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RJD's Survey Solutions acquires Survey Systems, Kempston
Survey Solutions has made the acquisitions to augment its geographical coverage and service offering
Mobeus leads £5m series-A for Vivacity
Vivacity manufactures sensors and develops software to improve traffic insights and safety procedures
OCI invests £13m in Dexters
OCI's liquid resources that are available for future deployment are estimated to be ТЃ176m
Moore Strategic Ventures, Rovida et al. in $120m round for Blockchain.com
Company has raised $190m since being founded in 2011
VC-backed Apcintex acquired by Centessa
Centessa was launched this week following the merger of 10 private biotechnology companies, including Apcintex
Bestport invests in Playful Promises
Will Hobhouse, previously chairman of Heals, Jack Wills and Sunspel, is joining the board as chairman
Kempen co-invests in £46.5m Eque2 MBO
WestBridge acquired Eque2 in December 2020, marking the firm's sixth investment from its second fund
Oxx leads $21m series-B for Peak
Funding round was oversubscribed and saw participation from MMC Ventures and Praetura Ventures
Tenzing invests in Jeffreys Henry MBO
Management team at the company will be led by managing partner Justin Randall and partner Jon Isaacs
GCP sells Infinity Works to Accenture
GCP invested in Infinity Works in March 2019 as a minority partner to the founder management team
Ambienta buys Collingwood from Baird
Sale ends a three-year holding period for Baird, which invested in the company via its $310m Baird Capital Global Fund I
ECI-backed Edenhouse sold to trade
Accenture is a listed professional services conglomerate and acquires the IT service to improve its SAP provision capabilities
Piper promotes Stern
Stern led on the recent sale of Proper and on investments such as Neom and Wattbike
YFM invests in Outpost VFX
Investment coincides with the appointment of Robin Shenfield to the board as chair
CVC acquires System C – report
William Blair advised on the sale process, which was marketed based on ТЃ80m sales and ТЃ15m EBITDA
JTC acquires Indos Financial
Staff from the depositary advisory firm will join JTC's institutional client services division
LDC-backed Onecom acquires BGF's Olive Communications
BGF invested ТЃ10m in Olive in 2016 in a deal that also raised ТЃ5.25m in debt provided by Barclays
K1 provides growth equity investment to XTM
XTM International has been bootstrapped up until this investment from K1
Tiger Global leads €40m round for Flipdish
Fresh capital will go towards growing Flipdish's international footprint
BlackRock in talks to buy Aquila Heywood for £350m – report
Aquila Heywood is a pensions administration software company that generates revenues of ТЃ32.4m
LDC sells Adey for £210m
LDC acquired Adey in June 2016, with Alcentra providing a тЌ60m unitranche to support the deal
Braavos leads SpyBiotech's $32.5m series-A
Proceeds will advance the clinical development of SpyBiotech's vaccine technology platform
Great Hill acquires Notonthehighstreet
Great Hill has previously acquired online marketplaces Wayfair and TheRealReal
Goodwin hires partner O'Dea
O'Dea's appointment follows expansion of the firm's practice in London in 2020