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An affiliate of global alternative investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) is to acquire CORA Health Holdings Corp and its subsidiaries, doing business as CORA Physical Therapy (CORA), an operator of outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics.
CORA’s management team, led by CEO Dennis Smith, will continue to run the Company and remain as shareholders in the business.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, CORA currently operates 228 outpatient physical therapy clinics across nine US states, primarily in the Southeast. The Company’s 850+ physical therapists, physical therapy assistants and other clinicians offer best-in-class outpatient physical rehabilitation services for orthopaedic problems, work-related injuries,
UK-based fund manager Downing has committed a seven-figure investment to consumer technology company Tactus Group (Tactus).
Founded in 1986, Downing is an FCA authorised and regulated investment manager with over 30 years’ experience. It currently has over GBP1.4 billion of funds under management.
The investment from Downing was made alongside a GBP10 million injection of private capital from multi-family investment office Arete Capital Partners, which enabled Tactus to complete its acquisition of CCL, a Yorkshire-based e-commerce PC gaming specialist. It will also support future fundraising for the wider group as it targets more acquisitions across the UK and globally.
Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics, and reporting solution for private markets investors and asset servicers, has closed a USD5 million seed round of venture financing co-led by Illuminate Financial and AlbionVC, with participation from Expon Capital and SixThirty Ventures.
This financing will accelerate the company’s global growth ambitions through further product development, client acquisition and support. Illuminate Financial and AlbionVC will join Accelex’ Board of Directors as part of this transaction.
Since the launch of the Accelex platform 12 months ago the company has achieved significant growth – now supporting a sophisticated global client base of investors and asset servicers.
eleXsysEnergy has raised GBP640,000 through Angel Investment Network, an online angel investment platform.
eleXsys Energy has developed a unique, international award-winning, enabling technology that will drive the transition of global energy grids to a clean energy future. The eleXsys technology enables large commercial and industrial rooftops to become grid-connected, solar power plants. eleXsys is the critical enabling technology being installed to build the IKEA eleXsys Microgrid at IKEA Adelaide, which will become 100 per cent powered by renewable generation by 2025.
The raise took four months and was part of a larger GBP5 million funding raise, including a Series A round of
Knox Capital, a private equity firm with significant assets in the legal and financial technology space, has made an investment in, and relaunched, bundle, a provider of legal real estate documents formerly known as ANADeeds.
Knox Capital completed its equity investment in bundle in late 2020, and since closing has helped lead a technology expansion and a rebranding of the organisation with a more modern, growth-focused identity. The more elastic identity and expanded service offerings better position the company to seize on significant growth opportunities in the coming 24-months as millions of homeowners buy, refinance, and exit Covid-related forbearances and
Katten’s 2021 SPAC Survey, which is baed on the results of one poll of 80 investment professionals in March and another of 100 investment professionals in May, has found that investors who participated in at least one SPAC transaction – as either sponsors, investors, advisors or underwriters – say they expect SPAC activity to increase at least through 2022.
The British Business Bank’s regional funds — the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) — have enabled more than GBP50 million of investment, including from the private sector, into small businesses in the Midlands and North of England to reduce their carbon footprint and support developing innovative solutions to tackling the climate emergency and reaching net zero.
Highlighting a commitment to contribute to funding the future of the low carbon and green economy, since launch the NPIF and MEIF have, in total, supported 45 businesses in their mission to drive the UK’s net-zero and wider sustainability
Printful, an industry-leading print-on-demand drop shipping and fulfilment company has secured a USD130 million non-control investment from private equity firm Bregal Sagemount.
The financing establishes Printful as the first privately owned company with Latvian roots to achieve unicorn status with a valuation of above USD1 billion. The new partnership will support the launch of additional products and services and the expansion into new channels and geographies.
Printful gives merchants, artists, and other creators the opportunity to run successful ecommerce businesses without investing resources in production and logistics. The company takes care of everything related to printing, product storage, and
Beacons, a business platform for social media creators, has secured USD6 million in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Li Jin’s Atelier Ventures, The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Fund, Night Ventures, Brazilian esports organisation LOUD and Crush Music.
The new capital will fuel the company’s rapid growth by accelerating product development and hiring.
Beacons already supports more than a quarter of a million creative brands, with over 3,000 new accounts established daily. Creators and organisations using Beacons for link-in-bio include: Sia, Russell Brand, Green Day, Katie Thurston (the next Bachelorette), and Barstool Sports.
While social platforms have
Private equity firm Supernova Capital has fully acquired Player1 Events from GAME.
Craig Fletcher, the founder of Multiplay and the Insomnia Gaming Festival, will return to lead Insomnia operations following the acquisition. Fletcher will also join Supernova’s executive team and provide the driving force and entrepreneurial spirit behind Supernova’s future plans for live events and esports.
All existing P1E staff will be retained as part of the acquisition and will be potentially working on an Insomnia event in 2021 along with future events planned in the UK and internationally in 2022 and beyond.
Fletcher comments: “We’ve seen over the
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