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Following government focus on low carbon heating roll-out, RSK Group Limited, an integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business, is further strengthening its offering with the acquisition of four businesses across the environmental services sector.
New businesses Carbon Zero Consulting, Envireau Water, Enviroflow and Streetwise are the latest in a series of recent acquisitions to the group, affirming the company’s desire to grow and diversify the business to ensure it can support global clients as they work towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Rutland-based Carbon Zero Consulting are expert advice providers in renewable energy, ground source heat pump
IK Small Cap II Fund has signed an agreement to sell its entire stake in BST Group Nordic AB (BST or the Company) to Norvestor. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, BST is a full-service provider of active fire protection services. The Company, which is the largest pure-play active fire protection services provider in Sweden with an emerging presence across the Nordics, employs approximately 430 people across the region.
IK partnered with BST in May 2019 and since then has helped facilitate the Company’s strategic development through its investments
H2O.ai, an AI cloud specialist, has closed USD100 million in Series E funding led by Australia’s largest bank, customer Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). H2O.ai has now raised over USD250 million and is valued at USD1.7 billion.
Pivot Investment Partners joins prior investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Crane Venture Partners. Existing investors include customers and partners such as Wells Fargo, New York Life and NVIDIA. 20,000 organisations, millions of data scientists, and half of the Fortune 500 trust H2O.ai as their AI provider. The company has a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78— the highest in the industry. The
Arlington Capital Partners’ (Arlington) portfolio company, BlueHalo (the Company), a provider of advanced engineering solutions and technology to the national security community, has acquired Citadel Defense Company (Citadel).
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Citadel develops advanced counter unmanned aerial systems (cUAS) technology utilised by customers within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, as well as civilian, commercial, and international markets. Founded in 2016, Citadel’s team of engineers and data scientists has developed best-of-breed cUAS products that leverage proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms to enable operators to locate drone threats, track flight paths, and autonomously neutralise threats.
McAfee Corp (McAfee), a specialist in online protection, is to be acquired by an investor group led by Advent International Corporation (Advent) and Permira Advisers (Permira), Crosspoint Capital Partners (Crosspoint Capital), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), GIC Private Limited (GIC), and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA).
Wavenet, a UK supplier of business telecommunication and technology solutions, backed by Macquarie Capital, is advancing its cloud and workspace offering by adding the experience and infrastructure of Excell Group into its solution and service portfolio.
This acquisition will significantly bolster Wavenet Group’s market share in the cloud and workspace market and strengthen its place as one of the UK’s leading managed service providers to businesses for fully converged data, voice, cloud, and IT.
Excell Group has grown steadily since its inception through both organic and acquisitive means, expanding its network, portfolio and creating a hugely successful business centre
Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc (LSE: SSIT), the world’s first listed fund focused on SpaceTech, has made a new USD25 million investment into HawkEye 360, a commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics.
PSG, a growth equity firm focused on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies, is to acquire a majority stake in Universign, a provider of SaaS-based electronic signature solutions.
Universign will join Signaturit and Ivnosys to offer one of the widest catalogues of digital transaction management and trust services in Europe.
Headquartered in France, Universign was founded in 2001 and has evolved into a leading e-signature, e-seal and timestamping software solutions provider, serving more than 9,000 clients. Universign has built longstanding relationships with large corporates and expanded towards the SMB segment. As one of the sector’s pioneers and
PAI Partners (PAI), a pre-eminent private equity firm, today announces that it has reached an agreement to sell Atos Medical, a global specialist in supporting patients with a neck stoma, to Coloplast, a Danish multinational company that develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices and services related to ostomy, urology, continence, and wound care, for an enterprise value of cEUR2.2 billion.
Founded in Sweden in 1986, Atos Medical was born out of a desire to make life easier for people living with a laryngectomy by providing personalised care and innovative solutions for restoring speaking ability after surgical removal of a patient’s
Greentech start-up Plan A, a leadng platform of science-based tools for carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and ESG management, has successfully closed a USD10 million Series A funding round led by European venture capital firm HV Capital and Netherlands-based Keen Venture Partners.
Existing investors Demeter IM and coparion are also doubling down on their seed investment. Plan A will use the capital to further develop its platform and expand internationally, with the opening of offices in London, Munich, Paris and other international hubs.
To help companies meet the ever-increasing societal and regulatory pressures, Plan A is further deepening its SaaS platform’s calculation
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