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Align Capital Partners (ACP) has sold its environmental testing and compliance platform Alliance Technical Group (Alliance) to Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP).
Alliance is a leading provider of source testing, emissions monitoring and analytical services to customers throughout the United States. Since ACP’s initial 2016 investment, the Company has achieved transformational growth. During the partnership, ATG completed 11 acquisitions, expanded into four new service lines and grew its revenue by more than 600 per cent. This rapid growth enabled the Company to expand from four locations in 2016 to more than 20 today, while increasing headcount from less than 75
LeapFrog Investments, a Profit with Purpose investment firm, has invested USD30 million in India’s leading health and wellness app, HealthifyMe.
As the lead investor in a USD75 million Series C round, which includes Khosla Ventures and several existing investors, LeapFrog has acquired a significant minority stake in the healthtech company. This is LeapFrog’s fifth healthcare investment, and second during Covid-19, following Medgenome, a global leader in genomics, in 2020. HealthifyMe provides a comprehensive solution for fitness, diet, and disease management in a region where 66 per cent of the population – or 860 million – suffer from lifestyle related diseases.
Worldr, the developer of a communications and messaging platform built around privacy, security and data protection in team communication without compromising usability, has secured USD3 million in seed investment from some of the biggest names in deep tech, defence and finance as it heads into public launch later this year.
Government agencies, law firms, banking institutions and those handling sensitive information face growing security challenges as the use of third-party communications platforms become embedded in the daily routines of a remote and work-from-home workforce. Since with third-party platforms, data is both stored outside the user’s control and often encrypted by
Treblle, a startup providing developers and companies with an API (application programming interfaces) monitoring and analytics platform has raised EUR1.2 million in a funding round led by Nauta Capital.
With a mission to make working with APIs easier and more efficient, Treblle saves developers and companies time and money in every stage of the API lifecycle from development to post-production.
The use of APIs has exploded exponentially: APIs represent 83 per cent of all web traffic with the number of API calls made in some of the biggest digital brands exceeding tens of billions per day. However, the biggest
Ntropy, a company aiming to remove the data barriers to understanding financial transactions, has closed a USD3.2 million seed round led by QED Investors, who has previously invested in fintech unicorns Nubank, Klarna, and Current.
Ntropy’s API enables businesses to convert raw data into contextualised and structured information understood by both man and machine.
January Ventures also participated in the investment round, along with founders and executives from Ramp, Square and Stripe. Ntropy has also added Eric Woodward, former Group President of Early Warnings, and Robert Phillps, author of Pricing Credit Products, and currently Director of pricing research at Amazon,
Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, is to sell, alongside the founder, its stake in ASTI, a global autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) manufacturer, to ABB.
Founded in 1982, ASTI supports one of Europe’s largest installed fleets of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and has a broad customer base in automotive, logistics, food & beverage, and pharmaceutical in 20 countries worldwide. Since 2015, the company has enjoyed ~30 per cent growth on an annual basis and is targeting approximately USD50 million in orders in 2021. ASTI employs over 300 people in Spain, France and Germany.
ASTI’s
The recent IPO of online building products retailer CMO Group PLC rounded off a busy and productive 12 months for private equity firm Key Capital Partners(KCP). The flotation represented the firm’s third high-value exit in the last 12 months; coming hot on the heels of the sale of nursing business Routes Healthcare (North) to Palatine Private Equity in June and IT training and consultancy firm Sparta Global to Inflexion in October.
In aggregate, the three exits delivered total proceeds of GBP96 million to the firm’s eighth fund; a combined money multiple of 5.8-times KCP’s total investment in the three deals.
Vantage Health has been acquired by Northgate Public Services (NPS), a leading software and services provider to the public sector in the UK and a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation.
NPS has a market leading screening software for diabetes and hearing. It has helped to screen 10 million babies for the Newborn Hearing Screening Program in England and Northern Ireland, tested 500,000 patients with diabetes for retina damage and supports a number of medical registries such as the National Joint Registry (NJR), the largest orthopaedics registry in the world, and the international spinal registry platform, Spine Tango to help
Klar, a leading digital financial services platform providing a transparent, free and secure alternative to traditional debit and credit services in Mexico, has closed its Series B funding round, subject to applicable regulatory approvals, including clearance of the Mexican Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) and the Mexican Economic Competition Commission (COFECE).
General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, led the round with participation from existing investors Prosus Ventures, Quona Capital, Mouro Capital, International Finance Corporation and WTI. The funding will be used to strengthen Klar’s efforts to broaden access to consumer credit as Mexico’s transition to a digital economy
Accident repair group AD Williams has secured a multi-million-pound investment from BGF, with the funding set to be used for the partial realisation of shareholder value and to facilitate the long-term growth of the group.
Founded in 2013 by CEO Stuart Bacchus, AD Williams is an owner-managed business with 14 sites in the Southeast of England, making it the sixth largest body shop repair provider in the UK. The business currently employs 250 people across its network.
The business’s core focus is repairing cars that have been in accidents, with over 18,000 cars being fixed in 2020 alone. In
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