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One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company Simplura Health Group (Simplura), a provider of high-quality residential care services for elderly and disabled populations, has completed the acquisition of Personal In-Home Services (Personal In-Home).
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1991, the company provides a wide range of personal assistance to the elderly in West Virginia. Headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia, Personal In-Home’s operating subsidiaries, Panhandle Support Services and Select Home Support, provide help with managing activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing, eating, grooming and mobility.
“This transaction leverages our strengths to
Aberdeen-headquartered SPEX Group Holdings Limited (SPEX Group) has secured a multi-million pound follow-on investment from its management team and BGF, to accelerate growth.
BGF originally invested GBP5 million in February 2014 to support the company’s expansion in international markets.
SPEX Group’s subsidiaries provide specialist explosive products and services to the oil and gas industry, including for downhole cutting, punching and abandonment.
Various SPEX Group subsidiaries have rapidly developed as leading specialist developers of downhole and subsea explosive products, developing a range of technology solutions for the oil and gas industry utilising a variety of engineering capabilities, including
Redpoint China Ventures has completed the closing of two new funds totalling USD400 million in committed capital – the USD300 million China II Fund for early-stage investments and the USD100 million Opportunity Fund for growth investments.
Both funds will focus on consumer, enterprise and emerging frontier tech startups based in China.
With offices in Beijing and Shanghai, Redpoint China Ventures leverages its deep local expertise and access to Redpoint’s global network to help entrepreneurs in China build exceptional companies across borders. Redpoint entered the China market in 2005 to invest in China’s growing class of serial entrepreneurs and was
Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) is making an investment in independent insurance brokerage firm Alliant Insurance Services.
The investment by the Canadian pension investment manager is joined by an additional investment from funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC. Following the transaction, funds managed by Stone Point will remain Alliant’s largest institutional shareholders, while the company’s management and producers will continue to own the majority of the firm.
“Alliant looks forward to partnering with PSP Investments as we enter this exciting new stage in our growth strategy,” says Tom Corbett, Chairman and CEO of Alliant. “Both PSP
The Alternative Investment Partners Private Markets Team (AIP Private Markets), an investment team within Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has held the final close of two investment funds and related separate accounts, with aggregate capital commitments of USD1.9 billion.
This total includes commitments to the inaugural Ashbridge Transformational Secondaries Fund I LP and Private Markets Fund VII LP, the seventh instalment of the team’s flagship globally diversified private markets fund.
Since its inception in 2000, AIP Private Markets has focused on providing innovative client solutions within less-efficient areas of the private markets. The team leverages its broad network and expertise
Business lending platform Growth Street has raised a GBP7.5 million scale-up investment round led by the Merian Chrysalis Investment Company Limited (Merian Chrysalis).
Asset manager Merian Global Investors has joined forces with leading individual investors including Rob Rankin, former co-Head of Corporate Banking & Securities at Deutsche Bank, and Peter Brodnicki, CEO of the Mortgage Advice Bureau, in backing Growth Street.
Existing Growth Street investors are also contributing to the round, including Christiaen van Lanschot, who serves as Growth Street’s chairman, Paolo Cuniberti, former CEO of Mediobanca UK, and Pi Capital CEO David Giampaolo. Growth Street was advised by
Israeli startup Hailo, developer of a proprietary processing architecture for deep learning on edge devices, has expanded its Series A funding round to USD21 million.
Chinese venture capital firm, Glory Ventures, led the investment-round expansion and was joined by existing and other new investors. The investment will enable the company to expand its target markets into China and Hong Kong, complementing its existing markets in Europe, North America, Japan and Korea.
Hailo is also opening registration for the Hailo-8 Fast Track program to select customers and is offering these customers the opportunity to evaluate the initial samples of its
Venture capital firm Par Equity has closed five investments worth GBP4.85 million in just two days. The firm was lead investor and partnered with the Scottish Investment Bank on all five deals.
The trades included one new investment and four follow-ons. New to Par Equity’s portfolio is Amiqus, a software company based in Edinburgh that offers an encrypted online tool to automate anti-money laundering and compliance checks. Clients include HR and recruitment agencies alongside a host of professional services firms.
Paul Munn, Partner at Par Equity, says: “Our interest in Amiqus started as clients rather than investors. But there’s
VCT funding so far in January 2019 totals GBP91.3 million, up 245 per cent compared with the same time last January (GBP26.4 million), according to data released by Wealth Club.
Over GBP313 million has been raised so far this tax year. A total of GBP745 million was invested for the whole of the previous tax year, which was second highest year on record.
Northern VCTs, which closed last Thursday, is the latest to sell out, having raised GBP19.8 million in 11 days. Octopus AIM and Hazel Renewable Energy are the other two VCTs to have sold out so far
BGF has completed a further investment in The Prezola Group to deploy new technology platforms and prepare for targeted international expansion.
Through the brands Prezola and GettingMarried, The Prezola Group is focussed on digitising the experience of wedding guests, from invitations and RSVP to registry purchases, accommodation booking and memory sharing. Over one million wedding guests used the group’s market-leading services last year.
Prezola generated revenue growth of 57 per cent in 2018 and is now the UK’s leading provider of wedding websites and registries. BGF, the UK’s most active investor, first invested in Prezola in 2017 from its
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