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Private equity investor NewSpring’s latest strategy, NewSpring Franchise, has invested in Blo Blow Dry Bar (Blo), North America’s original blow dry bar franchise.
“The investment in Blo Blow Dry Bar is a landmark for NewSpring as it represents the first deal in our newly formed franchise portfolio,” says Patrick Sugrue, NewSpring General Partner. “Our extensive diligence on the business revealed the strong combination of a unique concept in a high-growth sector with increasing demand, healthy income potential for its franchise partners, and a strong management team. We’re thrilled to launch the Franchise strategy with such an exciting investment and look
AMC Capital IV, advised by Mezzanine Management, has made an investmenmt in Plasta Group, which comprises Lithuanian recycled plastic rubbish bag producer Plasta and Swedish producer Rullpack.
Plasta is a major recycled plastic processing and manufacturing company in Europe, making over 500 million bags per year. The company boasts the largest recycling and extrusion plant in the Baltics and one of the largest in Europe, and operates a subsidiary in Sweden acquired in 2019. Most of the group’s revenues come from selling low-density polyethylene plastic bags which are made from post-consumer recycled materials.
Plasta marks the 10th deal
Gravie, a specialist in defined contribution healthcare, has raised USD28 million in a Series D round of financing led by AXA Venture Partners (AVP), with participation from existing investors FirstMark Capital, Split Rock Ventures and Revelation Partners.
The capital will be used to fuel Gravie’s continued growth through investments in product and technology, sales and marketing, and expansion into new markets through new and existing distribution channels.
“We are excited to partner with AXA Venture Partners in our mission to heal our broken healthcare system,” says Abir Sen, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Gravie. “Over the past couple of years,
Commonfund Capitalhas closed Commonfund Venture Partners XIII (CVP XIII) at its hard cap of USD625 million. The oversubscribed fund had strong participation from existing investors, as well as select new institutional limited partners. Investors in the fund include foundations, endowments, pensions, healthcare systems and family offices.
“We are very appreciative of the continued support from our mission-driven and membership-based investors. The combination of our industry relationships, dedicated focus and access as well as our information advantages should enable us to support the innovation economy and drive returns for our investors,” says Aaron Miller, Managing Director and Head of Venture Capital.
Citizens M&A Advisory announced has served as the exclusive financial adviser to trustaff Management and CardioSolution on their recapitalisation by Cornell Capital and Trilantic North America, two New York-based private equity firms.
Founded in 2002, trustaff Management is a provider of travel nurse and allied healthcare staffing services while CardioSolution delivers a managed services offering providing cardiologists and support personnel to hospitals. Since inception trustaff has demonstrated industry-leading growth on its path to become one of the largest healthcare staffing firms in the country and a Top 5 provider of travel nurses. CardioSolution offers a differentiated service model that includes
Chasm Partners has ChasmDILIGENCE, a new solution aimed at providing insights to help private equity and venture capital investors perform human capital diligence at deal stage.
“Since 2015, Chasm has helped our clients in Venture Capital and Private Equity scale by placing top tier talent in their healthcare organisation investments,” says Matt Dumas, Managing Partner at Chasm. “Leveraging our unique approaches to psychometric testing and candidate evaluation when making placements for our clients, we have developed ChasmDILIGENCE to provide a more practical alternative to human capital due diligence than traditional approaches have offered.”
All ChasmDILIGENCE engagements are managed by highly
Blue Point Capital Partners has acquired Weaver Leather, its ninth Blue Point IV platform investment.
Based in Mt Hope, Ohio, Weaver is a produces enthusiast brands in the equine, pet, leather crafting, arborist, livestock and construction markets. Known for its quality and breadth of products, Weaver manufactures, markets and distributes a broad line of branded and non-branded leather, nylon/synthetic, hardware and other products and accessories. The Company’s deep customer and supplier partnerships have enabled its history of growth and successful entry into new end markets and product categories. For over 45 years, Weaver’s core values, culture and management philosophy
Global consultancy Kearney has promoted Alberto Fumo to European lead for the firm’s Private Equity and M&A practice (PEMA). Based in London, Fumo has risen through the ranks in the firm over the last eight years developing the PEMA practice.
Fumo brings more than 20 years of advisory experience with private equity funds, venture capital, and corporations to the role. During this time, he has successfully advised on more than 300 acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures. In his new role, will be tasked with growing the firm’s footprint in the PE and Corporate M&A sector across Europe.
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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.
Eurazeo, via its Eurazeo PME subsidiary, has signed an exclusivity agreement under which it would invest, as a majority shareholder, alongside Groupe Premium’s current shareholders – Montefiore Investment, Groupe Premium’s management including Olivier Farouz, Laurent and Didier Zerbib, Benoît Jauvert and other key executives, together with independent agent partners.
The transaction would value Groupe Premium at EUR290 million and Eurazeo PME’s investment should be around EUR100 million, depending on the level of reinvestment by current shareholders.
Groupe Premium was founded in 2000 and is France’s leading independent broker for life insurance and retirement savings solutions aimed at the
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