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Online grocery service Modern Milkman has secured a £2.25m investment from Praetura Ventures, a Manchester-based venture capital investor.
Headquartered in Colne, Lancashire, Modern Milkman uses intelligent data and analytics to map out milk rounds, assess demand and reduce carbon emissions. The business works closely with decision intelligence firm Peak AI, another Praetura Ventures portfolio company, to combine information, such as shelf-life dates, customer ordering patterns and warehouse data to ensure customers receive deliveries on time with minimum waste in the supply chain.
Modern Milkman, which has 19 hubs across England, also works with independent suppliers and farmers to deliver
An affiliate of Austin-based private equity investment firm CenterGate Capital (CenterGate) has made an investment in United Envelope (United), an envelope manufacturing company with 89 years of experience providing direct mail and transactional envelopes.
Established in 1932 and headquartered in Ridgefield, New Jersey with additional state-of-the-art manufacturing locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, United specialises in manufacturing and printing of envelopes for its blue-chip customer base, which includes financial services, non-profit, healthcare, and government end markets.
President and CEO Ken Bernstein, will continue to lead United Enevlopes.
CenterGate Capital was represented by McDermott, Will & Emery in the transaction, while CIBC
International web hosting business Miss Group, a portfolio company of European private equity company Perwyn, has completed its latest acquisition – Web4U – located in the Czech Republic.
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Prague, the business is one of the leading providers of web hosting, domain registrations, mail and server hosting services to over 15,000 unique customers across the public sector and SME market. In the 12 months to 31 December 2021, Web4U reported revenues of CZK38m.
Web4U’s 11 staff will join Miss Group’s team of over 300 people, adding to its customer base of >700,000 businesses globally
Peakside Capital Advisors AG (Peakside) has added Nicolaus Bitter and Sebastian Junghans to its investment team in Frankfurt.
Joining as principals, they will both drive deal sourcing and the execution of transactions for Peakside’s value-add, core-plus and core strategies.
Before joining Peakside, Junghans (37) and Bitter (33) were both Associate Partners at REVCAP in Frankfurt, working on transactions across Germany. Junghans was previously employed at Tishman Speyer and UBS Real Estate and holds a Master in Real Estate from EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, while Bitter worked for Morgan Stanley Real Estate in Frankfurt and also holds a Master
One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, has added Susan Fiesta to its team of Operating Partners.
Working alongside One Rock Operating Partners Sally Cunningham and Andrea Greene, Fiesta will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock’s portfolio companies through strategic solutions focused on financial, accounting and tax services.
Fiesta has 20 years of experience advising on domestic and international tax matters. Prior to joining One Rock, she served as Principal and Global Tax Director at Avison Young (USA) Inc. Prior to her role at Avison Young, Fiesta led the international
Quartr, the app that gives anyone, regardless of their investment expertise and network, access to critical company information and earnings calls, has raised a $2.6 million extended seed round, taking its total seed round to $7.1 million.
Bregal Sagemount (Sagemount), a growth-focused private equity firm, has made a strategic growth investment in BuildingLink, a provider of operations and resident engagement software for luxury residential properties worldwide.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in New York City, BuildingLink provides property managers with the tools to optimise building management through their operational and communications SaaS platform.
The investment from Sagemount will allow the Company to continue to invest in product and feature development efforts, seek out strategic M&A opportunities, and accelerate new customer growth in their core and adjacent markets.
Knox Lane-backed Fingerpaint Marketing has acquired Emcay, a full-service agency designed to provide a balance of pharmaceutical knowledge and multicultural insight, to create Fingerpaint Multicultural, a specialty offering that will focus solely on Pharmacultural marketing.
In December 2020, Fingerpaint partnered with San Francisco–based PE firm Knox Lane to accelerate its trajectory through organic growth and strategic partnerships. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Fingerpaint Multicultural will fall under the Fingerpaint Marketing brand and tap into both companies’ multicultural expertise. Steve Millerman, who served as president of Emcay, will lead Fingerpaint Multicultural, reporting to Mark Willmann, head of Fingerpaint
Global Investment firm KKR & Co Inc (KKR.N) has secured capital commitments of around $2.1 billion for its first asset-based fund, according to a report by Reuters.
The new fund has attracted new and existing investors, including public and corporate pensions, sovereign wealth funds and commercial banks, on the look out for collateral-based cash flows with attractive yields to beat market volatility.
KKR has also invested around $150 million in the new fund which will aim to provide capital to global private credit instruments backed by financial and hard assets.
Pico, a provider of mission critical technology services, software, data and analytics for the financial markets community, has signed an agreement for a $200 million strategic investment from private equity firm Golden Gate Capital.
The capital will be used to pursue strategic M&A opportunities that further enhance Pico’s comprehensive global ecosystem of best-in-class technology and services, as well as other general corporate purposes.
Pico was founded in 2009 to address the macro trends in electronification of markets across all asset classes. Since then, it has consistently anticipated market requirements and now offers comprehensive financial services trading cloud infrastructure, connectivity,
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