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March 20, 2020
Levin Furniture deal is reportedly off
By Jayne Gest
Pittsburgh-based Levin Furniture former President and owner Robert Levin’s agreement to come out of retirement to save the company has reportedly been called off.
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March 17, 2020
RoadRunner Recycling closes $28.6M Series C funding round
RoadRunner Recycling has raised a $28.6 million Series C financing round. The round was co-led by e.ventures and Greycroft, with additional participation from Franklin Templeton and existing investors, Adams Capital Management in Pittsburgh and FJ Labs.
March 16, 2020
Liberty Tire Recycling buys Lakin Tire
Liberty Tire Recycling, a Pittsburgh-based provider of tire recycling services, has acquired Lakin Tire, with support from its majority equity sponsor The Carlyle Group. The merger unites two complementary businesses.
March 5, 2020
Robert Levin Makes Deal To Save Levin Furniture From Closing
Levin has reached an agreement to acquire the Pennsylvania and Ohio assets of Levin Furniture and Wolf Furniture through a court restructuring of the parent company Art Van Furniture LLC.
March 1, 2020
U.S. Steel buys remaining interest in USS-POSCO Industries
Pittsburgh-headquartered U.S. Steel has closed on the purchase of POSCO-California Corp.’s 50 percent partnership interest in USS-POSCO Industries. U.S. Steel and POSCAL believe ownership of UPI by a single group represents the best opportunity for UPI to continue operating effectively and serve its customers.
February 27, 2020
Minnotte Contracting purchased by Day & Zimmermann
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Smith Micro buys the operator business of Circle Media Labs
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February 5, 2020
SinterMet sold to V&A Capital
New York PE firm V&A Capital has partnered with the management team of SinterMet LLC to acquire the company, which is headquartered near Pittsburgh. The firm plans to support SinterMet’s growth through increased product offerings, entering new end-markets and searching for complementary add-on acquisitions.
February 5, 2020
Maven Machines raises $7M in Series A funding
Maven Machines has raised $7 million in Series A funding, led by Allos Ventures, with additional participation from Hearst Ventures, Pittsburgh-based Riverfront Ventures, which is an affiliate of Innovation Works, Great Oaks Venture Capital and existing private investors.
January 21, 2020
Incline Equity raises $1.165B for latest fund
Incline Equity Partners has closed Incline Equity Partners V, L.P. and Incline Equity Partners V-A, L.P. on $1.165 billion of capital commitments. The fund was oversubscribed above its initial target of $850 million.
January 15, 2020
Digital Dream Labs buys Anki Robotics & Artificial Intelligence assets
Digital Dream Labs has acquired Anki Robotics and Artificial Intelligence assets without taking on any liabilities, effective immediately. The Pittsburgh company plans to relaunch the product line, deploy new features and develop new robots.
January 15, 2020
Phoenix Rehab purchases Youngstown area clinics
Phoenix Rehabilitation and Health Services has acquired Youngstown-based TuDor Physical Therapy, which becomes the company’s first group of clinics in Ohio. This brings Phoenix’s total clinics to 117.
January 8, 2020
Wabtec purchases RELCO Locomotives
Wabtec Corp. has acquired RELCO Locomotives Inc., a player in the locomotive overhaul and maintenance industry. The acquisition expands Wabtec’s freight services capabilities and capacity to support growth in the remanufacturing and repair business.
January 8, 2020
PPG to buy Italian manufacturer ICR
PPG has agreed to acquire Industria Chimica Reggiana S.p.A., a manufacturer of paints and coatings for the automotive refinish and light industrial coatings industries. The strategic deal will complement PPG’s current product offering and add specialized, value-added products.
December 19, 2019
Equity funding up in Detroit, Pittsburgh
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December 16, 2019
Gecko Robotics raises $40M Series B round, led by Drive Capital
Gecko Robotics, which develops and operates robots to automate infrastructure inspections, has raised a Series B funding round of $40 million, led by Columbus-based Drive Capital. The Pittsburgh startup and Y-Combinator alum plans to use the funds to support its quickly scaling business operations.
December 6, 2019
Purchase of West Virginia’s Mountaineer Casino closes
Colorado Springs-based Century Casinos Inc. has completed the acquisition of the operations of New Cumberland, West Virginia’s Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort, as well as two Missouri casinos, from Eldorado Resorts Inc. for approximately $107 million.
December 4, 2019
Duolingo raises $30M in Series F funding; now valued at $1.5B
Duolingo has reached a $1.5 billion valuation after closing a $30 million Series F funding round from CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth equity investment fund and an existing investor in the company. This brings Duolingo’s total venture funding to $138 million.
