Investment Summary

Five Arrows and Insight Partners Invest In Kpler

On April 13, 2022, private equity firm Five Arrows and venture capital firm Insight Partners invested in information services company Kpler

Investment Highlights
  • This is Five Arrows’ 4th and Insight Partners’ 3rd transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is Five Arrows’ 1st and Insight Partners’ 1st transaction in Belgium.

Investment Summary

Date 2022-04-13
Target Kpler
Sector Information Services
Investor(s) Five Arrows
Insight Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital
Advisor(s) Houlihan Lokey (Financial)
Cooley (Legal)

Target

Kpler

Brussels, Belgium
Kpler is a data and analytics firm on a mission to facilitate sustainable and efficient trade, to meet the changing needs of the world. From numerous disparate and unstructured sources, the company creates data & analytics enabling market professionals to make informed and timely trading decisions. It specializes in dynamic markets characterized by opaque and incomplete information, such as commodity markets. Kpler’s proprietary data, research, and news are delivered through solutions built-in agile and inventive ways, relying on a subtle mix of artificial and human intelligence. Kpler was formed in 2014 and is Brussels, Belgium.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Five Arrows

Paris, France

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Category Private Equity Firm
PE ASSETS 24.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Five Arrows Principal Investments is a mid-cap investor in Western European companies. Five Arrows can invest across the capital structure (equity, equity-linked, mezzanine, convertible debt) and generally focused on primary or secondary buyouts, growth financings, and balance sheet restructurings. The Group does not have any sector preferences, but typically looks for businesses with high barriers to entry and predictable earnings. Five Arrows can commit €30 to €400 million per investment. Five Arrows is a unit of Rothschild Bank. The Group has offices in Paris, Luxembourg, and London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 47 of 55
Sector (Information Services) 4 of 4
Type (Growth Capital) 6 of 7
Country (Belgium) 1 of 1
Year (2022) 4 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-02-02 Mintec

Bourne End, United Kingdom

Mintec is a provider of global pricing data and intelligence for non-traded food ingredients. The Group provides this data and an extensive analytics toolset on a subscription basis to food retailers, food manufacturers, and suppliers to support them in reporting, analysing and interpreting food ingredients markets. Mintec was established in 1982 and is based in Bourne End, United Kingdom.

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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-05-25 Groupe EDH

Paris, France

Groupe EDH is an independent player in the private higher education sector, operating five reference schools – EFAP (Communication), ICART (Art and Culture Management), EFJ (Journalism), BRASSART (Digital Creation) and CESINE (Design, Marketing and Communication) – across 25 campuses in France and abroad. Groupe EDH was founded in 1961 and is based in Paris, France.

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Investor

Insight Partners

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Category Venture Capital Firm
Founded 1995
PE ASSETS 80.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Insight Partners is a growth capital investment firm focused on early to later stage investments principally in the software sector. Insight Partners was formed in 1995 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 83 of 91
Sector (Information Services) 3 of 3
Type (Growth Capital) 22 of 23
Country (Belgium) 1 of 1
Year (2022) 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-04-13 Studio Moderna

Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia

Studio Moderna is a multi-channel and direct to consumer electronic retailer with a vertically integrated network in Central & Eastern Europe. Studio Moderna was founded in 1992 and is based in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-05-24 Semperis

Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Semperis is a pioneer in identity-driven cyber resilience for enterprises, With its multi-layered defense approach before, during, and after an attack, Semperis offers the industry’s most comprehensive security technology for hybrid AD and other identity systems, combined with incident response expertise. Semperis was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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