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Inverness Graham Investments, a private investment firm that targets tech-enabled manufacturing, service and software companies, has acquired Syntrio and Lighthouse Services (Lighthouse) to create a new governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions company.
Based in Chicago, Syntrio is a provider of proprietary online compliance, ethics and workplace training courses. Lighthouse is a provider of reporting hotline services managed through a proprietary case management software solution. Together, the combined business will provide an integrated GRC solution to address the ethics, compliance, workplace reporting and case management needs of US companies.
“The combination of Syntrio and Lighthouse represents an opportunity to build
Budderfly, a specialist in the Energy Efficiency as a Service market, has announced a new USD55 million in growth equity and project debt funding led by Balance Point Capital with participation by Connecticut Innovations.
This funding, together with the previous USD22 million funded over the past 24 months by Edison Partners, Founder and CEO Al Subbloie, Budderfly senior management, the State of Connecticut through the Department of Economic & Community Development, and others, will be used to scale customer project installations, accelerate Budderfly’s go-to-market efforts and expand product growth. Combined with expected vendor partner financing, Budderfly is now fully
Credit Benchmark, a specialist in consensus based credit analytics, has launched a new monthly measure of credit risk for US and European corporates in the industrials sector.
The Credit Benchmark Credit Consensus Indicator (CCI) is an index of forward-looking credit opinions for US, UK and EU Industrials based on the consensus views of over 30,000 credit analysts at 40 of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Drawn from more than 750,000 contributed credit observations, the CCI tracks the total number of upgrades and downgrades made each month by credit analysts to chart the long-term trend in analyst sentiment for industrials. A
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has acquired E Source, a provider of customer-focused research, data, and consulting for utilities and their partners.
Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, E Source provides subscription-based market intelligence services for thousands of utility employees and senior leaders across North America. The Company’s unique insights into key areas of demand side management, customer experience, and marketing, help utilities adapt to ever-changing business and market conditions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“ACP’s investment is a significant milestone for our company, our employees, and our customers,” says E Source CEO, Wayne Greenberg. “We’ve already established ourselves as
Drooms, a provider of secure cloud solutions in Europe, is expanding its expertise in the fields of machine learning and natural language processing with the appointment of Johannes Leveling as machine learning team lead. Leveling will report to Peter Made, Head of Development at Drooms.
Leveling has over two decades of professional experience in the fields of machine learning, machine translation, natural language processing and information retrieval in industry and research. In his previous role as Vice President Data Science and Machine Learning at Teckro, a software company that utilises machine learning to digitise clinical studies, he headed up a
The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP4.7 million in eight dynamic growth businesses across the North East, driving economic prosperity, safeguarding over 400 jobs.
Maven was appointed to manage the GBP27 million NEDCF in May 2018 to provide investment capital to support the growth of innovative and ambitious businesses across a wide range of sectors and in a variety of funding scenarios. Maven has participated in investments ranging from GBP350,000 to GBP7 million in local businesses across the North East and has also
Growth Partner, the Yorkshire-based investment firm of HomeServe founder Richard Harpin, has appointed Alex Marsh as investment director as part of its plan to scale-up and support more talented entrepreneurs.
Growth Partner has already backed several high-profile entrepreneurs to help them to step change their business. That includes new Dragon’s Den star Sara Davies whose North East based business Crafters’ Companion is flourishing in the US market, and Victoria Robertshaw whose North Yorkshire-based Keelham Farm Shop is rolling out stores across the county.
Marsh will focus on connecting with exceptional entrepreneurs running consumer focused businesses for Growth Partner to
Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) is in exclusive negotiations with NiXEN Partners, Initiative & Finance and the management team for the acquisition of Vulcain Ingénierie. The completion of the deal remains subject to the approval of employees’ representatives and relevant authorities.
Founded in 1998, Vulcain Ingénierie is a leading French engineering consultancy group serving the energy and pharmaceuticals sectors. Thanks to its specialist positioning, Vulcain Ingénierie has grown into a key player in its market, with a strong reputation among its main contracting parties. With this transaction, the group will continue its development in France as well as pursuing an active
The European private equity market in the first half of 2019 has fallen short of recent years’ outstanding activity levels, primarily due to a Brexit chill, but looks set to benefit from pent-up demand in the coming months.
That’s according to provisional half-year data from CMBOR at Imperial College Business School, sponsored by Equistone Partners Europe and Investec Corporate and Investment Banking.
The number of private equity-backed acquisitions in Europe has dropped to 275 with a total value of EUR38.8 billion in H1 2019, compared with 419 with a total value of EUR54.4 billion in H1 2018. While 2018
Eagle Alpha has launched a new alternative data solution for private equity due diligence which aims to enable private equity firms to acquire alternative data on a per company basis instead of an entire dataset and a pay-as-you-go basis over an annual license.
Emmett Kilduff, CEO and Founder of Eagle Alpha, says: “This is an important step forward for Eagle Alpha as we seek to constantly expand and connect more firms to alternative data.” He continued, “Early success with our Bespoke Projects private equity clients demonstrated to us the increasing opportunities for alternative data in the space. We are excited
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