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ZOA Robotics has secured a GBP85,000 seed investment from the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). The investment is the first of a series that have been made by the UK’s robotics-focussed investment firm, and is in a company that is raising further investment on the new and complementary robotics crowdfunding platform Britbots CROWD.
ZOA Robotics’ objective is to develop four-legged robots with the grace of animals that can move anywhere. The company is looking to introduce its low cost highly mobile robots to tackle movement of goods across sites with uneven ground and multiple levels, reducing the use of manual
An investment fund affiliated with private equity firm Lightyear Capital (Lightyear) has invested in Datalot Inc (Datalot), a provider of mobile and web marketing technology solutions for the insurance industry.
Josh Reznick, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Datalot, together with other management, remain significant shareholders in the business. The transaction terms were not disclosed.
Founded in 2009, Datalot connects consumers with insurance carriers and agents. The Company has built a marketplace for insurance shoppers by leveraging its technology platform and integrated contact center operations to qualify and efficiently route consumer inquiries for primarily auto, home, health and life
Signal Capital Partners, a London-based private asset management firm, has raised EUR725m with an investment strategy targeting credit and real estate special situations.
Signal closed its funds in July 2017 and has deployed over EUR450 million across 15 investments to date since September 2015. The private investment funds target transactions of EUR25-75 million across Europe.
The capital was raised from a diverse set of institutional investors, including endowments, foundations, pension funds, insurance companies, and large family offices across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.
Signal’s credit opportunities fund focuses on investments in complex, private bilateral situations
The infrastructure market saw 365 deals announced in Q3 2017, worth a combined USD88 billion. Preqin expects these totals to rise by around 5 per cent as more information becomes available.
However, this already surpasses the USD55 billion in deal value seen in Q2, reversing the slowdown seen through the first half of the year. While aggregate deal values have rebounded, the number of deals announced has continued to fall, failing to match the 414 deals seen the previous quarter. As a whole, 2017 has so far marked a significant slowdown compared to 2016: in the first three quarters of
Inflexion Private Equity has appointed Simon Tilley as Partner in the firm’s Partnership Capital team and Ben Long as Investment Director in the Enterprise Fund team.
Tilley brings a wealth of experience to our unique minority investment fund, Inflexion Partnership Capital. Offering investment between GBP10 million to GBP150 million in high growth companies, Partnership Capital provides patient equity capital through tailored solutions. Most recently, Tilley was Managing Director and Head of European Financial Sponsors at DC Advisory. His seniority and track record in advising successful private equity backed transactions such as Oasis Healthcare, Zenith, Southern Dental and Park Holidays brings
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-area private equity firm, has acquired Xebec Global Corporation (Xebec) a highly specialised provider of human intelligence solutions and services to customers in the Intelligence Community.
David Wodlinger, a Partner at Arlington, says: “Xebec has built a reputation for excellence in supporting our nation’s most critical intelligence missions. We are excited to be partnering with Phil Jones to ensure the Company continues to offer our core customer base the same unique subject matter expertise and dedication to the mission that our customers expect from Xebec. Furthermore, we plan to invest additional capital into the
Arma Partners is pleased to have advised on six major M&A transactions with an aggregate value of circa USD7.5 billion over the course of the summer.
The accelerating momentum underscores both the robust health of M&A activity in the global Communications, Media and Technology sector and Arma’s position as the preeminent CMT M&A boutique with an established track record of executing high value, transformational, cross-border deals.
Since June, Arma has acted as buy-side advisor to Investcorp on its USD210m acquisition of cloud-based telematics vendor ABAX; to a HgCapital-led consortium involving Montagu, GIC and ICG on the USD5.3 billion buyout
Frontenac, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has closed its eleventh private equity fund at its USD325 million hard cap.
The fund raise was completed in six months based on strong support from existing limited partners of the USD250 million Frontenac X, and the addition of several new investors.
Frontenac focuses on lower middle market buyout transactions in the consumer, industrial, and services industries. The firm works in partnership with proven operating leaders through its CEO1ST approach to identify, acquire, and build market-leading companies. Frontenac XI will remain focused on the investment approach responsible for the successful performance of Frontenac
IGF, a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has delivered a GBP100k invoice finance facility to Industro, a specialist engineering firm and labour provider based in the North East of England.
Industro sought a new finance partner to help fund its growth ambitions, with the aim of winning larger contracts and expanding their business. These new contracts will also give the business the capacity to employ more staff for on-site project work.
Established in July 2016, Industro specialises in design, fabrication, installation and structural inspection using drone technology on client sites, as well as providing specialist labour for the sector.
Maven and YFM-backed Indigo Telecom Group (Indigo), a provider of multi-vendor managed and project services to Tier 1 and 2 telecom network operators, equipment vendors, multi-national corporations and government clients, has acquired Belcom247 (Belcom UK Ltd).
The deal demonstrates the successful execution of the Indigo’s buy and build strategy and combines two trusted and experienced providers of remote managed services and expands their capabilities on a global basis.
Indigo specialises in the design, planning, build, supply, management and support of UK, European and global telecommunications networks.
Belcom247 is a, specialist provider of field engineering and data centre connectivity
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