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MUSO, a London-based data company that provides a complete and trusted view of global piracy and unlicensed media consumption, has secured a £3.2 million investment from Puma Private Equity.
MUSO has seen a 25% increase in general digital piracy year-on-year, when comparing H1 of 2021 to H1 of 2022. Its data is fast becoming a must have data-currency for entertainment companies and is already used by the likes of Amazon Studios, National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), NOS, Lionsgate, MNRK (formally eOne Music), Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe, and more. MUSO’s technology measures hundreds of billions of visits to piracy websites
Tandym Group (Tandym), a US recruitment, contract staffing, consulting, and workforce solutions company backed by by Mill Rock Capital, a growth and operations-oriented private investment firm, has acquired Longford & Company (Longford), a Boston-based technology consulting and executive search company.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Longford provides technology consulting and executive search services, primarily to clients in the Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, and other industries. The acquisition further enhances the scale and scope of Tandym Tech, Tandym’s technology vertical, and comes shortly after Tandym’s acquisition of Metro Systems.
As a result of this partnership with Tandym, Longford’s clients
JC Flowers & Co has completed fundraising for its fifth private equity fund, JC Flowers V LP, with more than $1.1 billion in commitments.
Limited partners in JCF V represent a diverse group of corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, and family offices. JCF V received strong support from existing longtime investors as well as highly respected new investors, with institutional investors located across Asia, Europe, Middle East, and North and South America.
JC Flowers targets investments across all sub-sectors of the financial services industry, including banks, insurance and reinsurance, specialty and consumer finance,
ClearCourse, a group of technology brands providing software solutions and an integrated payments platform, has acquired Pursuit Software, an established provider of jewellery management and point-of-sale (POS) software.
Cheesecake Energy Ltd (CEL), a UK-based energy storage startup, has raised £3.5 million (US$4.2 million) in a pre-series A funding round led by BGF, with support from Perivoli Innovations and private investors including former Jaguar chair, Sir John Egan.
The funds will be used to grow the CEL team, begin pilot deployments of the company’s technology, and build partnerships with potential manufacturing and distribution partners around the world.
The company’s unique eTanker technology stores electricity in the form of heat and compressed air. To store the energy, electric motors are used to drive compressors, which deliver high pressure air &
Balbec Capital (Balbec), a global alternative asset manager with over $11 billion in platform assets, has closed its fifth global flagship fund, InSolve Global Credit Fund V, (IGCF V), with total commitments of over $1.5 billion as well as a $100 million expandable co-investment vehicle, making it Balbec’s largest fund to date.
The Fund received significant support from a diverse base of existing Balbec clients and new investors globally.
IGCF V builds on Balbec’s long-term track record of successfully sourcing and investing in credit-sensitive financial assets such as residential, commercial, and consumer whole loan portfolios across the performance spectrum,
Apis Growth Fund I, a private equity fund managed by Apis Partners (Apis), is to sell the whole of its interest in South African SME Financing company Retail Capital Proprietary Holdings (Retail Capital) to TymeBank Holdings Limited (TymeBank).
The fund invested in Retail Capital in October 2018, acquiring a c11.7% shareholding in the company. Over the investment, Retail Capital has lowered the barriers to funding for SMEs through an easy, three-step online application process. This has led to Retail Capital providing more than 43,000 business owners in South Africa with over ZAR5.5 billion in working capital over the last 10
Lionpoint and Accelex have formed a strategic partnership aimed at delivering end-to-end operational efficiency to the Private Markets industry.
As the sector continues to grow, Private Markets investor’s demands are increasing. There is a clear need for more capable technology solutions delivering more automation while, at the same time, driving better informed investment decision making.
Lionpoint and Accelex share a similar vision and approach to the development and improvement of operational efficiency for the acquisition, analytics, and reporting of investment data.
Despite continued turmoil in the public equity markets, the global software saw a total of 628 M&A deals in Q2 at a disclosed value of $130 billion, equaling the record set just two quarters earlier, according to Kroll, a provider of data, technology and insights related to risk, governance and growth.
Highview Capital (Highview) has acquired Jobbers Meat Packing Co, doing business as WilMar, a protein processor specialising in ground beef solutions. Highview plans to merge WilMar with portfolio company Randall Foods (Randall), to create one of the leading protein providers in the US.
Randall Foods partners with grocery customers to provide all types of processed and value-added case-ready meats, including a variety of fresh prepared meals and marinated, ready-to-cook offerings. Since Highview acquired Randall in February 2021, the company has maintained its strong customer-centric culture while also scaling for further growth through expanding its exceptional management team and investing in capital
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