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American Pacific Group, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, in partnership with Joe Falsetti of Dana Holdings, has acquired SaltStick, an electrolyte replenishment supplement with a strong following among endurance athletes for in-competition and training activities.SaltStick was founded in 2006 by Jonathan Toker, an elite-level triathlete and trail runner who holds a PhD in organic chemistry. SaltStick products are now sold in over 40 countries around the world; products include SaltStick Vitassium, a medical food designed for individuals suffering from sodium and potassium deficiency. This acquisition was the first for American Pacific Group’s newly established holding company, Roadrunner Holdings LLC,
Moonfare, a European private equity and alternatives investment platform, has launched a top-tier US tech fund offering where individual investors and wealth managers can invest money into these funds for the first time.Moonfare has enabled its users access to another US tech fund after it was able to close Insight Partners’ Growth Equity fund within a week. Insight Partners has 20 years of experience in operating and investing in growing software companies, with over USD20 billion in AuM.
The newly offered fund manager currently has more than USD7 billion in total capital commitments and targets later-stage US start-up companies. The fund’s prior
Expanding PE house YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has appointed Roshan Puri as an investment director. Puri joins YFM from Calculus Capital where he invested in companies across the software, business services and consumer sectors. He also sat on various boards helping investee companies deliver their growth plans and realise value. Puri’s previous investments include the workforce optimisation software business ActiveOps, digital asset management software company IPV and marketing agency Once Upon a Time.
In his new role with YFM, Puri will focus on investing in growth capital and buyout opportunities across London and the South East of England.
Jamie Roberts, partner
LGB Corporate Finance has arranged a GBP20 million Medium Term Note (MTN) programme for Simply Asset Finance, a private equity backed specialist asset finance provider. The facility will enable Simply Asset Finance to expand its lending capabilities.
Simply Asset Finance offers finance products as a secured lender to SMEs to fund the purchase of business-critical equipment and to free up working capital. It is a portfolio company of Cabot Square Capital, a private equity investor in UK specialist lending businesses.
LGB Corporate Finance completed the establishment of the Simply MTN programme and a first issue of notes of GBP4 million
Callan, an institutional investment consulting firm, has appointed Andrew Maday, CFA, CAIA, as a senior vice president in its Private Equity Consulting group. Maday will focus on private equity research, including manager and fund sourcing and due diligence, strategic planning and portfolio modelling, and servicing clients. He is based in the Chicago office and reports to Pete Keliuotis, executive vice president and head of alternatives consulting.
“Andy has years of experience as an allocator within all areas of private markets, including servicing sophisticated investors as a senior member of an outsourced CIO platform,” says Keliuotis. “We’re excited to have him on
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has announced several senior changes to the Group’s Private Equity leadership team.Matt Horton has been appointed as Group Head of Private Equity, while Gavin Hayman has been appointed as Jurisdictional Head of Private Equity in Guernsey. Alan Ross, formerly Group Head of Private Equity, has taken on the new position of Group Head of Transformation.
With the Aztec Group since 2010 and Head of Private Equity in Guernsey since 2016, Matt Horton has played a key role in the continued growth of the Group’s private equity service offering. In his new
More than half of PE firms (52 per cent) are open to hiring people via video calls, according to an April survey by PE and venture capital recruitment firm PER.
According to Rupert Bell, director of Dach at PER, there’s still a lot of interview activity going on in the industry, as everyone becomes accustomed to video conferencing replacing face-to-face meetings.
“Moreover, there seems to be a decline in firms putting processes on hold. Firms seem to have mainly paused hiring in the first weeks of the crisis,” Bell commented on the result of the survey.
According to PER’s Taking
A cybersecurity company, with a platform that helps to safeguard transport and infrastructure systems, has raised a further GBP1.8 million to help it expand its business in the maritime sector.CyberOwl has secured funding from 24 Haymarket, Mercia’s EIS funds, and the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia as part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund. The latest investment will allow the company to expand its global client base and establish itself as a leader in cybersecurity for shipping lines and port operators.
CyberOwl, which has offices in Birmingham and London, provides early
Maven Capital Partners has led a funding round in Chester-based Intilery.com, a customer data platform and real-time decision engine that powers multi-channel campaigns.
The funding will enable Intilery to expand the sales and marketing team and develop its commercial offering.
Both Maven VCTs and Maven Equity Finance, which forms part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and is managed by Maven, invested as part of the transaction.
Intilery’s unique technology designs and enhances customer relationship management (CRM) strategies for businesses across multiple sectors. Intilery’s real-time, omnichannel CRM platform offers its clients a 360 view of its marketing activities as well
Glennmont Partners, a fund manager focused exclusively on investing in clean energy infrastructure, has agreed to the sale of a 15 per cent minority stake in Project Piiparinmäki, a 211.4mw wind farm, to Kansai Electric Power Company.
The onshore wind farm, located in central Finland, is currently under construction with COD expected in late 2021. Once operational, Piiparinmäki will be the largest wind farm in Finland, a significant wind power asset in the Nord Pool area, and one of the largest unsubsidised wind farms in Europe.
The sale of the stake in Piiparinmäki marks the first divestment from Glennmont’s EUR850
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