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Copper Street Capital, a private equity investor focused on the European financial services sector, has divested its minority stake in Italian mobile payments service, Satispay.
The mobile payment service, launched in 2015, simplifies every-day payments for consumers and cuts transaction fees for retailers, helping them transition to mobile payments.
Copper Street invested in Satispay in 2018 and since then, the company has achieved an exceptional growth, reaching 3,000,000 consumers and 200,000 merchants, representing an increase of 800% and 450% respectively since the investment. It is currently Italy’s largest mobile payments provider and is expanding across Europe, with offices in
Concert Golf Partners (Concert Golf or CGP) has received a strategic investment from Centroid Investment Partners (Centroid), a Seoul-based private equity firm and the owner of TaylorMade Golf Company (TaylorMade).
Centroid joins Clearlake Capital Group (Clearlake) and management as investors in Concert Golf, a boutique owner-operator of private golf and country clubs focused on providing premium lifestyle offerings and amenities for its members.
Financial terms of the transaction have not disclosed.
Clearlake originally invested in Concert Golf in partnership with the founding management team in April 2022. Since Clearlake’s investment, Concert Golf has welcomed several new private clubs to
Balderton Capital has appointed Rachel Bremer as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Bremer will be responsible for driving Balderton’s own marketing and communications efforts, and providing support and advice for the 100-plus active companies within its portfolio.
This comes as the firm continues to build out its team and portfolio support services, which includes the recent appointment of Elodie Broad as Head of Impact.
Bremer was previously a Partner at global advisory firm, Milltown Partners, where she worked with leading global technology companies and high-growth startups, supporting strategic communications and tech policy as they navigate complex and quickly changing external
Prescott’s, a leading provider of refurbishment, maintenance, repair and service work for surgical microscopes utilised in hospital operating rooms and ambulatory surgery centres and a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital (ASC), has expanded into the medical and laboratory steriliser and washer specialty service and support sector with the acquisition of Preventive Maintenance Medical (PMM).
Founded in 1997, PMM performs preventative maintenance, service, installations, refurbishments and parts and equipment sales, for surgical suite and laboratory sterilisers and washers. Additionally, PMM has expertise facilitating bulk rebuild projects for large research facilities faced with ageing equipment needs.
PMM’s comprehensive service offering is
Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers, has expanded the Affinity Data offering with insights on over 10 million founders, executives, and experts, including data points like industry, job function, seniority, education, job titles, and years of experience.
This new data provides deeper insight into the people in a dealmaker’s network to connect the research and dealmaking process in one centralised system: Affinity CRM. With Affinity Data dealmakers can quickly evaluate people in their network to screen deals or identify potential investments, find experts to support due diligence or portfolio companies, and make decisions faster.
Automatically capturing and enriching
While allocations to alternative investments have long been a staple of endowment and pension portfolios, they have yet to penetrate the defined contribution (DC) market. However, the return profiles and unique diversification of illiquid alternatives may offer an attractive investment opportunity for DC plan participants, according to the latest Cerulli Edge – US Retirement Edition.
Mid-market private equity firm One Equity Partners has completed its acquisition of healthcare staffing services provider Prime Time Healthcare. Founded in 2012, Prime Time specialises in travel nursing. It provides placement services for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants and Allied Health clinicians to 8500 healthcare facilities across the US.
Ron Spencer, co-founder of Prime Time Healthcare, said: “Increased demand for caregivers is a major challenge for the US healthcare system, a trend which shows no signs of easing given the ageing population and the prevalence of chronic conditions among this same population.
“Helping healthcare facilities and the patients
Hot cloud storage company Wasabi Technologies has secured $250 million in new funding bringing its valuation to over $1.1 billion. The fresh commitments include a series D equity led by L2 Point Management with participation from Cedar Pine; an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management; and returning investors including Fidelity Management & Research Company and Forestay Capital.
The company also expanded its existing debt facility with MGG Investment Group to $125 million.
Wasabi specializes in providing cloud data storage for businesses at a low cost, with no charges for egress or API requests. Its revenues more than doubled from 2020-2021 and has
Mid-market buyout firm Quad-C Management has made a majority investment in global business and digital transformation advisory firm Synoptek.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc has closed its largest private equity fund since 2007 with $9.7 billion in capital commitments, according to a report by Reuters. The new fund will focus on investments in companies with an enterprise value of about $750 million to $2 billion.
West Street Capital Partners VIII will look to invest an average of $300 million in acquiring controlling stakes in companies in the financial and business services sectors, as well as healthcare, consumer, technology and climate change transition.
Investors in Goldman’s latest venture reportedly include pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, family offices and high-net-worth
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