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An affiliate of private investment firm Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) is to sell StonePoint Ultimate Holding, and affiliated entities (StonePoint), to Arcosa, a provider of infrastructure-related products and solutions.
StonePoint is a top-25 US aggregates company that provides crushed stone, sand and gravel to diverse end markets, including infrastructure, commercial and residential construction and energy. The company operates across nine states in the Gulf Coast, Midwest and Southeast regions, producing approximately 9.0 million tons of aggregates annually and offers complementary asphalt production and paving services in certain markets.
“Our work with StonePoint underscores our strength in
Osceola Capital (Osceola), a lower middle-market private equity firm, has formed Revelation Pharma Corp to pursue investments and partnerships across the pharmacy compounding market in partnership with industry veteran Jacob Beckel.
Concurrent with the formation of Revelation Pharma Corp (Revelation), the company has completed the acquisition of Pensacola, Florida-based Everwell Specialty Pharmacy (Everwell). The acquisition is expected to be followed closely by multiple add-ons. The pharmacies in scope function as 503A compounders, which prepare specially compounded medications. Osceola and Beckel have identified a rich pipeline of additional transactions. Revelation represents the eighth platform in Osceola Fund I, the firm’s flagship
New Rhein Healthcare Investors announced has agreed to sell its 60 per cent stake in Softhale NV to Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited for a USD110 million upfront payment plus a profit share.
The total deal value could exceed USD200 million subject to Softhale’s business development. The sale of Softhale marks the first exit from New Rhein’s latest fund, which was launched in 2018.
Headquartered in Belgium, Softhale has developed a new generation of Soft Mist Inhalation (SMI) devices to improve respiratory treatments. The company delivers proven drugs through its proprietary SMI device designed to deliver medication to the lungs more effectively
Insightful Science, a software provider serving the global life sciences community, is to acquire Dotmatics, a cloud-based scientific R&D data management platform.
By integrating Insightful Science’s software applications into Dotmatics cloud-first enterprise data management solution, the company will provide an end-to-end scientific research platform. This combination further improves laboratory efficiency and accelerates the pace of scientific innovation by facilitating more rapid data access, analysis and exchange between scientists around the world.
Insightful Science is a software company with purpose-built data analysis and bioinformatics applications for life sciences. The company portfolio serves a diverse set of one million scientists in academic,
Gulf Capital, a growth markets alternative investment firm, has completed two strategic acquisitions of US healthtech companies for a total transaction value of USD60 million.
The majority stake investments in Eclat Health and Hansei Solutions will expand Gulf Capital’s healthcare-focused Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) platform. In 2018, Gulf Capital had already acquired a majority stake in ACCUMED Practice Management (Accumed), the leading RCM provider in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Eclat Health (Eclat) is a Washington DC-based technology-enabled healthcare solutions provider, and Hansei Solutions is a tech-driven full-suite RCM operator based out of California.
In line with its buy-and-build strategy
Data in the report ‘Impact investing and the rise of sustainable tech’ shows that impact technology companies are receiving a fast-increasing amount of private equity investment. As the sector matures, those raises are becoming larger and focused on later-stage companies.
GP Bullhound analysed more than 10,000 fundraise transactions and 3,000 M&A transactions, starting in 2015, with the key data insights including:
Record investment levels: Impact companies have raised record levels of investment in Europe and North America in 2020, breaking USD10 billion for the first time
Growing funding rounds: Funding for impact companies has increased by 51 per cent
Vórtx, a tech-enabled corporate and trust service provider for fund managers and corporate issuers in Brazil, has raised USD35 million in Series B funding, led by FTV Capital.
The funding will be used to accelerate Vórtx’s technology enhancements and market presence in the financial back-office market, as the alternatives market in Brazil continues to accelerate.
Vórtx was founded in 2015 by capital markets experts Juliano Cornacchia and Alexandre Assolini, and has since become a one-stop shop for fund managers and corporations alike, through its comprehensive core offering for fund administration and corporate services. Vórtx’s offering includes services in areas
Biomedical startup Adapttech has raised GBP2 million in a new venture capital funding round.
The round was supported by existing investors including the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund; Bionova Capital (formerly Hovione Capital), as well as new investors including ACF Investors, Wealth Club and Wren Capital.
The new funding will be primarily be used for new product developments, and to drive sales of the company’s INSIGHT system, which makes it faster and easier to correctly fit lower-limb prostheses and monitor the rehabilitation process.
Active Capital has sold Active Assurances Groupe, a native digital broker of car and health insurance products, to the Meilleurtaux group after three years of ownership.
Founded in 2011 by Thomas Riottot, Denis Salmoiraghi and Didier Naccache, Active Assurances has enjoyed uninterrupted growth since its launch. The company has quickly established itself as a leading independent online car insurance broker. With management centres in France and Madagascar, the Active Assurances group is set to generate 120,000 new policies during the 2020/2021 financial year (ending in June) and double its turnover.
The acquisition of Active Assurances will enable Meilleurtaux to
American Residential Services (ARS), the nation’s largest provider of residential heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and plumbing services, has appointed Scott Boose as Chief Executive Officer.
Boose, a senior executive with significant experience in the HVAC, plumbing, and home services industries, succeeds David Slott, CEO of ARS, who will remain in a senior advisory role and assist Boose and senior management during this orderly leadership transition.
Based in Memphis, Tennessee, ARS operates a network of more than 70 locally managed service centres in 24 states, with approximately 6,000 highly talented employees and the largest team of HVAC technicians and plumbers
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