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MaC Venture Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, has successfully raised a $203 million Fund II, building on the $110 million seed-stage fund secured in March 2021.
MaC Venture Capital, a majority Black-owned firm, will use Fund II capital to double down on their cultural investment framework, which has successfully supported technology startups who are shaping culture, increasing access and resources to underserved communities, and meeting consumer and industry needs.
The four founding general partners include seasoned operator and venture capitalist Marlon Nichols; former Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty; former William Morris Agency
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited Solid Solutions, a specialist reseller of 3D design software, to TriMech, a US-based technology and business solutions partner for designers, engineers, and manufacturers.
Founded in 1998 and with headquarters in Leamington Spa, Solid Solutions is the UK and Ireland’s leading independent provider of SOLIDWORKS, a 3D computer-aided design (CAD) package.
LDC backed Solid Solutions’ management team, led by CEO and Founder Alan Sampson, CTO Simon Turner and CSO Kathy Sampson in 2020. Since then, the private equity firm has helped the business to deliver an organic and acquisitive growth strategy.
Kaiko, a digital assets data provider serving institutional investors and enterprises, has raised $53 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Eight Roads, with participation from Revaia and existing investors Alven, Point9, Anthemis, and Underscore.
Founded in 2014, Kaiko is the global industry reference for digital assets market information. Kaiko has established its position by enhancing transparency and operational efficiency for institutional companies, DeFi participants, and Web3 enterprises.
The Company’s product suite comprises market data, portfolio solutions, rates & indices, pricing services, DeFi data, and research covering digital assets that comprise over 95% of global traded
Clearlake Capital Group is to sell Brightly Software to Siemens AG (Siemens) (FRA:SIE) for $1.575 billion of upfront cash consideration, along with $300 million in cash earn-out payments, for a total of $1.875 billion.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2022 and is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
Brightly is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of cloud-based enterprise asset management and facility operations management. Clearlake acquired Brightly, formerly known as “Dude Solutions,” in June 2019 and subsequently executed on its OPS strategy by partnering with management to support the Company through multiple
Impax, an AIM-listed sustainable economy investor has appointed Annette Wilson as non-executive director, effective 28 June, 2022.
Wilson, who will sit on the Company’s Audit & Risk and Remuneration Committees, has spent over twenty years in the private equity and venture capital sector. She is a former Partner and COO of Finch Capital and was founding CFO of Palamon Capital Partners, a European growth investor.
Prior to joining the private equity sector, Wilson worked in the insurance sector at Sedgwick plc, a FTSE 100 company in various roles in the UK, USA and Europe and thereafter was CFO of
Wieger Fokke is to join ILX Management as investment manager financial institutions and corporate, effective 1 August, 2022.
Fokke will be responsible for the investments across the Financial Institutions and Corporate sector alongside ILX’ global MDB and DFI partners. He joins ILX from the Dutch Development Bank FMO where he currently is Senior Investment officer in the Financial Institutions department Africa team.
Fokke, a Dutch national and a graduate from the University of Amsterdam, has more than 12 years of experience in emerging market development finance. He has been responsible for origination and execution of a wide variety of financing
Watterson, a leading national facility services company and a portfolio company of Highview Capital (Highview), has acquired Bassett Creek Services (Bassett Creek or BCS), a specialist in restoration and renovation services.
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Bassett Creek provides mission-critical restoration, renovation, and specialty services to a diverse group of commercial and residential clients. The company is comprised of five leading brands – JR Johnson, Cornerstone Renovation Group, Region Construction Group, Baxter Restoration, and Disaster Restoration Pros – with complementary capabilities and expertise that allow BCS to holistically service customers across the nation. Since its founding in 2018, BCS’s brands have
Minority-owned, emerging real estate investment manager, Brasa Capital Management LLC (Brasa), has successfully closed Brasa Real Estate Fund II (Fund II), at its hard cap of $450 million.
With an original target of $300 million, Brasa has now exceeded its fundraising goal on its first two discretionary investment vehicles. In May 2019, only a year after its founding, Brasa closed Brasa Real Estate Fund (Fund I) in excess of its $100 million fundraising goal with $120 million in capital commitments.
Founded in 2018, Brasa Capital focuses on middle-market, real estate opportunities throughout the Western United States and Texas. Brasa
Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secured £1.6m funding to progress the development and qualification of its novel cell analysis platform, Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS).
The fundraising round by Cytomos was led by existing investor Archangels with participation from Scottish Enterprise and Old College Capital.
Cytomos has developed its technology platform to address the unmet needs of the biopharma industry, providing a low-cost, portable and scalable alternative.
Founded in 1992, Archangels is the world’s oldest continuously operating business angel syndicate investing in early-stage Scottish life sciences and
Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has acquired Petainer Ltd (Petainer), a UK-based, global producer of sustainability-focused beverage packaging solutions.
Petainer was acquired by Ara in partnership with Petainer management and affiliates of Next Wave Partners LLP.
Petainer, which is led by CEO Hugh Ross, is a technical and innovation leader in the development and manufacture of sustainable, high-performance polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging solutions for blue chip customers in the soft drinks, beer, water and other CPG sectors. The Company has particular strengths in refPET (multiple-use, refillable bottles), rPET (recycled PET) and
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