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Ultroid Technologies has retained Armor Capital Management to provide M&A advisory services on all aspects of acquisitions, sales/divestitures, private equity transactions and finance raising, as Ultroid looks to expand its operations in the US and global markets.
The company’s flagship product is the Ultroid Hemorrhoid Management System, a non-invasive, low cost treatment Hemorrhoidal Disease (HD). Physicians perform the painless, 15 minute procedures in their office, without anesthesia, and experience exceptional patient outcomes.
Osaka-based asset manager, Nippon Capital Asset Management J-LLC is moving onto the international stage with the opening of a new office in China.
Nippon Capital provides customised portfolio management services covering equities, fixed income, hedge funds and private equity.
The news comes just days after China’s securities regulator moved closer to a normalisation of market functions when it announced it was removing the ban on new IPOs it had imposed four months ago at the height of this summer’s stock market collapse.
Nippon Capital provides customised portfolio management services covering equities, fixed income, hedge funds and private equity.
Private equity firm Keensight Capital has invested in Vision-Box, a specialist in Automated Border Control (ABC) and electronic identity solutions.
Created in 2001, Vision-Box designs, develops and assembles biometric-based systems, which allow for a greater fluidity of border control processes in airports throughout the world. The company’s product portfolio includes ABC solutions, such as its flagship automated gates solution, and identity management products, such as its live biometric capture units. These two business lines rely on a unique know-how in both hardware and software design.
The company has grown substantially over the past few years, and has to date
Inflexion Private Equity is to carve out GfK’s animal and crop health business, a provider of agricultural data and market information, from the Frankfurt-listed global market research organisation.
GfK’s animal and crop health business delivers innovative, data driven market information to the agriculture and animal health markets, providing detailed insights into their customers’ key growth requirements. The business, led by its Global Director Stephen Hearn, has grown rapidly since inception and delivered sales of USD40 million in 2014. Employing around 220 people in 18 countries, GfK’s animal and crop health business serves a wide range of long standing, blue chip,
Fossil Group is to acquire Misfit, a specialist in wearable technology and connected devices. The acquisition will enable Fossil Group to expand its addressable market, offering consumers both traditional timepieces and fashionable connected accessories.
Misfit brings to Fossil Group a scalable cloud and app platform, a world-class software and hardware engineering team, a native wearable technology brand and a pipeline of innovative products.
"We have a significant opportunity to add technology and connectivity across our platform of watches and accessories," says Kosta Kartsotis, chief executive officer of Fossil Group. "With the acquisition of Misfit, Fossil Group will be uniquely
Avedon has sold German high precision miniature ball bearing company GRW Bearing (GRW) to US-based Kaman Corporation (NYSE:KAMN), with the deal expected to close by the end of November.
GRW specialises in the design and manufacturing of custom engineered high precision miniature ball bearing solutions. GRW has a comprehensive product offering of several thousand different variants that are designed to meet specific customer application requirements in the Healthcare, Aviation & Defence, Drive Systems & Analysis and Industrial & Distribution end-markets. With over 550 employees and two state-of-the-art production facilities in Rimpar, Germany and Prachatice, Czech Republic, GRW has a competitive
White Star Capital, a transatlantic Venture Capital fund with offices in London, New York and Montreal, has closed its first institutional fund with USD70 million in Limited Partner commitments.
White Star Capital will deploy between USD500,000 and USD5 million in initial investments into companies in North America and Western Europe.
This first institutional fund is primarily backed by sovereign and institutional funds supported by entrepreneurs and family offices from over 18 markets.
White Star was co-founded by Eric Martineau-Fortin, an experienced technology M&A banker, and Christian Hernandez Gallardo, a former Facebook executive. Jean-François Marcoux, the co-founder of gaming
NexusCrowd has launched a new real estate redevelopment project on its online investment platform, after partnering with Downing Street Realty Partners, a Toronto-based real estate investment manager and merchant bank.
Downing Street is the lead investor for the CAD12 million project, which includes three industrial properties in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
The partnership will allow NexusCrowd to post exclusive investment opportunities that Downing Street is leading onto the NexusCrowd platform. NexusCrowd is the first investment platform in Canada to provide accredited investors with exclusive access to co-invest alongside institutional investors in deals that have reached at least 50
Some 80 per cent of limited partners (LPs) have seen their co-investments outperforming private equity funds, with 46 per cent seeing their co-investments outperform by a margin of over 5 per cent, according to a survey by Preqin.
This level of performance is the biggest draw for investors, with two-thirds of LPs citing better returns as the biggest benefit of co-investing alongside GPs.
Co-investment opportunities from fund managers (GPs) are also becoming more common, with 87 per cent of them either currently offering, or considering offering, co-investment rights to their investors. Furthermore, 30 per cent of managers included co-investment
Cyber security software company Panaseer has successfully raised USD2.25 million through a syndicated seed investment round. The investors include Albion Ventures, Notion Capital, Winton Technology Ventures, C5 Holdings, and Elixirr.
Panaseer was founded in 2014 by Nik Whitfield and a team of cyber security experts from BAE Systems. It is one of a new wave of UK cyber security start-ups working with commercial enterprises and was selected to accompany Prime Minister David Cameron to Washington DC earlier this year as part of a cyber-security delegation. Panaseer has since signed its first New York based Financial Services client.
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