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Repeats Group (Repeats), a pan-European plastics recycling platform focused on producing high-quality recycled low-density polyethylene (LDPE), has made an investment in Daly Plastics (Daly Plastics), a producer of recycled LDPE located in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near Apeldoorn. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.  Repeats is a portfolio company of Ara Partners (Ara), a global private equity firm focused on industrial decarbonisation.
Activant Capital, a growth equity firm focused on the next generation of commerce companies, has promoted investment team members David Yang, Maximilian Mayer, Shawn Jung, and Andrew Steele to partner, and Sean Park to chief people officer. Since the firm’s inception in 2015, Activant has invested in more than 25 private and public companies building the future of commerce. The team has backed some of the market-leading companies in the space, including Deliverr, Hybris (acquired by SAP), Better.com, Truework, Tridge, Hive, Vivenu, and Bolt, amongst others. 
SGT Capital has completed its acquisition of Utimaco Verwaltungs (Utimaco) from the EQT Mid Market Europe fund (EQT Private Equity). Headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and Campbell, California, United States, Utimaco is a leading platform provider of high-security technologies for cybersecurity and compliance solutions.  The Company provides on-premises and cloud-based hardware security modules and solutions for key and identity management, data protection, and data intelligence, for regulated critical infrastructures.
An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock) has completed the previously announced acquisition of Therm-O-Disc, a subsidiary of Emerson. Therm-O-Disc is a designer and manufacturer of safety-critical sensors, thermal cutoffs and sealed connecting components primarily used in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, appliance, water heater, industrial, aerospace & defence, and transportation applications.  
An affiliate of CenterGate Capital (CenterGate), an Austin-based private equity investment firm, has made an investment in RC Rasmussen Corporation (Rasmussen), a specialised equipment solutions provider supporting critical marine infrastructure throughout North America. Established in 1936 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington with three additional locations in California, Louisiana, and Virginia, Rasmussen specialises in rental and sale of equipment and related parts and service support for the marine infrastructure market. Rasmussen is a complete solutions provider to its customers, offering one of the largest fleets of specialised winches, sectional floats, decking, and rigging gear to support essential marine infrastructure including bridge
Technology company ZeroNorth has raised over $50 million in a recently concluded Series B investment round led by PSG Equity (PSG). Existing investors AP Moller Holding and Cargill, also participated in the round.  ZeroNorth now has a trio of partners that will support the company’s ambitious plans for continued growth.   The Series B investment, in addition to the support of PSG Equity, will help to accelerate ZeroNorth’s growth over the coming years, enabling it to continue investing in product innovation, expanding its customer facing teams and pursuing M&A to add data, products and services to the ZeroNorth platform.
Paladin Capital Group, a cyber and advanced technology investor, has held the closing of its Cyber Fund II, a $372 million multi-stage fund that invests in cybersecurity startups bringing innovative technologies to market. The Fund surpassed its initial target of $250 million.   Cyber Fund II will look to deploy capital across a number of high-priority cybersecurity and online safety sectors, including innovative technologies that protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks and networks from ransomware. Paladin’s unique thesis-driven approach to investing and focus on dual-use technologies enabled the fund to attract a broad group of new and repeat limited partners across
InsurTech firm io.insure, an online mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance marketplace for SME transactions, has launched in the US with senior level hires Nate Stortzum joining as managing partner – ioPartners and Gregory A de Keersmaeker joining as managing partner – ioCustomer Success. The firm, part of the POP Holdings Group, is transforming the global specialist insurance experience through partnerships with advisors, insurance brokers, accounting firms, corporate financiers, and banks, enabling them to join a marketplace that delivers niche products to customers, enabled by a combination of expertise, data & technology and a licensed insurance infrastructure. Its aim, through the products
Lovell Minnick Partners (LMP), a private equity firm focused on investments in financial services, financial technology and business services companies, thas appointed Scott Bagwell to the firm’s Advisory Council. Bagwell will support LMP’s efforts in the healthcare finance sector, including identifying and evaluating new investments as well as supporting management teams to improve the companies’ sales strategies and create operational efficiencies.    Bagwell joins LMP following more than 30 years of experience within the healthcare finance and technology industry, spanning market segments including clinical, pharmacy, payments and revenue cycle management. 
SUSI Partners has finalised the second closing for SETF, adding €144 million in investor commitments to expand the total fund size to €441 million. The closing kicks off an ambitious fundraising year which is expected to see the firm’s total investor commitments cross the €2 billion mark. The second SETF closing adds commitments from a diverse group of institutional investors, including several German institutionals, a Dutch foundation, and a sizeable investment from a Swedish pension fund. With further closings planned for 2022, SUSI is entering the final stretch of fundraising for the first vintage of SETF.

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