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Alantra has completed the acquisition of a 49 per cent stake in Indigo Capital SAS (Indigo), a pan-European private debt asset manager.Based in Paris, Indigo is an independent, established player in the alternative finance market specialising in the financing of small and medium-sized European businesses worth between EUR20-300 million through a combination of private bonds and preferred equity. Since inception, the firm’s seven investment professionals have completed over 50 investments for a total value of more than EUR800 million across France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK.
The investment in Indigo Capital represents yet another step in the growth
Inflexion has made a majority investment in Sparta Global, an technology and training services provider. The investment is being made by Inflexion Enterprise Fund V, Inflexion’s lower mid‐market fund. Sparta trains graduates in a range of technology skills and then deploys “Spartans” in relevant roles with its clients, plugging the skills gap between university education and technology and business professionals. Sparta’s graduates come from a diverse range of backgrounds before being trained in one of the firm’s programmes, which cover in demand technology areas such as data engineering, software engineering, DevOps and business analysis.
By ensuring its own intake is diverse,
One of the few positive effects of the pandemic is that it provides an opportunity to shift some bad habits and build some better ones. According to Jamie Nascimento, co-founder at LemonTree Software – the first low-code development platform for financial services with an alternative asset investment solution – the pandemic has exposed workarounds that many of his clients have in place, as their software didn’t deliver against their needs during lockdown. In this feature he explores the possibility of changing your habits, particularly tech habits, during a time when everything is in flux.
Habits. We all have them –
BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity services company, has acquired Managed Sentinel, a specialist in the deployment and management of Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM, and Azure Sentinel, plus Microsoft’s XDR platform, Microsoft Defender.Organisations are increasingly looking for cloud-native security solutions. With the shift towards Extended Detection and Response (XDR) as customers demand more response capabilities beyond endpoint, as well as the drive to consolidate vendors and service providers, the acquisition of Managed Sentinel complements BlueVoyant’s managed detection and response (MDR) for Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
Working alongside BlueVoyant, Managed Sentinel strengthens BlueVoyant’s ability to better serve Microsoft customers globally, while enabling Managed Sentinel
Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to EasyWorkforce Software Corporation, a workforce management software provider, on its growth equity investment from CFH Strategic Investment I. Founded in 2011, and formerly known as EasyClocking, EasyWorkforce is globally recognised as a premier workforce management solution provider. EasyWorkforce’s suite of solutions includes proprietary SaaS-based time and attendance and advanced scheduling solutions that help more than 10,000 clients across six continents manage complex workforce needs surrounding time, labor and leave. In conjunction with its SaaS platform, the company sells advanced biometric time clocks that operate on proprietary Android-based software.
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Susquehanna Private Capital (SPC) HAS announced an investment in Authority Franchise Systems (Mosquito Authority), a North Carolina based franchisor of mosquito, pest and tick control services throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
In addition to the Mosquito Authority brand, The company owns and operates Pest Authority, which includes commercial and residential services for ticks, bed bugs and termites. The Company seeks to deliver exceptional and personalised pest control services through its affordable “No commitments. No contracts” methodology. Mosquito Authority was founded in 2002 by Joey Osborne and is led by
A software platform that helps companies to manage rebate and incentive schemes has raised a further GBP950,000 from investors.
Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has appointed Lyndon Faulkner as an Operating Partner.In this capacity, Faulkner will share his extensive management and operational expertise with the Behrman investment team and the executive teams of the firm’s portfolio companies. He will continue to serve as Executive Chairman of Pelican Products, a Behrman portfolio company that he previously led as President and CEO for 14 years.
Grant G Behrman, Managing Partner of Behrman Capital, says: “We are delighted that Lyndon has become an Operating Partner of the Firm. He led an exceptional
AUA Private Equity Partners (AUA Private Equity) has sold Indulge Desserts Holdings (Indulge Desserts) to Emmi Group (Emmi), a publicly-listed Swiss milk processor which dates back to 1907 when it was founded by 62 dairy farming cooperatives around Lucerne.Over its four year holding period, AUA Private Equity was instrumental in growing Indulge Desserts from a founder-run business to a leading institutional, culinary-driven desserts company. Under AUA Private Equity’s ownership, Indulge Desserts’ top line grew 100 per cent and EBITDA grew over 70 per cent through both organic growth and acquisitions. AUA Private Equity assisted Indulge Desserts in entering, and expanding
Duff & Phelps, a provider of governance, risk and transparency solutions, has launched its Equity Match service, which matches the equity funding requirements of UK based SMEs with specialist equity investors from a select network.Equity Match provides SMEs with access to difficult-to-find equity investors who are willing to inject smaller sums not usually associated with the appetite of the mainstream private equity market.
Paul Reeves, Managing Director, Restructuring Advisory, Duff & Phelps, says: “This new offering is about matching the requirements of an enterprise with potential investors who we feel most closely align in terms of cultural fit. We have
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