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Pamlico Capital has led a majority recapitalisation of B2B information provider Winsight in partnership with the company’s existing management team.
CEO Mike Wood Jr, along with other management team members and existing investors, will maintain significant ownership in Winsight and will continue to manage the growth of the company with support from Pamlico.
The transaction, funded with both equity and debt, provides substantial growth capital to support the company. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Winsight provides actionable information, market intelligence, professional events, and media to the global restaurant, non-commercial foodservice, and
New York-based private equity firm High Road Capital Partners has promoted Dan Gaspar to partner, Scott Rubino to principal, and Matt Hadley to associate, business development.
“Dan, Scott and Matt have excelled in their demonstrated knowledge, skill and judgement, and exemplify our ‘high road’ business philosophy,” says Bob Fitzsimmons, managing partner of High Road Capital Partners. “Their contributions in sourcing and closing deals have been instrumental in the growth and success of the firm and our portfolio companies.”
Gaspar joined High Road in 2011 as a vice president. He serves on the boards of directors of The Crown Group,
Funds managed by FL Partners, a Dublin-based investment boutique, have acquired Potensis Recruitment, one of the largest recruiters to the UK housebuilding and construction industries, together with SEAL Resource Management, a related business.
Potensis, founded in 2000, provides temporary and permanent recruitment services to the residential housebuilding, social housing and commercial construction sectors. It recruits across all job levels and its clients include many of the UK’s leading publicly-listed housebuilders and social housing groups. Most of its clients have worked with Potensis for at least a decade.
Jared Sullivan, founder and managing director, has invested alongside FL. Steven Kirkpatrick has
Céréa Capital II has completed its fourth investment, participating in the reorganisation of the capital and financial structure of GPS Group, in partnership with Bpifrance and the company's management.
Based in Bordeaux, GPS Group is specialised in industrial packaging logistics, used for the transport of viscous or liquid materials such as natural and synthetic rubber as well as food products. It provides a complete and outsourced lease concept for reusable metal crates, including delivery, maintenance and logistics at producer's plants.
Created in 1950, the family business, presided by Benoit Arnaud, first began as a wooden pallet and crate manufacturer,
Tech-focused venture capital firm C5 Capital has appointed Ron Moultrie as a strategic partner.
Moultrie is a former director of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Global Signals Intelligence Enterprise. He joins C5 with over 36 years of proven leadership within the military, intelligence community, and national security sectors.
Throughout his career, Moultrie has served in several of the most challenging national security assignments in the US. At the NSA he was responsible for overseeing more than half the NSA’s workforce and a multi-billion dollar budget. Additionally he was responsible for organising short- mid- and long-term responses to two of
EOS Investment Management has acquired, through its energy fund Efesto Energy, a portfolio of approximately 40 MW owned by Telmo Group from Bergamo, Italy.
This EUR140 million transaction places EOS IM’s latest acquisition among the biggest transactions in the last 12 months in Italy in the renewable energy sector. The fund has reached circa EUR240 million of assets under management.
The portfolio consists of 35 plants located in Puglia, Piedmont and Sardinia, 19 wind farms and 16 solar plants. They have been operating for over three years with high level of production performance, generating an average of 78 GWh
MARU Group, a market and customer insights company backed by Primary Capital Partners, has acquired research technology platform Usurv for an undisclosed sum.
Usurv will subsequently be rebranded to Maru/Usurv and founders Martin Bysh and Guy Potter will remain with the company to oversee its growth trajectory and development.
Founded in 2011, Usurv is a survey platform which provides immediate access to respondents from a network of third party partner websites and sample providers, via online or mobile recruitment. The platform automatically fields short form surveys to those respondents, collecting, analysing and reporting the responses in a matter of
Huron Capital Partners has closed the Huron Fund V with USD550 million of total limited partner capital commitments.
The fund, which is Huron Capital Partners’ sixth investment vehicle, closed at its hard cap and in excess of its USD500 million target.
Receiving commitments from a number of top-tier investors, including endowments, foundations, multi-manager funds, public pensions, corporate pensions and family offices, the fund closed after three months of marketing and was oversubscribed with over USD1 billion of demand.
Like its predecessor, Huron Fund IV, which also closed above its target at USD500 million of capital commitments in 2013,
Frog Capital, a European private equity firm focused on growth stage tech companies, has appointed Martin Hauge as non-executive chairman.
“We are delighted to welcome Martin to Frog Capital,” says Mike Reid, managing partner of Frog Capital. “Having been both a successful growth stage CEO for multiple tech companies and a highly successful Nordic venture capital fund manager, Martin is an excellent complement to our focus on Europe’s scale-up tech companies. Martin’s interest in expanding his network into London and the UK reaffirms Britain’s strong credentials as a preeminent tech hub in the post-Brexit era.”
Until recently, Hauge was
Constitution Capital Partners (CCP), a private equity firm focused on North American small to mid-cap buyouts, has appointed Daniel Clare as a partner and head of the firm’s new office in New York.
Clare brings over 20 years of industry experience, having most recently worked as a managing director at Ascribe Capital, formerly known as American Securities Opportunities Fund, which invests in the debt and equity securities of middle-market companies.
Along with his private equity experience, Clare also served in the consulting and investment banking industries.
Clare, who will focus on building out CCP’s newly established credit business,
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