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Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, has made an investment in Learn on Demand Systems, a specialist provider of virtual labs used to power hands-on, experiential technology training. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Learn on Demand Systems provides cloud-based virtual lab environments to address a range of organizations’ information technology (IT) needs across skills validation, education, sales enablement, and customer support. The company’s offerings empower organizations to accelerate skills acquisition through scored hands-on experiences across a diverse set of topics including DevOps, cloud, security, and software development. The company has experienced record growth at a time when
nPlan, a company that uses machine learning to forecast the duration, risks and opportunities of construction projects, has secured an USD18.5 million investment round, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures).
Wabtec Corporation is to acquire Nordco, a North American supplier of new, rebuilt and used maintenance of way equipment with a broad product and service portfolio including mobile railcar movers and ultrasonic rail flaw detection technologies, from Greenbriar Equity Group LP.
Through the acquisition, Wabtec will expand its installed base and accelerate growth across Nordco’s innovative product portfolio both domestically and internationally, while driving increased value creation for customers and shareholders. The acquisition has received necessary regulatory approvals and is subject to customary closing conditions.
“Nordco is a strategic addition to the Wabtec portfolio with an attractive pipeline of
Susquehanna Private Capital (SPC) has made an investment in Premium Service Brands (PSB), a leading Charlottesville, Virginia-based franchisor of multi-brand home services with a specialty in home improvement brands.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Premium Service Brands partners with franchisees to provide comprehensive training, sophisticated technology, and cross-branded support for every step of their nascent home service business. In 2006, Paul Flick launched the PSB platform with the Company’s flagship brand, 360° Painting, a full-service residential and commercial painting business. Today, PSB’s portfolio includes unique companies across seven in-demand service areas, including 360° Painting, ProLift Garage
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
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