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Two female tech entrepreneurs who have developed the UK’s first software as a service (SaaS) platform to help companies manage rebate and pricing schemes have secured GBP950,000 from investors.
Leanne Bonner-Cooke MBE and Colette Wyatt have received funding from Mercia Asset Management, the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and private investors. The funding will allow them to expand their sales and marketing activities and roll out e-BateÒ to a wider audience, creating a number of new jobs at their office in Leicester.
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Sheridan Capital Partners (Sheridan) has made an investment in Oral Surgery Partners (OSP), an oral surgery practice management company. Sheridan invested alongside OSP’s surgeons and management, who have retained a meaningful ownership stake in the business.
OSP is headquartered in Greater St. Louis and is a market leader in the region. The Company serves oral surgery clinics throughout Missouri, providing patients with friendly, compassionate care, and offering a full range of diagnostic and surgical services for any issues that affect the mouth, teeth, and facial region.
“The oral surgery market is highly fragmented, and Oral Surgery Partners represents one
LDC-backed Martin Audio, a designer and manufacturer of premium high-performance loudspeaker systems, has recorded double-digit sales growth following a series of product launches and overseas expansion.
The Buckinghamshire-based business, which provides sound systems for some of the UK’s biggest festivals, reported a 22 per cent increase in sales in its financial year 2017-18, growing from GBP16.5million to GBP20.1million. It is now forecasting a further 20 per cent increase throughout 2019.
Over the same period, Martin Audio has added a number of major global rental clients to its roster, including US-based Soundworks, Southard Audio and Twilight Audio which were part
Newbridge Global Sourcing (Newbridge), an alternative capital provider, has expanded its service offering to include Accounts Receivable Financing and Asset-Based Lending in response to market need.
With complementary products, Newbridge offers clients maximum funds available while helping clients improve supplier relationships.
“We’re excited to add to our product line to help growing companies with additional working capital,” says Brian Weiner, CEO of Newbridge. “We help companies access cash that is tied up in accounts receivable and inventory. We look forward to continuing to help SMEs and large enterprises grow with our unique funding solutions.”
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Highview Capital (Highview), a Los Angeles-based middle-market private equity firm, has promoted PJ Gilbert to Principal and Kapish Haldia to Senior Associate and appointed Kelly Cash as an Associate.
Ryan McCarthy, Co-Founder of Highview, says: “We are pleased to recognise both PJ and Kapish with these promotions, and we are thrilled to add Kelly to the team. PJ’s leadership was instrumental in the execution of two of our first three platform deals, American Plastics and Frontier Fire. Kapish has distinguished himself as a key leader in our diligence and monitoring efforts on those deals. PJ and Kapish are vital parts
Fund That Flip, a fintech platform and marketplace lender of residential real estate loans, has raised USD11 million from Princeton, NJ-based growth equity firm Edison Partners.
Launched in 2014, Fund That Flip provides short-term loans to experienced real estate redevelopers who buy and renovate residential properties. After origination, Fund That Flip offers accredited and institutional investors the opportunity to purchase fractional shares of the loan and earn an 8-9 per cent annualised yield. Since Fintech Venture Fund, an Atlanta based early-stage investor, led the company’s seed round in 2016, the company has realised exponential growth, doubling its revenue, loan origination
The recent acquisition of Estera by Inflexion Private Equity, a leading PE group with GBP5.4 billion in AUM, signals a move by private equity firms to explore M&A opportunities in the fund administration and corporate & trust services arena, which remains a relatively new, standalone sector.
The acquisition from Bridgepoint will see Estera merge with Ocorian, one of Inflexion’s existing portfolio companies, to form what it calls a “global corporate service and fund administration leader of significant scale”.
It is just the latest example of PE groups looking to identify long-term value and growth targets in the M&A deal space,
Ultimus Fund Solutions (Ultimus), an independent provider of fund administration, accounting and investor solutions to traditional and alternative fund managers, is to acquire LeverPoint Management (LeverPoint).
LeverPoint, headquartered in Clifton Park, NY, is an independent provider of full-service fund administration, accounting, tax and back office support services to private equity, venture capital and real estate managers. Going forward, Ultimus’ private fund business will operate as Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions and will provide administration for approximately USD90 billion of private fund assets across 230 clients. In total, Ultimus will service over USD220 billion of assets under administration and over 1,250 total traditional
This week’s newsletter looks at two new research reports, one examining how a series of ‘mega deals’ have propelled the value of fintech M&A transactions to record levels in the first six months of the year, and the other revealing decade high private equity fundraising levels in Central and Eastern Europe.
We also report on Novasec’s new renewable energy investment platform and the growing use of W&I insurance in EMEA M&A Deals.
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Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa), a private equity investor focused on Central and Eastern Europe, has completed the sale of Knjaz Miloš, a producer of mineral water and non-alcoholic beverages in Serbia and the surrounding region, to a joint venture between Karlovarské Minerální Vody and PepsiCo, Inc.
Mid Europa acquired Knjaz Miloš in 2015 together with Imlek and Bambi, the leading regional dairy and confectionery players, respectively, forming the consumer group – Moji Brendovi.
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