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DW Healthcare Partners (DWHP), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has invested in CareXM, a provider of virtual care and patient engagement solutions for post-acute and non-acute healthcare providers. CareXM is one of three investments in DWHP’s fifth fund. CareXM’s patient engagement platform and virtual care offerings, including clinical nurse triage, are used by home health and hospice providers, physician practices, hospitals, and many other care providers across the United States. All services are HIPAA-compliant, available 24/7, and can be integrated with providers’ existing electronic medical record and scheduling platforms. “CareXM’s partnership with DW Healthcare Partners has proven to be an ideal
O’Melveny has represented MindTickle, a specialist in Sales Readiness technology, in a successful USD100 million combination of equity and debt financing, led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 to prepare customer-facing employees everywhere to drive revenue growth. Existing investors, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan, NewView Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures also participated in the round. The funding will be used to accelerate MindTickle’s go-to-market activities and expansion of global operations while advancing investments in product innovation to close the loop on customer-facing readiness and in-field execution. MindTickle’s SaaS platform enables enterprises to ready their customer-facing teams for the “moment of truth” – when they
Thomas H Lee Partners (THL), a premier private equity firm investing in middle market growth companies, has held the final close of THL Automation Fund at USD900 million. The Fund will back automation companies, including technology product, software and services businesses, that enhance productivity across a range of end markets and use cases. “We created the Fund to invest in companies driving step-function change through automation and to support management teams in accelerating growth with both capital and with a 20-member integrated team of automation experts,” says Jim Carlisle, Managing Director who leads the Automation Fund. “Automation is everywhere in the
By A Paris – As European regulators push for greater homogeneity across the European Union, jurisdictions like Malta need to focus on ensuring full compliance while also maintaining the element of flexibility and agility which is one of the country’s biggest draws. Although the island has suffered from a few years of reputational issues on a broader level, Malta’s fund industry has continued working with its partners and providing a robust service.  “The funds industry itself has been robust. We haven’t had any major fund blow ups and the fundamentals are strong. Any change to repair the reputation issues the island suffered
Ivan Grech, Finance Malta
Q&A with Ivan Grech, Chief Operations Officer, FinanceMalta What are the key trends currently driving growth and development within Malta’s funds industry? Malta has always been attractive in the alternative space for the small-medium sized managers, thanks to the introduction of the Professional Investor Fund Regime, alongside various advantages including cost efficiencies, a pro-business regulator, time-to-market consideration, etc; factors which together create the right environment and render the Maltese jurisdiction an interesting and compelling one, particularly for alternative managers.  Furthermore, with what seems to be an increasing investor preference to opt for onshore regulated structures, we are receiving a number of
thinkproject, Europe’s leading SaaS provider , today announced a new stakeholder, global investor EQT. 
Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo), an impact investing platform, has been appointed by the Government of Madagascar and the World Bank as the international fund manager for the Off-Grid Market Development Fund (OMDF), a USD$40 million renewable energy access fund.OMDF was established in April and launches its financing operations with a first window for proposals for results-based financing (RBF) from 28 October to 8 December. In parallel, OMDF will also provide debt financing to solar distributors and financial institutions that finance end-customers or solar distributors in Madagascar.   Société Générale Madagasikara has been appointed to host the OMDF funds and provide
FCP, with JV partners Abacus Capital (Abacus) and Big Cypress Capital (Big Cypress), has closed on the acquisition of 4.33 acres at 2213 and 2218 Toomey Avenue in Charlotte, NC. The parcels are currently occupied by one-story warehouse buildings totalling 63,034 square feet that will be repositioned as a creative commercial district in the rapidly growing South End submarket.   “Our South End adaptive reuse redevelopment brings FCP’s extensive experience with this creative office format to an organically expanding and promising area of South End,” says FCP Senior Associate, Kevin North. North continued, “We are excited to be working alongside Abacus
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Sub-Sahara African-based Pacer Ventures has launched a USD3 million fund for early-stage startups, with a focus on healthcare, financial inclusion, education and agriculture on the African continent. With offices in Lagos and Johannesburg, the firm has begun to support early stage founders by participating in seed rounds, including in financial services app VPD.Money.  The GSMA Mobile Economy Report states that 84 per cent of Africa’s population – or one billion people – will have access to a SIM connection by 2025. Gbemi Akande, general partner at Pacer Ventures, said: “We see a huge opportunity to support early stage founders who are making meaningful
InvestiNation, an equity crowdfunding platform that provides access to some of Israel’s most promising startups, is now open to US accredited investors.The online platform offers proprietary investment opportunities with Israeli companies in fintech, proptech, contech, medtech, edtech, enterprise software, and other burgeoning fields. It also features in-depth research and market knowledge via interactive tools including podcasts and webinars.   A Besadno group member, InvestiNation is led by CEO Oded Eliashiv, who is also managing partner of affiliate companies B-Seed and BuiltUp Ventures; Eli Gross, founder of Besadno and managing partner of B-Seed and BuiltUp Ventures; and Amos Meron, who has

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