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Ministry Brands, a provider of end-to-end cloud-based technology for faith-based organisations and educational institutions has secured an investment from Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm.
Details of the transaction have not been released.
Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Ministry Brands was founded in 2012 by a team of entrepreneurs who built the company to serve churches with content management and online payments tools. Today, over 55,000 churches use Ministry Brands’ background checks, church management software, financial accounting software, messaging, coaching programmes, mobile apps and more.
"Insight Venture Partners has a strong track record
GSO Capital Partners, the credit division of Blackstone, has held the final closing of its third mezzanine fund, GSO Capital Opportunities Fund III, at its hard cap of USD6.5 billion.
GSO will seek to invest the fund across a broad range of sectors and geographies, with a particular focus on the US and Europe.
GSO sourced commitments from a global investor base, including public, corporate and foreign pension funds, financial institutions, endowments, foundations and family offices.
The fund's size positions it as one of few mezzanine providers capable of committing to large sized transactions, while its flexible structure
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners’ portfolio company Duran Group, a global glass manufacturer for laboratory and industrial applications, has acquired Kimble Chase Life Science & Research Products.
The acquisition of US-based Kimble Chase, which has a strong position in disposable products, is a further step in building Duran Group into a leader in the laboratory and scientific glassware industry.
Headquartered in Rockwood, Tennessee, Kimble Chase is a manufacturer and distributor of laboratory and scientific glassware for the pharmaceutical, environmental, petrochemical, life sciences, education and chromatography markets. Operating facilities across three continents, the company offers a broad
International law firm Mourant Ozannes has appointed Frans Post as global chief financial officer.
Post (pictured), who will also sit on Mourant Ozannes’ management committee, brings with him a wealth of finance and strategic experience in the legal sector.
He held CFO roles at onshore Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance for 17 years before joining Olswang as a CFO and board director in 2009. He then moved to manage aviation law firm Gates & Partners as chief operating officer through a merger with Kennedys law. Latterly he was CEO for investigations firm GPW Group where he was focused on
HM Treasury has launched the Bank Referral Scheme and designated Funding Xchange as a finance platform.
As part of the scheme, Funding Xchange is working with nine UK banks to help secure funding solutions if the bank is unable to help.
Banks are required to offer small businesses they have rejected for finance the opportunity to have details of their funding request shared with designated finance platforms. Funding Xchange will help these businesses receive available financing quotes from a large panel of funding providers.
The government policy aims to help the 25 per cent of small business loan
Clearwater International acted as sole financial adviser to Palero Capital on the sale of 100 per cent of the share capital of Lausitzer Analytik (LAG) to SYNLAB, a portfolio company of Cinven.
LAG, established in 1993 and headquartered in Spremberg, Germany, is a laboratory testing specialist in fuel, oil and environmental testing with a leading position in Southern Brandenburg and Northern Saxony regions.
The company provides a wide range of environmental testing services including water, soil and air analysis with in-depth expertise in fuel, coal and oil analytics for clients in the mining, industrial and energy producing sectors.
OceanRock Investments, manager of Meritas SRI Funds, has invested in InvestEco Capital, a firm focussed on investing in high-growth sustainable companies.
Meritas SRI Funds is making an investment in the InvestEco Sustainable Food Fund II as part of the Meritas fund family's broader Impact Investing mandate, which includes building healthier, sustainable communities in Canada, the US and around the world.
The InvestEco Sustainable Food Fund II focuses on high-growth, expansion-stage private companies in North America that are promoting health and sustainability in the food and agricultural sector. The fund is managed by InvestEco Capital, a leader in impact investing
Vulturis Financial Data Services has launched a venture-capital initial public offering yield index.
Based on historical data pertaining to returns of IPOs, the index weighs the average returns and exhibits the feasibility and viability of offering public stock for a start-up.
The VC IPO Yield Index shows the return of VC IPOs relative to the number of filings on a monthly basis.
The ratio uses the adjusted liquidity, or proceeds, of initial public offerings, giving founders a reference point when considering going public.
Vulturis launched the index as a tool for both angel investors and entrepreneurs to
Australian oncology-focused biotechnology company Novogen has acquired Glioblast, a privately-held, neuro-oncology focused Australian biotechnology company.
The transaction includes an upfront payment of AUD2.1 million, comprising AUD600,000 in cash and ordinary fully-paid shares valued at AUD1.5 million.
The shareholders of Glioblast will be eligible for further payments in cash or equity on the achievement of performance-related milestones.
The first two of these milestones provide for the issue of ordinary fully-paid shares valued at AUD1.25 million respectively on commencement and successful completion of a phase II clinical trial of GDC-0084, with the actual number of shares determined on the basis
Kuang-Chi Group has launched its second Global Community of Innovation (GCI) fund, which will invest up to USD250 million in companies developing technology in industries including robotics, internet-of-things, telecommunications, and digital health.
The fund has a focus on global start-ups and follows a previous investment of USD50 million in similar fields.
Through investments of the first GCI fund, Kuang-Chi has taken stakes in companies with a focus on innovative and disruptive technologies, including video intelligence provider Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi).
Itsik Kattan, CEO of AgentVi, says: "After Kuang-Chi became a strategic investor in Agent Vi, our cooperation
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