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Perceptive Advisors closes USD515m Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund II

Perceptive Advisors, an investment management firm focused on the life sciences sector, has held the first and final closing of Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund II (PXV Fund II) with USD515 million in capital commitments. The close of PXV Fund II more than triples the firm’s assets under management to USD725

Velocity Capital Advisors launches Juice Ventures

Velocity Capital Advisors, a leading UK EIS/SEIS investment fund focussed on consumer technology, has launched a new growth capital product – Juice Ventures – to cater for the specific financing needs of early-stage companies primed for exponential growth through cost effective user acquisition. Juice Ventures www.juice.ventures is born from Velocity

Healthcare building blocks

Warburg Pincus invests USD110m in Aetion

By Purva Aggarwal – Warburg Pincus has invested USD110 million into a Series C round for New York-based healthcare tech company Aetion. This round is the latest in a string of similar investments within the health tech space for Warburg Pincus. The global growth equity PE group has poured in

Antler closes oversubscribed Nordic fund at USD36m

Global early-stage venture capital firm Antler has closed its first Nordic fund, which was oversubscribed at USD36 million. Participants include Draper Esprit, Kistefos, the Danish state fund Vækstfonden, and the Norwegian state fund Investinor.  The Antler Nordic fund will continue to invest in innovative startups in Sweden, Norway and Denmark,

Huma raises USD130m financing to scale digital health platform

Huma Therapeutics Limited has completed its latest funding round with financing of approximately USD130 million. The investment will scale Huma’s modular platform which can power digital ‘hospitals at home’ nationally, and support the pharmaceutical and research industries to run the largest ever decentralized clinical trials.  Huma’s platform combines predictive algorithms,

Susquehanna Growth Equity makes significant investment in LiveBarn

Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), an entrepreneur-centric growth equity firm exclusively focused on internet, software, and information services companies, has made a significant investment in LiveBarn, a subscription-based streaming service for amateur and youth sports. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.   LiveBarn provides Live & On-Demand broadcasting

Riverside acquires electronic-monitoring solutions provider

The value-based private equity arm of The Riverside Company has acquired Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc (dba SCRAM Systems), a provider of technology-enabled monitoring solutions and groundbreaking offender management software for state and local judicial systems and corrections departments.  SCRAM Systems will be combined with Riverside’s LMG Holdings, Inc (LMG) platform,

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