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Castanea Partners has made an investment in Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, a retailer and wholesaler of branded artisanal ice creams.
With the investment, Castanea becomes the sole outside investor joining the Columbus-based company as owners alongside founder Jeni Britton Bauer, her husband, Charly Bauer, her brother-in-law, Tom Bauer, and longtime friend, CEO John Lowe.
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams was founded in 2002 by James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Jeni Britton Bauer. Britton Bauer’s ahead-of-the-trend vision—using whole ingredients and dairy from grass-pastured cows, rather than synthetic flavorings and commodity ice cream mix—coupled with inspired flavors, sparked the artisan ice cream movement
BDC Capital has invested USD6.7 million in Toronto-based Wave, a company that provides online financial tools for small businesses.
This money comes from BDC Capital's new USD150 million IT Venture Fund II announced last month. BDC Capital's investment is part of Wave's Series C funding round, which has now raised USD22.1 million and includes participation from CRV, The Social+Capital Partnership, OMERS Ventures and an unnamed strategic investor in the fintech sector. Wave has earmarked all Series C funds for the ongoing innovation and development of its suite of tools.
The investment was managed by Peter Misek, BDC Capital IT Venture
Affiliates of Balance Point Capital (Balance Point) have made a strategic investment in Ranger Airshop. Balance Point provided equity capital to facilitate the acquisition of the Company led by Argosy Investment Partners (Argosy).
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Easley, South Carolina, Ranger is a full service provider of unit load devices ("ULD") and other cargo control products. ULDs are broadly defined as any platform that is used to facilitate the movement of air cargo. Ranger maintains the industry's largest fleet of ULDs available for one way, short-term and long-term lease and operates more than 30 locations in 18 countries
Activa Capital, a Paris-based independent private equity company investing in mid-market companies, has appointed three new partners – Pierre Chabaud, Alexandre Masson and Benjamin Moreau – and one operations partner Jean-François Briand.
Created in 2002, Activa Capital is currently managed by four Partners: Charles Diehl, Michael Diehl, Philippe Latorre and Christophe Parier.
Chabaud (36) joined Activa Capital in 2009 and has contributed to many transactions including Françoise Saget – Linvosges, Sport 2000, Albarelle, Abrisud, La Maison Bleue and Gaz Européen. Prior to joining Activa Capital, he worked for 5 years in Management Consulting at Bain & Company and Arthur D
Virtual Instruments, a specialist in real-time infrastructure performance management, and storage performance analytics provider Load DynamiX are to merge to create the industry’s first end-to-end infrastructure DevOps platform.
To accelerate joint innovation in the multi-billion-dollar IT infrastructure market, HighBar Partners will lead a new USD20 million investment round into the combined company. Additional investors in the new company include Azure Capital Partners, Kinetic Ventures and Benhamou Global Ventures, the investment fund founded by Eric Benhamou, former CEO of 3Com.
Under the terms of the deal, the combined entity will retain the name Virtual Instruments and will be led by Philippe
Private equity firm Lotus Innovations has added Ommid Bavarian to its executive team as Chief Financial Officer. Bavarian joins Lotus as the firm continues its drive into the private equity market with a highly successful Fund I, and a tripling of its soon-to-close Fund II.
The addition of Bavarian, who brings a diverse mix of operational, technical and strategic accounting skills to the role, will help Lotus continue to acquire, grow, and exit undervalued software and services companies.
Christian Mack, Managing Director of Lotus Innovations, is enthusiastic about the addition of Ommid to the team. “Ommid shares Lotus’ passion for
Three private equity experts are partnering to form LendTech Capital Partners (LendTech), a new investment advisor focused on private equity strategies within the marketplace lending industry.
LendTech has been established pursuant to a joint venture between affiliates of Liberum, a London based investment bank who conceived Europe's first institutional investor in marketplace loans in 2013 and has raised over USD1.9 billion for marketplace lending funds and platforms; Ranger Alternative Management II, LP, an investment advisor which manages two leading direct lending funds, The Ranger Specialty Income Fund and the Ranger Direct Lending Fund, the latter which is publicly traded on
Private equity and venture capital in ex-US developed markets and emerging markets delivered negative returns in the third quarter of 2015, but managed to outperform public markets in those regions substantially, according to Cambridge Associates.
The Cambridge Associates LLC Global ex US Developed Markets Private Equity and Venture Capital Index returned -0.6 per cent for the quarter ending September 30, 2015, as measured in US dollars. Its public market counterpart, the MSCI EAFE, fell -10.2 per cent over the same period – a much steeper decline. The Cambridge Associates LLC Emerging Markets Private Equity and Venture Capital Index posted a
The corporate team in Clyde & Co's Tanzania office has advised Silafrica Plastics and Packaging International Limited on the successful investment by AfricInvest Fund III.
Silafrica has operations in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and India. The group has been operating since the 1960s providing plastics and packaging solutions to a wide variety of sectors.
Prior to the investment, Silafrica was wholly-owned by the Sumaria Group, a conglomerate with interests in numerous industries across Africa.
The Clyde & Co team acting on this transaction (as both international counsel and local Tanzanian counsel) was led by Michael Strain and included
Ridgmont Equity Partners’ prtfolio company APE Companies (APE) has acquired Corrosion Specialties, Inc, a full service distributor of corrosion control equipment and consumable products to the transportation, manufacturing, and energy industries.
CSI will continue to operate a distribution centre in its Duluth, Georgia, headquarters and a distribution centre in Jacksonville, Florida. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“CSI has been a well-respected name in the abrasives business for fifty years and we’re very excited to welcome the team to our family of companies,” says Kevin Willis, CEO of APE Companies. “This addition to our partnership will further propel
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