December 4, 2019
Covestro to buy Bayer’s Robinson campus
Covestro LLC has agreed to purchase the Bayer Corp.’s Robinson Township campus, which is home to Covestro’s U.S. headquarters. The change in ownership is planned for Dec. 31, 2020.
December 4, 2019
Aspirant buys HR Imagined
Aspirant, a Pittsburgh-based global management consulting and technology firm, has acquired HR Imagined, an outsourced HR solution organization in Pittsburgh. As part of the deal, HR Imagined President Cheryl Paxton-Hughes will join Aspirant.
November 7, 2019
Atkins Cos buys West Mifflin medical office building
Atkins Companies has acquired a 26,174-square-foot medical office building in West Mifflin. The outpatient facility is fully leased by Allegheny Health Network and bolsters the New Jersey firm's portfolio in the rapidly growing Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
November 1, 2019
GT Entrepreneurs closes deal for Service-Tech Corp.
Pittsburgh’s GT Entrepreneurs has closed its third deal, as Gabriel Chick, a GTE operator-in-residence, has completed the final paperwork to acquire Service-Tech Corp., a Cleveland-based HVAC and industrial cleaning company.
October 28, 2019
Target Freight Management Buys NTS
Target Freight Management has acquired National Traffic Service Inc., a freight auditing and payment service. The strategic acquisition will better serve the end-to-end logistical needs of TFM’s less-than-truckload, full truckload and parcel freight customers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
October 24, 2019
Gabriel Performance Products Buy Deltech Portfolio
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October 21, 2019
LyGenesis Closes $4M Convertible Debt Financing
LyGenesis Inc., a Pittsburgh biotechnology company focused on organ regeneration, has completed a $4 million in private financing of convertible notes from Juvenescence Ltd. and Longevity Vision Fund. This will enable LyGenesis’s lead program in liver regeneration to transition into clinical development.
October 18, 2019
VoIP Innovations purchased by Sangoma
Ontario-headquartered Sangoma Technologies Corp. has acquired VoIP Innovations LLC for $42 million, if certain conditions are reached. The acquisition, Sangoma’s eighth in eight years, should provide the combined company with increased scale, more recurring revenue, a new product category, robust EBITDA margins, and a new sales channel within Sangoma’s broader portfolio.
October 16, 2019
Tecum Equity buys Pinnacle Cranes
Pinnacle Cranes, a Link-Belt and Manitex dealer in North Carolina and South Carolina, has been purchased by Western Allegheny Capital LLC, and Tecum Equity, a Pittsburgh-based family office investment partnership.
October 3, 2019
Evoqua to divest Memcor product line
Evoqua Water Technologies has agreed to divest its Memcor® membrane product line to DuPont Safety & Construction. The transaction, which includes the product line’s global workforce, its manufacturing site in Windsor, Australia, associated operations and intellectual property, is expected to close by the end of 2019. The sale allows Evoqua to focus on core products and solutions.
October 1, 2019
U.S. Steel takes stake in Big River Steel
Under joint venture partnership agreement, United States Steel Corp. has taken first step toward acquiring Big River Steel, purchasing a 49.9 percent ownership interest for approximately $700 million in cash, with a call option to acquire the remaining interest within the next four years. Acquiring Big River, which operates the most advanced, state-of-the-art and sustainable mill in North America, will strengthen the Pittsburgh-headquartered company’s competitive positioning.
September 24, 2019
II-VI completes Finisar purchase
II‐VI Inc., a global provider of engineered materials and optoelectronic devices, has completed its acquisition of Finisar Corp. The acquisition was first announced Nov. 9, 2018. II-VI, which is headquartered in Saxonburg, expects to achieve $150 million in run rate synergies over the next three years.
September 18, 2019
Idelic raises $8M Series A round
Idelic, a Pittsburgh-based data and analytics startup, closed an $8 million Series A financing round, led by Chicago’s Origin Ventures with participation from TDF Ventures, Birchmere Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and SaaS Venture Capital. Idelic will use the funds to grow its engineering and sales teams, and pave the way to release a mobile application.
September 16, 2019
Gordon Pointe to merge with Hall of Fame Village in $390M transaction
The merger is expected to produce a sports, entertainment and media enterprise surrounding the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
September 10, 2019
Kraft Heinz venture fund invests in cheese startup
New Culture, the San Francisco startup making animal-free dairy cheese, closed $3.5 million in seed round funding. The round was led by Evolv Ventures, the $100 million venture fund backed by Kraft Heinz investing in emerging tech companies transforming the food industry.
