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The Red Tree, the UK’s leading international beauty brand consultancy, and SFC Capital, a leader in the UK’s early stage investment world, have launched The Beauty Accelerator a joint initiative that will see one emerging independent beauty brand receive GBP150,000 investment plus the knowledge and expertise of The Red Tree applied over 12 months.Speaking about the launch, Stirling Murray, Managing Director of The Red Tree, says: “We are extremely excited about The Beauty Accelerator. There is an incredibly vibrant independent beauty brand scene in the UK with dynamic entrepreneurs driving game changing innovation and creating disruptive brands. We will give
MiddleGround Capital, a private equity firm that makes control investments in North American middle market B2B industrial and specialty distribution companies, has acquired Manth-Brownell through its portfolio company Alco Manufacturing Corporation, which MiddleGround acquired in July 2018. This transaction represents MiddleGround’s fourth acquisition of 2020.
Manth-Brownell is a manufacturer of precision machined components, primarily serving the electrical connector, fluid power, industrial, appliance, safety and aerospace end markets. The company has a diverse fleet of machines, with over 100 multi-spindle screw machines and 50 CNC turning and milling machines, and operates out of a single facility in Kirkville, NY.
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Capsa Healthcare (Capsa), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), has acquired NewRobo Development BV and subsidiaries (collectively, RoboPharma). Based in Waalwijk, Netherlands, RoboPharma creates and implements pharmacy automation solutions for some of the largest pharmacies in Europe.
Capsa is a leading provider of workflow products that aim to increase efficiency and reduce costs, enhance medication security, and tighten inventory control across healthcare settings worldwide. Capsa’s core offerings include mobile workstations, medication management solutions, and pharmacy automation products sold to over 3,000 end customers, including leading health systems, senior care communities, and major retail and institutional pharmacies. Capsa
General Atlantic has entered a strategic partnership with fitness community and apparel brand Gymshark in its first-ever fundraise, valuing the business at over GBP1 billion.
The valuation means that Gymshark joins the list of fewer than 25 British companies to have secured unicorn status since 2001. It is the second British company to have done so without previous support from external investors.
In connection with GA’s investment the founder is increasing his stake in the company to more than 70 per cent. GA will take a 21 per cent stake in the business following the deal, and Melis Kahya Akar,
Thomson Reuters has acquired CaseLines, a cloud-based court document and evidence management platform, in order to digitally transform legal processes.
HealthEdge, the provider of HealthRules Payor,van integrated financial, administrative and clinical platform for health insurers, has completed the acquisition of The Burgess Group (Burgess), a payment integrity software company focused on improving healthcare payment operations through technology. Health plan customers will now benefit from claims cost savings via the Burgess Source platform’s ability to identify and reduce wasteful spending in the US healthcare system.
“We are really excited about the future of HealthEdge,” says Steve Krupa, CEO of HealthEdge. “Our company’s growth and maturation, coupled with strategic and capital support from our investors, have enabled us to take a significant step
CI Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has formed a partnership with Martin Reidy to jointly pursue platform company investments in the marketing services industry. Reidy brings has significant operational experience in marketing services, having most recently served as the President & CEO of Ansira, a leading technology-enabled marketing solutions provider focused on targeted local marketing. Prior to Ansira, he was Senior Partner at MediaLink and before that, President & CEO of Meredith Integrated Marketing. Reidy also served as President & CEO of both Publicis Modem Digitas and R/GA, two global marketing services agencies.
CI Capital and Reidy will
Liki24, a Ukraine-based e-commerce platform for medicine delivery, has raised a USD5 million round from Horizon Capital and existing investors, bringing total funding raised to date to USD6 million. This new equity round will support the Company’s ambitious European expansion plans, with Poland being the first international market where Liki24 launched operations last month.
Liki24.com is a marketplace aggregating offers from thousands of pharmacies and facilitating transactions between pharmacies and consumers. Liki24 launched in Ukraine in late 2017, addressing three consumer pain points: significant variation in pricing among market players, limited availability of medicines in one point of sale, and lack
As the initial shockwaves of the global pandemic subside, middle market sponsors and lenders have proven supportive of their portfolio companies as the financial challenges caused as a result of stay-at-home orders began to crystalize, according to analysis from Lincoln International, a global investment banking advisory firm.The company’s proprietary database includes over 2,100 portfolio companies primarily owned by private equity firms with median EBITDA of approximately USD30 million.
This is evidenced across a subset of approximately 450 portfolio companies wherein 67 breached their leverage covenant, a 50 per cent increase relative to 2019 levels. In addition, only one was taken
PitchBook Data has released its healthcare focused Q2 European M&A Report, showing European M&A totalled an impressive EUR563.6 billion in H1 2020, keeping pace with 2019 figures despite the pandemic.
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