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Pamlico Capital (Pamlico) has completed a growth investment in Canadian Orthodontic Partners (COP) alongside current shareholders and management.
Headquartered in Toronto, COP is the largest orthodontics-focused specialty dental support organisation (SDSO) in Canada and actively serves more than 30,000 patients across over 60 clinics in eight provinces.
“We are excited to partner with Pamlico as we look to enter our next phase of rapid growth,” says Anthony Milonas, CEO of COP. “We value Pamlico’s commitment to our mission of delivering the highest quality of care centred around outstanding doctors, superior technology, and unsurpassed patient satisfaction. This collaboration with Pamlico gives
Maverix Private Equity has appointed SS&C GlobeOp as fund administrator for its inaugural growth equity fund.
Maverix will use SS&C GlobeOp’s full suite of private capital fund services to support the Maverix Growth Equity Fund, including its fund accounting, investor services, reporting and data analytics. SS&C’s Toronto team will oversee services for the fund. Maverix was founded in early 2021 by John Ruffolo and Mark Maybank.
“We aim to build a globally-recognized, industry-leading, Canada-based private equity platform, so we want to partner with the best. SS&C is one of the world’s largest private equity administrators,” says John Ruffolo, Managing
Linklaters has appointed private equity expert Florent Mazeron as Partner.
Mazeron will also be one of the leaders of Linklaters’ global Financial Sponsors group. He will be joining the firm in Paris from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he has been a Partner since 2016. Prior to that, he spent almost ten years working at the French boutique firm Bredin Prat.
Mazeron focuses on major private equity transactions and other corporate transactions in relation to both public and private M&A deals as well as in relation to the setting up of strategic partnerships and joint-venture agreements.
The arrival of Mazeron strengthens
Live streaming sponsorships platform inSTREAMLY has raised a EUR1.1 million seed round led by Supernode Global to expand into new markets.
Founded in 2019 by a team of live streaming and marketing professionals, inSTREAMLY has built a platform that enables all streamers – regardless of size – access to brands and to participate and execute sponsorships.
Colopl Next and PKO TFI were also involved in the investment round and previous pre-seed investment was secured from SMOK VC, which is run by Paul Bragiel, an investor in Niantic (PokemonGO), Unity, Uber, and Stripe.
The global live streaming market is
Ingram Content Group (Ingram) has signed a definitive agreement to sell VitalSource Technologies LLC to Francisco Partners, a global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses.
Canoe Intelligence, a financial technology company focused on reimagining data management processes for alternative investors and allocators, has announced a new collaboration with Holland Mountain, a leading data solutions provider to the Private Capital industry.
Through this collaboration, Holland Mountain can now offer a connector for Canoe’s technology to mutual clients. This forms a crucial part of Canoe’s expansion into Europe and the broadening of services available to help firms achieve operational efficiency and scale. Holland Mountain’s ATLAS data platform will be able to connect seamlessly with Canoe’s technology to streamline the delivery and aggregation of clean alternative investment reporting
Growth capital investor BGF has invested GBP14 million in Bloom (Bloom Procurement Services), based in the North East and headquartered in Gateshead.
Bloom is the UK’s only public sector procurement marketplace offering an end-to-end managed service procurement solution.
Founded in 2011 by Adam Jacobs, the executive chairman, Bloom provides a dynamic and open access marketplace for the provision of professional services to the UK Public Sector.
Bloom’s managed service enables public sector buyers to compliantly and transparently award public sector contracts and achieve significant savings. Buyers have access to a dynamic supplier base across a wide range of
AURES Holdings is to launch Driverama which is aiming to become the first ever truly borderless pan-European online used car retailer, bringing to market a ‘bricks and clicks’ operating model that delivers the widest choice of vehicles, most sophisticated car buying and selling technology and best value for customers across the continent.
As part of AURES Holdings, the largest independent used car retailer in Europe with more than EUR700 million in revenue, EUR44 million EBITDA and over 2.5 million customers served, Driverama will initially launch in Germany, with over 5,000 of its own fully inspected cars, before rolling the concept
YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has appointed Tiffany Young as investment manager, based at its London office. Young will join YFM’s investment team to support the origination and execution of new investments across both growth capital and buyout opportunities.
Young is an experienced investor having spent the last three years at venture capital fund, Pentech. Prior to this, she was part of the founding investment team at The AllBright Group.
Young is a member of Founders of the Future and is an alumnus of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation. In 2015, she launched the Breakfast With Tiffany blog to provide a
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital’s portfolio company, SMAC, a French provider of waterproofing and building envelope solutions, has completed the sale of its skylights-related division to Kingspan Light + Air, a division of Kingspan Group Plc.
The sale of the skylights division includes two business lines; Skydôme, a subsidiary focused on the production of daylighting, ventilation, smoke evacuation, and roofing access systems; and Essemes Services, a division within Skydôme specialising in the installation of skylights and the maintenance of fire safety equipment. OpenGate acquired SMAC from Colas Group in May of 2019. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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