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Dusseldorf-based startup Pathmonk has closed a €1.5 million seed investment round led by TechVision Fonds to boost its next-generation AI website conversion platform for marketers.
Serial entrepreneur Carsten Lebtig (CEO and founder WorkMotion) also participated in the round.
This investment round serves to fuel Pathmonk’s growth trajectory and its mission to power up websites with AI tools. Pathmonk helps companies to get more conversions from their website applying behaviour analysis on the visitors to increase leads captured and revenue generation.
The Riverside Company, a global private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has sold its investment in Parker Food Group (PFG), a leading developer and manufacturer of specialty value-added ingredients for large multi-national and emerging food and beverage brands.
The buyer is an investment company of the Investindustrial private equity group.
Founded in 1926 as a manufacturer of speciality ingredients, PFG today is a go-to solutions provider of innovative, specialty ingredients that address critical customer requirements for use in baking, dairy, beverage, confectionary, ready-to-eat, snack and foodservice end markets. Riverside invested in the business in
Motive Partners (Motive), a specialist private equity firm focused on growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services companies that serve the financial services industry, has completed the sale of Global Shares to JP Morgan.
Motive invested in Global Shares in August 2018, acquiring a ~40% stake in the business.
Global Shares, having grown to nearly $200 billion in assets under administration across over 800,000 corporate employee participants, will now enter its next phase of growth under new ownership, as part of JP Morgan. As reported at the time of signing the acquisition, JP Morgan will seek
Signet Leadership (Signet) and its clinical partner, Ladd Dental Group, have acquired Dill Family Dentistry.
Backed by Lead Capital Partners (“LCP”), Signet Leadership is a dental service organiSation providing administrative and support services to its dental partners. Dill Family Dentistry will join and operate under Ladd Dental Group, Signet’s flagship partner, as the platform’s eighth clinic in Indiana.
Dill Family Dentistry is led by Dr Todd Dill, DDS.
Kian Capital Partners (Kian), a middle-market focused private investment firm, has appointed Jordan Lee as a principal.
Lee will be based in Charlotte and will be responsible for sourcing, executing and managing new and existing investments across the firm’s portfolio with a focus on the tech-enabled/business services and healthcare services sectors.
Lee has over a decade of experience working with middle-market companies to develop bespoke strategies to drive organic and inorganic growth. Prior to Kian, Lee was a Managing Director at Starr Investment Holdings where he was responsible for sourcing, executing and managing middle-market companies with a focus on business
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has completed the sale of Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland (DSD) to Circular Resources, which provides a comprehensive offering for global corporations to meet their need for recycled plastics.
Its combination with DSD will create a large-scale provider of solutions for the circular economy in Europe with a secured, stable and high-quality inflow of raw materials for recycling.
Der Grüne Punkt was founded in 1990 as Germany’s first dual system to provide nationwide collection of used sales packages in a transparent and cost-efficient way beneficial for the consumer. Over time, DSD has
Conversus, an investment platform designed to expand access to the private markets for high net worth and accredited investors, has launched the Conversus StepStone Private Venture and Growth (CSPRING). CSPRING has begun accepting subscriptions and expects to hold its first closing over the next several months.
CSPRING offers individual investors and smaller institutions exposure to venture capital and growth equity in a single investment. As an open architecture solution, CSPRING’s portfolio seeks broad diversification across underlying managers, investment stages, and sectors of the innovation economy. CSPRING will predominantly purchase venture and growth equity fund interests on the secondary market with shorter
Tiger Infrastructure Partners (Tiger), a specialist in providing growth capital to enable the creation of new infrastructure, has appointed three new Operating Partners – Steve Holliday, Christine Weydig, and Graham Sharp – who bring decades of deep domain expertise and experience in energy policy, energy transition, and business-building.
Holliday is the former Chief Executive of National Grid plc and current Chairman of Tiger portfolio company Zenobe Energy, which develops, owns and operates battery storage projects in the United Kingdom.
Weydig is the former Director of Sustainability at the Port Authority of NY & NJ and incoming Executive Director of
Star Mountain Capital, a specialised lower middle-market investment firm, has signed a multi-year agreement with alternative investment data management SaaS platform Accelex.
Star Mountain plans to use the Accelex platform to process long-form performance reports for both their invested fund portfolio as well as secondaries pre-deal opportunities. Accelex is a key enabler in delivering investment transparency providing key insights for investors regarding cost and performance of funds.
One of the main challenges facing asset management firms like Star Mountain is the increasing amount of unstructured data that requires manual, time-consuming processing. Accelex aims to solve this challenge by not
Serent Capital, a growth-focused firm that invests in technology companies, has invested in Studio Designer, a digital project management, product sourcing, and accounting platform for the interior design industry.
The investment will allow Studio Designer to invest in developing new products and features and to scale key business operations.
Studio Designer is a fully integrated platform that features an all-in-one project management system with time billing, product sourcing, and proprietary accounting tools. For more than 30 years, Studio Designer has enabled the world’s leading designers to drive efficiency and growth, save time, and deliver beautiful projects to satisfied clients.
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