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Nordic Capital
Nordic Capital is a global private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts of established companies in Northern Europe and North America. Founded in 1989, the firm manages about $50 billion of capital, with offices in New York, London, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Oslo. Nordic Capital targets buyouts of large-cap and upper mid-market companies across 4 core industries: Technology & Payments, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Services & Industrial Technology. Nordic Capital is one of the 25 largest private equity firms worldwide according to Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking, with over $30 billion of capital raised within a 5-year period. As of December 2024, Nordic Capital portfolio companies have generated an annual average EBITDA growth of 17% since the firm's inception in 1989. On average, Nordic Capital portfolio companies saw their organic EBITDA grew by 19% in 2024. In October 2022, Nordic Capital announced the successful closing of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trustly
Trustly AB (publ), known as Trustly, is a Swedish fintech company founded in 2008 that specializes in open banking payment solutions. Trustly enables customers to conduct transactions directly from their bank accounts, offering an alternative to traditional card-based payment systems. The company claims its network supports 12,000 banks and connects with 650 million consumers globally. Trustly serves a variety of industries and is used by over 9,000 companies globally, including notable clients such as PayPal, DraftKings, and eBay. In 2020, Trustly expanded operations to Australia and Canada, complementing its presence in Europe and the United States. In 2023, Trustly reported revenues of $265 million, a 14% increase from 2022, and processed $58 billion in transactions, reflecting the broader growth of open banking solutions. History The company was originally named Glue Finance and was founded in 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden. Trustly signed contracts with its first online retai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anticimex
Anticimex is an international modern pest control company. Anticimex means "Against Cimex, bed bugs". Anticimex is mainly owned by EQT AB and have subsidiaries in 21 countries. Anticimex operates in the areas of pest control, building environments and hygiene. Anticimex employs around 11000 people, serving 3 million customers worldwide. In 2020, combined sales amounted to approximately 8,5 billion Swedish krona, kronor. In 1910, William Albert Flick, a dairy farmer, created a chemical compound that would control termites. His process and product were effective enough to found his own pest control business in 1918: called W.A. Flick & Co, later known as Flick Pest Control. Anticimex was then established in Sweden at 1934 during a time when approximately half of Swedish homes were infested with bed bugs. The company has offices in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mölnlycke Health Care
Mölnlycke Health Care is a Swedish medical device company headquartered in Gothenburg and active internationally. The company manufactures and sells wound care and single-use surgical products and is a service provider to the healthcare sector. The surgical division includes medical devices such as drapes, gowns, facemasks, and headwear. The wound care division includes dressings, compression products and skin care products and emollients. History, mergers and acquisitions The company was founded in 1849 by Gustaf Ferdinand Hennig in Mölnlycke as a textile manufacturer. In the 1940s Mölnlycke began supplying the health care industry with products, such as gauze. 1968 Mölnlycke AB acquired Norwegian hygiene product company SABA. 1975 Mölnlycke AB was acquired by Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) (publ) where it made up their Clinical division. At that time SCA was known as Bowater-Scott, and the new company, called Sancella Pty Limited, manufactured personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capio
Capio is a private healthcare company that provides healthcare in medicine, surgery and psychiatry at health centers, specialist clinics and hospitals in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany and France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... The Capio Group was founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of the investment company Bure Equity. In the following years, the company expanded to Norway, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Since November 2018, Capio is part of Ramsay Générale de Santé, creating a provider of healthcare services in Europe with combined net sales of EUR 3.8 billion and approximately 36,000 employees. The healthcare operations in France is since operating under the Ramsay Santé brand. Thomas Berglund was the company's President and CEO for 10 years, ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bambora
Bambora, formerly Beanstream, IP Payments, and various others, was a Swedish payment service provider that provides payment processing, accounts receivable automation, and PCI DSS compliance solutions. Bambora operated in Sweden, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In 2012, IP Payments was listed on the Asia Pacific Deloitte Fast 500. The company expanded through acquisitions in several countries, including Canada, Australia from 2014 to 2015. It was itself acquired by French-based Ingenico in 2015 which was then merged with Worldline SA in late 2020. History Bambora was founded as Beanstream, was founded in 2000 in Victoria, British Columbia, by entrepreneur and military veteran Craig Thomson. It was created to facilitate online payments, and quickly expanded into the United States as one of the first gateway payment systems in North America. Bambora itself was founded in 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Johan Tjärnberg. It began as an integration of four gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nycomed
