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RTB House, a global advertising technology firm has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in WhitePress, a content marketing platform, from its founders, Dirlango, a technology-focused investment firm and Innova Capital, a CEE mid-market private equity firm.
WhitePress’s management, including founders Paweł Strykowski and Tomasz Kwaśny, will continue in their existing roles. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, WhitePress is a leading content marketing platform that assists advertising agencies and corporate clients in creation and publication of content across the web, as well as in tracking of
Peterson Private Equity has held the closing of a USD225 million fund focused on investing USD10-25 million behind entrepreneurs and management teams in profitable and growth-oriented businesses.
“We are passionate about helping great people build great businesses,” says Clint Peterson, Managing Partner of Peterson Partners. “We are thrilled to raise this latest fund to continue supporting these great entrepreneurs.”
Peterson Private Equity, the flagship fund of the Peterson Partners platform, was one of the earliest funds established in Mountain West region. Peterson Private Equity has invested in several notable deals in the state of Utah over the past several
Franz Haniel & Cie (Haniel) has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of the European market leader for temporary outdoor security solutions BauWatch from Nordian Capital.
BauWatch, headquartered in Apeldoorn (The Netherlands), will be an independent business unit within Haniel’s “People” pillar, which bundles activities in the fields of security, health, and well-being.
“We are very happy with this acquisition; it is another milestone in transforming our portfolio towards sustainable businesses in high growth markets. With BauWatch we are acquiring the leader in an attractive, fast developing market,” says Haniel CEO Thomas Schmidt: “The business model is in
Soccer Manager – a UK-based online soccer management game – has secured a further GBP3 million to support its continued growth in a funding round led by its existing investor Mercia.
Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) has added Jorrit Willigers as a Director in the firm’s Private Markets team, effective 1 March.
As an experienced specialist, Willigers will focus predominantly on the private equity component of the strategy.
In his previous role as head of Private Equity Portfolio Construction at Generali Group, Willigers was responsible for the North American private equity portfolio. Prior to this position, he worked as an investment manager for Gilde Equity Management and as a corporate finance specialist for KPMG and Deloitte.
Sven Smeets, Managing Director of the Kempen Private Markets team, says: ‘Over the past
StorageOS, a leader in cloud native storage management, has completed a USD10 million Series B funding, led by Downing Ventures. eExisting investors Bain Capital Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures and MMC Ventures also participated in the round alongside new investor, Chestnut Street Ventures.
This brings the total funding raised to date by StorageOS to USD20 million.
The company will now invest further in its go-to-market strategy and scale its sales and customer facing technology teams to build its customer base and revenue.
“Securing a further significant round of funding is an important step in the development of the business and
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, has backed the buy-out of IWSR, the world’s leading source of data and intelligence for the USD1.5 trillion alcoholic beverage market.
IWSR’s database tracks consumption trends across 30,000 brands and 157 countries. The company has over 200 blue chip customers representing all the major market participants including producers, ingredient manufacturers, investment banks and consultancies.
Brand globalisation, the growing complexity of distribution channels and the shift to premium products are all driving the increasing value of data and insights for market participants. IWSR’s database uses proprietary methodologies that aggregate and verify multiple non-public
Novo Holdings A/S, a life science investor with a focus on long-term, sustainable value creation, is to acquire Altasciences from Audax Private Equity.
Founded in 1992, Altasciences is a fully-integrated, early drug development services platform, providing the pharma and biotech industries with a trusted partner for drug development, from preclinical safety testing through clinical proof-of-concept studies. In the past decade, the company has grown both organically and through acquisitions to have a significant presence in the preclinical safety testing, clinical pharmacology, bioanalytical, CRO services, and CDMO markets. Headquartered in Laval, Canada, Altasciences operates six facilities in the US and Canada
Creatio, a global software company that provides a low-code platform for process management and CRM, has completed a USD68 million capital raise led by Volition Capital, a US-based growth equity firm investing in high growth companies, with participation from Horizon Capital, a private equity firm investing in Europe.
The funding is a minority investment to fuel the company’s growth, with Creatio’s strategy, leadership team, product vision and commitment to customer success remaining unchanged.
Since its founding, Creatio has achieved rapid organic growth without previous external capital. Today, the company is delivering exceptional financial results with a team of 600 people
Market research and online consumer intelligence veteran Richard Thornton has been appointed to the board of fast-growing Manchester-based consumer insights business Vypr following a GBP2.5m investment backed by private equity firm YFM Equity Partners (YFM) in January 2021.
Vypr has built a cloud-based data validation platform that enables manufacturers and retailers to save time and costs on new product development by providing insight into what customers want to see on the shelves. Its industry-leading process combines research into behavioural science with its own well-segmented consumer panel, putting the client in full control and enabling them to test every aspect of
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