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Vestack, a tech company specialising in the design and construction of low-carbon buildings, has raised over €10 million in a funding round led by Mirova’s first impact private equity fund.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has appointed Dörte Höppner to the newly formed role of chief sustainability officer.
Höppner will oversee and drive forward ESG initiatives across Riverside globally. Dörte, who joined Riverside in 2017, will continue to be based in Europe and report directly to The Riverside Company Co-CEOs, Stewart Kohl and Béla Szigethy.
In her new role, Höppner will take on responsibility for identifying ESG initiatives and harmonising the integration of these within Riverside’s various fund families, working closely with the managing partner of each Fund
Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses, has sold Datto, a global provider of security and cloud-based software solutions purpose-built for MSPs, to Kaseya for $35.50 per share valuing the company at $6.2 billion.
Pegasus Entrepreneurial Acquisition Company Europe (Pegasus Entrepreneurs), a Tikehau Capital-sponsored SPAC focused on high-growth entrepreneurial businesses, is to combine with FL Topco BV.
Following the completion of the Business Combination, FL Entertainment NV (FLE), a specialist in independent content production and one of the fastest-growing online sports betting platforms in Europe, will list on Euronext Amsterdam. The first day of trading is expected to take place on 1 July, 2022.
FL Entertainment and Pegasus Entrepreneurs have raised over €645 million in this transaction: €250 million from FLE’s controlling shareholder, approximately €230 million from PIPE investors, approximately €116 million contributed
TA, a global growth private equity firm, and Evercore, a premier global independent investment banking advisory firm, have launched the second year of TA-CORE, a partnership to promote greater diversity in the private equity and investment banking industries.
TA-CORE focuses on expanding the diversity pipeline within investment banking and private equity by providing education, access and career opportunities to young professionals from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
Participants in the program benefit from more than five years of mentorship at Evercore and TA, enabling them to build subject matter expertise in an entrepreneurial environment, gain exposure to marquee transactions
Presto Ventures, a VC fund investing in early-stage B2B startups from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has announced the final close of its €30 million Fund II.
The new fund will invest in up to forty B2B tech startups at seed and pre-seed stages in the CEE region, supporting them with fast access to capital, fast business development, and fast growth. Presto has already invested in startups such as Cloudtalk, IP Fabric, Yieldigo, Sharry and Wolf3D.
Presto Ventures has also announced the appointment of three new partners: Roman Nováček, a CFA charterholder and ex-analyst at US private equity firm GTE;
Peterson Search Partners, a Peterson Partners strategy dedicated to search funds and micro-cap buyouts, has held the of its second fund (Fund II) at $100 million.
The fund is mandated to invest behind “search fund” operators into cash-flowing businesses.
Peterson Partners and Joel Peterson have been in the search space for the past two decades, backing search entrepreneurs in companies such as of PEC Safety, Stealth Monitoring, Integra, Design Communications, Performance Systems Integration, and HemaSource.
An affiliate of middle-market private investment firm Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock) has closed on the sale of TNT Crust (TNT) to General Mills.
Headquartered in St Charles, Missouri, TNT is a provider of partially baked, self-rising, and better-for-you pizza crusts. TNT serves a diverse, blue-chip customer base including foodservice distributors, national pizza chains, and retail brands.
Since acquiring TNT in a corporate carve-out from Tyson Foods in late 2018, Peak Rock has supported the company’s strategic growth and operational initiatives, including substantially increasing capacity at its Green Bay, WI facilities, opening a new state-of-the-art production facility in St
Lynx Software Technologies (Lynx), a developer of open architecture software solutions for embedded systems, has received a strategic investment from affiliates of OceanSound Partners (OceanSound), a private equity firm that invests in technology and technology-enabled services companies serving government and enterprise end markets.
Based in San Jose, California, Lynx provides software solutions and related services which support the development, integration, certification, and maintenance of safety- and security-critical systems positioned at the mission critical edge. Lynx’s offerings enable customers in the aerospace, defence, industrial, and critical infrastructure end-markets to deploy systems more rapidly, reliably, and cost-effectively by aligning with open standards
Global alternative asset manager ICG’s North American Direct Private Equity team has completed the acquisition of Seaway Plastics Engineering (Seaway), a provider of injection-moulded, engineered components and value-added services to the medical device, healthcare, specialty industrial, A&D, and other end markets in the United States.
ICG’s North American Direct Private Equity team will work with Seaway to grow the business organically, as well as through acquisition, in order to expand both its product and geographic footprint. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Seaway was founded in 1984 and has grown to become a full-service partner to
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