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The latest Autotech M&A market report from Hampleton Partners, the international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, reveals how two of the three largest autotech transactions during the second half of 2020 were led by “special purpose acquisition companies” (SPACs).
The largest acquisition in Autotech was by Gores Metropoulos’ acquisition of Luminar Technologies for USD3.4 billion in August 2020, after which it listed the company on the Nasdaq. Luminar Technologies provides advanced long-range, high resolution lidar and perception systems to enable safe autonomous transportation.
The third largest acquisition was by SPAC Thunder Bridge, which acquired “system-on-chip” manufacturer Ay Dee Kay, now
Goldner Hawn has sold Applied Products (Applied Adhesives), a manufacturer and distributor of adhesive products and thermal product solutions in North America, to Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal). The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Applied Adhesives is a comprehensive provider of adhesive solutions for the packaging, paper converting, graphic arts, bottle labelling, product assembly, and woodworking industries. The company is a value-added distributor of hot melt, water-based, and reactive adhesives as well as dispensing equipment. Applied Adhesives serves as a critical supply chain partner to leading adhesive manufacturers and formulators by offering reach and high service levels to
Ares Management Corporation (Ares) has held the final closing of its Ares Pathfinder Fund, with USD3.7 billion in total commitments. The Fund was significantly oversubscribed at its hard cap and exceeded its original target of USD2.0 billion.
Pathfinder is managed by Ares’ Alternative Credit team, which pursues a differentiated strategy of providing tailored financial solutions for owners of large, diversified portfolios of assets that generate predictable and contractual cash flows throughout market cycles. Pathfinder is the team’s flagship global Fund that invests in alternative credit assets that are often sourced in the financing gaps found between the credit, private equity
Appfire, a provider of apps that help teams solve modern challenges with digital solutions, has received a USD100 million investment from TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm.
With this investment, Appfire intends to continue its leadership within the Atlassian ecosystem with more than 85 purpose-built products on the Atlassian Marketplace and over 110,000 active installations worldwide.
TA’s investment in Appfire comes on the heels of a USD49 million strategic investment from Silversmith Capital Partners in May 2020. Since Silversmith’s investment, Appfire has made six acquisitions within the Atlassian ecosystem – Artemis, Beecom, Bolo, Botron, Innovalog and
Socure, a specialist in 100 per cent digital identity trust, has secured USD100 million in a Series D round of funding led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Commerce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Flint Capital, Citi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Synchrony, Sorenson, Two Sigma Ventures, and others.
This round brings Socure’s total funding to USD196 million, following a recent USD35 million investment less than six months ago led by Sorenson Ventures.
Already the leader in financial services, the new financing will support Socure’s rapid expansion across every consumer-facing vertical including online gaming, healthcare, telco, e-commerce, and on-demand services.
Ten scaleups, which between them secured 20 per cent of total UK tech VC investment at USD3.5 billion drove UK tech in 2020, according to Tech Nations’ latest report on the state of the UK tech sector.
In this week’s podcast, Private Equity Wire picked the brains of Albright Capital CIO and co-founder John Yonemoto to find out how EM policy makers responded to the pandemic, whether events that unfolded in 2020 have reinforced some of the beliefs LPs might hold regarding EM private markets, and some of the investment risk disparities between developed and emerging markets at the moment.
Bowmark Capital has agreed to sell its stake in Oxford International Education Group, an international education provider, as part of two simultaneous transactions – the sale of the company’s schools division to Nord Anglia Education, and the sale of its university partnerships, online learning and languages business to a management buy-out, backed by THI Investments.
Since Bowmark invested in the group in March 2014, Oxford International has significantly expanded the scale and scope of its schools and university partnerships businesses, more than doubling overall group revenues. The schools division has grown from one to three top-performing independent schools and now
Deep Tech start up Nuventura has launched a new funding round in order to make the crucial next steps towards the product’s industrialisation and prepare for expansion into other markets. In December 2020 deep tech startup Nuventura successfully closed an equity funding round of EUR2.5 million in extension of its 2019 seed round.
This funding round was led by new investors Cycle Eco Technology Fund and DOEN Participaties with the participation of existing investors IBB Ventures, APEX Energy and Future Energy Ventures as well as several well-known angel investors. To date, Nuventura’s total funding amounts to more than EUR8 million.
Funds advised by Apax have signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Lutech (Lutech), an IT services, software and technology company in Italy, from One Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm.
The financial terms of the transaction, which are subject to applicable regulatory approvals, have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2001, Lutech is a leading Italian IT services and solutions provider, designing and enabling digital transformation and innovative enterprise technologies for private and public-sector clients. Lutech is able to deliver a wide range of solutions including digital strategy definition, proprietary software, system integration and
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