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Exceptional Innovation has completed the acquisition of Quadriga Worldwide Limited and its subsidiaries (Quadriga), an international provider of managed guest services for the hospitality industry and The SmarTV Company (SmarTV), an developer of interactive entertainment solutions for commercial and consumer markets.
The combined companies will form a global technology service provider that maximises guest engagement and satisfaction, enhances the entertainment experience, and increases revenue while delivering operational efficiencies for hotels. The group will have its headquarters in the Netherlands and significant operating subsidiaries located in England and the United States, as well as regional offices in Europe, Africa and the
Crowd analytics specialist Crowd Vision has completed a combined funding round which brings on-board significant US investment, providing a partial exit for the business’ early stage angel investors, including the Angel CoFund.
This partial exit will allow the Angel CoFund to re-invest the funds back into more high-growth British businesses.
Crowd Vision’s core offering enables a wide range of customers to perform live crowd analytics, tracking the movement and concentration of people from a standard video feed. This funding will be used to support Crowd Vision, as the business eyes up the next growth stage.
The company was set up
Xagenic, a molecular diagnostics company developing the lab-free Xagenic X1 platform for use at the point of care, has raised CAD15 million. Each of the Series B investors has participated in this financing, including Domain Associates, CTI Life Sciences, BDC Capital and the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation.
“This investment round is a testament to the faith our existing investors have in the power of the Xagenic X1 platform and the promise of our enzyme-free approach to molecular diagnostics,” says Timothy I Still, Chief Executive Officer of Xagenic. “This funding will accelerate our development efforts in bringing our point-of-care diagnostic platform
Partners Group is to acquire Knowledge Universe's US early-childhood education business, KUE LLC, on behalf of its clients.
KUE LLC is the largest for-profit provider of early childhood education in the US and the parent company of KinderCare Learning Centers, as well as the brands Children’s Creative Learning Centers (CCLC) and Champions. The transaction is expected to close later this year.
KinderCare Learning Centers has been educating and caring for children for over 45 years and has a strong reputation for delivering high-quality educational programs through approximately 1,400 centres in 38 states. KinderCare is on track to achieve 100 per
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK 2007 Fund is o sell the remaining parts of the Agros Nova Group – specifically its non-carbonated beverages segment including brands Fortuna, Garden and Pysio – to Polmlek.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the financial terms of the transaction.
Headquartered in Warsaw, Agros Nova is a leader in all three of its business segments, comprising fruit and vegetable preserves, ready-made food and non-carbonated beverages. Following IK’s acquisition of Agros Nova in 2010, the Company has improved its leading position in strategic product categories mainly via product innovations, relaunch of key brands and reorganisation
Century Park Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of Mikaway, a 105-year-old producer of Japanese pastries and specialty frozen desserts.
Mikawaya is credited as being the creator of mochi ice cream, a handheld and portion-controlled ball of premium ice cream enrobed in a soft and chewy, sweet rice cake. Mikawaya is the market’s largest producer of the Japanese specialty frozen dessert. The brand offers an exciting range of popular flavours including Asian-influenced flavours like green tea and mango, as well as more traditional favourites like kona coffee, cookies and cream, mint chip, chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and others. The products are
General Atlantic has agreed to sell its majority stake in amedes Holding AG, a provider of medical diagnostic services in Germany and Belgium, to Antin Infrastructure Partners.
The purchase price has not been disclosed. The transaction is subject to approval by the competition authorities.
With 35 laboratories and 27 practices across Germany and Belgium, amedes Group offers interdisciplinary and medical-diagnostic services for patients, medical practitioners, clinics and other institutions. Every day, it evaluates over 150,000 lab samples using state-of-the-art technology. With 3,500 employees – including more than 365 doctors and technical assistants – amedes is one of the leading lab
BitFury Group, the Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, has secured USD20 million in funding. Investors participating in the round include DRW Venture Capital, iTech Capital and the Georgian Co-Investment Fund.
Don Wilson, Founder of DRW Venture Capital, says: “DRW's investment in BitFury is an acknowledgment of the impressive work Valery Vavilov and the team has done to become a leader in the business of securing the blockchain. By supporting BitFury’s efforts in this regard, and by providing liquidity in bitcoin via its wholly owned subsidiary, Cumberland, DRW aims to facilitate the widespread adoption of the distributed ledger
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Brian Stengel as a Partner in the firm’s Advisory business.
Stengel will focus on providing strategic and financial advice to technology, media and telecommunications clients, with a particular focus on internet and digital media, and will be based in the Firm’s New York office.
Stengel has 20 years of investment banking experience. He comes to Perella Weinberg Partners from Waller Capital Partners, where he was a Managing Director and Group Head of the Digital Media Group. Previously, Stengel was an Executive Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Morgan Stanley. In these roles, he advised
Law firm Noerr has advised Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) on a further investment in Babbel. SEP led a USD 22m investment round in the Berlin-based company, which offers the well-known “Babbel” online language courses.
Babbel's existing investors Reed Elsevier Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners and VC Fonds Technologie Berlin also participated in the financing round. Noerr acted for SEP with a team led by corporate partner Felix Blobel (pictured).
Babbel, which was founded in 2007, is the leading app for language learning with 14 learning languages and up to 120,000 downloads per day. The funds from the financing round will be
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