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Growers Edge harvests $40m Series B round from group of VC firms

Growers Edge Financial has raked in $40m for its Series B round to help it to grow into new markets in the US.

Fintech AI client retention platform Senso gets $3m VC-led investment round

Senso, an AI platform helping financial institutions improve client retention, has reportedly bagged $3m in its pre-Series A round.

KKR Partners Up with Danaher Executive

KKR has partnered with William “Dan” Daniel to seek and acquire industrial business headquartered in the United States. Mr. Daniel was the executive vice president of Danaher from 2008 through March 2020. Danaher designs, manufactures

Succession Plan Initiated at Levine Leichtman

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has announced a management succession plan that names Matthew Frankel and Michael Weinberg as managing partners. LLCP was founded in 1984 and its co-founders – Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman

AMB :- Private equity activity declines significantly in Q2 2020, dry powder climbs towards $1.5tn

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The COVID-19 pandemic had relatively little effect on Q1 activity, not impacting European or North American countries until the end of the quarter, said Preqin. However, the slowdown was very...Article Link

How private equity firms could’ve been supported by tax money aimed at helping SMEs through Covid-19

Private equity firms with stakes in the US healthcare industry could have managed to tap into federal bailout money designed to give small businesses a lifeline through the pandemic. A new data dump of data

Sagewind Capital buys US Army, NASA engineering services provider QuantiTech

Private equity player Sagewind Capital has made US Army, Air Force and NASA tech engineering services provider QuantiTech its latest investment.

Bregal Sagemount co-founder Kim joins HKW as partner to help spearhead tech sector push

US private equity house HKW has hired Bregal Sagemount co-founder Daniel Kim as its latest partner.

Warren Sees Green in Arborist Platform

Warren Equity has closed two acquisitions in the arborist services sector with the buys of Gunnison Tree Services and New Urban Forestry. Gunnison Tree Services is a provider of tree and vegetation management services to

HKW Closes Third Fresh Direct Add-On

Fresh Direct Produce, a distributor of fresh, ethnic, tropical, organic, and specialty produce and a portfolio company of HKW, has acquired Mike and Mike’s Organics. Mike and Mike’s is a non-grower distributor of organic fruits

Charlesbank’s New Credit Fund Hits Hard Cap

Charlesbank Capital Partners has held a $700 million, oversubscribed, and hard cap closing of Charlesbank Credit Opportunities Fund II LP. The new fund’s original target was $500 million. Fund II has more than 30 institutional

Succession plan revealed at Levine Leichtman as veteran co-founders prepare for future

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has revealed its succession plan as co-founders Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman look to the next generation of leaders, 36 years after launching the firm.

KKR seals strategic buyout of Global Atlantic to boost firm’s $26bn insurance business

Global private equity major KKR has agreed a strategic buyout of retirement and life insurance company Global Atlantic.

Searchlight Capital brings in Centerbridge Capital veteran Weinstein as one of two new managing directors

Searchlight Capital Partners has brought in Centerbridge Capital veteran Elliott Weinstein as one of two new managing directors.

Avista Capital brings in industry experts Schiess, Klitgaard as newest operating execs

Healthcare-focused private equity house Avista Capital Partners has brought in Steve Schiess and William Klitgaard as its newest operating executives.

NAventures leads $16m Series A round for financial data platform Flinks

Canada-based Flinks, a financial data platform, has closed its Series A round on $16m, with NAventures leading the round.

AMB :- North America M&A performance and volume lag behind rest of world during H1 2020

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: North America experienced the sharpest fall in M&A performance by some margin, said a report. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on deal-making in the first six months of 2020 was

Charlesbank Capital Partners smashes its $500m target by raising $700m for its Credit Opportunities Fund II

Middle-market private equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partners has closed its Charlesbank Credit Opportunities Fund II after crushing its $500m target by receiving LP commitments in excess of its $700m hard cap. The new round is

Oaktree’s Watco Buys Short Lines from Dow

Watco Companies, a portfolio company of Oaktree Capital, has agreed to acquire the short line rail assets and related equipment of six North American manufacturing sites from Dow Chemical. Watco is a provider of transportation

Abry Partners acquires majority stake in HealthEZ

Private equity firm Abry Partners has acquired a majority stake in HealthEZ, an independent third-party administrator (TPA) of self-funded medical plans, adding the company to its growing portfolio of healthcare services investments. Abry’s investment is

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