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Ropes & Gray has advised Monomoy Capital Partners, a middle-market private investment firm focused on operational value creation, in the formation of its fourth private equity fund (Fund IV).
The fund was oversubscribed with commitments over USD1.1 billion. Monomoy secured commitments from a globally-diversified group of limited partners for Fund IV comprised of leading endowments, foundations, pension plans, insurance companies and family offices.
Wandercraft, a healthtech company in dynamic robotics and exoskeleton technology, has raised USD45 million in a series C round led by the US fund Quadrant Management plus existing investors Bpifrance and new participants MACSF, Malakoff Humanis, AG2R La Mondiale, Mutuelles Impact and Sofiouest.
Other existing investors Xange, Eurazeo, LBO France and Cemag Invest also participated to the round.
Most of this new round of financing will be used by Wandercraft to fulfil the company’s mission of “mobility for all”, through the continued development, then launch, of the new Personal Exoskeleton for outdoor and home use. The funding will also allow
Funds advised by local private equity firm Permira, supported a co-investor, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), have entered into a partnership with Kedrion’s existing shareholders (the Marcucci family and FSI) to jointly acquire and combine Kedrion and BPL.
The combination will create a global player for medicines derived from human blood plasma, which treat patients with rare and life threatening conditions.
Kedrion, headquartered in Tuscany, Italy, brings an extensive portfolio of 21 products and over 600 marketing authorizations around the world.
BPL, headquartered outside London, UK, operates a targeted portfolio of successful rare
Funds advised by Permira Credit, a European alternative credit provider, are acting as sole senior secured lender to Five Arrows Growth Capital’s acquisition of KidsKonnect.
The support highlights Permira Credit’s focus on high-quality, growing tech-enabled businesses.
KidsKonnect is a childcare software provider offering fully integrated software solutions for daycare centres, out-of-school care, childminder organisations and primary education centres.
Collectively, the Permira Credit funds have invested approximately EUR13 billion since inception in a range of European debt products, including over EUR9 billion in European direct lending. Permira Credit has supported more than 300 companies across its strategies since its establishment
Pathfinder Medical – a medical device company improving outcomes for vascular procedures – has secured an GBP8.5 million funding round led by investors BGF and Parkwalk, along with a number of industry insiders, and with support from existing investor Deepbridge Capital.
Pathfinder was co-founded in 2014 by Robert Dickinson and CEO Sorin Popa following the latter’s research at Imperial College London into the use of electric fields for guidance in medical device procedures.
Following the investment, Chas Taylor will be joining the board as Chairman and Stefano Ciampolini as Non-Executive Director. Taylor is serial entrepreneur in the medical device
Osceola Capital-backed PayrHealth has acquired SilverCreek RCM, a full-service revenue cycle management (RCM) company serving healthcare providers across the US.
PayrHealth can now offer its proven RCM solution with 15-plus years’ experience delivering operational excellence and outcomes to its clients.
The integration of the two businesses is on track to be completed by the end of January 2022.
Vinter, Europe’s fastest-growing index provider specialised in crypto assets, has raised a further USD3.4m as it continues to expand its range of crypto asset indexes for ETP and ETF issuers.
The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from the Ricketts family office, D4 Ventures, Pfeffer Capital and notable angels including Gokul Rajaram, Marc Powers and David Chreng.
Mention Me, a customer advocacy platform, has secured USD25 million in a Series B round, led by Octopus Ventures.
Lead investor from the prior round Eight Roads Ventures also participated.
The London-based scale-up, which helps businesses turn referrals into a strategic channel for acquiring high-quality customers, while gathering valuable first-party data that amplifies wider marketing activity, will use the funds to support its vision to make every brand think advocacy-first by expanding into the US, investing in its partner network (which includes Klaviyo, TrustPilot, Ometria and SAP) and developing its product offering.
Global investment firm NPX Capital, through its private equity arm, NPX Private Equity, has invested USD43 million into digital content developer Copin Communications.
Founded in 2017, Copin Communications is a digital content developer with specialties in character design, emoji, webtoon and animation productions.
In September 2021, NPX Capital made its first investment in Copin Communications worth USD13 million. Since then, NPX Capital has been closely cooperating with Copin Communications, which led to the additional investment, which will be used to strengthen and diversify digital content production capabilities as well as to support business expansion overseas, targeting promising global markets including
MidEuropa portfolio company intive has completed three acquisitions to expand its global footprint and accelerate its scale-up.
The digital design and engineering services specialist operates an outsourced digital product development model which combines local onshore presence with nearshoring delivery capability in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Latin America.
intive’s recent acquisitions are: US-based Spark Digital, a digital consulting, design, and development services provider; US-based SimTLiX, a digital transformation partner for some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies; and Ireland-based Ammeon, a digital transformation and solutions partner.
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