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Waterland Private Equity has expanded its portfolio company Schönes Leben Group to include Gut Köttenich/Euregio, a care specialist based in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Gut Köttenich Group’s portfolio of services includes inpatient, outpatient and adult day care, as well as assisted living, non-hospital intensive care and meals on wheels.
Following the acquisition of the southern German care specialists compassio in December 2017, Schönes Leben is now expanding into North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state. As a result, the company is taking a further step towards creating an outstanding platform for retirement care, new residential offerings for the
Vaultier7 has led a growth equity round in US-based Little Spoon, a provider of direct-to-consumer (DTC) organic baby food.
Utilising cold pressure technology and natural ingredients free of added sugars and preservatives, Little Spoon says it offers a ‘fresh, organic, homemade quality alternative to shelf-stable store-bought food’.
The company says its DTC platform is grounded in optimising nutrition in order to aid in a specific child’s crucial development stages. Using a proprietary system underpinned by expert paediatric nutritional science, Little Spoon creates a personalised nutrition plan, ‘The Blueprint’, for each child that is delivered directly to the home.
Alpha Real Capital (Alpha) has launched the Wind Renewables Income Fund (WRIF) a new fund predominantly investing in sub 5MW onshore wind assets in the UK, providing investors with secure inflation-linked long income.
The fund has recently acquired two portfolios comprising 4 operating assets with a total value in excess of GBP11 million.
Alpha secured subscriptions for WRIF totalling an initial GBP100 million in the first close from two investors, including the Towers Watson Secure Income Fund, a multi-manager fund managed exclusively for UK pension funds, and the Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank Pension Scheme.
Alpha is a
International capital markets software firm genesis has completed a Series A financing round, securing a total of USD3 million from Illuminate Financial, a UK-based capital markets venture capital firm, and Tribeca Angels, a New York venture group.
genesis was founded in 2015 by Stephen Murphy and James Harrison, who have held senior roles at leading investment banks and capital markets software vendors around the world. Confident that the industry needed a different approach to innovation, genesis has dedicated the past four years to building a microservices technology framework designed specifically for the world of capital markets. This technical framework helps
KNEIP, a Luxembourg-based fund industry specialist, is launching a new digital service platform to the London market, allowing more transparency as well as greater efficiency in the funds industry.
The new single layered platform manages the entire fund lifecycle from end to end. KNEIP has digitalised all aspects of investor data and streamlined processes including document management, which will allow for more transparency and better efficiency of reporting and hugely reduced costs.
Historically, an asset manager who might want to launch a fund was required to use a fund registration team to compile the data and build reports, then
Private equity investments were the No1 choice for US & UK public pensions in the third quarter of the year with 233 new allocation commitments announced by plans tracked by eVestment.
Private equity investments held the No1 spot in Q1 (with 210 allocations) and Q2 (with 294) of 2018 as well, according to eVestment, continuing a trend of strong interest in private equity among public pensions that eVestment began tracking in 2017.
Equity strategy investments held the No2 spot in Q3 2018, with 193 allocations from the public pensions tracked. Commitments to equity strategy investments have been consistently strong
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has acquired a controlling interest in Colony Hardware Corporation, (Colony), a distributor of tools, safety products, and other contractor supplies. Tailwind Capital, the Company’s previous sponsor, will retain a minority stake, as will the Company’s management team.
Michael Weiner, President and CEO of Colony Hardware Corporation, says, “We are excited to be partnering with Audax for the next stage of our growth. We have always put our customers first, and Audax is committed to investing behind our value proposition and our ability to serve the customer. Audax also brings expertise and resources that will help us
Angeles Equity Partners (Angeles) and Clearlake Capital Group’s portfolio company American Construction Source (ACS) has acquired Arrow Building Center (ABC), headquartered in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
ABC, also known as Consolidated Lumber Company, is one of the largest nationally ranked independent building products distributors in the country. ABC provides custom home builders, building professionals, and DIY customers a comprehensive portfolio of lumber and building materials (LBM) products and specialty services in key Minnesota and Wisconsin markets, supported by a new state-of-the-art components manufacturing plant. ABC will continue serving customers under its current
Gas Pos has secured a USD1 million investment from Merus Capital, a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm.
Merus’ investment will enable Gas Pos to execute a national roll-out plan to bring its uniquely affordable gas pump upgrade solution to independent retailers concerned over the impending costs of the Automated Fuel Dispensers (AFD) EMV (chip-based card) mandate.
To combat an annual USD400 million in fraud, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express are requiring all gas stations to replace magnetic strip-based pumps with EMV-chip reading pumps by 2020. However, the per-station costs are prohibitive: breaking concrete and replacing AFD can require
Flint Hire and Supply Ltd (Flints), the UK’s number one theatrical chandlers, has secured funding from Independent Growth Finance (IGF) to facilitate a management buy-out (MBO).
Established in 1981 to provide the theatre industry with a single source for specialist theatre hardware and paints, Flints works with major names like the Royal Opera House, the Royal National Theatre and The RSC. The company has a catalogue range varying from specialist theatre tools, paints to hardware materials.
The MBO follows the founder, Alasdair Flint, announcing his decision to retire at the age of 65. He expressed the desire to sell the company
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