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Chicago-based private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners’ (CORE) portfolio company Fathom has acquired GPI Prototype & Manufacturing Services (GPI), a metal additive manufacturing services provider.CORE acquired Midwest Composite Technologies in 2018, and FATHOM and ICOMold in 2019. All four companies will be moving forward under the FATHOM brand.
Founded in 2007 as one of the first metal additive manufacturing services providers in the country, GPI uses Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) to print parts with complex geometries for on-demand manufacturing applications. Utilising a variety of metal powders, including aluminium, stainless steel, tool steel, titanium, inconel and cobalt chrome, GPI
Two of the UK’s four largest Private Equity firms are live on Holland Mountain’s Data Platform.
AST Private Company Solutions (AST PCS) has partnered with Standish Management, a fund administration provider to private equity with over USD130-plus billion under administration. Users of PCS’s Astrella capitalisation (cap) table and ownership tracking platform will be able to integrate relevant ownership data from Astrella to Standish. Standish will use this data to support limited partner (LP) financial reporting and communications, capital calls and distributions and partnership accounting.
Astrella was built by AST PCS, the Silicon Valley-based business unit of ownership data management leader AST, as a new cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to manage private company ownership data. The solution
Onex Corporation has promoted Bobby Le Blanc to President. Le Blanc will oversee all of Onex’ business units and become the sole Head of Onex Partners, the firm’s flagship private equity strategy. Gerry Schwartz will remain Chairman and CEO, with Le Blanc reporting to him.
Schwartz says: “Having joined the firm more than 20 years ago, Bobby represents the best of Onex. I am confident he will continue to be a positive force in our future success and Onex, our shareholders and our partners will continue to benefit from his proven leadership.”
This announcement is part of Onex’ broader
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrial, and software industries, has appointed Mitch Aiello, who has over 30 years of commercial, technical and operational experience in highly-engineered materials and component manufacturing, to the firm’s Strategic Advisory Board (SAB).Aiello served as Chief Executive Officer of former Genstar portfolio company Boyd Corporation, a market leader in thermal management and engineered materials solutions serving a diverse set of end markets, including mobile computing, consumer and enterprise electronics, transportation, data storage, medical, and aerospace. Under Aiello’s 20-plus years of leadership, the company grew
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital), a Washington DC-based private equity firm, is to sell Centauri to KBR for USD827 million. Centauri is an independent provider of space, directed energy, and other advanced technology solutions to the United States Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Centauri is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia with 22 offices strategically positioned within the United States and employs more than 1,750, half of whom have advanced degrees.
David Wodlinger, a Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “During our partnership, Centauri achieved dramatic growth and, through unique subject matter expertise along with aggressive investments in technology, solidified its role
Lever VC, an alternative protein VC fund whose partners were investors in Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and Memphis Meats, has held a first close of its first fund, which currently has USD23 million in commitments.
Palo Alto-based Social Capital, a tech holding company founded by Chamath Palihapitiya that supports innovative companies in healthcare, artificial intelligence, climate change and space has acquired Hustle, a peer-to-peer text messaging platform.
Chief executive officer Steven Pease and the Hustle management team will continue in their roles following the deal.
Founded in 2014, Hustle offers peer-to-peer text communication tools that create human connections between organisations and their contacts. Hustle’s TCPA compliant platform enables two-way conversations that develop connections over text messaging, eliminating barriers and igniting support for advocacy groups, fundraising, admissions and recruiting.
Organisations using Hustle already include the American
EQT Infrastructure’s EQT Infrastructure IV fund has agreed to acquire EdgeConneX from an investor group led by Providence Equity Partners (Providence).EdgeConneX builds and operates data centres for cloud, content, network and other service providers requiring both larger purpose-built facilities as well as edge facilities located closer to consumer and enterprise users to support latency-sensitive applications cost effectively. The Company’s broad footprint and relentless customer-focused business strategy have proven ideally suited to support these sophisticated customers’ strategic data centre demands, from the Hyperscale to the Edge. As customers rapidly expand their critical infrastructure around the globe, they look to EdgeConneX as
DayDayCook, a China and Hong Kong-based lifestyle cooking platform, has raised USD20 million in funding to step up its expansion. The round was led by London-based venture capital firm Talis Capital with participation from Hong Kong-based VC Ironfire Ventures. Founded in 2012 in Hong Kong by Norma Chu, DayDayCook is China’s leading cooking multimedia platform, providing a wide variety of quality recipes and methods for traditional and modern Chinese dishes to its users. The platform has over 475 million views per month from its website, mobile app, and multiple online streaming and video channels such as YouTube, China-based iQiyi, TikTok and
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