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Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) has combined T-Base Communications, CommonLook and Accessible360 to form Allyant, a comprehensive accessibility solutions company.
Allyant’s sole focus as a single entity is making accessibility simple, seamless, and efficient for organisations – ensuring equitable access to information for people with disabilities.
The company offers a multitude of accessibility services and software solutions, spanning print and digital document remediation services, document remediation software, and digital accessibility auditing. The most prominent organisations in the world, including those in financial services, government, healthcare, and education, rely on Allyant’s solutions to create, assess, remediate, produce, and track compliant
The rate at which private equity firms are looking to outsource parts of their operations continues to increase, according to Ocorian, a specialist in corporate and fiduciary services, fund administration and capital markets.
Ocorian says tit has seen a significant increase in enquiries this year from private equity firms looking to outsource when compared to the same period in 2021.
In addition, Ocorian says increased scrutiny by regulators, with US regulators warning private equity managers to expect more fines and enforcement actions for overcharging investors, is stretching in-house compliance teams and causing GPs to reassess.
NorthEdge, a lower mid-market private equity firm, has supported quality assurance and testing firm Testronic, part of the Catalis Group, to complete two new acquisitions.
Testronic has acquired Check Disc Labs (CDL) and Giant Interactive, representing the third and fourth acquisitions for Catalis Group since NorthEdge’s investment into the firm in 2020.
The two deals follow a series of other bolt-on acquisitions in NorthEdge’s technology portfolio over the last 12 months.
CDL, a quality assurance provider for physical and digital media content, and Giant Interactive, a provider of award-winning entertainment and content delivery services, will join the Testronic
The Lincoln Private Market Index (Lincoln PMI), an index that tracks changes in the enterprise value of US privately held companies, saw a decline of 0.5% in Q2, its first quarter-over-quarter decline since Q1 2020.
The modest decline was driven by a contraction in multiples as private company performance remained relatively resilient quarter-over-quarter.
Since the onset of the year, Lincoln has observed a pull-back in multiples, however, until Q2, earnings growth of private companies has more than offset this contraction and led to continued growth in the Lincoln PMI. This quarter an inflection point was reached, as earnings growth did
Golding Capital Partners has held the first close of its first global impact fund at €65 million, with commitments coming from several institutional investors, both existing and new, from Germany, Sweden and Switzerland.
At this early stage, the private equity fund of funds has already invested in two target funds and diversified along several key dimensions in line with its investment strategy.
The fund focuses on companies in Europe, North America and emerging markets with transformative business models in the fields of renewable energy and resource efficiency (35 percent), sustainable agricultural technology (35 percent) and also includes financial services (30
Godspeed Capital Management (Godspeed Capital), a lower middle-market Defense & Government services, solutions, and technology focused private equity firm, has acquired Image Engineering Group (IEG), a Texas-based Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) design firm focused on sustainability in the education, commercial, and retail markets.
The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
IEG will join Rachlin Partners and TSK Architects as part of Huckabee Architects, Inc (Huckabee), Godspeed Capital’s Architectural, Engineering, and Consulting (AEC) services and solutions growth platform focused on education and government markets.
IEG will add technology solutions, geographic and market reach, and customer relationships to
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has provided a senior debt facility of up to £75 million to Impact Lending, a specialist property lender that provides senior and mezzanine bridging and development loans up to £10 million, primarily to UK SME residential property developers.
Founded in 2019, by property entrepreneur Robert Whitton and finance professional David Travers, Impact Lending is part of Impact Capital Group, which specialises in real estate, development finance, strategic land purchases, sustainable construction through modular manufacturing and flexible, smart office services.
Foresight has worked with Impact Lending to structure a debt
Carlyle is to acquire a significant minority stake in CureApp, Inc, a Japanese medical technology (medtech) company and prescription digital therapeutics provider, for JPY7 billion as part of CureApp’s Series G funding.
Carlyle’s investment brings the total amount of capital raised by CureApp to approximately JPY13.4 billion. Carlyle will have one board seat as part of the transaction.
Founded in 2014 by two physicians, CureApp is one of Japan’s fastest-growing medtechs specialising in the research and development of prescription and non-prescription digital therapeutics. CureApp’s pipeline is currently focused on the areas of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, alcohol addiction, oncology, and chronic heart
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has acquired Rensa Filtration (Rensa), a manufacturer of consumable, mission-critical air filtration products. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2017 by CEO Brandon Ost, Rensa has a manufacturing and distribution footprint that includes facilities in Maryland, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas, and the Company’s products are marketed across a range of brands including Rensa, Custom Filter, Viskon-Aire, Permatron, D Mark, and Air Filters, Inc. In its partnership with Audax, Rensa will continue to look to acquire high-growth companies interested in being part of a family of leading-edge filtration suppliers.
Ost will continue
Dragonfly, a venture capital firm focused on the cryptocurrency and digital assets space, has acquired crypto hedge fund MetaStable Capital, as it looks to expand its web3 strategy, according to a report by NFTGators. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
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