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Nautic Partners has sold portfolio company Endries International and related affiliates to MSD Partners.
Endries is a distributor of fasteners and Class-C parts serving industrial Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, providing over 500,000 SKUs to its customer base.
Endries operates primarily through a vendor managed inventory model, managing C-part categories for its customers across diverse industrial end markets. Endries partners with OEM customers through robust replenishment systems that provide products and support services which are critical to maintaining the manufacturing process.
Chris Pierce, Managing Director of Nautic, says: “The Endries management team is truly world-class. We thank Steve
QDOOZ, a life skills improvement platform, has launched a month-long crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise a minimum of GBP500,000. QDOOZ will cap the Crowdcube raise to a maximum of GBP1,550,000.
This campaign comes after a successful earlier round of funding which raised GBP3 million from 50 private investors.
QDOOZ is a digital platform which is addressing the distinct gap in personal life skills education and training. With proprietary intellectual property (IP) and a clever, comprehensively researched business plan and a clear monetisation strategy, QDOOZ will launch in Q2 2019 to more than three million identified potential users. It will be free
A consortium led by Polaris and Acathia, comprising Sampension and Unigestion, among others, has acquired Danica Pension Försäkringsaktiebolag (Danica Pension Sverige) for a total consideration of approximately SEK2.6 billion, corresponding to approximately DKK1.9 billion (approximately EUR255 million).
Danica Pension Sverige was established in 1999, has around 60 employees and is the sixth largest life insurance company in Sweden with 150,000 retail customers and 15,000 corporate customers.
“We see attractive opportunities in the Swedish pension market and are convinced that Danica Pension Sverige is the company best positioned to benefit from these opportunities and continue its impressive growth and development
Crowdfunding platform FundedByMe is to open a new office in the Netherlands headed by new partner Mikael Royson.
“The Netherlands is just right for us, perfectly in line with our growth strategy,” says Kristin Svärd, Head of International Growth at FundedByMe. “The market has a high potential and we’re confident that our local partner, Mikael, will make the best of this opportunity for FundedByMe. We’re very happy to offer our current members the possibility to keep up with the Dutch startups and at the same time create opportunities for both Dutch entrepreneurs and investors. The Dutch startup scene has been
The Riverside Company is to sell DPA Microphones (DPA), an Allerød, Denmark-based developer and manufacturer of high-end microphones, to RCF Group (RCF).
DPA’s products are trusted by demanding professional users across the world for use in theatre, broadcast, live and studio applications. Notable users include Stevie Wonder, Katy Perry, Metallica, Coldplay, Paul McCartney and Céline Dion — broadcasters such as BBC, as well as hit Broadway shows like Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera.
During Riverside’s investment, DPA’s sales and EBITDA nearly doubled while its product portfolio and distribution network grew significantly. DPA cemented its clear leadership position
Finantix has secured a strategic investment from Motive Partners, a global private equity firm focussed on growth investments in financial technology companies.
Motive Partners will become a majority shareholder in Finantix and will support the company and the founders in extending the functional footprint of the product and in accelerating geographic expansion.
The announced transaction follows strong financial results for Finantix which has experienced significant growth in recent years with now over 250 specialists in seven cities and a global customer base spanning more than 45 countries.
Scott Kauffman, Partner at Motive Partners, says: “Finantix founders, Ralf Emmerich
Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa) is to acquire intive SA, a provider of software development services with over 1,600 qualified specialists in 19 offices worldwide, from Enterprise Investors.
The transaction is subject to customary competition clearance and is expected to close in Q1 2019.
Combining design and technology, intive has become the digitalisation partner of choice for many international corporations across multiple industry verticals including automotive, high-tech, industrial, media, as well as consumer and financial services.
Kerim Turkmen, Partner of Mid Europa, says: “We are excited to be teaming up with intive’s management team and have been particularly
DOB Equity, a Dutch family-backed impact investor in East Africa, has invested in Coconut Holdings Limited, producer and owner of the Kentaste range of coconut-based products.
The investment in Coconut Holdings adds to DOB Equity’s health conscious agri portfolio, following its recent investment in Ten Senses Africa, an organic macadamia nut producer and processing company.
Coconut Holdings owns and operates two coconut processing facilities on Kenya’s coast and is the largest producer of coconut oil, milk and cream in the country. It targets both the food and personal care market. The business purchases coconuts from small-holder farmers of which
Finitive, a financial technology platform providing institutional investors with direct access to alternative lending investments, has added seasoned fintech investor and executive Neil Wolfson to its board of directors.
Wolfson, who has significant public company board experience, spent the last decade as President and CIO of SF Capital Group. In this role he oversaw all debt and equity investing, asset allocation, and investment management for the billion-dollar multi-generational family office. At SF Capital he invested in over 30 direct debt and equity investments in emerging technology companies with a focus on fintech companies.
“Finitive has established an innovative platform
Analytics Ventures, a fund dedicated to creating and building venture companies that harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, has added AlphaTrAI – a proprietary AI-based automated trading platform that fuses the latest explainable AI (XAI) techniques with multiple sophisticated trading strategies – to its venture portfolio.
With three-year back-testing results extending into the current volatile trading atmosphere, AlphaTrAI has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500. The company is now moving to live, real-time trading for the next phase of validation.
“AlphaTrAI consistently outperformed top hedge funds during back testing due to the proprietary end-to-end trading algorithms
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