Iris Dorbian
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Compass Group Equity Partners has acquired St. Louis, Missouri-based EPIC Systems Inc, an engineering company, industrial automation engineering and fabrication firm. No financial terms were disclosed.
Magnitude Software, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, has acquired Gouda, Netherlands-based Every Angle, a provider of self-service reporting and analytics solutions for any SAP system. No financial terms were disclosed.
Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, which is backed by American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Company LLC, has acquired an approximately 55,000-square-foot medical office building in Edmonds, Washington. The price of the transaction was $23.5 million.
Resource Label Group, which is backed by First Atlantic Capital and TPG Growth, has acquired Ingenious Packaging, a Toronto-based labeling solutions provider. No financial terms were disclosed. Mesirow Financial was lead financial adviser to Ingenious on the deal. Franklin, Tennessee-based Resource Label is a provider of pressure sensitive label, shrink sleeve and RFID/NFC technology for the packaging industry.
Connecticut and Florida-based Atlantic Street Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, hired Susan Strautberg as governance adviser. In her new role, Strautberg will be actively involved in recruiting women for Atlantic Street's portfolio company boards.
New York-based Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm focused on consumer and retail investments, has raised $4.75 billion for its third fund.
Triton has agreed to acquire SKF Motion Technologies from SKF Group. No financial terms were disclosed. Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, SKF Motion Technologies is a provider of electrical linear actuator components and systems as well as linear motion products.
Pollen Street Capital has acquired a majority stake in BIK, a Polish insurance services provider. No financial terms were disclosed. The seller was Syntaxis Capital.
The Rise Fund, which is managed by TPG Growth, has agreed to invest $130 million in DreamBox Learning. Based in Bellevue, Washington, DreamBox is a K-8 digital math program.