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Private equity firm MidOcean Partners’ portfolio company Affinity Dental Management has affiliated with Akram E Rafla, DMD, PC and Endodontic Associates of Marlboro, led by Marta-Orrego-Rafla. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, Dr Rafla’s practice provides periodontal care to patients, with services in implants and oral medicine. Located in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Dr Orrego-Rafla’s practice provides comprehensive endodontic services to its patients. The practices will be supported by Affinity, which provides comprehensive practice management and administrative support services for practices across Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont.
With this strategic addition, Affinity expands its network of
Modern Energy Management (MEM), a specialist in delivering project lifecycle certainty to renewable energy developers, financiers and investors, is to carry out marine warranty surveying (MWS) services at Indonesia’s first utility-scale wind project, Sidrap Wind Farm, on behalf of GCube Underwriting Ltd (GCube).
Under the terms of the agreement, MEM will provide risk management services related to the offloading of wind turbine generator components for the 75MW wind farm.
As the pace of wind energy development in the emerging markets increases, there is an urgent need for supporting infrastructure to be properly integrated into the supply chain process. Although
Digital Shadows, a specialist in digital risk management, has raised USD26m in a Series C funding round to expand the capabilities of its market leading SearchLight digital risk management service and fuel global expansion.
Led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from World Innovation Lab, Industry Ventures and all of Digital Shadows’ existing investors, the funding will support company growth and support its continued commitment to protecting organisations with the best and most comprehensive digital risk management solution in the industry.
Luke Hakes, investor at Octopus Ventures, will be joining the board of directors.
“Digital Shadows is a world-leader
The Finance Durham fund managed by Maven Capital Partners has completed its first deal, investing GBP250,000 in the region’s largest small-batch craft distillery, Durham Gin.
Founded in 2014 by former NHS chief Jon Chadwick, Durham Gin is a small-batch craft distillery that creates spirits using a 400 litre copper pot. The company, which is now one of the region’s leading craft distillers, produces gin, vodka and gin-based liqueurs sold under the Durham Gin and Durham Vodka brands.
While the exact recipe remains a closely guarded secret, Durham Gin contains fresh water from a natural spring in County Durham and
Trivest Partners (Trivest) has held the first and final closing of Trivest Fund VI with USD600 million of total capital commitments.
Fund VI is Trivest’s twelfth overall fund, seventh institutional fund and fifth fund focused on founder/family-owned investments. Significant support from Trivest’s existing investors contributed to a streamlined and efficient fundraise. Fund VI includes a diversified mix of limited partners including endowments, corporate and public pensions, insurance companies, funds of funds, family offices and individuals. Additionally, the partners of Trivest have committed to invest substantial capital in Fund VI.
Over the past fifteen years, Trivest has asserted its position
MRI Software, a specialist in real estate software solutions, has acquired Real Asset Management (RAM), a supplier of asset management software, including asset and lease accounting, tracking, and maintenance management.
Asset intensive businesses rely on RAM’s solutions to automate traditionally manual and error-prone processes and ensure compliance with accounting, tax, and financial reporting requirements. Additionally, RAM’s mobile and desktop facilities management solutions enable organisations to streamline processes, improve productivity, and reduce property management costs.
“Real estate organisations face the same challenges as other sectors around compliance and regulations related to asset management,” says Patrick Ghilani, Chief Executive Officer of
Vesalius Biocapital, the specialist life sciences venture capital investor, has launched a new Portuguese investment vehicle, Vesalius Biocapital III Portugal, in collaboration with the Portuguese National Promotional Bank or Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento (IFD), to invest in Portuguese life science companies.
This unique investment vehicle is a joint effort between the IFD and new fund Vesalius Biocapital III, launched earlier this year and which secured over EUR65 million of commitments in a first closing in May 2017.
This is the first joint investment made by the IFD Capital Fund with an international venture fund and is part of its initiative
Threat Stack, provider of an intrusion detection platform for cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premise environments, has raised USD45 million in a Series C funding round led by F-Prime Capital Partners, the venture capital group associated with the parent company of Fidelity Investments, and Eight Roads Ventures, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture Partners, .406 Ventures, and Accomplice.
As part of the funding, which brings the total investment in Threat Stack to more than USD70 million, Gaurav Tuli of F-Prime will join Threat Stack’s Board of Directors and Davor Hebel of Eight Roads Ventures will be an observer.
“The migration
Telcoin, a new cryptocurrency promoting financial inclusion through telecommunications industry partnerships, has secured an investment from East Ventures Managing Partner and Mixi co-founder Batara Eto.
Eto served as co-founder and CTO of Mixi from 2004 to 2007. Mixi began as Japan’s first social network, a predecessor to Facebook likened to a localised version of MySpace, before pivoting to mobile gaming. The company went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2006.
In 2009, Eto co-founded East Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm jointly based in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. The firm has invested in more than 150 seed and
Milost Global has partnered with Monnaie Africa (Monnaie), a Mauritius based Investment holding firm, to launch Isilo Fund 1, a new and agnostic Private Equity Fund which will be focused on leveraged buyouts and restructuring of Microcap companies in Africa.
By the end of this month, Milost and Monnaie will form Isilo, a Mauritius GP which will act as the fund manager to Isilo Fund 1. Milost Global Inc. GPs will own 70 per cent interest in Isilo whereas Monnaie will hold 30 per cent. The closed ended Africa Fund will seek to raise a total of $1 billion within
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