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Middle-market private equity firm Gryphon Investors is to sell its portfolio company Heritage Distribution Holdings to Beijer Ref, a worldwide distributor of commercial refrigeration, industrial refrigeration, and air conditioning.
Insight Partners is considering selling Community Brands, a provider of software applications for donations, peer-to-peer fundraising, admissions and events, for up to $2 billion, including debt, according to a report by Bloomberg.
HIG Capital has sold its majority interest in portfolio company Milestone Technologies, a global IT services firm to private equity firm The Halifax Group. HIG will maintain a minority stake in the company post-closing, while private equity firm Two Sigma Impact has also made a minority investment.
VSS Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on the healthcare, education, and business services industries, has held the final close of the VSS Structured Capital Fund IV (VSS SC IV) at $530 million, significantly in excess of its $400 million target.
Anchorage Capital Partners is closing in on a deal to acquire Australian department store chain David Jones for up to AUD130 million, with chief executive Scott Fyfe expected to remain as head of the business post-acquisition, according to a report by the Financial Review.
Key executives including Woolworths Holdings Ltd boss Roy Bagattini reportedly flew to Australia over the weekend and left on Monday having approved a sale of the business in a transaction estimated to be worth between AUD120 million and AUD130 million.
South Africa-based Woolworths paid AUD2.1 billion for David Jones in 2014 and has since made over
US Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has closed USVP XIII, a $400 million fund focused on Series A and B investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software, consumer and healthcare businesses.
Nerdio, a virtual desktops specialist for native Microsoft technologies, has raised $117 million in Series B funding from growth equity investor Updata Partners.
As part of the investment, Updata secured a place on Nerdio’s Board of Directors, joining existing members Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s former Global Channel Chief, Andy Lees, another former top Microsoft executive who served as President and Corporate Vice President during his 23-year tenure, Bret Maxwell, Managing General Partner, MK Capital, and Vadim Vladimirskiy, Nerdio CEO and co-founder.
Nerdio previously raised a $8 million in a Series A round in February 2020 led by Vladimirskiy, MK Capital,
CEPRES, a specialist in private market data and investment technology, has launched an expanded version of the CEPRES Fund Screener, which now provides benchmarks to over 11,000 institutional-grade illiquid funds invested in 108,000 PE-backed portfolio companies.
The upgrades to Fund Screener, part of the firm’s Due Diligence suite, include: enhanced track record analytics; sharing of funds, deals, time series and portfolio company data; benchmarking; and the ability to communicate and request investment data from more than 2,000 GPs via CEPRES’s confidential data network — fundamentally improving user experience and track record analysis impact.
Fund Screener provides LPs with analysis
sotus 861, a holding company controlled by EQT Private Equity’s EQT X fund, and supported by co-investors Mubadala Investment Company and the Sixth Cinven Fund, has launched a voluntary public takeover offer for all outstanding shares of va-Q-tec AG.
Golding Capital Partners has held the final close of the Golding Buyout Co-Investment 2020 fund with commitments of €273 million, significantly in excess of its original €200 million target.
In addition to traditional Golding clients including German pension funds, savings banks and insurance companies, new international clients, including several family offices, also committed to the new fund.
The fund’s investment programme will complement Golding’s dedicated co-investment strategy – the Golding Infrastructure Co-Investment 2020 fund, which closed in Q3 2022, and the Golding Private Debt Co-Investment 2021 fund, which is currently in fundraising.
Since the buyout fund was launched in 2020,
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