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Sovereign Capital Partners, a UK private equity Buy & Build specialist, has backed Skerritts, a successful Independent Financial Advisory (IFA) and Wealth Management business, in a deal worth GBP55 million.
Sovereign is partnering the management team led by founder Richard Skerritt, to develop the business through a strategy of organic and acquisitive growth.
Founded in 1990, Skerritts provides financial planning and investment management services, and currently looks after c4k private clients as well as corporates. Headquartered in Hove, South Coast of England, and with an office in the City of London, the business has a team of c40 staff.
Rubicon Partners, an investment partnership focused on the acquisition of industrial businesses in Europe and North America, has acquired a majority share Bamboo Distribution.
Rubicon Partners is a hands-on investment partnership focused on the acquisition of industrial businesses in Europe and North America.
Juney Mistiki, Managing Director of Bamboo Distribution, says: “Rubicon’s decision to invest in our company is based on a number of strategic factors – Bamboo Distribution’s commitment to sustainability, our compliance with all environmental and data protection regulations, current and projected growth expectations, operational capabilities and our specialist knowledge of the mobile refurbishing, distribution, recycling and
Edtech marketplace, Preply, has secured an additional USD35 million of funding, a sum that exceeds the platform’s cumulative fundraising efforts since 2013.
The round was co-led by Owl Ventures and Full In Partners, with participation from previous investors Point Nine Capital, Hoxton Ventures, as well as EduCapital, All Iron, Diligent Capital and Evli Growth Partners. Angel investors Niklas Ostberg, co-founder and CEO of Delivery Hero, Arthur Kosten, co-founder of Booking.com, Przemyslaw Gacek, co-founder of Grupa Pracuj, and David Helgason, co-founder of Unity Technologies are also participants.
This Series B announcement comes on the heels of an exceptional year for
One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock) has successfully closed its third flagship private equity fund at its hard cap, with total capital commitments of USD2.0 billion.
One Rock Capital Partners III marks One Rock’s largest fund to date, having surpassed its target of USD1.5 billion.
Formed in 2010 by Tony W Lee and R Scott Spielvogel, One Rock is a leading private equity firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The firm’s experienced senior investment professional team collaborates with a deep bench of skilled Operating Partners to catalyse growth and operational improvement at select high-potential businesses. One
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Lucid Group, the international multi-capability healthcare communications group, to alternative asset manager ICG, following a significant period of growth.
London-headquartered Lucid Group provides medical education and communication, strategic consultancy and digital services to its clients through an integrated group of specialist agencies. The firm, which employs more around 250 staff across the UK, US and international offices, works with the world’s leading pharmaceutical brands to improve both disease management and patient outcomes.
LDC originally backed co-founders Dennis O’Brien and Jan Steele in 2017, investing GBP11 million for a minority
Exabel, an analytics and data platform for investment teams, has closed a fourth seed investment round from investor AWC (formerly Awilhelmsen Capital Holdings), bringing its total capital raised to over USD21 million.
The company also announced today the launch of the new “Exabel Insights Platform” product for alternative data vendors.
“We’re delighted to support Exabel’s next phase of growth and we believe strongly in their potential to lead the emerging Alternative Data Insights category,” says Arve Ree, CEO AWC.
AWC is an active investor with a flexible investment mandate, investing in both listed and private companies. As part of
Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security leader, announced today the completion of USD135m in Series E funding led by ION Crossover Partners, putting Aqua’s valuation in excess of USD1 billion.
The round included broad participation from Aqua’s existing investors, including M12 – Microsoft’s venture fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV Partners, Greenspring Associates, and Acrew Capital. This new round of investment follows a period of tremendous growth and will enable the company to broaden and deepen its solution portfolio, as well as expand its presence geographically.
Aqua Security’s total funding since its founding in 2015 now totals
Pluto Digital Assets (Pluto), a crypto venture capital and technology company has closed its third and largest funding round to date.
The round was led by Argo Blockchain which will be maintaining its c25 per cent stake with an investment of approximately USD10 million. Two other publicly traded companies, Pires Investments (PIRI.L) and Riverfort Global Opportunities (RGO.L) amongst others, participated in the total raise of cUSD40 million.
Pluto Digital Assets has been actively deploying capital into new token issuances at seed level, incubating projects, taking equity positions and holding strategic and treasury positions in digital assets. The senior team has
Early-stage tech venture capital firms Passion Capital is opening up its latest GBP45 million fund, Passion Capital Fund III, to investors registered and qualified by the Seedrs platform.
Passion Capital will make an allocation available to the public, making it the first time retail investors can be part of a private venture fund that invests in some of the UK’s most exciting early stage tech startups.
Passion Capital’s third fund includes new General Partner Malin Posern, who joins existing partners Robert Dighero and Eileen Burbidge. Through this opportunity, an allocation will be made available on the Seedrs platform so that
BGF has completed a multi-million-pound investment in Stark, a leading provider of energy data and analytics services, based in Horley, Surrey.
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