September 9, 2019
NEP Group to buy Aerial Video Systems
NEP Group, a Pittsburgh-headquartered outsourced technical production partner supporting content producers of live sports and entertainment, has agreed to acquire Aerial Video Systems. The addition of AVS will complement and build upon NEP’s Broadcast Services, especially its wireless AV capabilities.
September 6, 2019
Alpha invests in opportunity zone near Rickenbacker
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Wind Point to buy Callery from Edgewater Capital
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August 22, 2019
Compass Self Storage buys Pittsburgh location
Compass Self Storage, a member of the Amsdell family of companies, has acquired Shaler Self Storage in Allison Park. This transaction marks the Cleveland company’s fourth location in the Greater Pittsburgh area and its 90th location nationwide.
August 20, 2019
Bayer to sell Animal Health unit
Indiana-based Elanco Animal Health has agreed to buy Bayer AG’s animal health business in a cash and stock deal valued at $7.6 billion. The transaction creates the second largest maker of medicines for pets and livestock and falls in line with Bayer's strategy to slash debt.
August 20, 2019
PNC Mezzanine Capital recapitalizes Mountainside Fitness
PNC Mezzanine Capital recently completed a minority recapitalization of a $15 million preferred stock investment with Mountainside Fitness. PNC Mezzanine Capital and the Mountainside management team plan to continue to expand the company’s leadership position in the Arizona fitness community and beyond.
August 19, 2019
Grove City Medical Center to join AHN
Grove City Medical Center, Allegheny Health Network and Highmark Health have signed an affiliation agreement. Pending government approval of the merger, the organizations expect to close on the affiliation in the next few months, establishing Grove City as AHN’s ninth owned hospital.
August 5, 2019
Coeo raises angel round
Warrendale, Pennsylvania-based Coeo, which brings people and spaces together, has raised $100,100 of angel funding in the form of SAFE notes from undisclosed investors. Additionally, the company raised $30,000 of angel funding from undisclosed investors on Feb. 22, 2019.
July 29, 2019
Mylan and Pfizer's Upjohn division to combine
Mylan N.V. and Pfizer Inc. have agreed to combine Mylan with Upjohn, Pfizer’s off-patent branded and generic established medicines business, creating a new global pharmaceutical company. The strategic deal puts together Mylan’s pipeline and supply chain and Upjohn’s commercial and medical infrastructure and expertise, in order to serve more than 165 markets.
July 22, 2019
Westinghouse buys Canada’s NA Engineering Associates
The Canadian provider of engineering solutions has significant nuclear expertise, which will help diversify the Cranberry Township company’s engineering capabilities.
July 18, 2019
Look Good Brands buys Legends Boxing
The subsidiary of Canonsburg-based Deka Lash is attempting to bring together a range of beauty, health and fitness brands.
July 16, 2019
RoadBotics raises $7.5M Series A round
The Pittsburgh-based company, which grew out of Carnegie Mellon University research into standardizing road assessment using artificial intelligence, has raised $11.4 million over five rounds.
July 11, 2019
Kennametal to close Westmoreland County facility with restructuring
Kennametal Inc. plans to close its manufacturing facility in Irwin, Pennsylvania, as well as two manufacturing facilities and a distribution center in Germany. The restructuring actions should facilitate a simplified and leaner structure, while further positioning the company for long-term profitable growth.
July 1, 2019
Machine Learning startup LifeWhere purchased by Resideo
The Austin, Texas-based company plans to use the startup to expand its remote monitoring and predictive maintenance capabilities.
June 27, 2019
Highmark to sell Visionworks to VSP
VSP Global has agreed to acquire San Antonio-based Visionworks, which is a majority-owned subsidiary of Highmark.
June 20, 2019
Former Westinghouse Nuclear headquarters campus purchased
Next Tier Connect has acquired a 505,000 square-foot mixed-use campus in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, which served as the former Westinghouse Nuclear headquarters. The property is the first acquisition of a national portfolio that should include select real estate and mission critical properties.
June 13, 2019
Liberty Steel Buys Johnstown Wire Technologies
The transaction expands Liberty’s footprint in the U.S. steel downstream products market and adds to its ability to meet the Made in America specifications required for public infrastructure and utility contracts.
June 13, 2019
Hyundai invests in Aurora as part of $600M+ Series B Round
Aurora’s existing partner Hyundai Motor Group has invested in Aurora as part of its Series B financing round. The self-driving technology startup now raised more than $700 million to develop Aurora Driver, strengthen its team and acquire cutting-edge technology.
June 6, 2019
Industrial Scientific to buy Intelex for $570M
The acquisition of Intelex is the largest in the history of EHSQ pureplay vendors and one of the top five largest Canadian technology company exits in the last decade.