Nycomed is a Swiss pharmaceutical company. Nycomed was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals in September 2011. Production was located in Norway, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Estonia, India, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Head office is located in Zürich, Switzerland. Total revenue was €3,400 million in 2006 and the group had 12,000 employees then. The company awarded an annual prize totaling 20,000 euros to four excellent junior scientists at the University of Konstanz. Also, the award promoted the concept of scientific exchange and networking of its winners. History The company was started in Norway in 1874, as an agent for imported pharmaceutical products. The founder was pharmacist Morten Nyegaard, and co-owner was Theodor Haslund. Nyegaard backed out in 1901, and Theodor Haslund was co-owner with Emil Steen until 1906. Fredrik L. Christensen was then Steen's partner until 1913, when Steen became sole owner. Steen was behind the transformation of the company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inovalon
Inovalon is an American technology company that provides cloud-based tools for healthcare. History The company was founded in 1998 in Maryland as MedAssurant by Keith Dunleavy, MD. In June 2012, the company changed its name to Inovalon. The company publicly filed its registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on December 30, 2014 for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock and applied for listing on NASDAQ under the ticker "INOV". Inovalon went public and began trading on the NASDAQ exchange on April 12, 2015 The company's stock traded until November 2021 when the company was taken private with its acquisition by Nordic Capital and Insight Partners. In August 2023, Inovalon's CEO Keith Dunleavy was inducted into the Dartmouth Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Partnerships and acquisitions In 2012, Inovalon partnered with industry researchers to conduct a study on Hospital Readmission Rates in Medicare Advantage Plans to track readmission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is an American life science and clinical research company. It is a global supplier of analytical instruments, clinical development solutions, specialty diagnostics, laboratory, pharmaceutical and biotechnology services. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Thermo Fisher was formed through the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific in 2006. Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired other reagent, consumable, instrumentation, and service providers, including Life Technologies Corporation (2013), Alfa Aesar (2015), Affymetrix (2016), FEI Company (2016), BD Advanced Bioprocessing (2018), and PPD (2021). , the company had a market capitalization of $202 billion. It ranked 97th on the ''Fortune'' 500 list based on its 2022 annual revenue of US$44.92 billion. History Predecessors and merger Thermo Electron was co-founded in 1956 by George N. Hatsopoulos and Peter M Nomikos. Hatsopoulos received a PhD from MIT in mechanical engineering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Partners
Francisco Partners Management, L.P., doing business as Francisco Partners, is an American private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses. It was founded in August 1999 and based in San Francisco with offices in London and New York City. In June 2022, Francisco Partners were ranked 20th in '' Private Equity International''s PEI 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms in the world. In June 2024, Francisco Partners ranked 27th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking among the world's largest private equity firms. History 1999–2011 Francisco Partners was founded in August 1999, in Menlo Park, California, during the emergence of dedicated technology buyout firms. Founders Sanford Robertson, Dipanjan Deb, David Stanton, Benjamin Ball, and Neil Garfinkel came from a variety of private equity firms. Robertson had been the founder of the technology-focused investment bank Robertson Stephens, while Deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaqua (company)
Anaqua is a Boston, Massachusetts-based provider of intellectual asset (IA) management and software and services. Anaqua’s Enterprise IAM software and services supports the IA lifecycle from idea to monetization for all IA categories, including inventions, patents, trade secrets, brands, and trademarks. Anaqua Express is designed for smaller IP teams. Anaqua Element is a cloud-based software service for IP professionals managing small portfolios. Anaqua Essential helps law firms manage intellectual assets on behalf of clients. History Anaqua was formed in 2004 with initial investment by Paul DiGiammarino as its founding CEO and additional funding provided by Beacon Equity Partners in 2005 and 2006. In 2010, Anaqua merged with SGA2, an ISO 9000-certified supplier of global patent annuity and trademark renewal services. In 2013, Beacon Equity Partners sold Anaqua to Insight Venture Partners Insight Venture Management, LLC (commonly referred to as Insight Partners and previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
