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Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology venture capital firm, has promoted Ian Chiang and Vic Lanio to Partner and Margaret Malone to Principal.
“We are thrilled to acknowledge the accomplishments of Ian, Vic and Margaret,” says Bill Geary, co-founder and partner. “We are delighted to recognise the role each has played alongside the rest of our Flare Capital team members, in helping our portfolio companies.”
“When Bill and I set out nearly seven years ago to build Flare Capital, our goal was to attract an incredibly talented and passionate investment team. These promotions reflect how important we view each of
Stafford Capital Partners (Stafford) has published its inaugural Responsible Investment Report, detailing how it incorporates ESG considerations into its investments and how it engages with external fund managers on topics such as climate change and ESG reporting.
An important part of this engagement is an annual manager ESG survey which found that about 50 per cent of managers in Stafford’s portfolio communicate in some way how their portfolio companies or assets contribute or are linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Some 82 per cent of timberland managers report ESG-related data to investors, while 95 per cent of infrastructure managers
iCON Infrastructure Partners V1 (iCON V), a fund advised by iCON Infrastructure (iCON), has completed the acquisition of a controlling interest in three German fibre-related businesses, ropa, NGN Telecom, and Wisotel (together the SFN Group). The sale was carried out by companies led by LABcom Investment.
The SFN Group is an independent vertically integrated fiber and cable telecoms business based in Germany. The business primarily serves the retail market with a current focus in the regions of Baden Wuerttemberg and Lower Saxony. The group’s networks serve approximately 16,000 customers.
The investment in the SFN Group is iCON’s first investment in
BayPine is to acquire Pinnacle Dermatology Management (Pinnacle), a female-founded dermatology management services organisation in the United States.
Pinnacle’s management team, led by Chief Executive Officer Chad A Eckes, Chief Medical Officer and President Dr Jose Rios, and its founder, Dr Paula Lapinski, are partnering with BayPine in the transaction and will continue in their current roles. Chicago Pacific Founders (CPF), the Company’s current financial sponsor, will roll a portion of its ownership in Pinnacle post-closing. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Pinnacle provides comprehensive management services to 87 clinical locations across 11 states. Its affiliated clinical practices
CIBC Innovation Banking, Ten Coves Capital, and Mosaik Partners have provided new credit facilities and equity financing to San Diego-based Point Predictive Inc (Point Predictive), a data and analytics company that helps lenders automate loan decisions, mitigate loan losses and reduce underwriting friction.
Leveraging un-matched industry data consortiums and the power of AI and machine learning models, Point Predictive helps lenders better separate truthful loan applications from those containing fraud and misrepresentation to accelerate the underwriting process − a significant industry demand.
Point Predictive’s solutions help automotive, mortgage, and other consumer lenders reduce manual document verification and consumer friction
Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London and Milan, has appointed Geraldine Usseglio as Head of Human Resources.
The creation of this position reinforces the ongoing expansion of the firm’s teams and the diversification of its investment strategies across sector, stage and geography.
Usseglio will be responsible for strengthening the firm’s human resources strategy, supporting the development of its global team to empower individuals to reach their full potential, while maximising the performance of the firm. She will report to Monique Saulnier, Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer.
Usseglio has over two decades of
RoadSafe Traffic Systems (RoadSafe), a US provider of traffic control and pavement marking services, has acquired Barricade Services & Sales (BSSI), a supplier of traffic control products and services in the Salt Lake City market.
The acquisition of BSSI further establishes RoadSafe’s position in the Mountain West region and expansion into the Utah market, one of the fastest-growing markets for traffic management in the US. The transaction follows RoadSafe’s recent growth in the Pacific Northwest and West Coast, including the acquisition earlier this year of Innovative Marking Systems, and is RoadSafe’s first acquisition since entering into a partnership with private
The Riverside Company has invested in Done Service Group (Done), which provides residential plumbing services, HVAC installation and repair services and excavation and sewer line services in the Denver metropolitan area.
This is an add-on investment to Riverside’s platform, Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning, a provider of maintenance plumbing, sewer and HVAC services.
Done offers a wide array of plumbing and heating and cooling services that are mission-critical to homeowners across the Denver Metro area. Done completed more than 15,000 jobs over the last twelve months with the majority of sales generated from repeat customers, including those who participate in
Peterson Partners, together with Trilogy Search Partners, Maven Equity, and other investors, has invested in Ennoble Care, a primary, palliative, and hospice care provider with operations across the Eastern US.
Healthcare entrepreneur Kush Das will join Ennoble Care as Chairman & CEO, and Ennoble Care founders Daniel and Avi Stokar will remain involved in key executive roles. Peterson’s investment will fund the expansion of Ennoble providers into new markets and increase its penetration in existing markets to meet the growing demand for palliative and home-based care, with a focus on value-based and patient-first care.
“Ennoble Care provides high-quality patient care
Filipino social entertainment platform Kumu has raised a Series C led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm with more than 40 years of experience scaling disruptive businesses internationally. Existing investors Openspace and SIG also participated.
This transaction marks the largest equity financing to date for a Filipino startup not founded as a subsidiary or spinoff of an established conglomerate and brings total funding to date for the company to USD100 million. It also marks General Atlantic’s first investment in the Philippines.
“Kumu is rapidly emerging as a leading digital content community and social platform in the Philippines,
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