Affiliates of Antarctica Capital (Antarctica), have acquired a a controlling interest in Descartes Labs, a solutions provider of geospatial intelligence to leading commercial and government clients. The acquisition complements Antarctica’s existing portfolio of companies spanning New Space, Data Analytics and Digital Infrastructure.   Descartes Labs is a geospatial intelligence company that performs scientific analysis of geospatial, remote sensing, and diverse complementary data sets to enable sustainable sourcing best practices, commodity price forecasting, and efficient mineral exploration for leading CPG, Agriculture, and Mining companies. The company’s SaaS platform automates the analysis of geospatial imagery for users, enabling planetary scale analysis through

Tailwind Capital (Tailwind) has completed the sale of ArrowStream (ArrowStream) to Buyers Edge Platform (Buyers Edge). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. ArrowStream is a specialist in supply chain management visibility for the foodservice industry, enabling clients to capitalise on data to improve their supply chain operations. ArrowStream’s software addresses mission-critical challenges in brand protection, supply monitoring, profitability optimisation, and sales growth enablement across the foodservice supply chain, leveraging a single, industry-wide data platform to provide unprecedented levels of transparency, control, and actionable insights.  ArrowStream’s market-leading supply chain technology connects over 1,200 distributor locations, 10,000 suppliers and 275

Fortes Partners Limited, a multi-disciplinary staffing group backed by alternative investment management firm Omni Partners LLP, has acquired legal and secretarial staffing specialist DMJ Recruitment. Founded in 2007, DMJ Recruitment is one of the largest London-based independent staffing businesses placing legal professionals and company secretaries in private practice and in-house roles. Through Omni’s ownership, the business will operate as a brand within Fortes and extend its focus into other adjacent professional services areas, such as technology, accountancy and finance. The move aims to strengthen the portfolio of companies within Fortes whilst supporting the business’ expansion and growth. Operating from offices

An affiliate of Mill Point Capital (Mill Point Capital), a middle-market private equity firm focused on control-oriented investments in the IT services, business services and industrials sectors in North America, has acquired CrashPlan Group (CrashPlan) from Code42 Software, Inc (Code42) in a corporate carve-out transaction. CrashPlan is a leading provider of cloud-based endpoint data backup and recovery software. Launched in 2007, CrashPlan’s proprietary, purpose-built software provides continuous endpoint data protection and minimises data governance issues and security risks across an organisation. CrashPlan ensures reliability and ease-of-use through unlimited storage with no file or archive size limits, consistent user experience across

Househam Sprayers Limited (Househam) has secured a £450,000 funding package from MEIF Maven Debt Finance East and South East Midlands via the Recovery Loan Scheme. The Fund is part of Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) and is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven).  The business is planning to use the funding to increase stock levels to fulfil their improving order book for 2022.   Founded in 1970, and based in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, Househam has over 40 years of experience within the agricultural technology and manufacturing sector. The business specialises in the production and engineering of a range of self-propelled

LDC, a mid-market private equity firm, has invested in Avantis, a provider of virtual reality-based learning technology to the international education market. LDC’s investment was led by Partner Aziz Ul-Haq and Investment Manager Grant Goodwin from its North West team, both of whom will also join the board. Andy McEwan will continue as Non-Executive Chair.     With its technology used in over 100,000 classrooms worldwide, the education technology business has generated revenues of over £20 million in the last 12 months. LDC is backing Avantis’ existing management team, led by Founder Nik Tuson and Managing Director Huw Williams, to