Solutions
National Fire & Safety, a leading end-to-end fire protection and life safety solutions platform and a portfolio company of Highview Capital (Highview), has acquired Texas Fire Alarm (TFA), a full service fire protection provider.
Following the acquisition, founder Jody Parker will continue to lead TFA from its Wills Point, Texas headquarters, strategically located in the Dallas metropolitan region.
AUA Private Equity Partners (AUA Private Equity), a lower middle-market consumer investment firm, has formalised a partnership with First Generation Investors (FGI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to provide high school students in underserved communities with the knowledge and skills to thrive in the investment economy.
As part of this partnership, AUA Private Equity will be a sponsor and active partner of the University of Miami chapter.
FGI’s robust financial literacy curriculum is led by volunteer college students across 40 chapters nationwide who work with high school students to teach core finance concepts, create investment portfolios and establish a
Funds advised by global private equity firm Permira are to acquire Mimecast Limited an email security and cyber resilience company.
Genstar Capital portfolio company Foreside Financial Group, LLC (Foreside), a provider of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) solutions and technology offerings to clients in the global asset management industry, has acquired Alaric Compliance Services, a specialist in regulatory and compliance services.
Founded in 2004, Alaric Compliance Services partners with a diversified and well-known client base, including private credit, private real estate and other alternative asset managers, advisors, broker-dealers, private fund managers, open and closed end funds, BDCs, CLOs, and more.
Transatlantic venture capital firm Beringea has led a USD10 million Series A funding round in Learnerbly, an SaaS-enabled marketplace for workplace learning and development.
Eurazeo, with support from Sapphire, has led a USD44 million Series B growth funding round in secret detection platform specialist GitGuardian.
Existing investors including Balderton, BPI and Fly Ventures also participated.
Onex Corporation’s USD7.2 billion Onex Partners V fund is to acquire to acquire Tes Global (Tes), an education technology services provider, from Providence Equity Partners (Providence), a premier private equity firm that specialises in growth-oriented investments in media, communications, education and technology.
Financial terms of the deal, which will see the TES management team also invest alongside Onex, have not been disclosed.
The transaction is anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2022, and will see Onex Partners V approximately 78 per cent invested.
UK based FinTech group, SPG, the owner and operator of Shieldpay and Paycast, has raised USD34 million (GBP25 million pounds) in a Series A round that includes strategic funding from Mastercard and Marqeta.
Other significant Investors in SPG include Elliott Management, CreditEase and Techstars.
To date SPG has processed over USD3 billion dollars of payments for its clients and experienced a surge in business during the pandemic that saw revenues grow by over 360 per cent in the last year.
Molten Ventures has led a USD10.8 million seed funding round in agtech startup Gardin. The investment follows a USD1.2 million pre-seed round in January 2021.
Formerly Draper Esprit, Molten Ventures was first introduced to Gardin through its Fund of Funds seed programme. Also participating in the round is LDV Capital, MMC Ventures and Seedcamp
Lightrock and affiliates of DH Capital have co-led a USD100 million Series C funding round in software company Liqid, a specialist in composable software and solutions aimed at providing cloud-like speed, flexibility, and higher efficiency from data centre.
Current investors Panorama Point Partners and Iron Gate Capital also participated.
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