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Align Capital Partners (ACP) has acquired Electronic Transaction Consultants Corporation (ETC) from Italian parent company Atlantia SpA. Headquartered in Texasm, ETC is an specialist software and services provider of electronic tolling technology and smart mobility solutions.
Founded in 1999, ETC serves electronic tolling agencies by providing back office and roadside services through its next-generation, modular software platform. The Company’s proprietary software utilises artificial intelligence (AI) technology and big data to meet unique tolling and transportation needs at a lower cost to the customer.
“We are looking forward to working with a growth-oriented partner who wants to further invest in our technology
Industry Ventures an investment firm focused on the venture capital market, has held the final closing of Industry Ventures Direct II, with total commitments of USD180 million. The Fund will continue the same strategy of making direct investments into early- and mid-stage technology companies alongside 80 seed and early-stage fund managers backed by the firm.
Industry Ventures has previously invested into more than 100 technology companies directly and through dedicated co-investment funds (SPVs). Seven of these companies have completed IPOs, specifically: Datadog, Fastly, Guardant Health, Instructure, Lifelock, Uber and Yeahka. Another seven of these companies have achieved private valuations of USD1
Guardian Capital Partners has appointed Damien J Gresko as a Vice President. Gresko has both deal and strategic operating experiences in public and private markets. In addition to deep consumer products and manufacturing expertise, Gresko has substantial experience across a diverse set of industries and circumstances, leading successful outcomes through all phases of an investment lifecycle, from end-to-end transaction execution through portfolio management and exit.
Most recently, Gresko led a variety of strategic initiatives to deliver growth, cost savings, and capabilities for The Hershey Company, an USD8 billion global consumer company and US market leader in snacking. While at Hershey, Gresko
WhiteHorse Capital (WhiteHorse), the direct lending affiliate of HIG Capital, has appointed Jason Hicks as Principal.
Hicks will be based in WhiteHorse’s New York office and will be responsible for originating and executing middle market debt financings for private equity sponsored transactions.
Jason has over 20 years of experience in leveraged finance, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity across a broad range of sectors including aerospace and defence, business services, consumer/retail, energy, general industrials, healthcare, media, technology, telecom, and transportation & logistics. Previously, Jason was a Managing Director at MC Credit Partners where he spent 7 years as an origination
Infinedi Partners (Infinedi), a private equity firm focused on long-term partnerships with founder-owned businesses, has completed its second investment – Cultural Experiences Abroad (CEA).
CEA is the fourth largest provider of study abroad educational programs for US university students in foreign countries. In 2019, the company provided study abroad and internship abroad programs for over 4,800 students in 22 cities across 14 countries, representing more than 300 sending universities.
Brian Boubek, Founder and CEO of CEA, says: “Our Partnership with Infinedi will allow CEA to fully support our U.S. university partners during this time of disruption in international education. We
Siguler Guff, a multi-strategy private equity investment firm with over USD14 billion of assets under management, has added Ray Miller and Prashant Rai to its credit investment platform.
Miller and Rai will work closely with the broader Siguler Guff credit team under the leadership of Michael Apfel, who joined the Firm as a Managing Director and Head of Credit in December 2019. Siguler Guff’s credit-related strategies include special situations, distressed, and other niche credit strategies.
Siguler Guff’s credit platform has raised over $7 billion of committed capital, and has been investing in opportunistic credit-related strategies for approximately 20 years, realizing
UK-focused primary buyout specialist Kester Capital has closed its latest fund, Kester Capital II, at its hard cap of GBP90 million within a nine month fundraising period.
Kester Capital was advised on the fundraising, which was oversubscribed, by placement agent Elm Capital and Travers Smith, who provided legal advice. Investors in the fund include both new and existing UK, continental European and US institutional investors.
Kester’s second fund will invest in UK SMEs requiring institutional capital for the first time, with a focus on healthcare, business & financial services and TMT, as these sectors experience high growth at the moment,
Carey Olsen’s corporate team in Guernsey has advised Tembo Capital (Tembo) on the launch of its latest fund, Tembo Capital Mining Fund III (Tembo Fund III), which has a fundraising target of USD300 million.A Guernsey closed-ended investment scheme, Tembo Fund III will follow a similar investment strategy as Tembo’s first two funds and invest in high quality, undervalued assets owned by mid-tier and junior mining companies. These opportunities may include exploration ventures, near term production ventures, royalties, operating mines, infrastructure of metals and mining projects, and services associated with the metals and mining sector.
Working alongside onshore counsel Macfarlanes,
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Chris Satchell as an Operating Principal focused on technology and digital initiatives at the Firm’s portfolio companies. Satchell has more than 25-years’ experience in global technology strategy, product development, and business transformation across a wide range of leading businesses, including Comcast, IGT, Microsoft, Nike, and Zume.
Most recently as Chief Technology Officer at Zume, Inc, he led Technology, Product, Design, and IT. Prior to Zume, Satchell served as Chief Product Officer at Comcast, where he was responsible for the design, product and consumer engineering across a consumer facing product portfolio of USD55 billion in annual
Independent Iberian management company GED Capital has invested, through its Conexo Ventures fund, in SimpleCloud, a leading company in the transformation of the animation, video game, advertising and special effects industries. This startup, founded in 2008, and backed by Inveready, Caixa Capital Risc y CDTI, offers a global platform based on the cloud for the management and creation of digital content focused on companies and also has one of the most powerful tools created for teleworking.
Conexo will use its proven international expansion formula to accelerate the growth of SimpleCloud in the US market, where Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating the
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