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Qualis Flow, an environmental management platform that tracks, monitors, and predicts project environmental risk, has raised GBP725,000 in seed funding.
This round of investment is being led by Pi Labs, the proptech VC specialist, alongside Entrepreneur First, MMC Ventures and Rising Tide Europe.
Founded by Brittany Harris and Jade Cohen, two ex-construction professionals, Qualis Flow aims to drastically reduce the impact construction work has on the local and global environment. Qualis Flow’s cloud-based platform accelerates the ability of teams to monitor and forecast the environmental risk of construction projects, reducing the overall carbon footprint and disruption to local communities and
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of Walterscheid Powertrain Group, (Walterscheid), a provider of original equipment and aftermarket parts and services for off-highway powertrain applications, from GKN Limited.
Walterscheid, headquartered in Lohmar, Germany, manufactures, distributes and services shafts, gearboxes, attachment systems, clutches and other parts for off-highway applications. Founded in 1919, the Company’s 2,200 employees provide a wide range of services for agricultural, construction, mining, and industrial OEM and aftermarket customers in Europe, China and North America.
“We look forward to supporting CEO Wolfgang Lemser and his team as they continue to
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of Mlinar rom its founder, Mato Škojo, who will retain a minority stake in the business.
Mlinar is a bakery retail and wholesale business operating circa 220 directly-owned stores in Croatia and Slovenia, as well as franchise stores across 10 countries.
Mlinar operates its own production and logistics facilities and serves modern retail chains, as well as hotels and restaurants from its wholesale operations.
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has exited from its investment in JT Holdings UK Limited (Just Trays) to Kartell UK Limited (Kartell), delivering a 2x return for its investors.
Just Trays is a niche manufacturer of shower trays, selling its products into the bathroom distribution channels, building and plumbing merchants, as well as direct to housebuilders. Founded in 1988, the Company has been designing, innovating and producing an extensive range of high-quality shower trays and accessories for over 30 years. It now produces over 6,000 shower trays a week for the UK
Incline Equity Partners (Incline), a Pittsburgh-based private equity firm, has acquired Brown & Joseph (B&J), a provider of commercial accounts receivable management services primarily focused on insurance end markets.
Based in Itasca, IL, B&J specialises in B2B third-party collection services while also providing first-party collections and insurance premium audits. The company has earned a winning reputation within the commercial debt collection industry by delivering high quality, effective and innovative solutions to its customers. The Company’s proven approach to the recovery process delivers market leading performance for its customers which drives strong retention and growth with existing customers.
“This is
Manchester-headquartered Miss Group has secured a GBP13m follow-on investment from BGF to support its international acquisition strategy.
Founded in 2014, Miss Group is an international web hosting business that offers a range of services to the SME market, such as web hosting, domain registration, VPS and dedicated servers.
Following BGF’s initial investment in August 2018, Miss Group acquired Hemsida24 and Heymo to grow its reach across Scandinavia. The deal saw the company add 14,000 customers and EUR1 million EBITDA to the business. The acquisition of FS Data in March 2019 of FS Data brought 30,000 more customers to the business
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, has completed a majority growth investment in Riverpoint Medical (Riverpoint.)
The investment in Riverpoint marks the first deal out of Arlington’s USD1.7 billion Fund V, which closed recently. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Riverpoint Medical is a developer, designer, and manufacturer of medical devices focused on advanced bio-medical textile technologies. The company specialises in the development of bioabsorbable sutures, high strength medical fibre and suture-based implantable devices. Riverpoint’s polymer technologies are aimed at rapidly growing global markets including wound closure, sports medicine, animal health and regenerative medicine.
Matt Altman, a Managing
Laven Group, a provider of regulatory compliance solutions and risk and due diligence services, has appointed Brad Stephenson as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Stephenson’s has extensive experience in the funds world, most recently as Head of Funds at Estera, and previously at Trident Trust.
At Estera, Brad oversaw the firm’s Cayman fund offering. This included fund directorships and related fiduciary services to Cayman corporate structures. Prior to this he accumulated over 10 years’ experience in the Cayman funds industry as a business development manager and has significant skills in the day-to-day management of funds in markets including the UK, US,
Investment firm Battery Ventures has launched a new index to track the stock performance of prominent consumer-marketplace companies, businesses that are becoming more and more embedded into the daily lives of consumers, and, increasingly, driving a new wave of initial-public stock offerings.
The Battery Marketplace Index includes 39 companies that serve as online hubs where buyers and sellers meet. They operate in sectors ranging from ride sharing (Uber, Lyft), to food delivery (Grubhub, Delivery Hero), to travel and lodging (Expedia, TripAdvisor and Ctrip) to e-commerce (Wayfair*, eBay and Mercado Libre). To be included, the companies must be listed on one
The United States dominates the PE marketplace when it comes to size of AUM size. It is estimated that the top 300 global PE managers manage USD1.5 trillion in assets, of which US-based managers account for USD1 trillion; this compares to USD177 billion among UK-based managers.
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