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Mill Point Capital (Mill Point) has acquired URT United Road Towing (VMS), a specialist in vehicle management solutions for both public- and private-sector clients.
Mill Point, a middle-market private equity firm focused on control-oriented investments in the business services, industrials and IT services sectors in North America, employs an Executive Partner model and has extensive experience investing in business services companies focused on federal, state and municipal government clients. For the VMS platform, Paul Colangelo, an executive with an extensive track record serving local and state government clients, will serve as the Company’s Vice Chairman of the Board. Colangelo is currently the
Mercury, Republic Asia, and Cryptology Asset Group have co-led a $15 million Series A funding round in Topl, creator of a blockchain built to drive impact initiatives and sustainable transformation for companies across the world.
Following the company’s successful seed round in 2020, Topl has continued to focus on real-world use-cases with a focus on its quickly growing userbase. Topl has helped to track and monetise a variety of products across the globe, including conflict free diamonds, ethically sourced coffee, and fair-wage cocoa. Its blockchain has also helped measure and verify water usage in industrial processes and confirmed the cold
A clear majority (85%) of investors in alternative investments are integrating ESG criteria into their investment decisions, an increase of 10% points over the last three years, according to new research from LGT Capital Partners.
Climate change and human rights are seen as the most pressing issues among investors, while Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) has seen the largest increase in attention. Support for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains strong.
LGT Capital Partners’ research surveyed 230 investors in alternatives (including pension funds, endowments and insurers across 28 countries) to assess how they are integrating ESG into their investment activities.
Copley Equity Partners (Copley Equity), a private equity firm and family office, has partnered with the management team of engineering services company, LJB Inc (LJB), to acquire an equity interest in the firm. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1966, LJB is a provider of civil and structural engineering, fall protection engineering and consulting, transportation engineering and traffic safety consulting, geospatial and water resources services. Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, with more than 200 employees, LJB serves a wide variety of blue-chip clients across more than 40 states in end markets such as commercial, industrial, manufacturing, federal,
Battery Ventures has promoted eight investors across its four offices worldwide including three principals who work closely with the firm’s general partners to manage investments: Brandon Gleklen, based in New York; Dillon Joyce, in San Francisco; and Justin Rosner, in Boston.
Gleklen, who joined the technology-focused investment firm in 2015, focuses on early- and growth-stage investments in business-software and consumer-tech companies, while Joyce and Rosner specialise in later-stage deals. Joyce joined the firm in 2016 and focuses on growth and majority-growth investments in business-software and industry-specific software companies. Rosner, who has worked at Battery since 2014, focuses on growth and
Angeles Equity Partners (Angeles) has promoted Sam Heischuber and Sameer Patel to managing director, and Max Schechter to principal, head of business development.
Heischuber is responsible for the evaluation, due diligence, and execution of new investment opportunities at Angeles Equity Partners, primarily in the building products, distribution, and transportation and logistics sectors. Heischuber joined the firm in 2016 and currently serves on the Board of Directors of several Angeles portfolio companies, including Freymiller and RōBEX.
Patel joined Angeles Equity Partners at its inception in 2014 and is responsible for the evaluation, due diligence, and execution of new investment opportunities, primarily
Altira Group (Altira) an energy venture capital firm headquartered in Denver, has participated in the recent Series C multi-investor funding round for its North Carolina-based portfolio company FlexGen Power Systems (FlexGen).
Altira invested from Altira Technology Fund VI LP and through a separate special purpose vehicle (SPV) for current investors, alongside other current and new investors.
FlexGen is an integration and software technology provider that delivers utility-scale energy storage projects integrated with traditional and renewable power generation. Since its founding in 2009, FlexGen has installed more than 3 GWh of energy storage systems across the US for utility, microgrid, and
Advent International has invested over €250 million in Seedtag, a specialist in contextual advertising in EMEA and LATAM. As part of the transaction, Seedtag’s core existing institutional investors – Oakley Capital, Adara and All Iron Ventures – will remain investors, supporting the company in its next phase of growth.
Jorge Poyatos and Albert Nieto, co-founders and co-CEOs of Seedtag, will continue as investors, leading the business from both its Spanish and US headquarters.
The company intends to use the funds to further scale its Contextual AI technology, LIZ, as well as for innovation and worldwide operations, advancing its expansion into the US, the
Altera has completed of a growth capital funding round. This investment provides the Atlanta-based investment firm which focuses exclusively on the lower middle private markets, with balance sheet capital to further enhance its firmwide capabilities and growth initiatives.
Since its founding in 2018, Altera has sponsored over 40 investment vehicles across private equity, real assets, and private credit.
The company’s leadership expects to have $325 million of capital committed to its private investment strategies by year’s end 2022 including $75 million of capital from Altera’s owners. The firm’s trajectory seems on-trend to meet market demand. According to the 2022 Preqin
Ambienta SGR (Ambienta), one of Europe’s largest asset managers entirely focused on environmental sustainability, is adding Calpeda, a global manufacturer of pumps, motors and systems for the integrated water cycle, to its platform company Wateralia.
With the industrial integration between Calpeda and Caprari, whose acquisition was performed in February 2021, Wateralia is now structured to become one of the largest independent European players in the electric pumps and pumping systems industry for the integrated water cycle. Due to the increasing need for efficient water supply and distribution for both civil and industrial daily use, the water management industry is strongly
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