Solutions
The majority owner of Polygon group, Triton Fund III, has signed an agreement to sell its investment.
ArtistWorks has been acquired by Growth Catalyst Partners’ portfolio company TrueFire Studios, a consortium of major online music instruction companies.
The acquisition brings together leading names and pioneers in online music education – including ArtistWorks, TrueFire, JamPlay, and FaderPro – who together span dozens of genres and instruments while delivering access to Grammy Award-winning artists, top session players, and world-renowned educators. The deal was completed with financial support from mid-market private equity firm Growth Catalyst Partners.
Founded in 2008, ArtistWorks partners with master musicians and enables them to create and preserve their teaching legacy online. Each hand-selected ArtistWorks teacher
A fast-growing company that delivers high-speed internet connectivity to sites that lack the usual infrastructure has secured a further GBP500,000 investment from the North East Venture Fund (NEVF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Mercia.
Trench Networks’ innovative device, Outpost, aggregates connections from all the major mobile networks and combines them to provide a reliable internet service. The business, which started out by supplying construction sites, has recently launched a ‘Wi-Fi SOS’ service for businesses suffering wi-fi outages or moving to sites which lack connectivity.
The latest funding will enable it to take advantage of
Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank, has acquired boutique advisory firm Baylor Klein as it continues to grow its Corporate Finance business in Europe.
Founded in 2008 by Managing Director Tim Leach, Baylor Klein specialises in providing M&A and corporate finance advisory services to the multinational and independent owners of household, beauty, and personal care (HBPC) assets globally. The transaction signed and completed on 8 July.
Jay Novak, Global Head of the Consumer, Food & Retail (CFR) Group, says: “The Baylor Klein acquisition further expands our global CFR Group and specifically adds deeper expertise to the already robust HBPC sector
Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider, has acquired mola-administration, one of Germany’s leading fund administrators.
This strategic acquisition establishes the Group’s local presence in Germany, supplementing its existing capabilities to serve clients in Germany and the wider European market.
mola-administration serves a range of clients, with a 10-year track record of providing fund administration services to private equity firms, venture capital, debt, special situations and digital assets funds managing EUR3.5 billion of assets.
By joining the Apex Group, mola-administration’s client base will benefit from access to the Group’s single-source solution which includes locally delivered services across
Cohere Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on investing in tech-enabled middle market companies, has made a strategic growth investment in Kentucky-based Promevo, a provider of IT services, solutions, and software focused on Google Workspace, Chrome, and Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies.
As a Premier Google Partner, Promevo offers its clients resale, services, and solutions leveraging its proprietary management software product, gPanel. gPanel is a comprehensive management and reporting software solution which helps clients manage users, documents, reporting, automation, and security in an easy-to-use interface specifically built for Google Workspace.
The investment and partnership from Cohere will allow Promevo to
Arborea – which is industrialising photosynthesis to expand the world’s food supply – has completed a funding round led by BGF, alongside Rubio Impact Venturesand Volta Circle.
Arborea is a technology business that has developed a breakthrough cultivation platform for photosynthetic microorganisms for use as food ingredients and proteins. It was founded by CEO Julian Melchiorri in 2015 following his research at Imperial College London.
Global food security is an increasingly important problem driven by population growth and climate change, exacerbated by slowing crop yield improvements and dwindling availability of new agricultural land. Traditional agricultural practices will not be sufficient
Compliance & Risks, (C&R) a provider of market access and product compliance SaaS solutions, has secured a significant investment from Luminate Capital Partners, an enterprise software focused private equity firm.
Luminate will partner with CEO Joe Skulski and the C&R team to drive rapid expansion across its technology, services, client and global employee base.
Compliance & Risks’ market leading SaaS platform, C2P, enables uninterrupted market access for enterprises selling products globally by monitoring and managing key product requirements, regulations and standards in their chosen markets. The C2P platform provides the world’s most comprehensive database of legislative information, insights and
Tide, the UK’s leading business financial platform, has received just over USD100 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total raised to date to USD200 million. Tide is now valued at over USD650 million post-money, after only four years of operation.
The round was led by funds advised by Apax Digital, the growth equity team of Apax Partners. Anthemis, Augmentum, Jigsaw, Local Globe/Latitude, SBI, and SpeedInvest, existing investors, also participated in the round.
Tide has experienced rapid and sustained growth since launching in 2017, with 2020 seeing the business more than double its user base in the UK.
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, and Eurazeo have provided a EUR103 million financing solution to pan-European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square) for its acquisition of Spanish agriculture business Sustainable Agro Solutions (SAS).
Founded in 1989, SAS is a leading developer and producer of biostimulants, soil and water improvers, defence activators, and specialty plant nutrition solutions. The Company operates in the highly attractive biosolutions segment, which is characterised by double-digit growth rates across all regions, underpinned by positive secular trends. SAS offers a high-quality and broad product portfolio, global footprint, robust
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