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PRECIMETAL has acquired the SETTAS S.A. precision foundry located in Charleroi (Belgium), part of the Anglo-American group DONCASTERS Ltd.  This acquisition is enabled with the financial support of its historical partners, including CICLAD, majority shareholder since 2017. A new investor, the Belgian investment fund PROFINPAR,the management of PRECIMETAL and SETTAS also participated in the project. […]

Ciclad has acquired a majority stake in FrogPubs, alongside its founder and CEO, Paul Chantler. Ciclad had been an investor in the group until 2014 and has thus an extensive knowledge of the business and a good relationship with the CEO. This is the 10th investment of Ciclad 6. Founded in 1993, FrogPubs is a […]

Tofane Global, the leading communications solutions group enabling operators and digital players worldwide, confirmed on February 8 the closing of its acquisition of iBASIS, formerly a Royal KPN N.V. company.   In September 2018, CICLAD took part in the acquisition of the Altice Europe N.V. international voice carrier businesses in France, Portugal, and the Dominican […]

We are happy to welcome Edouard de Kermandec and Thomas Deborne as new junior associates in the Paris Office. An ISEP and ESSEC alumni, Edouard started his career in the M&A team of BNP Paribas in New York and Paris. An EDHEC and London School of Economics (LSE) alumni, Thomas started his career in Private […]

The University of Geneva is organizing a series of conferences on the Digital Humanities in 2019. Human Design Group, a company in which Ciclad invested recently, will take part in the debate, and host a discussion on “Affective Computing: how does your computer love you?”. Dr. Guillaume Chanel, a Human Sciences Data Scientist at Human […]

We are pleased to announce that CICLAD has organized an Owner Management Buy-Out coupled with a capital increase of VitrineMedia alongside its three current managers. Founded in 2007 by Thibault Guillaume and Benjamin Champagne, VitrineMedia employs 160 people with an associated turnover of more than €16M. VitrineMedia is the French leader of windows display solutions […]