Solutions
VSS Capital Partners (VSS) portfolio company Quatrro Business Support Services (QBSS), a provider of end-to-end tech-enabled business process management services, has completed the acquisition of EAB Solutions Inc. (EAB), a Chicago-based provider of outsourced finance & accounting, and human resource services to Not-For-Profit (NFP) organisations in Chicago as outlined further in the attached press release.
EAB’s customers include schools and non-profit educational institutions, arts and cultural organisations, and health and human services organisations that rely on its accounting, financial and human resource services to focus on their core NFP mission activities.
For VSS, this acquisition demonstrates VSS’ expertise in
By Mark Lynch, partner at Oghma Partners – The food industry appears to be going through a revolution in its structure which may turn out to be as far reaching as the shift to factory made processed foods which we saw in the 19th and 20th century, when the likes of John Cadbury and Henri Nestlé set up their businesses in the 1840’s and 1860’s, and the age of industrial food processing was born.
This change is occurring across the industry and incorporates areas which we would define as ‘low’ food tech – that is, changes from the way product is sold and distributed
MAPAL Group (MAPAL), a European developer and provider of hospitality management software solutions backed by growth equity firm PSG, has acquired Easilys, a multi-site restaurant and kitchen management software provider based in France with offices in Paris, Geneva and Barcelona.
The acquisition is the latest in a series of investments by MAPAL in complementary hospitality technologies, with a view to combining solutions to create a powerful, integrated back of house multi-site operating system for the hospitality sector. This transaction follows the acquisition of UK-based Flow Hospitality Training in December 2019, US-headquartered Cloud Reputation in 2020 and Sweden-based GetCompliant earlier this
HealthyHealth Group, a company focused on transforming the life and health insurance underwriting journey through digital data, has announced the closing of a USD10m series A financing round, led by MMC Ventures.
Joining MMC Ventures are AdirVentures and a number of other family offices, as well as existing investors including TMT Investments PLC.
The new funding will help accelerate global expansion of the current offering, after launching the product commercially with multiple large, listed insurers in Europe, Asia Pacific, the UK and North America. As part of this growth journey, the business is also transitioning to a new brand, Qumata.
CMBOR, the Centre for Private Equity and MBO Research, has been re-established by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) within Nottingham University Business School, having been suspended in 2020.
Founded in 1986, CMBOR will return to providing comprehensive data and insight around European buyout activity and extend its 35-year track record as a leading academic institute devoted to the study of private equity. CMBOR will be led by Dr Kevin Amess, Associate Professor in Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School and a former colleague of the late Professor Mike Wright, the centre’s founder. CMBOR will continue in its previous scope of
Moonshot, a data analytics company which designs new technology and methodologies to identify and mitigate online harms, has raised USD7 million in Series A funding from Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, and UK-based Mercia.
Moonshot believes the internet is increasingly used to propagate harm, including in the preparation of terrorist acts and the proliferation of child sexual abuse content, hate speech and the abuse of women in public life. Meanwhile, disinformation threatens democratic consensus and public trust in the media is at an all-time low. Yet the vast majority of US adults believe the internet to be mostly a
PlanetWatchers, a crop monitoring company that can provide detailed insurance claims assessment in just one hour, has closed a Pre-A series funding round, raising USD3.5 million to support the Company’s growth plans.
PlanetWatchers is a world-leading technology company that uses advanced machine learning to support crop insurers in reporting planting dates, acreage, crop classification and claims validation at scale. The Company uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to provide accurate insight regardless of cloud cover, bad weather or poor lighting. PlanetWatchers exploits the unique benefits of SAR, to create in-season insights that reduce overheads and increases customer satisfaction.
PlanetWatchers,
Ares Management Corporation (Ares) has completed its previously announced acquisition of Landmark Partners, one of the largest and most experienced investors in acquiring secondary private fund ownership stakes in the alternative asset management industry.
With more than USD19.6 billion in assets under management as of 31 March, 2021, Landmark provides private equity, real estate and infrastructure secondaries solutions for institutional investors. Founded in 1989, Landmark is led by a team of 150 professionals located in six offices across the US, Europe and Asia and has developed a loyal investor base of more than 600 institutional investors. With its significant investment
Apex Group (Apex) is to acquire BRL Trust Investimentos (BRL Trust), a Brazil-based independent fund administrator.
This acquisition reinforces the Group’s intent for the Latin American market, supplementing its private equity capabilities while adding liquid asset servicing capabilities for Brazil and the broader Latin American market. This deal further complements the Group’s previous announcement of its intent to acquire MAF, the fund administration business of the Brazil-based Banco Modal which is currently awaiting regulatory approval.
The BRL Trust business will add BRL198 billion (USD38 billion at current exchange rates) in assets under administration and BRL166.7 billion (USD32 billion at current
York Capital Private Equity, York Capital Management’s private equity group, has made a strategic growth investment in Cennox, a global provider of integrated facilities-based services and solutions to a wide range of end-markets.
Founded in 2006, Cennox provides integrated services and solutions to the financial services, commercial, retail, and transportation industries. Cennox is an independent, multi-vendor service provider to cash automation machines and self-checkout kiosks. The company’s global operations span 1,500 employees that cover the United States, United Kingdom and mainland-Europe. Since its founding, Cennox has scaled through 15 acquisitions and consistent organic growth.
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