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Clearview Capital Fund IV, and its affiliates (Fund IV) have created The Barcode Group by rebranding the holding company formed in 2021 to merge Infinity Worlds, Belmont Partners and Portu-Sunberg (including wholly-owned subsidiaries Tana Sales and Marketing, Avenue C, and Retell).
The Barcode Group brings together three industry leaders with decades of combined expertise serving established and emerging national brands and private label suppliers across retail channels including Target, Walmart, Amazon, and Costco with a shared commitment to exceptional service.
The Barcode Group will serve as the holding company and umbrella organization for six divisions within the three merged
Cabot Square Capital has acquired a majority shareholding in Chartway Group, one of South-East England’s leading partnerships-based housebuilders.
The investment is being made by Cabot Square’s existing portfolio company Public Sector Plc (PSP) to create a new merged Group.
PSP is a specialist strategic asset manager that partners with public and private sector bodies to add value to land and property assets as well as deliver positive ESG outcomes for local communities.
The investment will support the strategic growth of the Chartway Group.
Acquisition debt funding was provided by Pricoa Private Capital.
BGF has expanded its Yorkshire and North East team with the appointment of Linda Nguyenova as an investor.
Nguyenova joins BGF from investor Endless LLP, where she spent more than three years as an investment manager. Prior to this, she worked at PwC across its Debt & Capital Advisory and Deals/Assurance teams. Nguyenova has built up an excellent reputation in the Yorkshire market and was recently nominated as an investment rising star at the Yorkshire Businessdesk Rainmaker Awards, having previously been named in the Real Deals Future 40 Diversity and Inclusion Leaders list.
At BGF, Nguyenova will be
Virtual event and communities platform SCOOCS has raised €1 million in investment from business angel Sebastian Loh.
The funding will be used to develop the platform further, simplifying the process of customising and building events/communities, and expanding the team.
Born from necessity in 2020 and a couple weeks before Covid lockdowns, SCOOCS (Smart Customizable, Online, Offline, Communities for Sustainability) was founded by Prof Dr René Bohnsack. He used the platform to host his own conference on the topic of Sustainability and Digitalisation to showcase those conferences can be more sustainable and inclusive. Market demand combined with years of experience in
TPG Capital, the private equity platform of global alternative asset management firm TPG, is to acquire a majority interest in DOC Generici, a manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals in Italy, from ICG and Merieux Equity Partners.
Following the recent launch of £5 million Boost Fund 1, Capital Pilot has announced the first five startup businesses backed by the fund on the basis of an Investability Rating.
Boost Fund 1 is the UK’s first automated high-volume investment fund targeting UK-based startups. Its approach brings efficiency and transparency to the fundraising process for founders, and also helps investors build truly diverse portfolios of entrepreneurial businesses.
With plans to complete 100 equity investments in less than six months, Boost Fund 1 will be the leading UK startup investment fund by volume and is set to back a diverse range
Inflexion has made a number of promotions in its 120-strong team, following a highly successful first half of 2022, which has seen company invest in seven businesses with a combined value of £1.8 billion, agree the divestments of seven businesses with a combined value of £2.4 billion and raise its largest fund to date with Buyout Fund VI which closed at £2.5 billion in March.
Andrew Stevens and George Collier have been promoted to partner. As General Counsel Stevens is responsible for Inflexion’s corporate legal, governance and compliance activities. Collier focuses on firm strategy, is heavily involved in Inflexion’s capital
UK M&A professionals are optimistic about deal activity and expect it to increase over the next 12 months despite foreseeing a reduction in multiples, even as inflation increases are priced into models, according to a new survey from Datasite.
When it comes to deal types, most UK M&A professionals surveyed expect to see the biggest increase in debt financing (50%) and transformational acquisitions or mergers (43%). Additionally, most UK dealmakers (75%) are pricing at least a 5-7% increase in inflation, if not higher, into their financial valuation models for the rest of the year.
Uncertain valuations, inflation and
Vibrant, a Danish app that turns Android mobile devices into points of sale, has raised a €4 million seed round led by byFounders, with Luminar Ventures also participating.
Vibrant’s mission is to make monetary merchant-customer transactions easier and more accessible than ever before. Vibrant can be downloaded instantly for use with Android devices (which are both affordable and constitute 80% of all mobiles in Europe according to the European Commission).
Having co-founded Vibrant in Copenhagen in 2020, Kasper Krog (CEO) and Kåre Sørensen (CPO) have built a multi-national team of 25 employees. The startup, whose transactions are currently increasing 70%
Afrikamart, a West African agritech start-up has closed a $850,000 seed round of financing from venture capital groups including the BLOC Smart Africa fund managed by Bamboo Capital Partners, Orange Digital Ventures, Launch Africa and Teranga Capital.
The proceeds from the financing will allow the company to ramp-up its purchases from smallholder farmers across the country and efficiently manage the logistics and last mile delivery of 14 fresh types of vegetables directly to street vendors and small retailers, restaurants and hotels in Dakar and Mbour.
Afrikamart’s end-to-end solution allows a formalisation of the fresh food value chain and the empowerment
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