital.
Aquila Air Capital will have a broad mandate to purchase, finance, and lease, aircraft, engines and other aviation equipment. The company’s vision is to become a trusted partner to all players in the value chain, from buyers and sellers of assets to operators in need of creative and timely solutions for their critical business needs.
Al Wood joins Warburg Pincus as an
Alternative finance provider Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided a GBP21.73 million asset-based lending facility to support the growth of Orchard House Foods.
The deal follows Elaghmore’s acquisition of the fresh fruit business in January 2021, and will enable the business to invest in new equipment and ongoing product development.
Orchard House Foods is the UK’s specialist supplier of prepared fruit, fresh fruit drinks and chilled desserts to retailers across the UK and Ireland, including Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Greggs and Pret a Manger. Despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, the business has remained profitable and is well
Private equity-backed and family-owned businesses are significantly behind listed companies in gender diversity at board level, with women making up just 13 per cent and 10 per cent of boards respectively at these businesses versus 34 per cent at FTSE 350 companies, says New Street Consulting Group, the leadership and people solutions consultancy.
Large listed companies have been under pressure from group such as the Fawcett Society and Women On Boards to improve gender diversity for many years, while privately-held businesses have received less scrutiny.
In 2016, the Hampton-Alexander Review was set up to ensure FTSE 350 companies reached
Infra Impact Investment Managers Proprietary Limited (Infra Impact), a boutique infrastructure investment firm, has selected Prescient Fund Services Proprietary Limited (Prescient) as the Fund Administrator for its first infrastructure fund, the Infra Impact Mid-Market Infrastructure Fund 1.
Infra Impact Investment Managers Proprietary Limited (Infra Impact) is a specialised infrastructure and impact investment management business. The new fund, Infra Impact Mid-Market Infrastructure Fund 1 aims to provide growth capital for South African focused midmarket infrastructure businesses, which own real assets that provide essential services and have value creation potential to enable the infrastructure of tomorrow. Infra Impact typically secures significant minority
Aras has secured a substantial growth investment from GI Partners, a private investment firm. This investment will further accelerate Aras’ low-code platform innovation, global expansion, and customer success.
Aras continues to disrupt the industrial software market with its low-code platform and suite of digital solutions spanning the product lifecycle from global product development and systems engineering to manufacturing, maintenance, and digital twins. Large enterprises such as Microsoft, Honda, and Airbus use Aras to rapidly digitalise mission critical processes and replace legacy systems faster.
“We believe the pace of digital transformation in manufacturing is just beginning to increase, and that
Drooms, Europe’s specialist provider of digital data rooms, enjoyed a successful year in 2020, with the number of users of asset management platform Drooms PORTFOLIO, rising 87 per cent versus the previous year.
As a result, the number of assets managed and transacted on Drooms surpassed 10,000 for the first time. Drooms also proved its resilience to crises during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Alexandre Grellier, Co-founder and CEO of Drooms, explains: “Our response from customers remains huge. This is down to the fact that in 2019 we invested in our services and increased staff levels in our
England’s North West is a prime destination for private equity and venture capital investment, and therefore a ‘key player’ in the UK’s growth-led recovery, a new report has found.
The report, produced by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA), takes a closer look at investment in the North West of England and is the first in a series of publications that look at the benefits of private equity and venture capital backing on a region-by-region basis.
The benefits, both social and economic, are illustrated by the latest industry data – including how many businesses and sectors
BTIG has appointed Yun Zhong PhD as a publishing analyst in the firm’s Healthcare Equity Research team.
Zhong’s research coverage will focus on the biotechnology subsector, where he will specialise in gene therapy, genetic medicine, targeted therapy, rare disease and haematology. In his new role, he joins the firm as a Director within the Research and Strategy division, where he will report to Ryan Serwin, CFA, Director of Research, at BTIG.
“We are very pleased to welcome Yun to the BTIG Biotechnology Equity Research team,” says Serwin. “Biotechnology continues to be one of the most active subsectors for clients of
Argand Partners (Argand), a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based industrials private equity firm, has made four promotions and an addition to its investment team.
The following four promotions became effective 1 March, 2021: Charlie Burns to Principal, Ryan Beres to Vice President, and Brendan Fogarty and Riley McCabe to Senior Associate. The firm also announced the addition of Hanan Hassan as an Associate, joining the team after 5 years at KPMG where she provided due diligence and transaction support for M&A clients.
Heather Faust, Managing Partner & Co-Founder at Argand, says: “We are delighted to recognise the expertise
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