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Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a growth-focused private equity firm based in St Louis, and Endicott Capital (Endicott), an investment fund focused exclusively on the information services sector, have made a strategic investment in MediaRadar. TSCP will serve as the control investor, while former majority investor Frontier Growth, will remain a minority shareholder in MediaRadar.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2007, MediaRadar is an provider of cross-media advertising intelligence that is highly targeted to the needs of media sellers, agencies, and brands. The Company’s more than 20,000 users rely on MediaRadar’s extensive database that tracks
Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based tokenisation platform, has parthereadw with Ownera, provider of a global inter-trading network based on the open-source FinP2P protocol, to distribute tokenised assets over the Ownera FinP2P network.
The digital securities industry is growing fast but has lacked a common global distribution network for connecting issuers, investors, exchanges, and other market participants. As a result, the rate of institutional adoption and investor access to high-quality digital assets has been limited up until now.
Ownera brought the industry together to develop the FinP2P open-source routing protocol to solve this problem by orchestrating the instant exchange of digital assets held
TA Associates (TA), a global growth private equity firm, has expanded its leadership team with the appointments of Jennifer Barbetta as Chief Operating Officer, Lori Stachelski as Chief Talent Officer and Darlene Karis as Global Head of Human Resources.
The investment in senior leadership aims to support TA’s accelerated growth, affirm its commitment to developing talent and position the firm for the future.
As Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, Barbetta will be responsible for general oversight and day-to-day management of all global non-investment operations, partnering closely with TA’s senior leadership. Her role will include overseeing TA’s global offices,
Horizon Capital has raised $250 million at the first close of its Ukraine-focused Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV – 50% of its $250 million target.
The fund’s first closing, which is a record high for Horizon Capital, was held in person this morning. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy virtually attended, and gave a welcome address, at the fund’s signing ceremony, which took place in London. The Fund is backed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the International Finance Corporation; Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, and a subsidiary of KfW Group; the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank; the Swiss Investment Fund
PlanetWatchers, a revolutionary crop monitoring company that can provide detailed crop insights, at any time, regardless of weather and lighting conditions, has raised $11m as part of its series A funding round as part of the Company’s ambitious growth plans.
PlanetWatchers is a technology company that uses advanced machine learning to support crop insurers and the agricultural industry in verifying cover crops, tillage, planting dates, acreage, crop classification and weather damage at scale. The Company uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to provide accurate insight at scale. PlanetWatchers exploits the unique benefits of SAR, to create in-season insights that reduce
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, is to acquire the core operating assets of Muehlhan AG , a global provider of surface protection solutions catering to the marine, infrastructure and offshore wind energy industries.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1881 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Muehlhan is a broad-based Industrial Services provider specialising in wind services, surface protection, steel services, passive fire protection, scaffolding and insulation works. Muehlhan is deeply rooted in the maritime industry and over time, has successfully expanded its services portfolio tailored to the individual
European M&A activity is expected to increase further over the next 12 months, following a bumper year of dealmaking in the region, according to a new survey by Mergermarket.
Private equity investors are paying more attention to the small print, and many are finding they are not happy with the terms on offer from fund managers.
Pentair is looking at possible options to sell part of its industrial solutions business, Bloomberg has reported quoting unnamed sources, with any sale expected to interest private equity firms.
The industrial company which produces water pumps, pool equipment, agricultural products and other water-related equipment, is working with an advisor on the sale of the asset.
A final decision hasn’t been made and Pentair could elect to retain the assets.
Pentair recorded a 13% year-on-year increase in sales leading to $1.06 billion in the second quarter and attained an EPS of $1.02.
It agreed to buy commercial ice maker Manitowoc Ice
Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) is said to be looking to merge two of its portfolio companies – Tricor and Vistra – to create a new company at a valuation between $7 billion and $8 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Tricor provides business expansion services including accounting and financial reporting as well as tax services, corporate services, investor services, corporate trust and debt services and HR and payroll services.
Vistra specializes in corporate growth support including risk management and compliance, covering private equity, real estate, capital markets and private wealth.
BPEA has notified Tricor and Vistra’s creditors about
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