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An investment consortium led by Pembroke VCT, with support from Lepe Capital, has acquired specialist publishing and events group Boat International Media from August Equity.
Financial details of the deal have not been released but the purchase price is believed to be just in excess of GBP10m.
Pembroke is a venture capital trust, which specialises in investing in high growth consumer-facing businesses. Lepe Capital is a growth capital investor that specialises in media and consumer sectors. The consortium also includes several other private investors including Charles Dunstone and Tara Getty.
Boat International Media provides information and services across
Berkshire Partners, the Boston-based investment firm, has appointed Jon Meyer and Anil Seetharam as managing directors effective 1 January 2014.
They join the 17 current managing directors of Berkshire in managing the firm and its affiliated investment funds.
Meyer and Seetharam will continue in their current roles within Stockbridge Investors, the investment group within Berkshire that focuses on marketable securities.
Meyer originally joined Berkshire in 1999 as a private equity associate. Before re-joining the firm in 2008 as a member of the Stockbridge investment team, he served as a managing director for Farallon Capital Management, where he focused
As the relentless bull market march in equities continues, alarm bells are ringing in many bear camps around the world, says Peter Garnry (pictured), head of equity strategy, Saxo Bank.
The talk is that equities are overvalued and many different indicators such as P/E Shiller and market capitalisation to GDP are presented as evidence. Our view is that equity valuations have finally reached normality and the multiple-expansion party is probably over for now. Thus rising stock prices are now solely dependent on revenue and earnings growth.
Let us look at the cold facts. Measured on six valuation metrics, global equities
August Equity’s portfolio company SecureData Europe has completed the acquisition of SensePost.
SensePost provides information security consultancy. It works with blue-chip global customers and is known for its expertise in training, security assessments, consultancy and security research.
The expertise added by the latest acquisition will enhance SecureData’s full service offering in the Assess, Detect, Protect and Respond pillars of its security services proposition. The acquisition also aids the development of ‘SecureData Labs’, a specialist service that will provide customers with cutting-edge research, relevant answers and new ways of fighting cyber threats.
Etienne Greeff, CEO at SecureData, says: “We
Michelson Diagnostics, the UK based medical device company focused on multi-beam Optical Coherence Tomography technology, has closed its Series A2 financing.
The round, which was oversubscribed, raised GBP1.98m (USD3.25m) from existing investors, led by Octopus Investments and supported by Catapult Venture Managers, London Business Angels and several business angels.
The funds will be used for several purposes including expanding VivoSight sales in Germany, where the system was launched in mid-2011 and where it is reimbursed for use in the diagnosis of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), the commonest skin malignancy. The company will also invest further in the development of a compact, more portable second generation VivoSight System with an anticipated lower cost of
Private equity and alternative asset manager Maven Capital Partners has invested GBP3.5m into Carlisle-based tyre manufacturer DMACK to fund the next stage of expansion for the business.
DMACK designs and produces high performance tyres for the worldwide automotive market, specialising to date in the motorsport sector.
Maven’s investment will allow the company to meet the demand for PCR (passenger car) tyres through investment in new tyre moulds to increase the range and quantity of tyres available as the business continues to scale up in size.
The transaction was completed by Maven’s Glasgow-based investment team of Julie Glenny and
HIG Capital’s portfolio company Infogix has completed the acquisition of Agilis International, a provider of predictive data analytics and reconciliation solutions focused primarily in the telecom and media sector.
Founded in 2003 in Rockville, Maryland, Agilis’ integrated data warehouse and analytics platform helps clients improve revenues and generate savings by deriving insight from large data sets to predict and optimise business outcomes.
A core application of Agilis is in risk management where the product offering prevents, predicts or identifies financial risks on a real-time basis. In addition, the company also provides predictive propensity scoring to allow companies to more
An affiliate of private equity firm Warburg Pincus has invested USD40m in ComplexCare Solutions, to fund future growth initiatives at the risk assessment and care management services provider.
ComplexCare's management team will continue to hold a significant interest in the company.
Since its founding in 2010, ComplexCare has developed into a fast-growing health services company in the USD1bn addressable market for outsourced risk assessment and care management services by providing in-home health risk assessments and care management services through a network of qualified interdisciplinary care teams. With an increasing demand from Medicare Advantage, Managed Long-Term Care, Managed Medicaid and
CAN Capital has secured USD33m in funding led by Meritech Capital Partners with increased participation and ownership from existing investor Accel Partners.
Meritech and Accel were joined in the funding round by Ribbit Capital and QED Investors.
Nigel Morris, managing partner at QED, also serves as vice chair of CAN Capital’s board of directors.
Ribbit and QED also significantly increased their ownership stakes in the company.
CAN Capital will use the funds to expand and accelerate the growth of its small business finance offerings.
“Ensuring that small businesses continue to get access to capital remains a
The Edmond de Rothschild Group has appointed Dr Naveed Siddiqi as a partner in its BioDiscovery venture capital funds franchise.
Gilles Nobécourt, Raphael Wisniewski and Olivier Litzka, the three existing partners, say: "We are delighted that Naveed has joined the Edmond de Rothschild Group. He brings 13 years of venture capital investment experience in companies focused on innovation. He will be joining the life sciences team to select new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies of the recently raised EUR192m (USD250m) BioDiscovery 4 venture fund."
Prior to joining the Edmond de Rothschild Group, Siddiqi was a partner at Phase4 Ventures. His
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