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Cable TV ad management company Viamedia has received an additional growth capital investment from its private equity owner, Chicago-based Lake Capital.
The funds will be used to finance Viamedia's expansion with new partners and into new growth areas in cable TV spot and programmatic TV advertising by bringing to market new ad tech software solutions. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Lake Capital made its initial strategic investment in Viamedia in December 2010 to complement its portfolio of digital and marketing service businesses. Viamedia has recently signed up additional multi-channel video programming distributors (MVPDs) including the renewal
Xpenditure has raised USD5.7 million in Series A financing. Xpenditure offers expense management solutions for enterprise and SME customers in 40 countries, and integrates with all major online accounting platforms.
Xpenditure aims to become the market leader in expense management.
The USD5.7 million Series A round was led by various private investors, including existing shareholder Bart Swanson (Summly, Badoo, Amazon). Previous investors also include Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens (Netlog, Twoo – sold to IAC), and Jonas Dhaenens (Combell).
The round, one of the largest Series A by a Belgian enterprise SaaS to date, confirms expense management as
The saying goes that ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ but when it comes to staying cyber secure, nothing could be further from the truth. Fact is, investment managers should be integrating cybersecurity issues, be they regulatory updates, software updates from their IT vendors, into their weekly meetings.
Even if it takes up just a few minutes of the agenda, getting into the habit of keeping staff aware of cybersecurity developments will allow it to become part of a firm’s broader risk management program and potentially mitigate human error; often the cause of so many internal data breaches.
In other words, cybersecurity should
The latest factsheet from Preqin provides a roundup of private equity fundraising in the third quarter, featuring breakdowns of fund closures by strategy and geography, data for time spent on the road, dry powder, and the 10 largest private equity funds to close in Q3.
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Palatine Private Equity has completed the management buyout of Vernacare, the UK’s market leading provider of single use infection control systems to the healthcare sector. This is Palatine’s first deal from the GBP220m Fund III which closed in June this year.
Based in Bolton, Vernacare employs over 200 staff across the UK and North America and sells to a varied customer base in more than 50 countries worldwide.
The company manufactures and supplies a range of products including the Vernacare system, which is the most widely adopted single-use disposable system in the UK healthcare market. It is comprised of
KKR is to acquire a majority stake in Selecta Group (Selecta) from Allianz Capital Partners ACP. The transaction is subject to, among other things, the consent of Selecta’s bondholders.
Selecta is a leader in the European vending and coffee services market and geographically diversified across Europe with operations in 21 countries and a special focus on Switzerland, Sweden and France. The company operates more than 145,000 vending machines, employs approximately 4,500 people, and serves more than 6 million consumers daily. KKR has supported Selecta since 2014, when KKR Credit provided EUR220 million in long-term financing as part of the Group’s
In spite of considerable market unrest, the German private equity landscape is seeing momentum return on the financing front and to portfolio companies.
The purchase prices of potential takeover candidates are at a record high, however, as the latest private equity panel survey by CMS and FINANCE magazine reveals.
The survey, which is conducted three times a year, asks senior managers at around 40 leading private equity firms investing in the German SME sector to provide anonymous assessments of the market, along with forecasts. The new autumn survey continues to show that the marked economic slowdown in China could
Inflexion has completed the GBP92m buyout of Alcumus Group Ltd (Alcumus), a market-leading provider of technology-enabled compliance risk management and certification services, from Sovereign Capital.
Alcumus serves over 8,000 clients, including 35 per cent of the FTSE 100, providing outsourced risk management services which are critical to compliance with UK regulations and internationally recognised standards. Formed through the integration of five companies, this high growth business holds a prominent share of the fragmented UK market, valued at around GBP500m and forecast to grow by up to 10 per cent per annum. Favourable market conditions are driven by a continuous regulatory
This factsheet from Preqin brings you up to speed with the latest data and information on private equity backed deals and exits that took place in Q3 2015. The factsheet features top-level industry statistics, key takeaways and listings of the largest deals and exits to have occurred in the third quarter.
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eMoov, the online UK estate agency, is celebrating a successful crowdfunding campaign after raising GBP2,615,530, more than two and half times its target.
eMoov launched the six-week fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding platform Crowdcube on 1 September and had initially targeted GBP1m for 5% equity in the company.
The figure achieved by eMoov was Crowdcube’s highest share equity raise for a property tech business and the second highest for a tech company behind JustPark who raised GBP3.7m in March.
With investments ranging from GBP10 to GBP500,000, money was raised from 795 individual investors, including VC investment from Episode 1 Ventures, Maxfield Capital Partners and
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