May 29, 2019
Medical device maker EPIC Extremity bought by Exactech
The deal continues the relationship between the designer of screw and plating systems for the foot and ankle and Exactech, which had been distributing EPIC's products for the last year.
May 24, 2019
Aurora acquires lidar company Blackmore
The Pittsburgh-based startup picked up a company with valuable expertise in light detection and ranging radar, or lidar, that its self-driving car technology.
May 20, 2019
RE2 Robotics gets $3M from Office of Naval Research
RE2 Robotics, a developer of humanlike robotic manipulator arms in Pittsburgh, has received $3 million in funding from the Office of Naval Research to develop a dexterous, underwater robotic hand with tactile feedback.
May 14, 2019
Three Rivers Packaging purchased by The Cary Company
The McKees Rocks company, which initially focused on the sale of new and reconditioned steel drums, has evolved to become the area’s leading IBC re-bottler/reconditioner.
May 7, 2019
Federated Investors buying $14B in assets from PNC Financial Services
The proposed deal includes the reorganization of PNC’s family of liquidity, equity and fixed-income mutual funds into Federated funds; the acquisition of part of PNC’s separate account and separately managed account business; and the transition of a six-person international equity management team.
May 2, 2019
ANSYS acquires assets of Maryland software company DfR Solutions
ANSYS has acquired the assets of DfR Solutions, the Maryland developer of Sherlock, the industry’s only automated design reliability analysis software.
April 24, 2019
Kraft Heinz reportedly seeking buyer for Ore-Ida
CNBC says that the food giant is looking to sell off its Ore-Ida brand as it works to pay down debt and restructure its business.
April 24, 2019
Maitri gets a partner, property in Innovative Industrial Properties deal
IIP agreed to provide the Southwestern PA medical marijuana company reimbursement of up to $10 million to complete tenant improvements for the building.
April 17, 2019
PPG completes Hemmelrath acquisition
PPG has completed its acquisition of German-based Hemmelrath, a manufacturer of coatings for automotive OEMs.
April 4, 2019
Kraft Heinz fund makes first investment
Evolv Ventures was part of a $25 million Series C round investment in GrubMarket, a farm-to-delivery food service.
March 21, 2019
3-D startup Kaarta raises $6.5M
The developer of real-time mobile 3D reality capture raised the funds to accelerate the growth of its mobile mapping and localization technology.
March 14, 2019
Incline Equity’s Continental Batteries gets a boost, buys Battery Sales & Service
Continental Batteries, a battery distributor and a portfolio company of Pittsburgh private equity firm Incline Equity Partners, is acquiring Battery Sales & Service in its sixth acquisition in just over seven months.
March 14, 2019
Ampco-Pittsburgh plans to sell ASW Steel
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. is set to sell its Canadian subsidiary, ASW Steel Inc. ASW, a specialty steel-making facility located in Welland, Ontario, has been classified as a discontinued operation
March 13, 2019
Highmark, Geisinger complete $100M clinical joint venture
Health care companies Highmark Inc. and Geisinger have completed their previously announced clinical joint venture, which will invest more than $100 million to expand health care services and improve access to healthcare in four north-central Pennsylvania counties.
March 13, 2019
PNC to sell part of its record-keeping business to Newport Group
The transaction will enable PNC to focus on providing fiduciary investment advice to retirement clients — one of its core businesses — while helping Newport expand through the complementary acquisition.
March 11, 2019
NeuBase Therapeutics gets $9M in financing
NeuBase Therapeutics Inc., a Pittsburgh biotechnology company developing antisense therapies to address rare genetic diseases, has landed $9 million in financing ahead of the company’s proposed merger with Ohr Pharmaceutical Inc.
March 11, 2019
Army gives Carnegie Mellon $72M to fund AI defense research
Carnegie Mellon University, specifically its Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory, is being awarded $72 million from the U.S. Army over five years for fundamental (publishable) artificial intelligence research.
March 5, 2019
WESCO closes Sylvania Lighting purchase
WESCO Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Wesco International, has acquired certain assets of Sylvania Lighting Solutions from OSRAM Sylvania, including its business operations in the United States and Canada.
February 28, 2019
Adrich gets seed funding from Sony
Sony Innovation Fund invests in maker of labels that track consumer behavior.
February 27, 2019
RDX acquires ClearDB in second February deal for cloud services firm
Managed database and cloud services provider RDX has acquired ClearDB as part of an aggressive strategic expansion of the RDX service portfolio.
February 25, 2019
Maitri Medicinals raises nearly $7M from angel investors
The medical marijuana company reportedly will use the funds to establish additional dispensaries, an indoor growing facility and the relocate its headquarters.
