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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
IK Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap III Fund has acquired a significant minority stake in Remazing, a marketing services and software provider focused on the Amazon marketplace.
IK is investing from its dedicated pool of Development Capital, acquiring its stake from the founders who are reinvesting alongside IK.
Remazing was founded in 2016 by Hannes Detjen and Emil Beck and was developed to serve the growing demand from consumer brands to market their products directly on Amazon. Today, the Company is the largest independent provider in the market, serving over 100 corporate clients globally and employing over 100 e-commerce
Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has been awarded Best Corporate Sustainability Strategy for a Management Company at the Private Equity Wire ESG AAA European Awards 2022.
Private Equity Wire’s European ESG AAA Awards assess, recognise and reward the efforts of private equity firms that have implemented sustainable, industry-leading ESG policies at both the portfolio company and management company levels in Europe. The ESG AAA awards represent a mark of global, societal and ethical success and quality for the companies selected.
On this occasion, Private Equity Wire partnered with EthicsGrade, an artificial intelligence-based ESG
Limerston Capital (Limerston Capital), a UK mid-market private equity investor, has appointed Lejla Pintol as Investment Associate, the first in a series of new hires to be announced over the next few months.
Pintol joins from Citi where she was an investment banking associate within the TMT team and involved in multiple transactions. She previously worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse and Jefferies. Pintol speaks German, English, Italian and Serbo-Croatian and has an MSc in Finance from the University of Liechtenstein.
Limerston Capital is a private equity firm targeting UK businesses with EBITDA of between £5 million and
Innovation scale-up Wazoku has closed a series B funding round of £8.5 million through investment from Octopus Ventures along with follow on from existing investors including Calculus Capital.
Wazoku works with global enterprises such as NASA, Enel, HSBC, Shell and more to help them innovate at scale. It will use the funding to drive R&D across its product suite, as well as further internationalisation, acquisitions and the management of hyperscale growth over the next two years.
Wazoku has also announced the acquisition of the Danish collective intelligence platform, Mindpool, a research spinout that captures actionable employee insight to improve company
Industry Services Co (ISC), a provider of refractory and industrial maintenance services and a portfolio company of Osceola Capital, has acquired Lonestar Sierra Industrial Services.
This is the fifth acquisition ISC has completed in the past two years.
Lonestar Sierra is a refractory solutions provider specializing in refractory maintenance, demolition, installation, castings and support services. Refractory services is the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of industrial kilns and furnaces in manufacturing plants. The company services industrial customers in California, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and other states in the Western US. Lonestar Sierra services a broad
Raiven Capital, a global early-stage tech venture fund, has invested in Wayout, an IoT-enabled, water purification system that can turn all kinds of source water, even seawater, into drinkable water. Wayout is Raiven’s second European investment.
Founded in 2018 in Stockholm, the company’s container-sized, tech-enabled system is essentially a powered “micro factory” that removes impurities and demineralises groundwater locally, eliminating the need to transport usable water to a faraway destination.
Each sensor-enabled unit, which produces water for 2,000 people per day, is connected to the cloud, providing immediate data on efficiency via a desktop app.
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