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Dubin Clark, a private equity firm focused on niche market leaders in the lower middle-market, has created a new holding company, Super Home Services, to invest in Evergreen Lawn & Pest Control (Evergreen).
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Evergreen is a provider of residential lawn spray and pest control services throughout the Central Florida region. The Company’s service offerings include lawn spray services, tree and shrub services, pest control, termite treatment, and mosquito control services. Since its founding in 1991, Evergreen has established a reputation for quality, excellence, and high customer satisfaction. The Company is
Gravitee.io, an open source API management platform that gives businesses and their developers unprecedented control over their entire API ecosystem, has raised USD11m in a Series A round, co-led by AlbionVC and Oxx, to power its expansion in the burgeoning API management market, which is predicted to be worth USD22 billion by 2028.
As the world has become more digital, the need for connected software has exploded, and APIs are now ubiquitous. This increased reliance on APIs brings endless possibilities, but also means that APIs should run perfectly every time. For businesses, keeping track of the complex web of APIs
Business-to-business social media marketing platform Oktopost has secured a USD20 million minority investment from London-based growth equity firm Expedition Growth Capital.
Oktopost plans to use the fresh capital to advance its product roadmap focused on B2B needs, improve its customer success function, accelerate marketing and sales, and explore strategic acquisitions. The company’s team is spread across Tel Aviv, London and Atlanta and plans to grow its workforce by 50 percent in the second half of 2021.
Oktopost provides an enterprise grade cloud platform built on a single code base, where B2B marketers can curate content, organise, and manage campaigns for
European travel startup Framey has closed a USD1 million seed funding round led by ICE Capital from Dubai, and backed by Romanian based JECO Capital.
The company, planning to disrupt the way people plan their trips, will use the funds to invest in its technology, scale up its operations and launch globally.
Founded in 2019 by Romanian entrepreneurs Robert Preoteasa and Alexandru Iulian Florea, Framey is building an inspiring platform where users can go through the entire process of a travel journey, from dreaming to planning, experiencing and sharing.
“We are very excited about our next chapter post funding closing
KKR is to acquire Teaching Strategies, a provider of curriculum, assessment and family engagement tools to the early childhood education (ECE) market, from global growth investor Summit Partners. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Teaching Strategies aims to empower and inspire early childhood educators as they support the development of our youngest learners during the critical, formative years from birth through third grade. Founded in 1988, the Company is the largest provider of comprehensive ECE solutions for holistic child development, offering the leading digital early learning platform, integrating curriculum, assessment and engagement tools for educators and families.
IQ-EQ has acquired Davy Global Fund Management (DGFM), part of Davy Group, one of Ireland’s largest domestic financial services businesses servicing a domestic and international client base from its offices in Dublin, London and Luxembourg.
The strategic combination of IQ-EQ and DGFM creates an established full service funds business in Ireland with a proven track record and prominent market position. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to complete by the end of 2021 following which DGFM will rebrand to IQ-EQ.
Formed in 2014 DGFM has grown largely organically and today employs 83 people – 68
BGF has made a further GBP2.1 million investment in Yorkshire-based digital mapping company, Gaist.
The deal follows BGF’s initial investment in 2018, taking the total invested to GBP4.8 million.
The highways technology company has developed a revolutionary and IP-rich proprietary system for collecting and analysing, high-definition imagery of highways networks across the world. Clients include local authorities, major utilities companies, private highways network operators, and blue-chip firms with a growing focus on the connected vehicle market. Gaist has recently signed an exclusive deal which gives the business access to live sensor data from tens of thousands of production
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has acquired a majority stake in Flashpoint, a specialist in actionable threat intelligence, to support its continued growth initiatives. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in New York City, Flashpoint is a leading provider of actionable threat intelligence and intelligence automation for commercial and government customers. The Company’s core software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, “Flashpoint Vision,” provides customers with access to timely, relevant, and actionable data that teams need to identify threats and mitigate the impact of cyberattacks, fraud, and physical damage. Flashpoint continues to expand its flagship offering, and recently added compromised credentials monitoring,
Percent, the fintech innovator with the mission to put good into everyday financial transactions, has closed a USD5 million venture round led by Morpheus Ventures. This strategic investment is being used to expand Percent’s Purpose-as-a-Service offering to commerce, big-tech and fintech markets in the US, building on its existing presence in the UK and Australia.
Nationwide Building Society is a co-investor in the round, building on its original investment in Percent early in the start-up’s journey. Such has been the building society’s belief in Percent and it’s offering since its previous investment, it also became a Percent customer in
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of LiveU from Francisco Partners.
“Our team helped to successfully navigate this strategic investment, which will enable Carlyle to continue to support the growth of media tech companies and LiveU to reach new customers,” says White & Case partner Ken Barry, who led the Firm’s deal team. “Advising on this deal highlights White & Case’s expertise at the crossroads of the private equity and fast growing technology industry.”
The investment was made by Carlyle Europe Technology Partners (CETP) IV, a EUR1.35 billion fund that
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