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Agilitas Private Equity (Agilitas), a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, is to back the buy-out of NNIT’s IT infrastructure outsourcing business including its Hybrid Cloud Solutions business as well as select parts of its Cloud & Digital Solutions business (together NNIT IO).
NNIT IO is a leading provider of IT infrastructure outsourcing services to some of the largest Danish private and public institutions.
NNIT traces its origin to the Novo Nordisk Group and utilises its deep roots and experience in the pharmaceutical industry to develop critical IT solutions for a broad range of industries for which quality and security are
Healthcare Services investor Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) and Sterling Partners (Sterling) have merged Sun Capital portfolio company West Dermatology (WestDerm) and Sterling portfolio company Platinum Dermatology Partners (Platinum).
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The combination of WestDerm, a group providing business support services to over 300 dermatology providers, including many of the most prominent dermatologists in the Western United States, and Platinum, a dermatology group practice organization with a strong presence among many of the leading physicians in the fast-growing Texas and Arizona markets, creates an industry leader with more than 100 locations spanning the
Stack Capital’s investment was part of a recently announced financing and was completed alongside fellow investors including Goldman Sachs, Lazard Asset Management, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and Temasek Holdings, amongst others.
Omio has successfully built a travel platform that focuses on the underserved and highly fragmented ground and water transportation markets. Currently issuing travel tickets across 37 countries, in 21 different languages, and 26 different currencies, for 1000-plus transportation providers, Omio has invested a considerable amount of time, energy, and resources to build its innovative platform.
Main Capital Partners (Main) has acquired a majority stake in Bizzdesign, a global Enterprise Architecture software company.
Bizzdesign’s Enterprise Architecture cloud platform helps customers with complex digital business changes by giving them insights to increase the success rate of business transformation and drive strategic execution.
The partnership with Main strengthens Bizzdesign’s market-leadership position and fuels its growth strategy by further expanding its global footprint and executing strategic add-on acquisitions.
Supported by Main’s international software expertise, Bizzdesign will now look to further develop its product portfolio offering to enable customers to achieve rapid time to value of their business transformation initiatives.
Global service provider JTC has appointed Martin Punt as Director – Fund & Corporate Services, as the firm continues to grow its alternative fund proposition in the UK market.
Based in London, Punt will play an active role in building JTC’s intermediary relationships and developing its overall private equity and venture capital offering, with a particular focus on the firm’s UK and Channel Islands proposition. He will also focus on growing organic new business in the fund and corporate services markets.
With a reputation as a specialist business development professional in the private equity and venture capital space, Punt has
BGF has bolstered its presence in the North East with the appointment of John Healey as an investor.
Healey joins BGF from business advisory firm, UNW, where he has spent the last eight years advising on a number of high-profile acquisition, disposal and fundraising transactions across the North East. Prior to this, he worked with the Coutts commercial banking team, before spending a decade at PwC specialising in corporate finance.
With an established network, Healey has a strong track record in the region and will utilise that experience and expertise to forge relationships with those regional businesses going for growth.
Scintil Photonics, a supplier of advanced silicon photonic integrated circuits with monolithically integrated lasers and optical amplifiers, has secured €13.5 million ($14.4m) in second round funding.
Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC) led the round, with historic shareholders Supernova Invest, Innovacom and Bpifrance, through its Digital Venture fund, reinvesting to bring the company’s total funding to €17.5 million ($18.8m), to date.
Scintil Photonics’ optical communications aim to significantly enhance traditional high-speed system and chip interconnections. The company’s Augmented Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit (IC) product is a single-chip solution consisting of active and passive components, all made entirely from standard silicon
Platform.sh, a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for building, running and scaling web applications, has raised $140 million in a Series D funding led by Munich-based Digital+Partners, San Francisco-based Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, and Paris-based Revaia.
UK-based healthtech company Psyomics has closed a £2.4 million funding round led by Parkwalk, a UK investor in the university spin-out sector.
Meltwind and other investors also participated, along with new investment from Newable Ventures.
Psyomics was spun-out from the University of Cambridge with a mission to develop technology to support earlier and improved mental health diagnosis and treatment management. With significant pressure on the NHS and other resources in recent years, there’s been a greater need for solutions when it comes to mental health, to ensure that people get the support they need, when they need it.
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OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI), a specialist decarbonisation investor, has invested in Turntide Technologies (Turntide), a developer of electrification and sustainable operations technologies.
The investment formed part of a $80 million round of equity funding, valuing the company over $1 billion, which makes it one of a handful of climate tech firms to achieve unicorn status in the first half of 2022.
Headquartered in California, Turntide produces an integrated hardware and software electric motor product that enables electrification and improves energy efficiency in commercial, industrial and mobility applications. Improving the efficiency of electric motors, currently the single biggest consumer
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