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Growth capital investor, BGF has announced a successful exit from Telford-headquartered ReBOUND, a technology platform which supports retailers — such as ASOS, Gymshark, Missguided, JD Sports and Sweaty Betty — to manage their returns sustainably. BGF backed ReBOUND in October 2018 to accelerate the company’s growth. In this period, annual sales increased by 130 per cent and the returns management platform secured many of the UK’s most successful fashion brands as customers. The business has been ranked in Sunday Times Fast Track leagues three times with its first entry into the Tech Track 100 as the tenth fastest growing tech business in
Radiant Logic, an identity unification pioneer, has secured a strategic investment from TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, positioning the company for further growth. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Whether it be in support of digital transformation, mergers or next-level partnerships, Radiant Logic is the first step in quickly and cost-effectively enabling organisations to execute initiatives that require real-time identity. The company’s industry-leading identity integration and unification platform, RadiantOne, is a dynamic technology that allows organisations to build a single source of truth for identities for today’s complex hybrid cloud environments. “We have monitored
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What trends are emerging in the field of data analytics? What are the various ways that managers are actively using analytical tools, as part of their day-to-day  fund management activities? And what are the some of the best practices GPs need to consider, as they look to introduce more analytical firepower into their respective firms? These questions, and more will be discussed in an upcoming webinar in collaboration with AssetMetrix on 30 June.
LDC has made a minority investment in Headland, a London-based agency specialising in financial and corporate reputation, public affairs and campaigning. The leading mid-market private equity firm will support Headland’s ambitious organic growth strategy, helping the company further broaden and deepen its consultancy capabilities and fulfil its objective to advise a broader range of clients on complex communications matters.   Headland has grown substantially since 2012. The business supported its clients through the pandemic in 2020 and increased revenues by 20 per cent. Today the company employs 117 people and its clients include Accenture, ASOS, Danone, eBay, Future, Just Eat
Trainor Group AS has acquired prominent Swedish safety course provider, Teknikutbildarna, strengthening its position as Scandinavia’s leading provider of digital electrical safety training. Headquartered in Tønsberg, this acquisition will enhance Trainor’s position as a leading player in electrical safety training in Scandinavia and give the Swedish market a boost in digital training. As part of Trainor’s ambitious growth plans, the deal will give the company total turnover of around NOK130 million, and over 80 employees. Trainor, which is owned by its employees and global impact investor, EV Private Equity, is transforming the standard of electrical safety training through digitalisation.   
UK network service provider Freshwave has acquired the managed service division of UK-headquartered Wi-Fi specialists Airangel.  Founded in 2005, Airangel provides Wi-Fi solutions and support to over 80 brands in the high-end hospitality market, as well as the build to rent and private rented sectors. Its managed service division currently connects 60,000 hotel rooms, apartments and seasonal pitches across the UK and Europe. Airangel’s leading platform for onboarding public access provides control through authentication security, insights and analytics which support and drive continuous improvement for its users.   Freshwave is backed by Digital Colony, a leading digital infrastructure investment firm
TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, has completed a majority investment in InCorp Global, a leading corporate services provider in Asia. 
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By David Holden-White, co-founder & managing director of techspert.io â€“ Investors have long sought data from primary research to get an edge in their decision-making. Whether gathered through surveys, focus groups, panels or qualitative interviews, insights from individuals with lived experience of the relevant problems, markets, technologies and services, are hugely valuable. They offer a way of uncovering the intangibles, those moments that can’t be quantified solely on data. They augment and extend an investor’s own knowledge and experiences.  They also provide companies with a real competitive advantage. Most investors will have access to the same pool of data, whether
Sila Heating and Air (Sila), a port folio company of private equity firm Dubin Clark, has completed two acquisitions: NETR Inc (NETR) and John S Parker Home Service (JSP). Financial terms of the transactions have not been disclosed. Sila Heating and Air is a leading provider of HVAC replacement, service, maintenance, plumbing solutions, and water treatment to a diversified base of residential customers. Sila services homeowners in the greater Philadelphia, Boston, DC, NY/NJ/CT tri-state area and Hudson Valley. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The NETR and JSP acquisitions are the fifth
A new report from technology-focused investment bank ICON Corporate Finance, has revealed record-breaking tech deal activity in the first quarter of 2021, up 28 per cent on Q1 2020, with 268 deals announced.  Evidencing resilience within the sector and a huge appetite for Vertical and Enterprise Software organisations, ICON believes M&A activity is yet to see its peak, and could easily surpass the UK total of 711 tech M&A deals completed last year.   Digital transformation, fast-tracked by lockdowns across the world, has created a plethora of new digital solution providers that are grabbing the attention of overseas PE backed

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