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McDermott Will & Emery has advised Golub Capital LLC, as lender, on the cross-border financing of the acquisition by Pamplona Equity Partners of the Pelsis Group.
Headquartered in the UK with facilities worldwide, Pelsis provides a wide range of products for the commercial and retail pest control and garden care markets, including insect control, bird control, rodent control, and application equipment solutions. Its leading brand portfolio includes Insect-O-Cutor, Edialux, B&G, Synergetic, Pest-Stop, Agrisense, Curtis Dyna-Fog, Network, Luxan, Silvandersson, Green Protect, Spritex, A Green Way, Denka, P+L Systems Washroom and Tanaco.
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and credit
Evendo, the global leader in the online social events market today announced the raising of USD4.7 million in a Series A funding round.
This will accelerate the company’s rapid expansion at a time where businesses and private individuals alike resume the planning and booking of social events online.
This comes after an explosive year of growth for Evendo which saw the company launch into 30 new markets across Europe, North America and Asia and see consistent 50 per cent-plus month-on-month growth since January 2021.
The over-subscribed Series A was led by Crafoord Capital Partners from Stockholm and includes a mixture
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse), a group of technology companies providing useful, integrated software solutions, is to acquire TISSL, a supplier of point of sale (POS) solutions to the hospitality industry.
The acquisition strengthens ClearCourse’s offering in these sectors and provides further opportunity for integration of its ClearAccept platform. TISSL will join the Group’s Retail division. Following the deal, TISSL’s Founder Kevin Coetzee will step away from the leadership of the business to retire. He passes the role of Managing Director to Sam Peterson, formerly Finance Director of TISSL.
Founded in 2003, TISSL provides point of sale solutions to restaurants, cafes
Cornami has completed an early close to its currently over-subscribed USD50 million Series C financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to market.
Others participating in this round include institutional investors as well as other existing investors and insiders.
FHE is a game-changer in cloud-computing security as it allows for extracting valuable data analytics without ever decrypting the data to expose the underlying plaintext data, whether it is sensitive intellectual property (IP), financial information, personally identifiable information (PII), intelligence insight, or beyond. The current costs and damages associated with the growing number of cybercrimes
Permira, a global private equity firm which backs tech-enabled businesses, has signed an agreement with software investment firm Thoma Bravo, to make a significant strategic investment in Motus, a reimbursement software platform for the anywhere workforce.
As part of the transaction, existing investor Thoma Bravo plans to reinvest and remain a significant investor in Motus. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Established in 2004, Motus provides end-to-end, proprietary software to simplify the reimbursement and management of vehicle, device and remote work costs, and is a pioneer of the IRS-approved fixed and variable rate (FAVR) reimbursement methodology. Following
HIG Capital (HIG) has completed the recapitalisation of Health Network One and its various affiliates and subsidiaries, a provider of specialty benefit management services for health insurers.
Founded in 1999, Health Network One partners with health plans to optimise care across a number of specialties, including Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy; Dermatology; Vision and Ophthalmology; Podiatry; Gastroenterology; and Urology. Through the Company’s comprehensive network of over 10,000 providers and dedicated in-house clinical expertise, Health Network One helps deliver high quality and convenient healthcare to over five million covered lives. In addition to helping drive medical outcomes, Health Network One’s cost-effective
Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty (P&C) carriers, brokers, and MGAs today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Maprisk.
Maprisk provides geospatial data and analytics software to enable underwriting automation and allows P&C carriers and MGAs to smartly plan and proactively respond to natural disasters. With the addition of Maprisk to the Insurity suite, P&C carriers and MGAs writing personal and commercial lines can seamlessly integrate geospatial data and analytics across the full policy lifecycle, from quoting and underwriting to claims.
The acquisition of Maprisk builds on Insurity’s prior acquisition of SpatialKey, the
Riskonnect, a specialist in integrated risk management (IRM) solutions, has acquired ICIX, a California-based value chain governance company that empowers businesses to manage, monitor, and verify ESG performance.
The acquisition accelerates Riskonnect’s global growth by expanding its IRM product suite to better serve the increasing risk and compliance demands of the fast-growing ESG market.
“Organisations are actively incorporating ESG into their overall risk and compliance strategy to build resilience and meet heightened expectations for how they make a positive environmental and social impact. We’re committed to helping organisations along that journey,” says Jim Wetekamp, Riskonnect’s CEO. “The addition of
Independent Iberian asset manager GED Capital has participated with its fund Conexo Ventures in the USD8 million Series A investment round of Troop, a startup that helps with the organisation of in-person meetings for all users.
In addition to GED Capital, other investors participating in the round included Madrona Venture Group (USA), Epic Ventures (USA), All Iron (ES), Plug and Play (USA), Travel Tech 1 – Top Seed Labs (ES) and Founders Factory (UK). The round has also been supported by some of the travel industry’s leading players, including Trivago founder Rolf Schromgens, former Egencia CEO Rob Greyber, former Uber
BB Capital Investments-backed KidsKonnect has acquired Dutch childcare software company ROSA, its fifth bolt-on acquisition in 2021.
ROSA specialises in software for the administration of childcare and childminder. The transaction was preceded by KidsKonnect’s acquisitions of the Dutch childcare software specialists Social Schools, PortaBase and Doenkids and the Belgian Deona.
Investment company BB Capital took a majority interest in Konnect in 2019 from its participation in Flexkids, after which a merger between the two IT specialists resulted in KidsKonnect. In the Netherlands and Belgium, more than ten companies together now serve more than one million children in the age
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