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Barkyn, a subscription service for pets that combines personalised healthy food with tele-vet services, has announced a further EUR3 million investment, extending its Series A to EUR8 million.
Barkyn had an impressive 2020 where it scaled fast to meet growing demand from dog owners. Due to its fast growth, FoodTech specialist Five Seasons Ventures has invested in Barkyn and will support its further expansion and future product development.
Five Seasons Ventures joins previous investors Indico Capital Partners, All Iron Ventures, Portugal Ventures and Shilling Capital, in supporting the company. Since its launch in 2017, the Portuguese business has raised a
Aksiom Services Group, a partnership between Ara Partners and the Aksiom Group, have px Group in partnership with company management.
px Group will continue to be led by its current senior management team and chairman, assuring complete continuity for px Group’s employees, customers, and other stakeholders. The transaction facilitates the exit of private equity firm Bluewater from px Group’s shareholder base, following a highly successful five-year partnership for both parties.
Geoff Holmes, px Group CEO, says: “For decades, px has provided safe and reliable operations to major infrastructure asset owners across the energy and industrial sectors. Working in partnership
Signaturit and Ivnosys, two providers of trust service and secure digital transaction management software in Southern Europe, have signed definitive transaction documents to join forces.
By combining Signaturit’s core cloud-based e-signature platform with Ivnosys’ suite of innovative, secure digital identities, digital notifications and digital signature solutions, the transaction seeks to create a full-service digital transaction management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, offering a broad suite of advanced tools to securely manage digital identity within the enterprise and provide trust-based process, contract and transaction management across functions and sectors. Going forward, customers are expected to benefit from the expanded combined product offering that
Dorilton, the private investment firm that acquired UK Formula 1 team Williams Racing in 2020, has launched Dorilton Ventures to lead significant minority investments in early to mid-stage technology companies focused on data-centric segments such as enterprise IT infrastructure, data science, and cyber security.
Matthew Savage, Dorilton’s co-founder and Chairman, says: “Dorilton Ventures brings the strength of our team and our approach – investing capital, time and expertise in long-term partnership with management – into the venture market.”
The Dorilton Ventures team includes investment professionals, data scientists, and IT infrastructure specialists. Dorilton Ventures will focus on delivering Dorilton’s capital, resources,
Private equity company Bluewater has sold px Group (px), having transformed the business during its five years of ownership to a market leader operating energy and energy transition assets throughout the UK.
Bluewater has overseen 27 per cent average annual growth, a near trebling of turnover, highly cash generative operations, and a seven-fold increase in EBITDA, from circa GBP2 million the year before acquisition to over GBP15 million in 2021.
Graeme Sword, Founding Partner at Bluewater, says: “I am pleased that this growth has been achieved during one of the most challenging economic climates in memory, impacted by the Coronavirus
Triple Point has appointed Georgina Silvester as Chief Operating Officer, Leasing and Lending. Silvester will drive the continued build out of the operational and system processes of Triple Point’s Leasing and Lending team in order to support the further growth of their portfolio.
Silvester joins Triple Point from Handelsbanken, an international bank with a network across Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and the UK, where she had been Chief Operating Officer UK for the last two years after previously holding the roles of Head of Brexit Implementation and Head of UK Tax. She brings over twenty-four years of experience to the
Sovereign Capital Partners’ portfolio company ACOLIN, a provider of regulatory and cross-border fund distribution services, has acquired GFA, a SaaS-based data collection and analytics provider for asset managers.
This follows ACOLIN’s acquisition of digital fund distribution and data management business Fundbase in February.
Founded in 2014, GFA (www.gfa.lu) operates a SaaS-based data collection and analytics platform for asset managers and distributors to manage their increasing compliance obligations, and to enable asset managers to gain valuable insights into their distribution networks and identify opportunities to further improve business performance.
The acquisitions of both GFA and Fundbase (https://www.fundbase.com/) have accelerated
Spirit Pharmaceuticals has secured a growth capital investment from NewSpring Capital, Tecum Capital, Leedon Park Capital, and PNC Bank. The investor group backed CEO and Founder Ajoy Joshi to support the Company’s continued growth.
Marc Frappier has been appointed to Eurazeo’s Executive Board for the remainder of his current term of office, ie until March 2022.
Frappier has been part of the Group’s staff and management team for 15 years. He leads a team consisting of close to 30 professionals based in Europe and the United States, investing for Eurazeo’s own account and for third-party investors in the mid-large buyout segment. With them, he has built a diversified portfolio with EUR4 billion of assets under management in the tech-enabled services, financial services, healthcare and consumer sectors. He has played an active role in Eurazeo’s
EQT’s Infrastructure III fund is to sell Segra’s Commercial Services Business to Cox Communications (Cox). EQT Infrastructure will retain Segra’s residential and SMB business, which operates under the Lumos Networks and NorthState brands.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Segra employs more than 1,200 people and provides broadband data services across a 26,000-mile fibre network to a variety of customers including wireless carriers, healthcare providers, local government agencies, financial institutions, education institutions, and residential customers. Ongoing digitalisation and outsourcing trends are driving demand for broadband services, particularly in rapidly growing US metro markets such as the ones Segra serves. Together with
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