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Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS), a partner to operations and facility managers across North America and a portfolio company of a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management (Cerberus), has acquired Olympus Building Services (Olympus).
Olympus, headquartered in Phoenix, is a provider of facility services for the higher education market, including public and private colleges and universities, and community colleges. Founded in 1998, the company delivers environmentally friendly contract cleaning, snow removal, project management and other services to higher education institutions across the United States. Each day, Olympus teams service academic facilities, laboratories, athletic facilities, and residential dorms.
“This acquisition combines Olympus’
Projective Group, an international consulting firm, has acquired London-based DTSQUARED, a specialist data consultancy.
Funded by recent investment from Gimv in April this year, this acquisition is a key part of Projective Group’s European expansion and provides a significant addition to the Group’s capabilities and existing team of 35 consultants in London.
DTSQUARED’s team of 85 data experts will bring a wealth of experience in all aspects of data as well as access to an impressive client base across multiple sectors and strategic relationships with DTSQUARED’s global technology partners. This complements Projective Group’s current management consulting offering from
MakerSights, a software platform putting the consumer at the centre of retail’s assortment creation process, has secured USD25 million ins Series B funding round led by new investors G2 Venture Partners.
The new round follows the company’s GBP8.5 million Series A led by Forerunner Ventures in 2019 and GBP3.1 million in seed funding led by Baseline Ventures in 2017, bringing the company’s funding to a total of GBP37 million over the past five years.
New funding will allow MakerSights to directly integrate its consumer analytics capabilities into the workflows of its brand partners, increasing the frequency and ease of
Early talent recruitment market specialist Careerpass has secured a GBP2 million investment from BOOST&Co to support the acquisitions of Gradcore.com and Graduate-jobs.com.
This move will add to the firm’s growing number of brands that consolidate the early talent recruitment space, to continue building the workforce of tomorrow.
A leader in graduate recruitment, Careerpass helps employers identify the best talent for their business by providing media and advertising support, tech solutions for virtual connectivity and even offering employability tools to universities.
More than three million students and graduates have used the Careerpass Network in the last 12 months, equating
Growth capital investor, BGF has exited its investment in J&B Recycling, generating a 2.4x return.
The company is specialist in waste management and recycling in the UK, providing an end-to-end service for commercial and local authority customers across the North and England and Scotland.
Urbaser Ltd – the UK subsidiary of the third largest environmental services provider in Europe – has acquired the business as the Madrid-headquartered group aims to continue to grow its UK footprint.
Chief executive Vikki Jackson-Smith says: “Our growth is a result of our continued investment in our people, capacity and plant, which has
Kapital Investment Group BV (KIG BV), part of the global financial services group Global Kapital Group, has acquired Işık Menkul Değerler AŞ, a multi-asset broker in Turkey.
The acquisition gives KIG BV a greatly increased product range, as Işık Menkul is a multi-asset broker offering trading in stocks, futures, FX, commodities as well as CFD products.
Işık Menkul increases the Group’s global presence by adding the MENA region after Europe, Australia, Asia and the US, marking a significant step in KIG’s plans to become a leading global multi-asset group.
Işık Menkul is a well-established company, with a 35-year track-record
Gresham House Ventures – a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare and service sectors – has made a GBP3.3 million investment in Patchworks, a software company helping e-commerce businesses automate and manage data flows across backend systems.
ParentSquare, provider of a unified school-to-home engagement platform for K-12, has received a significant investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused firm that invests in technology and tech-enabled services companies.
ParentSquare will further accelerate its growth plans with the investment, including introducing new products and services and expanding into additional geographic markets.
ParentSquare was founded in 2011 by a wife and husband, Anupama Vaid and Sohit Wadhwa. ParentSquare is the only modern, fully unified communication platform that engages every family across every channel, encompassing emergency communications, district announcements, attendance, forms, surveys, sign-ups and daily classroom communications. Before ParentSquare, families and school
Valuation software provider, Forbury Valuation Solutions (Forbury), has added two new recruits to its London team ahead of a UK expansion drive.
Already well established in Australasia and Asia-Pacific, Forbury recently launched its UK operation following an extensive period of market research and beta testing.
Edward O’Hanrahan joins as sales manager, having joined from Redpath Partners, prior to which he was with Macdonald & Company. He will be responsible for driving growth among across the private equity and investment management sectors.
Ryan Spear has joined Forbury as an analyst from Deloitte and will be responsible managing customer relations
Corporate Finance advisor BCMS has advised leading UK independent medical communications agency Spirit Medical Communications Group Ltd (Spirit), on its sale to OPEN Health.
Founded in 2006 by Asif Zaman, and based at premises in Didsbury, Manchester and Alderley Park, Cheshire, Spirit offers full-service medical communications throughout the product lifecycle, with deep expertise across a range of therapy areas. Services include publication planning, medical strategy, medical education, scientific meetings, training and digital solutions.
Spirit employs 80+ highly qualified employees including post-docs, PhDs and Certified Medical Publication Professionals (CMPP). The business has established exceptional working relationships with its diverse and growing
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