Satori Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm, has invested in Longhorn Health Solutions, a direct-to-home provider of consumable medical supplies, durable medical equipment and pharmaceutical prescriptions serving the Medicaid, Medicare and privately insured populations across Texas. “Longhorn is intently focused on reducing total cost-of-care for managed care organisations by streamlining billing processes, improving patient utilisation and compliance, enhancing product quality, and heightening transparency throughout the patient, provider, and payor ecosystem,” says Sunny Vanderbeck, managing partner at Satori. “We believe in the team’s service-based approach, and look forward to partnering with them to further serve the growing needs of their stakeholders.”

Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has raised USD308m for Carlyle Peru Fund, and its parallel vehicles, extending the South America investment presence the firm established five years ago. The fund will be invested by Carlyle in consultation with Credicorp, Peru’s largest bank, across industries including healthcare, retail and consumer, services to mining, construction and infrastructure businesses, and education. Carlyle opened its Lima office last year and now has four full-time investment advisory professionals based there. Juan Carlos Felix (pictured), Carlyle managing director and co-head of the South America buyout team, says: “We see many long-term investment opportunities for our

The developer of a unique disposable tourniquet, ASep Healthcare, has secured a GBP120,000 investment from The North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact. ASep Healthcare, currently based in South Kensington, London, but due to move to Liverpool Science Park, developed an award winning disposable tourniquet designed to prevent cross infection between patients. The company was previously backed by Imperial Innovations, which builds and invests in promising technology and healthcare companies. The North West Fund for Biomedical is part of the wider GBP155m North West Fund, financed jointly by the European Regional Development Fund and the European Investment Bank.

Activity in venture capital fundraising in Québec reached a 10-year peak in 2012 at CAD924m, representing to 52 per cent of the activity in the entire Canadian market. Activity in venture capital fundraising in Québec reached a 10-year peak in 2012 at CAD924m, representing to 52 per cent of the activity in the entire Canadian market. Moreover, a new trend appears to be emerging: the great majority of companies financed last year – 58 per cent of the total – were involved in VC transactions for the first time, drawing in CAD214m, or more than half the dollars invested. These

Activa Capital has sold its portfolio company Logitrade to a group of regional financial investors – Soridec, Sofilaro, Sofipac, Multicroissance and Sopromec – in partnership with Logitrade’s management team. Activa Capital became the majority shareholder of Logitrade in 2006. Logitrade is an outsourcing company focused on non-strategic industrial purchasing in France.   Under Activa Capital’s ownership, Logitrade experienced a growth in its turnover from EUR85m in 2006 to EUR140m in 2012. In the recent years, the company has also strengthened its international presence, accompanying its large industrial customers outside France.