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Perwyn has appointed Liam Coleman as an associate. Coleman will be based in Perwyn’s London office and will work primarily in the firm’s private equity team. This is the fifth hire Perwyn has made this year as the business continues to expand its operations in both London and Europe.
Coleman joins Perwyn from Bank of America Securities, where he began his career in 2019 within the UK & Ireland Investment Banking team. In his role at Bank of America Securities, Coleman worked on a number of high profile transactions, including Kerry Group’s $1.0 billion acquisition of Niacet and the Issa
LLR Partners has promoted Ryan Goldenberg, Michael Pantilione and Zack Sigal to partner. The trio has a combined 30-plus years as members of the LLR team.
Goldenberg has helped build LLR’s fintech and payments investment practice since joining in 2016. His current and former boards include Archer, Celero Commerce, DaySmart, Midigator, ParkHub and PCS Retirement, and he previously worked with eOriginal. Prior to joining LLR, Goldenberg was a vice president at Houlihan Lokey in the Private Growth Equity Capital practice. Previously, he served as an associate at Updata Partners and Kamylon Capital. Ryan began his career at Houlihan Lokey, assisting
Zitara, a physics and machine-learning powered battery management software company, has closed a $12 million Series A round led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP). Existing investors NextView Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Trucks VC also participated in the round.
Based in San Francisco, Zitara builds cloud and embedded software for optimising the safety, reliability, and lifetime of battery-powered assets.
Zitara integrates seamlessly across a broad range of battery applications including stationary storage, micromobility, electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and satellites – for both manufacturers and operators of assets.
BPOC, a pure-play healthcare investor, has formed a new partnership with experienced pharmaceutical executive, Mark Scullion, to build a clinical research site platform serving the pharmaceutical market.
Scullion has spent more than 15 years in the clinical research industry and brings a unique understanding of the site selection process and value needs of pharmaceutical sponsors. He was most recently the Global Head of Trial Monitoring for Novartis AG, and also previously held leadership roles at Syneos Health and IQVIA, where he developed novel approaches to clinical trial design and execution. At Novartis Scullion led a group of clinical professionals delivering
Blackford Capital (Blackford), a lower middle market private equity firm, has exited its investment in Quality Aluminum Products (QAP) through a sale to Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (Gibraltar), a publicly-traded manufacturer and provider of products and services for the renewable energy, residential, agtech and infrastructure markets.
Acquired by Blackford Capital in January 2016, QAP manufactures aluminium and steel products including soffit, fascia, trim coil, rain carrying products and aluminium siding, and serves wholesale markets in the Midwest, Northeast and South.
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed the sale of WellSpring Consumer Healthcare (WellSpring) to Avista Capital Partners.
Established in 1999 and headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, WellSpring is a marketer of over-the-counter brands primarily in the skin care and gastrointestinal care categories. WellSpring’s product portfolio includes long-standing brands such as Bactine, Bonine, Emetrol, Glaxal Base, FDS, Micatin, Gelusil, Barriere, and K-Lyte. The Company sells to retailers and consumers through a network of distribution partners and direct salespeople.
Since being acquired by Audax in 2017, WellSpring has undergone a period of transformation and growth, including expansion of the company’s product offerings in
Alpine Investors (Alpine) has completed sale of its portfolio company, Mindful (formerly known as VHT), a specialist in callback automation, to Medallia, a customer and employee experience business.
Terms of the sale have not been disclosed.
Mindful is a provider of callback technology for nearly 400 of the world’s leading brands. Alpine acquired the business, then know as Virtual Hold Technology, in 2018 and appointed Matt DiMaria as president and CEO. Adopting Alpine’s People-First playbook, the Mindful team transformed the company, generated over 100% revenue growth for three consecutive years from its new SaaS offering and more than doubling overall
SPORT BUFF – a specialist in gamification and on-screen engagement – has attracted a further $2.5million of global investment in its seed round of funding, following successful pre-seed funding in February 2021.
Among the fresh investors in SPORT BUFF are Sport Republic (UK), Longboard Capital (US), Calvert Drive (NZ) and Intrepid Ventures (CY), alongside personal investment from a number of individuals including Matthew Benham, owner of English Premier League club, Brentford FC.
SPORT BUFF graphics fit around the original coverage and broadcaster’s layout to give viewers extra information, engagement and interaction – through posts, polls and quizzes – that enhance
Stockholm-based sustainability platform Worldfavor has secured €10.2 million in a Series A funding round led by SEB Private Equity. The funding will be used to fuel growth and and finance the firm’s expansion plans.
Existing investors Brightly Ventures and Spintop Ventures also participated in the round which brings the total raised by Worldfavor top date to €13.4 million.
Worldfavor is a sustainability platform which enables businesses worldwide to easily access, share, and leverage business ESG data – such as GHG emissions, diversity, human rights, anti-corruption and more – to gain insights and make sustainable action possible, both internally and through
Periscope Equity portfolio company Praecipio Consulting, a cloud-first business and technology consulting firm, has acquired Coyote Creek to create one of the largest North American Atlassian Platinum Solution Partners.
For 20 years, Coyote Creek has provided IT and engineering services across the Atlassian platform. The company is highly regarded for its customer-first philosophy and proactive approach to enterprise transformation, including DevOps consulting and IT service management. Coyote Creek will be a powerful addition to Praecipio’s service suite, building upon its reputation as a cloud-first, enterprise-level strategic advisor that helps organisations connect business and IT to become more responsive and adaptive.
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