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Waterland Private Equity completes investment in IMC Group

Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) has invested in integrated medhealth communication group (IMC) through a primary investment that will support ambitious plans to create a leading independent provider of global healthcare communications and consulting to the pharmaceutical industry.IMC Group is independently owned and has been committed to healthcare communications since 2006. IMC

Jim Neumann, Sussex Partners

Establishment of consistent ESG standards is long overdue

Alternatives allocators, to both hedge fund and private equity style vehicles, have assets ready to deploy as standardisation of ESG standards occurs, according to Jim Neumann, CIO of Sussex Partners. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…

Sherpa Capital invests in CityBike

Sherpa Capital has acquired a stake in Spanish company CityBike, which was created in 2014 by the Moventia Group and is one of the leaders in the European micromobility market, with a special focus on the operation of public bicycle systems. Sherpa Capital’s investment in CityBike will further strength the

secure data

Horizon Capital exits Connexas to AddSecure

Horizon Capital has exited Connexas Group to AddSecure, a European provider of solutions for secure data and critical communications. Connexas provides connected vehicle technology and fleet management solutions in the UK, EU, North America and Australia.  The company aims to empower fleets to become smarter, safer and more efficient using

Graduate

Invision exits Vantage Education after seven years

Invision has sold Vantage Education, a Swiss provider of higher education programmes, to a group of Swiss investors, but the company will continue to be led by the existing management team. Vantage covers mostly higher and executive education across more than 60 programmes. The educational companies offer high quality education

Entrepreneur raises GBP1.2m for ‘build your own’ mobile app software

A Newcastle tech company, whose software allows businesses to create their own mobile apps, has raised GBP1.2m to further develop its product and expand its team.Nutshell Software has secured investment from two funds managed by Mercia – the Northern Venture Capital Trust (VCT) Funds and the North East Venture Fund

Development Partners International makes USD56m investment in SICAM

Pan-African private equity firm Development Partners International (DPI), through its third fund ADP III, has made a USD56 million investment in Tunisian tomato processing and agri-business, SICAM.Established in 1969, SICAM is a leading producer of canned tomatoes, pepper pastes, and jams and one of the most recognised brand names in

Healthcare technology

US discretionary healthcare sector feels the impact of coronavirus pandemic

While the US healthcare industry has historically been stable throughout economic cycles, it has a large consumer retail component to it, and “foot traffic” has been meaningfully reduced as a result of the coronavirus.  As such, many sectors within healthcare have been materially impacted.  The more discretionary the service, the

Person on a beach

Crisis accelerates changes already underway in PE space

By Audrey Nangle, director of private equity & real assets at MUFG Investor Services – What happens when you take a part of the investment industry that was already changing and subject it to a profound shock? That’s the question that will challenge private markets for the foreseeable future. The

Amsterdam

Committed Capital closes EUR55m fund

Amsterdam-based Committed Capital has raised EUR55 million in two months for its third investment vehicle from entrepreneurs, family offices and institutional investors, both in and beyond the Netherlands. The fund, which closed in January, was oversubscribed, while a large part of the subscriptions came from existing investors in the previous

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